Jessica Tully hosts: The Brain in Her Arms: Octopus in Space
With Richard Ross, biologist for the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences, and environmental activist Adam Werbach.
Starting this fall, Open Space (the SFMOMA blog) is taking its online forum for critical and personal writings about art, visual culture, and issues specific to the Bay Area into real time & space. On occasional Thursdays, current and former columnists and contributors will host discussion-based events, developing programs to their own interests. The evenings will be informal, intimate, and inviting, as well as engaged, critical conversations.
On Thursday, September 30th, Jessica Tully asks us to consider the possible civic implications of the myths and metaphors surrounding the other-worldly octopus. The Brain in Her Ams: Octopus in Space is a discursive, participatory salon game that unpacks possible practical applications of jet propulsion, hyper-flexibility, and clairvoyance in the human realm. With cephalopod expert Dr. Richard Ross, and environmental activist Adam Werbach.
Join us as we activate the path of a giant octopus in the Koret Visitor Education Center.
Conversational points of departure:
• What are the civic implications of shape-shifting?
• What is the connection between fluidity and flexibility when confronted by conflict?
• If humans were able to simultaneously smell, touch and taste with their arms how would that change personal relationships? How would that change community organizing?
• Is decentralized leadership necessarily progressive?
Do come! The program will begin at 7pm in the Koret Visitor Education Center on the second floor, and is free with museum admission, half-price after 6pm.
