The latest Room for Big Ideas installation, Reimagine: That Which We Know But Don’t Realize, explores the ways in which we simultaneously create and conceal meaning in landscapes, and how that process defines us in relation to our environment.
YBCA has curated an exhibition of works that have proven to be particularly effective in supporting the goals and aspirations of those seeking to effect societal change on behalf of the 99%.
The work of David Shrigley effortlessly infuses a comedic sensibility into a serious fine art practice. David Shrigley: Brain Activity showcases the diversity of the artist’s work — amateurish, crude drawings, hand-crafted sculptures made of unusual materials, and installations characterized by incongruities of scale — offering insightful and often surreal commentary on the absurdities of life, death and everything in between. Irreverent and mischievous, Shrigley’s art presents the kind of odd scenarios you never come across in real life, but wish you did.
ASKEW is an experimental interactive exploration of performance, activism, and counterculture through documentary and experimental film coupled with performance art, readings, and dance.
Sadie Lune presents EGG, a sexy, funny, romantic, and dirty visual poem. Hima B presents Coming Out, Coming Home: Asian and Pacific Islander Family Stories, a documentary on API families and their gay and lesbian children and the cultural perceptions of homosexuality. Madison Young presents Down the Rabbit Hole: A Year in the Life of a Sexy Mama, which explores theatrically and cinematically the transformative first year of motherhood for a woman immersed in alternative sexual subculture.
May 16, 2012 – Sep 16, 2012FREEPublic Programs
