iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 21h

Repo Lab, by Lauren Bon, gathered floodplain soil from under concrete of the Los Angeles River, and the encased seeds now germinating in a satellite dish at Ecotechnics. The show asks how we, as technical beings, sense and represent the living world. Opening reception Saturday 10/10 from 2-5pm.

020

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Out There is tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab! We're sharing excerpts from a Metabolic Sonics jam inside the Silo in Payahuunadü, Owens Lake - featuring voice, koto, guitar, mandolin, violin, accordion, percussion and ambient sound from the silo - a giant Aeolian harp. bit.ly/4hAvVVW

bit.ly

dublab

dublab is a non-profit community radio station broadcasting from Los Angeles since 1999. Listen live, browse the schedule, and explore the archive of DJ sets, shows and projects.

030

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today from 1-6pm, Anawalkalmekak is hosting the day, bringing their knowledge and community to Metabolic studio. Activities include an adobe stamp-making workshop and lunch is included, from vendors supported by Inclusive Action for the City. Come out and spend your day with us!

010

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today in La Milpa, Jessica Handy of Community Compound will host a special all-day conversation on soil, restoration, climate, and community. From 1–6pm, come together to gather around the Mother Well connecting Metabolic Studio to the river, and cultivate food, create art, and care for the land.

011

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today from 12-6pm in Metabolic Studio's La Milpa mutual aid garden, we're hosting the latinoconservationweek.com kickoff! Tours of Metabolic Studios, a panel discussion—30x30 y Nuestra Comunidad: A Conversation for the Future—food, music, and community orgs talking about their work. Come by!

021

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tomorrow on dublab, from the Metabolic Studio Sonic Division vault – three excerpts from a jam on August 26, 2015. This dates from early in Sonic Division's exploration, developing our practice of playing to the LA River, and welcoming and connecting to the living watershed. bit.ly/4xbi4d7

000

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tomorrow on dublab, Red Rotkopf, an artist and land rights activist based in Ecuador, talks about the Crisis Archive a project he is working on with Lauren Bon. The talk is surrounded by the ambient sound of the silo at the edge of Patsiata (Owens Lake). Listen up! bit.ly/3UlCS3U

111

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Deep under the floodplain, we discovered clay at Metabolic Studio. Ceramicist Alex Tanasi created a zine, “Touching the Past: Clay as a Medium of Connection,” connecting ancestral knowledge, communal practice, and human creativity. Today he will be at the LA River Farmers’ Market, sharing his work!

020

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Blueprint for a River, a new earthwork by artist Lauren Bon, is a sculpted path to meander, through space shaped by hugelculture and the Three Sisters planting growth, corn, beans and gourds. Part of La Milpa, open today, from 12-7pm, along with food and sound performances. Join us in the work.

010

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today Diego Zapata, biologist and organizer and artist/chemist Maru García will be at the LA River Farmers Market at LA State Historic Park. They'll be talking about the zines they created, Protocols of Repair and Unseen Un-Development: How Big is Here? along with a soil testing demo. Come by!

011

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today at the LA River Farmers Market at LA Historic Park, Metabolic Studio is sharing our Farmlab zines! Artist Michel Breard will talk about "All the Pretty Little Bugs" and "Speed Dating with Flowers on a Cloudy Day", and share about our work with the river, water, plants, and soil. See you there!

000

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Tomorrow on dublab, recordings from Sounding From the Well last week at Metabolic Studio featuring an umbilical cord of bells from the Mother Well flowing over the roof towards LA State Historical State Park, and the Metaboliophone, an instrument from sound artist Douglas Lee.

bit.ly

dublab

020

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sunday 12-7pm! Visit La Milpa, our mutual aid garden, with Dr. Aradhna Tripati from UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability hosting a day of conversation. Join a tour or learn about seeds and soil, and enjoy food from our street vendor community from Inclusive Action. Come by!

030

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Today in La Milpa, Jessica Handy from Community Compound in Altadena hosts Down to Earth from 1-7pm, a conversation exploring soil, restoration. Wander Lauren Bon’s new earthwork, Blueprint for a River Bed, made from salvaged logs and soil, with vendors from Inclusive Action for the City. Join us!

000

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Sounding From the Well. The red cable reaches from the surface down into the Mother Well, where Los Angeles River water waits to be lifted. Draw a bow across the cable. Listen as the well becomes an instrument. Join the Sounding. Fridays in July. 4:00-6:00 PM. Public participation invited.

A line of red cable creates a connection between a stilling well, the Mother Well, at Metabolic Studio. The well sits in a circle at the end of an earthwork “labyrinth”, a switchback path created using hugels, shaped mounds of earth. This sits in front of the Broadway St Bridge, and beside the Los Angeles River.

130

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

La Milpa, our mutual aid garden, opens Sunday from 1-7pm! Take part in Down to Earth, an conversation exploring soil, restoration, and community throughout the day and sit with Blueprint for a River Bed, a new earthwork by Lauren Bon, made from salvaged logs and soil. See you there! bit.ly/44VSgWz

bit.ly

Blueprint for a River Bed

A Work About Decomposition and Becoming

021

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Every Friday in July, starting tmrw 7/10 from 4-6PM, Metabolic Studio hosts Sounding from the Well. These sonic performances mark end the most recent phase of Bending the River, underground pipes laid, drawing the water’s path from Metabolic Studio toward Los Angeles State Historic Park. Join us!

021

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

On this week's Out There, we continue sharing the graduation ceremony of Anawkalmekak, an indigenous K-12 school in LA. The students perform traditional dances including singing and drumming, and Spanish translations of speeches from Lauren Bon, artist/director of Metabolic Studio. bit.ly/3QWXu17

bit.ly

dublab

000

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Tomorrow on dublab we're sharing voices from the graduation ceremony of Anawakalmekak, an indigenous K-12 school in LA held at Metabolic Studio and featuring inspirational speeches from Marcos Aguilar, co-founder of Anawakalmekak and artist Lauren Bon, Metabolic Studio's director. bit.ly/4ePCgeR

bit.ly

dublab

000

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Tomorrow on dublab, three excerpts of a Metabolic Sonic Division jam session in the silo on the edge of Owens Dry Lake recorded May 21, 2026. This is part of Metabolic Studio's devotional practice connecting the watershed from Owens Valley to the LA basin through sound. Listen in! bit.ly/43Ir7G9

000

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This Sat, Metabolic Studio's Controlled Burn is at LACMA Art Parade! A pedagogical performance and procession drawing on TEK, wildfire ecology and community-based stewardship, Controlled Burn posits the regenerative cycle that restores scorched landscape is also alive in our communities. Come by!

010

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Tomorrow at 8:33am on Out There, we bring you four excerpts of a Metabolic Sonic Division jam session in the silo on the edge of Owens Dry Lake. This is a meditative, devotional practice connecting the watershed from Owens Valley to the Los Angeles basin through sound. bit.ly/4ekZsA3

000

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, an excerpt from a May 20, 2026 Metabolic Sonic Division jam session in the silo on the edge of Owens Dry Lake. This is a meditative, devotional practice using sound to connecting the Owens Valley watershed to the Los Angeles basin. Listen in! bit.ly/4e1c5Qp

bit.ly

dublab

011

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Tomorrow on Out There, pt 3 of The Water Remembers, a PEN America World Voices Festival panel w artists/activists Emma Robbins, Lauren Bon, and Amy Bowers Cordalis on efforts to repair injuries - both geologic and psychic – to the Klamath and LA Rivers (Pt 1 & 2 in dublab archives)

bit.ly

dublab

020

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Join in as we plant La Milpa with the Three Sisters—corn, beans, and gourds—part of our ongoing transformation of the site—accompanied by a new sound sculpture in the spirit of François Baschet and the sound environments from the 1970 Osaka Expo. Tomorrow at 6pm rsvp below. metabolicstudio.org/967

metabolicstudio.org

LA MILPA PLANTING AND SOUND SCULPTURE PERFORMANCE

Friday May 15, 2026 6:00PM Metabolic Studio RSVP here (info@metabolicstudio.org) On May 15, Metabolic Studio will open a new phase of work through a shared act: planting and performance. We will pl...

000

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Tomorrow at 8:33am on Dublab, part 2 of The Water Remembers, a PEN America World Voices Festival panel featuring artists/activists Emma Robbins, Lauren Bon, and Amy Bowers Cordalis, on efforts to repair injuries - both geologic and psychic – to the Klamath and Los Angeles Rivers. bit.ly/3R9tGhp

010

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

What the Soil Keeps - Wendy Isabella Escobar Procopio Floodplain. Landslide. Fire. Three landscapes in motion along the Los Angeles River and Topanga Canyon. A photographic study of what water, gravity, and fire leave behind and the latent seed each disturbance carries forward.

010

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Touching The Past: Clay as a Medium of Connection - Alex Tanasi Clay is a powerful material that connects ancestral knowledge, communal practice, and human creativity, and is both a life-sustaining natural resource and a teacher of patience, care, and our deep relationship to the land.

100

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Teachings That Took Root: Indigenous Knowledge Guiding the Healing of Land and Water - Milli Macen-Moore This zine honors Indigenous knowledge keepers who have influenced Metabolic Studio’s Farmlab and their enduring guidance in the ongoing care and healing of land, water, and seed in Los Angeles.

100

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Speed Dating with Flowers on a Cloudy Day - Michel Bréard A 20-minute speedrun throughout the warehouses and open spaces of Metabolic Studio. Meet and greet the abundance of flowers and plants displaying their raw beauty.

100

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Protocols of Repair - Maru Garcia A visual zine documenting two soil remediation experiments as part of Un-Development 2 at Metabolic Studio. Remediation is both a technical process and an ecological practice in which humans, soil, plants, minerals, and microbes participate in the work of repair.

100

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Compostpartum - Michel Bréard The second zine of the duology Compostmortem / Compostpartum, speaks of regeneration, of new life taking shape within the decaying world.

100

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Compostmortem - Michel Bréard The first zine of the duology Compostmortem/Compostpartum narrates the loss and deterioration of all beings, of their bodies and their memories, and the relentless work of microorganisms breaking down what was once whole.

100

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

All the Pretty Little Bugs - Michel Bréard Open up the concrete floor of a former industrial warehouse, transplant the healthy ecosystem of the Topanga Hills into a carved opening, and witness insects, arthropods, fungi, reptiles, worms, and moths and such, move in to call it home.

100

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Unseen Un-Development: How Big is Here? - Diego Zapata Explore ecological repair in a former tow yard, from microscopic life in soil to expansive watershed systems, through the living experiment of Un-Development 1, showing how small acts of care can catalyze large-scale regeneration.

100

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Cyborg 1 - Artists Must Behave Like Rivers - Lauren Bon They move through systems—cutting channels, carrying memory, and reshaping what resists them. This zine follows Lauren Bon’s work as it enters infrastructure—bending, cutting, and re-routing flows inside an already engineered landscape.

100

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Metabolic Studio is at the LA Art Book Fair! Check out zines from our Farmlab practice, which restores attention to the floodplain and its waters, and earth not as ground to build on but as a living system to be re-entangled with. Fri May 8, 11-7 Sat May 9, 11-7 Sun May 10, 11-6 bit.ly/42TcU8S

100

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Tomorrow on Out There, listen to Part 1 of The Water Remembers, a PEN America World Voices Festival panel featuring artists/activists Emma Robbins, Lauren Bon, and Amy Bowers Cordalis, on efforts to repair injuries - both geologic and psychic – to the Klamath and Los Angeles Rivers. bit.ly/4n9PpSc

010

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Tomorrow night, the @penamerica.bsky.social World Voices Festival comes to Metabolic Studio! The Water Remembers is a conversation w @bendingtheriver.bsky.social, Amy Bowers Cordalis and Emma Robbins about Cordalis' book on her legal defense of the Klamath River. Join us! bit.ly/3Qz2MiS

eventbrite.com

The Water Remembers

A conversation on heal ecosystems and communities along the Klamath and Los Angeles rivers through activism, art, and Indigenous knowledge.

032

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Tomorrow on dublab: Cuts from Optimists' Day at Metabolic Studio: Inclusive Action for the City's Hire-a-Vendor program, O-Lan Jones on the topic Optimism; How Another City is Possible, and Tom Norris planning a city-wide celebration of the Meandros network Fri Nov 13. Listen in! bit.ly/3QwQxDt

011

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This Earth Day w @codepink.bsky.social, we're hosting a special screening of Earth's Greatest Enemy, tracing the environmentally disastrous footprint of the US military. Join us for conversation with local orgs and food from street vendors supported by Inclusive Action for the City bit.ly/4epriN4

010

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Dublab tomorrow at 8:33am! This broadcast mixes archival recordings, the Interdependence Choir singing into the silo from locations across the Los Angeles area and across the country, connecting in the echo of the silo and the massive Aeolian Harp strung along its sides. Listen in! bit.ly/4dQtGMK

bit.ly

dublab

020

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Metabolic's Sonic Division and cheLA, artist/activists in Buenos Aires, play together and eat together, sharing the Argentine tradition of ñoqui on the 29th of each month. We combined amplified sounds of prep in the kitchen, with strings, gongs, baschets, and voice. Listen on dublab!

bit.ly

dublab

dublab is a non-profit, radio station dedicated to the growth of music, arts, and culture.

000

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Tomorrow on dublab, Marcus Aguilar, the exec director of Anawakalmekak, an indigenous-led charter school, gives a land acknowledgement at an event celebrating the end of phase one of Bending the River, redirecting a portion of the LA River to LA State Historic Park. Listen up! bit.ly/4s0dXih

bit.ly

dublab

010

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This Friday, from 9am-12pm, Metabolic Studio is hosting Optimists’ Day: Another City Is Possible. Our opening procession celebrates the flow of the LA River, and throughout the morning we are hosting learning sessions on community work and new configurations of care. RSVP now: bit.ly/3NjOFN1

022

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

And listen to a field recording of Butler's daughter, artist Corazon del Sol, and archivist Carolyne Aycaguer preparing for Metabolic Studio’s Special Projects in Archiving presentation of Eugenia P Butler's work on Out There, tomorrow morning at 833am on dublab! bit.ly/4bdWBrc

bit.ly

dublab

000

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Come see Eugenia P. Butler at the Barn, once the home and office of architect A. Quincy Jones. Butler's incredible work uses images, alchemy and talismans as she calls out systems of domination, and explores her own, and our, collective unconscious W/Th now through April 29, 2026! bit.ly/4svXkuR

metabolicstudio.substack.com

Shimmering Between Wondering

Eugenia P. Butler - Documents of Invisibility

100

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

In this week’s episode of Out There, we listen to a physical sound map of Payahuunadü made by Metabolic Studio Optics Division. The listener patches audio cables into different locations on a map of the Owens Lake dry bed, to order to hear field recordings collected there. bit.ly/4tX1z3R

020

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're in Owens Valley where an 80 foot silo, formerly owned by the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, has been transformed into a massive Aeolian Harp. This field recording captures the sound of the harp, accompanied by owls who live in the silo. Listen in!

bit.ly

dublab

000