Holly Tempo and Daniel Rothman’s collaboration, Would Inglewood, was a performed public artwork framing the City and its history through a seasonal cycle. In four displays lasting for nine days every other month, Would Inglewood was experienced in the City’s historic Agee Theater. The spring theme was City participating to assemble a unique Inglewood-themed jigsaw puzzle. The summer installation, inspired in part by James Baldwin’s Nothing Personal, featured original live music. Autumn’s Perfect Memory paid homage to ripe fruit and splashing water. No Paths, the final segment, presented actual and imagined journeys to transcend geography, history and personal experience. The artists brought others to their collaboration.

Holly Tempo is an Inglewood artist and activist working in painting and site-specific installation. Her art has been featured in the California African American Museum, LACMA Art & Film Lab, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Irvine FA Center, and international exhibits. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012.

Daniel Rothman is a sound, image and installation artist with many commercial recordings. A Los Angeles resident, he has produced artworks and residencies throughout California, across the United States and in Europe. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship and won recognition from the Rockefeller Foundation.

Date: 2017
Collection: City of Inglewood Time-Based Projects
Medium: Experimental, site-related sound, object, text and performance installation
Material: Mixed media
Size: Four installations over eight months each lasting nine days

Location:
Agee Theater, Vincent Park
714 Warren Lane
Inglewood, California 90302