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    The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg
    The Parade
    Oct 12, 2012 – Jan 27, 2013
    YBCA Galleries
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    Swedish-born artist Nathalie Djurberg’s unsettling avian menagerie takes flight this fall at YBCA. Using actual bird species as inspiration for her sometimes grotesque forms, Djurberg explores physical and psychological transformation as well as pageantry, perversion, and abjection in avian society. In addition to the wild flock of more than eighty freestanding bird sculptures on view, the exhibition also includes five animated films, in which avian psychology is superimposed upon human behavior with extraordinary results. Her clay animations are set to music and sound effects by her partner and collaborator Hans Berg.

    Visual Arts
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    The Mad Tea Party: Five Videos by Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg
    Five Videos by Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg
    Oct 27, 2012 – Feb 17, 2013
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    In conjunction with the exhibition The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg, YBCA presents A Mad Tea Party: Five Videos by Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, a selection of important works where complex and twisted narratives are performed by molding clay figures in constructed environments. Spanning the past eight years of the artists’ career, these animations depict their characteristically dark tales that plumb the depths of human psychology to dramatic effect, and include human and animal characters that are thrown together into strange and mythological scenarios laden with sexuality and violence.

    Visual Arts
  • Reflect
    Nayland Blake: FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX!
    FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX!
    Oct 12, 2012 – Jan 27, 2013
    YBCA Galleries
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    Nayland Blake was one of the pioneers of performance art in the Bay Area in the 1980s. His work often explored aspects of the queer urban lifestyle. Though now based in New York, his most recent work is a return to his earlier processes from that period, where materials and spontaneity generate sculptural works that are informal, precarious, nonsensical, and odd or uncanny. For his upcoming solo exhibition at YBCA, Blake will create spontaneous sculptures using his life as the catalyst. Also included in the exhibition are a DJ booth stocked with Blake’s collection of over three thousand LPs, which visitors will be invited to spin; and the recreation of a mural by Chuck Arnett (1962), which decorated the wall of the Tool Box, a leather bar in what is now San Francisco’s SoMa district.

    Visual Arts
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    william cordova smoke signals: viviendo pa’ la ciudad
    william cordova smoke signals: viviendo pa’ la ciudad
    Oct 27, 2012 – Feb 17, 2013
    YBCA Galleries

    William Cordova works in installation, performance, sculpture, film, photography, and drawing. He focuses on architecture and landscapes, and reconstructs, reconsiders, and reconnects past events to reveal their relevancy in today’s social climate. Creating ephemeral monuments, Cordova sees the visual arts as a platform for discussing our common experiences, needs, and struggles.

    Visual Arts
  • Community Program
    35th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival Auditions
    Jan 19, 2013 – Jan 20, 2013
    Lam Research Theater at YBCA

    The 35th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival Auditions

    The World United Through Dance

    More than 100 Northern California dance companies representing dance traditions from around the world will perform hoping for a coveted spot in the 2013 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Artists present their very best work, in full costume, and many with live musical accompaniment. The auditions offer a rare opportunity to enjoy dynamic Indian classical dances, trick and fancy rope dances from the American Southwest, enchanting Middle Eastern dances, sizzling Spanish flamenco, percussive Mexican folkloric dances, and much more. Anyone can watch for only $10 a day, with children 12 and under admitted free of charge.

    Performance schedule can be found here, and is subject to change.

    Photo: RJ Muna, pictured Kyoungil Ong, OngDance Company

    Performing Arts
  • Reflect
    Nayland Blake: FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX!
    Ruins of a Sensibility — Open DJ Turntables
    Oct 13, 2012 – Jan 27, 2013
    FREE with gallery admission
    YBCA Galleries

    FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX! provides visitors an opportunity to explore Nayland Blake’s unique collection of over 3,000 LPs. You are invited to sign up for a DJ set to spin at the turntables within the installation, Ruins of a Sensibility.

    Visual Arts
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    Hellbound?
    Kevin Miller's Hellbound?
    Jan 17, 2013 – Jan 20, 2013
    Screening Room
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    Thu, Jan 17 & Fri, Jan 18  •  7:30pm
    Sat, Jan 19  •  4:00pm & 7:30pm
    Sun, Jan 20  •  2:00pm & 4:00pm
    Does hell exist? If so, who ends up there, and why? Is it possible we’ve gotten hell wrong? Hellbound? is a provocative and unique example of the burgeoning independent Christian film genre that we rarely see in San Francisco, and will appeal to believers and non-believers alike. Featuring an eclectic group of authors, theologians, pastors, social commentators and musicians (including members of Deicide and GWAR), you’ll never look at hell the same way again. (2012, 85 min, digital)

    Film & Video
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