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Headlands Center for the Arts
July 10 - August 14, 2016Info
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http://www.headlands.org/
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(415) 331-2787
Exhibitions by two Artists in Residence will be presented in Project Space each season. Visitors are invited in to witness and engage with the space throughout the exhibitions’ various stages of making: as working studios undergoing transformation, or in their final state as complete exhibitions.
"Golden Green or Greening Gold": Fritzia Irízar
By focusing on the relationship between gold mining and bird populations, Mexico City-based artist Fritzia Irízar’s (AIR ’16) work throws into relief the long-term and disastrous effects of the global mining industry. By literally re-shaping and poisoning the environment, gold mining has devastated, killed, and enacted a forced migration of massive numbers of bird species. While Irízar works in Project Space, visitors are asked to interact with her installation by plucking it into oblivion, and can also leave an imitation bird call on a recording. In later iterations of "Golden Green or Greening Gold", visitors may bring in gold items to have them painted green, weighed, and cross-referenced to an equivalency table of environmental degradation per gold gram.