Producer: Lauren Williams, Creative Director: Kikesa DeRobles Kimbwala, Video and Sound Editor: Lauren Williams
Footage Courtesy: Hines Family Archive, Benn Family Archive
The Exhibition
Here Lay A Home observes the making and unmaking of home through its material and sonic impressions in Altadena, California. Composed as an ephemeral room for memory objects, personal archives, and sound sculptures, this second iteration of the Altadena Altarvention series honors the cycle of destruction and renewal through community stewardship. Salvaged materials carry the echoes of what was, while their abstraction and reassembling erect what could be. The space is tenderly designed to confront the enormity of ecological, residential, and cultural disruption and give shape to the work of restorative care. As the community resists gentrification and systemic displacement, these objects recognize the nature of impermanence and the love and labor of preservation by holding space for home where the structures are no longer standing.
This exhibition presents the collective’s second participatory installation in response to the Eaton Fire, alongside a series of concurrent programs that amplify community-based expression and recovery efforts. We invite Altadena residents and the surrounding community to present offerings toward reconstruction and to commemorate their own homes by tending to the Altar with their own sacred objects, personal histories, and shared presence.
Here Lay A Home is stewarded by Kennedy Arnette, Cienna Benn, Kikesa Kimbwala DeRobles, Mia Glionna, Parker Graffham, Phillip Harper, David Hines, Allison McAdoo, Kiara Walls, and Lauren Williams.
Education and Public Programs
Friday, September 19: Ghost Radio Altar, Performed by Tru
Sunday, September 21: "Dena Not For Sale" Panel
Sunday, September 28: Closing Reception
Ongoing: Archival Photo Collection