(Above: Sundown Salon #11, A hand-made garment/knitting/crochet gathering)

For almost six years, Fritz Haeg hosted a series of self-organized gatherings called Sundown Salon in his Los Angeles home, which features a geodesic dome, grounds with many garden spaces, and a subterranean cave. Past events  included everything from crafting circles, gardening and cooking workshops, to live music and “pageantry, performances, shows, stunts and spectacles.” According to Haeg, “The salons provided an alternative model to the isolated solitary creator in the pure hermetic white box. Instead, the salon celebrated the truly engaged human, responding to their time, environment, community, friends, neighbors, weather, history, place.”

In 2006, he branched out to hosting these events in other like-minded venues around the world through his new project Sundown Schoolhouse [including an all-day indoor tent/workshop at Arthur Nights in October, 2006 —ed.]. He is now working with the Miami MOCA to find a household that would be equally excited host gatherings in their home as part of an exhibit, thereby helping to develop the project on a broader scale. If you live in the Miami area, this is your chance to become a part of the movement. Read on:

OPEN CALL: LOOKING FOR AN ADVENTUROUS MIAMI FAMILY EAGER TO START A SERIES OF SALON GATHERINGS AT THEIR HOME

For a project at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, I am seeking the collaboration of an adventurous local family. They will organize and host a regular series of salon gatherings at their home during the run of the exhibition from May 21 – September 13, 2009. I will work with the family to strategize their new salon series, but the events will be entirely self-organized with guests of their choosing.
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