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  • Encounter
    Without Reality There Is No Utopia
    Exhibition: Without Reality There Is No Utopia
    Feb 15, 2013 – Jun 9, 2013
    YBCA Galleries

    In the Age of Information, actual reality has been supplanted by virtual reality, computer simulation, and false narratives. Since the concept of utopia is based on the improvement of reality, the disappearance of the real also signals the end of utopia. Without Reality There Is No Utopia illustrates this premise by examining false narratives that masquerade as truth; the collapse of Communism in the 1980s; the current financial crisis, which heralds the demise of Capitalism; the contradictions inherent in geopolitics; and the explosion of democratic uprisings around the world. The exhibition includes work by more than two-dozen international artists, and features works of photography, video, drawing, painting, collage, and more.

    Visual Arts
  • Soar
    We Carry Each Other
    We Carry Each Other - Installation
    Jan 22, 2013 – Apr 21, 2013
    Room for Big Ideas

    YBCA presents the latest Room for Big Ideas project, We Carry Each Other, an installation featuring works of art by Eliza Barrios, Lynn Breedlove, Philip Huang & Theo Knox, and Christraper Sings. Using the mediums of sculpture, projection, movement, and sound, each of these artists explores the intimate complexities — including desire, perspective, and queerness — of individual and group identity. Each work of art offers an alternative narrative of a journey each of us takes, alone and together.

    Public Programs
  • Soar
    Erin Shirreff: Lake
    Erin Shirreff: Lake
    Mar 1, 2013 – Jun 30, 2013
    YBCA Video Lounge

    Erin Shirreff, informed by her training in sculpture, explores the physical and technical aspects of image production in an effort to extend and examine the act of looking. This practice can be seen in the video Lake, which reworks a picture of Lake Okanagan in British Columbia from a 1980s tourist brochure using an intricate, multilayered process involving digital software and analog photography. Projected onto a freestanding wall, the work foregrounds the tension between a flat image and its three-dimensional physical support, providing an experience that is less cinematic, and more sculptural.

    Visual Arts
  • Community Program
    ODC Dance Downtown 2013
    Mar 14, 2013 – Mar 24, 2013
    YBCA

    ODC Dance Downtown Spring Season 2013
    ODC/Dance Downtown 2013 San Francisco’s internationally acclaimed contemporary dance company ODC/Dance celebrates its 42nd season with two world premieres; and unprecedented collaboration with ODC Artistic Directors Brenda Way and KT Nelson and NY choreographer Kate Weare; Transit: Next Stop, a new production by ODC Co-Artistic Director KT Nelson based on her celebrated 2012 work Transit.

    Opening Night Gala
    Thu, Mar 14, 8 pm
    Celebrate ODC’s 42nd season at our annual Gala Celebration, Thursday March 14th, 2013 beginning at 6:00 pm. More details »

    World Premiere Package
    Buy tickets to both programs to enjoy 25% off your purchase and the thrill of seeing all two world premieres! More details »

    For more information about ODC, visit http://www.odcdance.org

    PROGRAM A
    CUT-OUT GUY (KT Nelson)
    BREATHING UNDERWATER (Brenda Way)
    LIFESAVING MANEUVERS
    (World Premiere, Brenda Way)
    Sat, Mar 16  •  8 pm
    Wed, Mar 20  •  7:30 pm
    Fri, Mar 22  •  8 pm
    Sun, Mar 24  •  4 pm    		 PROGRAM B
    TRANSIT: NEXT STOP (KT Nelson)
    TRIANGULATING EUCLID
    (World Premiere, Brenda Way, KT Nelson, Kate Weare)
    Fri, Mar 15  • 8 pm
    Sun, Mar 17  • 4 pm
    Thurs, Mar 21  • 7:30 pm
    Sat, Mar 23  • 8 pm

    Photos by RJ Muna

    Performing Arts
  • Encounter
    Shih Chieh Huang: Synthetic Seduction
    Pause || Practice and Exchange - Shih Chieh Huang: Synthetic Seduction
    Mar 1, 2013 – Jun 30, 2013
    YBCA Galleries
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    Shih Chieh Huang creates a sculptural ecosystem using found and collected objects — including toys, plastic bags, electrical devices, and sensors — into beautiful, ethereal installations that seem unexpectedly organic and life-like. For his exhibition at YBCA, he will create a work that reflects on the Bay Area’s rich legacy in both the machine performance movement and the countercultural aesthetics of psychedelia.

    Visual Arts
  • Community Program
    50 Cent Tabernacle: Physical Theatre Edition
    Mar 16, 2013 10:00am – 5:00pm
    50¢
    YBCA Forum

    The 50 Cent Tabernacle is a series of open, mixed-level dance classes with some of the Bay Area's foremost masters of the craft. For 50 cents, participants receive an all-day pass, which is good for up to six different 60-minute classes as well as an open rehearsal by a rising local performance company. Curated by the YBCA Young Artists at Work program, the 50 Cent Tabernacle transforms the YBCA Forum into a creative, energized space for all. Come out, and join the movement…

    Performing Arts
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