Inner Landscapes:
Community Acupuncture Pop-ups
Pop-Up|A Pulse Reading of MacArthur Park
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Goethe-Institut LA Project Space, Los Angeles, CA
- Sprache Englisch
- Preis Freier Entritt
Join us, Dr. Han Jik Kim, L Ac., D.O.M., artists Lauren Kim, Enoch Ma, and Jane Zhang, and the partners from Hajo Holistic on select Wednesdays from 2:00pm - 5:00pm for community acupuncture pop-up sessions as part of the exhibition INNER LANDSCAPES.
The Goethe-Institut space will be activated each week as a community acupuncture pop-up, in partnership with Hajo Holistic and led by Dr. Han Jik Kim. This offering is a gesture toward the long-standing legacy of informal, community-based care in MacArthur Park and the greater Westlake neighborhood.
Each 20-minute session includes a brief intake, pulse reading, and acupuncture treatment. The experience invites participants to attune to their own inner landscapes while moving through the shared ecology of the park.
The time slot you book allows you to walk through the installation and arrive at the clinic where you'll meet your practitioner. Visitors are welcome to linger and rest in the space after treatment.
Services are free by appointment.
If you are able, a $10–20 tip/donation helps us continue offering these acupuncture sessions to the community.
. Please reserve your time slot in advance.
Appointments will be available on the following Wednesdays 2:00pm - 5:00pm
December 3, 2025
December 10, 2025
December 17, 2025
January 7, 2026
January 14,2026
SIGN UP FOR AN APPOINTMENT BEGINNING NOV. 20th, 2025
Note: The Goethe-Institut is open to the general public during office hours, though certain areas of the space will be reserved and prioritized for pre-booked patients.
INNER LANDSCAPES
Inner Landscapes is a collaborative installation by Lauren Kim, Enoch Ma, and Jane Zhang, created in partnership with Dr. Han Jik Kim of Hajo Holistic. Addressing the accumulated uses, neglects, and imagined futures of MacArthur Park, the project draws on traditional East Asian medical practices as tools for historical and artistic inquiry. Through these diagnostic methods, the park’s netted, unruly past begins to surface, set along the fertile verge between memory and matter, private and public, nature and culture.
Taking inspiration from the Neijing Tu—a Taoist diagram mapping the spirit’s journey through the body’s interior terrain—and guided by the Wu Xing cycle of creation and destruction, the work reimagines MacArthur Park as a living enmeshment, animated by elemental flows, vicinal blockages, and latent energies. Here, archived proposals, geologic histories, and even bird droppings become diagnostic markers—substrates through which the park’s inner landscape begins to unravel.
Dr. Han Jik Kim, L Ac., D.O.M. is a licensed acupuncturist and educator with over 25 years of experience in clinical practice and teaching. He is an expert on acupuncture, herbal medicine, and classic oriental medicine texts. He runs Hajo Holistic in Macarthur Park, Los Angeles with his daughter Lauren.
Lauren Kim is a place-based researcher and artist whose work explores landscape, healing, and systems of knowledge. Working primarily with paper, metal, and natural materials, her professional and artistic practices bridge ecological processes with embodied experience. She is one half of the creative collective Cloud6.
Enoch Ma is an artist and builder whose work spans a range of materials and scales. Drawing from close observations of the natural world, his practice considers the enduring patterns of nature and how they find reflection within us. He is currently a MFA student in sculpture at Cal State Long Beach.
Jane Zhang is a scholar of popular literature and vernacular medicine. She is currently doing a PhD at Yale and writes about snuff boxes, tin figures, and the stereoscope. She is the other half of the creative collective Cloud6.
INNER LANDSCAPES
is on view November 20, 2025 - January 29, 2026.
During Office Hours:
Tuesday–Thursdays: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fridays: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
The Goethe-Institut is closed to the public on Mondays and on weekends, unless otherwise noted.
The Goethe-Institut will be closed November 24-28, 2025 and from December 22 - January 2, 2026
Secure, free Parking is available at Metro/Retail parking structure with rear entrance to the Goethe-Institut located at
674 S. Westlake Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90057
Public transport is possible with the red line to MacArthur Park/Westlake stop. Using carpool or ride-share options are appreciated.
INNER LANDSCAPES is part of the Neighborhood Interpretive Center, a hyperlocal initiative of cultural programs that focus on and uplift the MacArthur Park/Westlake neighborhood and surrounding areas.
The Goethe-Institut space will be activated each week as a community acupuncture pop-up, in partnership with Hajo Holistic and led by Dr. Han Jik Kim. This offering is a gesture toward the long-standing legacy of informal, community-based care in MacArthur Park and the greater Westlake neighborhood.
Each 20-minute session includes a brief intake, pulse reading, and acupuncture treatment. The experience invites participants to attune to their own inner landscapes while moving through the shared ecology of the park.
The time slot you book allows you to walk through the installation and arrive at the clinic where you'll meet your practitioner. Visitors are welcome to linger and rest in the space after treatment.
Services are free by appointment.
If you are able, a $10–20 tip/donation helps us continue offering these acupuncture sessions to the community.
. Please reserve your time slot in advance.
Appointments will be available on the following Wednesdays 2:00pm - 5:00pm
December 3, 2025
December 10, 2025
December 17, 2025
January 7, 2026
January 14,2026
SIGN UP FOR AN APPOINTMENT BEGINNING NOV. 20th, 2025
Note: The Goethe-Institut is open to the general public during office hours, though certain areas of the space will be reserved and prioritized for pre-booked patients.
INNER LANDSCAPES
Inner Landscapes is a collaborative installation by Lauren Kim, Enoch Ma, and Jane Zhang, created in partnership with Dr. Han Jik Kim of Hajo Holistic. Addressing the accumulated uses, neglects, and imagined futures of MacArthur Park, the project draws on traditional East Asian medical practices as tools for historical and artistic inquiry. Through these diagnostic methods, the park’s netted, unruly past begins to surface, set along the fertile verge between memory and matter, private and public, nature and culture.
Taking inspiration from the Neijing Tu—a Taoist diagram mapping the spirit’s journey through the body’s interior terrain—and guided by the Wu Xing cycle of creation and destruction, the work reimagines MacArthur Park as a living enmeshment, animated by elemental flows, vicinal blockages, and latent energies. Here, archived proposals, geologic histories, and even bird droppings become diagnostic markers—substrates through which the park’s inner landscape begins to unravel.
Dr. Han Jik Kim, L Ac., D.O.M. is a licensed acupuncturist and educator with over 25 years of experience in clinical practice and teaching. He is an expert on acupuncture, herbal medicine, and classic oriental medicine texts. He runs Hajo Holistic in Macarthur Park, Los Angeles with his daughter Lauren.
Lauren Kim is a place-based researcher and artist whose work explores landscape, healing, and systems of knowledge. Working primarily with paper, metal, and natural materials, her professional and artistic practices bridge ecological processes with embodied experience. She is one half of the creative collective Cloud6.
Enoch Ma is an artist and builder whose work spans a range of materials and scales. Drawing from close observations of the natural world, his practice considers the enduring patterns of nature and how they find reflection within us. He is currently a MFA student in sculpture at Cal State Long Beach.
Jane Zhang is a scholar of popular literature and vernacular medicine. She is currently doing a PhD at Yale and writes about snuff boxes, tin figures, and the stereoscope. She is the other half of the creative collective Cloud6.
INNER LANDSCAPES
is on view November 20, 2025 - January 29, 2026.
During Office Hours:
Tuesday–Thursdays: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fridays: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
The Goethe-Institut is closed to the public on Mondays and on weekends, unless otherwise noted.
The Goethe-Institut will be closed November 24-28, 2025 and from December 22 - January 2, 2026
Secure, free Parking is available at Metro/Retail parking structure with rear entrance to the Goethe-Institut located at
674 S. Westlake Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90057
Public transport is possible with the red line to MacArthur Park/Westlake stop. Using carpool or ride-share options are appreciated.
INNER LANDSCAPES is part of the Neighborhood Interpretive Center, a hyperlocal initiative of cultural programs that focus on and uplift the MacArthur Park/Westlake neighborhood and surrounding areas.
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Goethe-Institut LA Project Space
1901 W. 7th St. Suite AB
Los Angeles, CA 90057
USA
1901 W. 7th St. Suite AB
Los Angeles, CA 90057
USA