Julian Hoeber's Demon Hill @ Hammer Museum

Blair Breard and I visited the Hammer Museum in Westwood on Dec. 4, 2010, and while exploring Hoeber's installation, we had a chance encounter with John Scher - while the camera was running.

Museum Website:
http://hammer.ucla.edu/watchlisten/watchlisten/show_id/463183

Los Angeles-based artist Julian Hoeber uses a wide range of media---including sculpture, drawing, filmmaking, installation, and photography---to explore psychology, emotion and narrative. For this exhibition, Hoeber presents Demon Hill, a freestanding structure based on the architecture of "gravitational mystery spots." The architecture of these shacks creates the illusion that gravity works at an angle, that water runs uphill, and that bodies stand at a sharp angle to the floor. "Mystery spots" claim to be an effect and marker of a geological anomaly or a supernatural phenomenon and the illusion is so convincing that it gives even rational people pause. Installed on the Museum's Lindbrook Terrace, Demon Hill is a combination art installation and roadside attraction, transplanted to the marble terrace of the Museum.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• demon hill
• hammer projects
• hoeber
• installation
• julian hoeber
• mystery spot

[YesIMneRvous]

My sister and I just went today ahaha. That place is way too amusing. The weird thing was putting the ball on the shelf

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