Last week, we shared a Metabolic Sonics jam session from REIMAGINE, our monthly print-making studio. Tomorrow on dublab, vibe out on the second half! And join us for the next REIMAGINE on Jan 5 where we'll be making prints and puppets, and starting our Tending and Mending practice

Last month, Metabolic Sonics jammed along during REIMAGINE, our monthly print-making studio. We open up our space and our archive of donated screens to make art together, and be in community. Check it out, tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab! bit.ly/48LvDWj

Interested in bioremediation? Check out our Meandros Toolkit, giving you step-by-step instructions on what to do when you find out you have lead or petrochemical contamination on your site. We show you how and when to use natural methods to reduce contaminants bit.ly/3Y4M3EF

Tonight's Oberlander Prize Forum keynote speech by Lauren Bon is sold out but tix are still available for our Saturday workshop the Art of Disturbance! Find out how natural disturbances like landslides, wildfires, and floods can become opportunities and address systematic inequity. bit.ly/48EQSJv

Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're sharing answers to the question "What does Moving Mountains mean to you?" Moving Mountains is an ecological initiative diverting landslide soils once considered waste into remarkable regenerative practices transforming the urban landscape.

Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're sharing answers to the question "What does Moving Mountains mean to you?" Moving Mountains is an ecological initiative diverting landslide soils once considered waste into remarkable regenerative practices transforming the urban landscape. bit.ly/44HIM1x

Here's a clip from Fotofocus2025, with Lauren Bon talking Metabolic Studio's Optics Division and the way Owens Lake is connected to the work: www.tiktok.com/@metabolicst...

In October, Lauren Bon gave a talk at FotoFocus 2025. The event explored photography’s part global industrialization, the impacts on social and political systems, and the economies of mining, industrialization, land use, and environmental degradation. Watch it on our Substack! bit.ly/4oRS5UF

REIMAGINE is Metabolic Studio's monthly printmaking session, where we open-source the creative process to reshape narratives, reclaim space, and redistribute creativity. Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're sharing our Sonic Division jam session from the 11/3 event. Take a listen! bit.ly/44kZdAB

Thanks to @kcrw.com and Brandon R Reynolds for coming to Metabolic Studio, and sharing about the living systems emerging from Topanga Canyon landslide soil, oak seedlings taking root inside a warehouse and LA River water returning to the land instead of flowing out to the sea. kcrw.co/4859T7O

Tomorrow at 8:33am on Out There, we're sharing a Metabolic Studio Sonic Division Retreat held in a giant steel PPG silos in Owens Valley. One of the silos is also an instrument akin to an Aeolian harp with 80-foot-long "strings" on the exterior and the silos as resonant chambers bit.ly/47Cj7cz

I heard Diego explain this when I visited last month and it was ASTONISHING and deeply informative for anyone working in urban ecologies. Tune in!!

This summer, we gave tours of our Moving Mountains project at Un-development 1, a former tow yard beside the LA River. We pulled up the tarmac and replaced it with floodplain soil. Soon dormant seeds sprouted and their roots pulled up the residual contaminants, remediating the land. Learn more here!

Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, biologist Diego Zapata, a member of the Metabolic Studio team, explains how native plants remediate land contaminated with lead at "The Moon" aka Un-development 1. We'll also play you an improvised set from Metabolic Studio's Sonic Division. Tune in! bit.ly/47p8Mka

Tomorrow at 8:33am, Douglas Lee of Metabolic's Sonic Division and Dr. Martí Ruiz, from the sound sculpture workshop at the University of Barcelona, performed at the 2025 Baschet Conference in Kyoto. Check it out! bit.ly/4ofLcMN We also demonstrate sound sculptures over on YouTube: bit.ly/3LAHONN

Ñoquisonics, a monthly sound art happening, is tomorrow 10/29, unfolding simultaneously in LA at Metabolic Studio and in Buenos Aires at cheLA. We connect the LA River, Rio de la Plata and the tributaries in between. Tomorrow's sonic offering will livestream from 2-5pm: bit.ly/47vATgc. Join us!

This weekend, October 24-26 in St Louis, Lauren Bon is presenting new work at the inaugural CIRCUS OF LIFE convening from Counterpublic, which brings together leading artists, thinkers, and advocates to imagine new ways of being in the world together. Come check it out! bit.ly/3J9Al7L

Tomorrow morning at 8:33am on Out There, we're broadcasting a soundscape from Metabolic Studio's Sonic Division. In this session from 2022, we accompanied our yearly ritual corn planting with metallophones, gongs, and wooden percussion. Listen in: bit.ly/47gyaHq

"Art & Science Collide" showcases Lauren Bon and other artists featured in the Getty's 2024-25 art event Pacific Standard Time, showing how artists and scientists working together can find new ways to address our world's urgent challenges. Today at 8/10 p.m. on PBS, PBS.org, and the PBS App!

Metropolis Magazine's feature "Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water" highlights Lauren Bon's "Bending the River" along with work from other artists making invisible water systems visible again—and challenging us to live differently with them bit.ly/3IRzzw5

Tomorrow morning at 8:33am on Out There, a poetry reading by member of Project 1521, from January 7th, 2022 at “The Moon”, a former tow yard being un-developed and regenerated using phytoremediation. The poems are interspersed with improvised music by Metabolic Sonics. Listen here! bit.ly/4ogQ43G

Soil Time tomorrow at 10am! Come visit the new Cesar Chavez Community Garden and learn about soil, health and natural remediation, and make your own soil and seed sculpture to take home! Hosted by Metabolic Studio, culivatLA and Prospering Backyards. Sign up here: bit.ly/46OIIPe

The Sky High Farm Biennial 2025 in Germantown, NY closes tomorrow! The closing celebration is a day of art events and performances, including a panel at 12:30pm featuring Lauren Bon in conversation with Dan Colen, Joshua Harrison & Luke Fischbeck. Check it out! bit.ly/4h57Qoj

Metabolic Studio's Sonics Division holds jam sessions in unique locations, using a variety of instruments and sound sculptures to tap into sound waves and vibrations. Tomorrow's Out There on dublab is a “party mix” from the Metabolic Sonics’ archives. Check it out! bit.ly/48lFlAr

Metabolic Sonics explores the captivating sound waves and vibrations of the web of life/ Thursdays at 8:33am on dublab, we present field recordings that transport you through the power of sound. This week's show is music is from the archive, a jam from March 18, 2019. Check it out! bit.ly/4mIqmE4

Each week, Dublab and Metabolic Studio transport you through the power of sound. Tomorrow at 8:33am check out Metabolic Sonic Division's jam from March 18, 2019. Tune-in, open up, and venture out there as we take excursions into evocative audio fields together. Only on Dublab! bit.ly/46AhfiH

Come visit us today from 3-7pm at the the LA River Farmers Market. Our mobile art studio is ready for community members to contribute to our textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Supplies provided, just bring yourselves! foodaccessla.org/la-river

Tomorrow on Out There, 8:33am on Dublab, we're playing an excerpt from 3000 Minutes, Lauren Bon’s durational work commemorating the 20th Anniversary of 9/11—and the 3000 people killed. Composed in collaboration with Douglas Lee and performed with Brooklyn Rail on September 12, 2021 bit.ly/4m8rGj6

Our Moving Mountains tours extended through September! Friday mornings, walk through a living floodplain on the bank of the LA River and see a former tow yard transformed by bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil. Discover what's possible. Sign up here: bit.ly/45Pfpvl

Tomorrow morning on Out There, we feature our Bending the River project. Check out field recordings of removing metal shoring, placing vitrified clay pipe and rebar, and pouring concrete as we close up the launch pit in the LA River channel that diverts water to Metabolic Studio! bit.ly/45N69b6

Tomorrow morning on Out There, we're playing an archival recording from the Anabolic Orchestra, a social practice exercise where we fabricating 90 gongs and chimes ranging from 8"–30” in diameter, inspired by the ancient gong and chime orchestras of Southeast Asia. Listen in! bit.ly/3HwGyKf

Come visit us today from 3-7pm at the the LA River Farmers Market. Our mobile art studio is ready for community members to contribute to our textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Supplies provided, just bring yourselves! foodaccessla.org/la-river

Tomorrow on dublab, we continue last week last week's conversation, part of our Moving Mountains tour. Learn about our Meandros soil columns, Topanga Canyon landslide soil and using native plants to remove petrochemicals from a former tow yard on the edge of the LA River. Listen in! bit.ly/4oM73Mo

The LA River Farmers Market is a community hub we're proud to support, hosting local growers and artisanal producers at LA State Historic Park. We're creating a collaborative textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Today 3-7pm! foodaccessla.org/la-river

Check out our project Moving Mountains tomorrow on at 8:33am on dublab, where we'll play clips from the tour. Instead of seeing healthy topsoil from Topanga Canyon landslides as refuse, Moving Mountains treats it as a resource, inoculating distressed soil to support ecological repair. bit.ly/47u8ZCV

Lauren Bon (@bendingtheriver.bsky.social) joins Futurology talk about the Cyborg Watershed and the complexity of the infrastructural water systems that making life possible in the American West. Listen here apple.co/4fCUmiP and post any questions below!

Today from 3-7pm, we're at the LA River Farmers Market! We're creating a community textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's seminal artwork "Not A Cornfield," talking about Metabolic's work and making creativity accessible to all. Come by! foodaccessla.org/la-river

Only four Moving Mountains tours! Every Friday in August, you can walk through a living floodplain on the bank of the LA River, and see a former tow yard transformed by bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil. See what's possible when soil can breathe again bit.ly/3IkzNuY

Tomorrow on dublab, we're at “The Moon,” a former tow yard being un-developed with bioremediation. Learn about our Meandros soil columns, how our cottonwood grove dramatically reduced lead in the soil, and how we break down the asphalt we've pulled up. Check it out! bit.ly/47hj8mf

Every Friday, walk through a living floodplain on the bank of the LA River on our "Moving Mountains" tour. Bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil transformed this former tow yard into a refuge, showing what's possible with ecological repair. Sign up here! bit.ly/3IkzNuY

Join us Thursdays from 3-7pm at the LA River Farmers Market, to help create a community textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's seminal artwork "Not A Cornfield." We're talking about Metabolic's work and making creativity accessible to all. Come by! foodaccessla.org/la-river

Tomorrow on dublab, a virtual tour of projects at “The Moon,” a former tow yard being un-developed with bioremediation and native plant re-growth. You'll learn about our water collection, the Zanja Madra - LA's first water system, and Lauren Bon's project Bending the River. Come by! bit.ly/45sqoKS

Come out tomorrow (and every Friday in August!) for our "Moving Mountains" tour and walk through a living floodplain. A former tow yard is now flourishing due to bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil, showing new methods of ecological repair. Sign up here! bit.ly/3IkzNuY

Tomorrow at 8:33am on Dublab, we continue our discussion about Moving Mountains. This project redistributes healthy topsoil from Topanga Canyon landslides around the city as part of Meandros, a network of soil column sculptures tended by the community creating a network of new ecosystems. Listen in!

Tomorrow on Out There, our Moving Mountains workshop from 6/27 held at “The Moon,” a former tow yard remediated and un-developed by removing asphalt and using floodplain soil, landslide soil and native plants for bioremediation. With music by Metabolic Studio's Sonic Division, 8:33am bit.ly/3IvUN1U

Fridays in July, be part of our "Moving Mountains" tour and walk through a living floodplain. Formerly a polluted tow yard beside the LA River, the site is flourishing due to bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil, showing new methods of ecological repair.

20 years ago, Lauren Bon's art work "Not A Cornfield" transformed a former brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Join us every Thursday from 3-7pm as we create a community textile project honoring this work, and connecting us all to the growth cycle. foodaccessla.org/la-river

On Out There, Thurs 8:33am - 9am, we're broadcasting the second part of our Moving Mountains tour from June 20, 2025. The project brings Topanga landslide soil to sites in LA, in sculptural mesh Meandros columns. The soil holds native seed that, exposed to light and air, comes to life bit.ly/4m5I70n

This week on Out There, tomorrow 8:33am - 9am, an introduction to our Moving Mountains tour, along with the discussion the tour inspired. Moving Mountains redistributes healthy Topanga Canyon landslide soil to the LA River's industrial corridor. Music by Metabolic's Sonic Division. bit.ly/44KglAn

This week on Out There, tomorrow 8:33am - 9am, an introduction to our Moving Mountains tour, along with the discussion the tour inspired. Moving Mountains redistributes healthy Topanga Canyon landslide soil to the LA River's industrial corridor. Music by Metabolic's Sonic Division. bit.ly/44KglAn