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SF Camerawork

September 4 - November 2, 2008

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1011 Market Street 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94103
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I feel I am free but I know I am not
This fall, SF Camerawork invites the public to become the art in I feel I am free but I know I am not. Through a series of participatory multi-media performance events and ongoing interactions in the gallery, this dynamic exhibit evolves as artists and audience collude to turn SF Camerawork into a participatory space and to blur the boundaries between art maker, viewer and media. The exhibition, curated by Chuck Mobley, includes a number of significant new performance works commissioned specifically for this project by artists Roger Sayre, Tim Sullivan, Guillermo Gómez-Peña with Violeta Luna and colleagues from La Pocha Nostra, Second Front, and Oliver Herring with multiTASK. Photographs and video created during the performance events will be exhibited in the gallery with an online component. The audience and their experiences form the crux of this exhibition. The art works presented depend upon the viewers’ active participation, and as they interact with each work, the projects grow to amass new photographic and digital images related to the encounter, forming a cumulative record of viewer experiences. The exhibition’s opening will be launched with a series of multi-media performance events in which the audience participates as performers with the artists. Thereafter, the artists will perform periodically at the gallery on a rotating schedule throughout the run of the exhibition. Roger Sayre Sitting: One Hour Portraits On view: Sept 4—Sept 27 Sittings by appointment Tim Sullivan On view: Sept 4—Sept 27 Participatory performance events: First Thursday, September 4 from 5-8 pm Saturday, September 13 from 2-5 pm Saturday, September 27 from 2-5 pm Guillermo Gómez-Peña with Violeta Luna and colleagues from La Pocha Nostra Performance Karaoke in Three Parts On view: Sept 30—Nov 1 Participatory performance events: First Thursday, October 2 from 5-8 pm Part 1, in which the audience becomes instant performance artists and paparazzi photographers Saturday, October 11 from 3-5 pm Part 2, in which Bay Area power brokers stage their imagined performance personas Tuesday, October 21 from 5-8 pm Part 3, in which the audience stages their favorite artwork Second Front Identity Theft Virtual On view: Sept 30—Nov 1 Participatory performance events: First Thursday, October 2 from 5-8 pm Thursday, October 23 from 5-8 pm Oliver Herring and multiTASK TASK Party SF On view: Sept 4—Nov 1 Screen printing Saturdays: September 6, 13, 20 and 27 from 12-5 pm Free participatory performance event – TASK Party SF: Saturday, October 4 from 3-9 pm at Workspace Limited, 2150 Folsom Street between 17th & 18th Streets