For six years, artist Fritz Haeg opened his Los Angeles home to events, happenings, gatherings, meetings, pageantry, performances, shows, stunts and spectacles framed and affected by his unique house which includes a subterranean cave, a geodesic dome, and a series of garden spaces. This artists’ book documents the Sundown Salon events and also shares participants reflections on the idea of salons and the nature of viewing and making art communally and for a domestic space. The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive is both a book and an exhibition: It is printed as one long accordian-fold paper. The text can be flipped through and read like a book, and the pictures can be unfurled to a 140 foot long art piece. The book has been conceived by Fritz in collaboration with Evil Twin Publications’ Stacy Wakefield. There are 5 different covers for this book, each made from drawings submitted by salon participants and silk-screened by hand in Los Angeles.

Available from Evil Twin Publications. 

Fritz Haeg is an architect and artist based in LA. Recently, his Edible Estates  project has designed and planted prototype edible gardens across the country, resulting in exhibitions and a book: Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn (Metropolis). He has also been creating Animal Estates for local displaced species commissioned by venues including the 2008 Whitney Biennial, the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT and SF MoMA.

Stacy Wakefield co-founded Evil Twin in 1994 (with her sister, writer Amber Gayle) as a forum for their personal projects. Responding to the content of each project with a new attack, Stacy has created elaborate artists books, cheap zines, and trade publications. Stacy works in New York city as a designer. She was design director at Artforum and index magazines and now designs art books for independent artists and publishers including Vice and D.A.P.