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UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
June 12 - June 12, 2015Info
- http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
- (510) 642-0808
Interior view of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, c. 1978. The green light in the stairway is from Dan Flavin's untitled (for Gretchen, a colorful and fond match), 1977–78. Photo: Colin McCrae.
A newly commissioned theatrical production by Kevin Killian! BAM/PFA Sculpture Garden Berkeley, on the eve of Dan Flavin's historic exhibition, a classic car crashes into the walls of Mario Ciampi's Brutalist University Art Museum. From the rubble a lone figure emerges, determined to make use of Berkeley's brain power and fabled social justice to invent a new vitamin to help cure polio. In a subplot the newly invented fluorescent light threatens to make obsolete the old fashioned electric lightbulb of Thomas Edison.