Artbound - Season 3 (2013)

This episode of Artbound features Paul Turounet, a photographer whose site-specific photographic portraits explore the various migrant peoples found traveling along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Next we go to on a visit to the Watts Towers to catch up on how scientists and community activists are seeking to preserve the Towers against the elements. Artbound reflects on Gary Baseman's mid-career retrospective "The Door is Always Open", which examines a long and varied career while focusing on his family and the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. Then, Artbound the travels to ...

In this episode Artbound provides an exclusive look at the avant-garde opera, "Invisible Cities." Then, Artbound explores Ted Meyer's "Scarred for Life" art project, which has helped individuals accept and even embrace their scars. In East L.A., Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's mobile "Duck Truck" brings site-specific performances to the East LA Civic Center for a unique performance. At Bootsy Bellows, a nightclub on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood, Jeff Speetjens performs with a variety of marionettes from the stage to the dance floor. Photographer Candacy Taylor followed...

An hour-long documentary on the making-of Invisible Cities, an opera created for headphones performed in the public space of Los Angeles Union Station in the fall of 2013.