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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
June 17 - June 17, 2016Info
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http://www.ybca.org/
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(415) 978-2700
YBCA invites you to a summer party celebrating the opening of our latest exhibition. Join us for an evening of revelry, performance, and ocean-inspired cocktails. Bay Area artists Raheleh Minoosh Zomorodinia, Joshua Kit Clayton, Xxavier Edward Carter and Evan Gitterman (DJ Abunai), and Chris Duncan will stage art and music performances while you enjoy a first look at The Ocean After Nature, an exhibition featuring more than twenty international artists and collectives who poetically consider the ocean as a site that reflects the ecological, cultural, and political realities of a globalized world.
SCHEDULE:
7:30PM, 701 Mission Plaza
Artist Raheleh Minoosh Zomorodinia & collaborators Soraya Sharghi, Takako Matoba, Marissa Katarina Bergmann, Nathalie Elisabeth Brilliant, Hannah Beck, Alice Combs will stage a ritual and meditation on water passages and diaspora.
8:00PM, Grand Lobby
Musician Joshua Kit Clayton, a San Francisco-based electronic and digital musician and computer programmer, interprets songs by the Detroit techno group Drexciya, featured in The Ocean After Nature.
8:30PM, Grand Lobby
Xxavier Edward Carter and Evan Gitterman (DJ Abunai) perform poetry set to music narrating the growing rift between the elemental power of the ocean and humanity.
9:00PM Offing, Grand Lobby
Artist Chris Duncan presents a sound and video exploration which pairs processed field recordings of natural forces including wind, the ocean, and his own breath.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
The Ocean After Nature considers the ocean as a site reflecting the ecological, cultural, political, and economic realities of a globalized world through the work of twenty artists and collectives. These internationally established and emerging artists explore new ways of representing the seascape as a means to identify and critique the various interrelated and chaotic systems of power, such as land-sea divides, the circulation of people and goods, and the vulnerabilities of our ecosystems. Featuring work in a wide variety of media—including photography, video, sculpture, music, and design—the exhibition proposes that seascapes do not only reflect power but can be instruments of power themselves.
Artists: Ursula Biemann, CAMP, Yonatan Cohen & Rafi Segal, Mati Diop, Drexciya, Peter Fend, Manuel Gnam, Renée Green, Peter Hutton, Hyung S. Kim, An-My Lê, Manny Montelibano, Deimantas Narkevičius, the Otolith Group, Ulrike Ottinger, Maria D. Rapicavoli, Carissa Rodriguez, Allan Sekula & Nöel Burch, Dimitra Skandali, Supersudaca, UNITED BROTHERS.
The Ocean After Nature is curated by Alaina Claire Feldman and produced by iCI (Independent Curators International)