Outer Institute
Open Curriculum

Upcoming events:

Currently Accepting Applications for Fall 2026:

1:1: an opportunity to curate a term of in-depth, personal study composed of individual dialogs with speakers, lecturers, course and workshop leaders who have contributed to the actualization of the Outer Institute over the years.

A term of 1:1 offers multiple tiers of enrollment, consisting of a term of 6 or 3 distinct dialogs and access to ongoing advisory support.

Currently accepting applications for spring 2026 term of 1:1, which runs from Sept. 15 - Dec 15, 2026

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past open-curriculum events:

discussions in exhibitions (ex situ):
Michael Asher

outside MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

discussions in exhibitions:
Lawrence Weiner: Wrenched Free

at Manual Arts

discussions in exhibitions:
David Hammons: Concerto in Black and Blue

at Hauser and Wirth

Archive Night School

(with Los Angeles Contemporary Archive)

discussions in exhibitions:
Echo's Loom

at Phase Gallery

discussions in exhibitions:
Material Acts

at Craft Contemporary

discussions in exhibitions:
Justin Serulneck: The Angeleno

at Torus Gallery

discussions in exhibitions:
Simone Montemurno: Transcriptions, After F. Kolar

at Art in the Park

discussions in exhibitions:
The wilds of epiphenomena

at Phase Gallery

discussions in exhibitions:
David Weldzius:
Public Works

at Art in the Park

Working with What's There, Proposing What Isn't

with Joe Potts
at Inscript 2023

CYBERFEMINISM INDEX: performative reading and panel discussion at Cal State LA

with Mindy Seu, Dorothy Santos, A.M. Darke, Cesia Dominguez, and Anika Sarin

Immutable: Designing History

with Chris Lee

Experiments in Broadcasting with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software)

with Jeremiah Chiu

Unlimited Edition

with Ramon Tejada and James Goggin

Fixtures of Another Kind / penny universities and leaflets of the White Rose

with Adam Feldmeth

Intersecting Architectures | 2020-2021 sliding-scale open-curriculum seminar and workshops:

Making Space / Space Making

with Edie Fake

Structure to Light: an Introduction to Architectural Photography

with Janna Ireland

Punctual Momentum: on the dot, down the line

with Adam Feldmeth

Shifting Architectures: Modularity and System in Typeface Design

with Jaimey Shapey

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with Mindy Seu and Laura Coombs

Website as Community Garden

with Neil Doshi and Joe Potts

Cobbles

with Adam Feldmeth

Surroundings to Scale

with Maria Lisogorskaya from Assemble

Recent public discussions as part of a stone's throw:

gather-ing

part of a stone's throw public discussion series:

Fungibility, residuals, and provenance: considering non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

part of a stone's throw public discussion series:

Fair's fair: Documents of Agreement (from Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale to collective bargaining in the industries of art and academia

part of a stone's throw public discussion series: