Pillow Lavas

Artist Collective

Flexible Mobility
Active: 2000-2004

About:
Pillow Lavas functioned as an evolving collective and collaboration, comprised of an ever-expanding network of local and international artists. Pillow Lavas, founded in 2000, has no unified geographic origin - its practices and products are mobile and provide mobilized community happiness. Among a multiplicity of practices and events, spanning from art to music, Pillow Lavas have created alternate spaces for social activities - including imagined city scapes, alternative architectural spaces, and makeshift places for improvised socializing.


Projects:

2001 Collapse.
Based on the notion of networked artists separated by physical distances who in turn create events as an opportunity to come together in a collaborative environment. This show explored these distances and its potential collapse in the form mobile habitats, inflatables, and various packaging methods.
Participated with Super Flex in the 2002 Korean Biennial in Gwangju, South Korea.

2002 Love Hotel.
Designed around the structural order of a compact maze of shipping boxes transformed into make-shift hotel rooms, this collective work invites participants to travel through these connected spaces and leisure capsules as one would explore the unpredictability of a funhouse.

2004 Vanilla Bomb.
In conjunction with C Gallery (a van) which Pillow Lavas converted into an ice cream truck. This project engaged the vast spectrum of cultural identities of Los Angeles through a shared social experience. Using the broadly appreciated medium of ice cream the goal was to expose the wider public to contemporary art in a customized package which invites all to participate in the debate over "taste".
Exhibited at the Orange County Museum as part of the 2004 California Biennial.