For Parking Lotus, security guards around Los Angeles were asked to meditate in the different parking lots where they work. The piece has two parts: a three-channel video-installation where three guards meditate in the lotus position and begin levitating until they disappear. And a series of eight photos, with the guards meditating cross-legged, which also includes the LASGMM (Los Angeles Security Guard Meditation Movement) manifesto.

Video installation.

3 channels.

Three projections or three flat screens.

Sound

Duration: 3:15 minutes, loop.

Dimensions: Variable

 

Photo Installation.

Series of 8 photographs and manifesto.

Lightjet c-prints.

Dimensions of each print: 40 x 30 inches.

Articles & Interviews about Parking Lotus.

 

Bernes, Jasper, Art, Work, Endlessness: Flarf and Conceptual Poetry among the Trolls, Critical Inquiry, The University of Chicago, pp.160-782, Summer 2016, U.S.A. [PDF]

Pagel, David. California Biennial is on the Right Laugh Track. Los Angeles Times. July 17, 2002. [PDF]