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Performances on Friday, October 25, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Exhibition on view through October 26, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 6:00 PM
San Francisco, CA, October 16, 2013 – Don't miss The Long Conversation in its final weeks, including the fifth and final evening of performances in conjunction with the exhibition. Presenting work by current and former Bay Area artists whose practices are rooted in the strategies of the West Coast, alternative, idea-based, experimental and time-based artwork pioneered in the 1970s, The Long Conversation features actions, videos, performances, installations and events presented both on and off-site.
This cross-generational project includes artists working in the Bay Area since the 1970s as well as a new generation of artists staking a claim within experimental, conceptual and engaged methods. Their post-studio practices are often performative, endurance-based or centered around a displaced object or action. With the current proliferation of cultural producers and images, along with the disruptive and quickly changing character of the region, The Long Conversation revisits the strategy of thinking as a premise for making.
On Friday, October 25, beginning at 7:00 PM, Moira Roth and Anne Walsh read selections from Leonora Carrington’s surrealist, feminist novel The Hearing Trumpetalong with passages from Walsh's An Annotated Hearing Trumpet manuscript. Mike Lai collaborates with Charming Hostess, a music ensemble at the intersection of voice, text and diaspora consciousness to recreate the sound from a kung fu film scene live, in the gallery, beneath a projection of the film. And Christian Nagler's experimental lecture I Want to Be Alive leads the group in an interrogation of livingness versus lifeless rehearsals.
Artists: Amy Balkin, Renée Gertler & Josh Greene, Cliff Hengst, Rhonda Holberton, David Ireland, Bessma Khalaf, Paul Kos, Pawel Kruk, Tony Labat, Mike Lai, Lynn Hershman Leeson in collaboration with Mark Hellar, Jennifer Locke, Nathan Lynch, Whitney Lynn, Mads Lynnerup, Mail Order Brides/M.O.B., Tom Marioni, Jim Melchert, Lucas Murgida, Christian Nagler, Rigo 23, Moira Roth & Anne Walsh, Jon Rubin, Alice Shaw, Peter Simensky, Anne Walsh, Michael Zheng
Southern Exposure (SoEx) is an artist-centered non-profit organization that is committed to supporting visual artists. Through our extensive and innovative programming, SoEx strives to experiment, collaborate and further educate while providing an extraordinary resource center and forum for Bay Area and national artists in our Mission District space and off-site, in the public realm.
An active presence in the Bay Area since 1974, SoEx is continually evolving in response to the needs of artists and the community while engaging the public in artists’ work. Central to our mission is to remain the most accessible space for visual artists to produce and present new work, learn, and connect. SoEx provides visual artists with the tools and resources they need to experiment in an open and supportive environment. We also work to advocate to new, diverse audiences and build an ever-growing community of enthusiasts and supporters of the visual arts.
For more information and images, contact Sarah Hotchkiss at (415) 863-2141 ordevelopment@soex.org. Southern Exposure is located at 3030 20th Street (at Alabama), San Francisco, CA 94110. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM and gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 12 to 6 PM. Admission is always FREE. Website: www.soex.org.
Southern Exposure
3030 20th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
