Mon, April 23, 2012

There are no programs on Mon, April 23, 2012. The next day with upcoming programs is Thu, April 26, 2012.

  • Reflect
    Jan 26, 2012 – Jun 24, 2012
    CrossFade Video Lounge

    Super 8 is a collection of video art in multi-channel formats, selected by a peer-to-peer curatorial process. Eight artists from eight cities across the globe were invited to present their videos, and invited four other artists from their respective cities to join them.

    Visual Arts
  • Encounter
    Jan 26, 2012 – Jun 24, 2012
    Viewing Corridor

    At the point where long-held beliefs fall into decline and once-esteemed notions crumble, questions arise about those belief systems. It is at this point that John-Mark Ikeda begins his exploration of the current economic climate. Ikeda deconstructs the iconic business suit — which he equates with the failed economy — stripping it down to its component parts and pinning it to the wall like a specimen, with accompanying business accessories, in an attempt to reconstitute it as a symbol of power.

    Visual Arts
  • Encounter
    Feb 17, 2012 – May 6, 2012
    FREE
    Room for Big Ideas

    The Raw Feed presents work from three artists who explore the issues of globalization and dislocation, focusing on the ways in which we are given sustenance. The project includes an interactive rice factory that examines the politics of grain production and world hunger; a multidisciplinary video installation that takes a critical look at the messages fed to us by the United Nations; and a pop-up café built on a bicycle chassis that connects food with personal narratives of dislocation through a collection of war-time recipes. The act of feeding ourselves has served as the basis of ritual, connection and artistry for as long as we've lived in societies, and The Raw Feed brings together these disparate strands of shared experience in an exploration of what sustenance means.

    Public Programs
  • Encounter
    Feb 18, 2012 – May 27, 2012
    Gallery 1

    Mark Bradford transforms found material – much of it paper from sources such as billboards and newspapers – into large-scale collages and installations. Included in YBCA’s presentation is the large-scale work Detail, an ark-like sculpture reconstructed from components of Mithra, a piece created in response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Also on view at YBCA will be Bradford’s socially charged 2011 work, Rat Catcher of Hamelin, which is composed of components of 50 billboards collected from all around South-Central Los Angeles. This comprehensive survey of Bradford’s career to date is co-presented by YBCA and SFMOMA and will be on view at both venues. Please note that there are separate admission policies for each institution.

    Visual Arts
  • Dare
    Feb 18, 2012 – May 27, 2012
    Gallery 2

    The rock band on the stage, the athlete on the soccer field, the politician at the podium — all command the attention of huge crowds, not to mention cameras. Audience as Subject, Part 2: Extra Large turns the lens back on the audience, exposing the dramatic and narrative potential of the crowd itself.

    Visual Arts
  • Soar
    Apr 21, 2012 – Jul 1, 2012
    Gallery admission; FREE for YBCA members
    Gallery 3

    An iconoclastic artist, Nathalie Talec moves between live performance, installation, sculpture, and painting. The One Who Sees Blindly, her first solo exhibition in the United States, brings together many of her recurring themes.

    Visual Arts
  • Soar
    Apr 26, 2012 6:00pm
    FREE w/ gallery admission
    Gallery 3

    An evening of live performances, sound, and video by San Francisco Art Institute graduate students reimagining Nathalie Talec’s performances and videos from the early 1980s.

    Public Programs
  • Reflect
    Apr 26, 2012 7:30pm
    Screening Room
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    By Olivier Assayas
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien is considered by many to be the greatest Taiwanese filmmaker of all time, but does he consider himself a Taiwanese or a Chinese film director? Examining questions of identity and “native land,” Hou returns to the setting of his youth to talk to childhood friends and discuss his films. His body of work, and the emergence of the Taiwanese “Nouvelle Vague,” must be located within the context of an intellectual movement that united Taiwanese writers, journalists and filmmakers at the end of the 1970s. This movement became possible only with the end of censorship, a prerequisite for free discussions, through film and literature, about Taiwan's society. (1996, 91 min, digital)

    Film & Video

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