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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

December 2 - December 2, 2010

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Open Space Thursdays: Riot Show Julian Myers, Guns N' Roses, Riverport Performing Arts Center, Maryland Heights, July 22, 1991
Art historian Julian Myers and curator Joanna Szupinska host a discussion on "Riot Show," Myers' sound and video archive of live concert recordings in which audience members intervene in performances, forcing their premature end. They will play excerpts from the collection, which includes recordings from concerts by Suicide, Public Image Limited, Guns N' Roses, and more. The conversation will include cinema theorist and anthropologist Tarek El Haik, art and media historian Erica Levin, artist and cultural anthropologist Fiamma Montezemolo, and curators Xiaoyu Weng and Sharon Lerner, and will reflect on politics, music, bootlegs, the bit-crushed aesthetics of digital media, the culture of spectacle, the apparatus of amplification, the drama of crowds, and the strange, compelling things that happen when someone in the audience at a concert pulls a plug or throws a bottle. This fall Open Space (the SFMOMA blog) takes its online forum for critical and personal writings about art, visual culture, and issues specific to the Bay Area into real time & space. The programs are informal, intimate, and inviting, as well as engaged, critical conversations. Free with museum admission.