Archives - YBCA

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Exhibitions

Joachim Koester: HOWE

Presented by YBCA

November 15, 2013–February 23, 2014

Koester shows his 16mm film about the American spiritualist and activist John Murray Spear.

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Exhibitions

Dissident Futures

Presented by YBCA

October 18, 2013–February 2, 2014

An investigation into possible alternative futures, particularly those that question or overturn conventional notions of innovation in biological, social, environmental, and technological structures.

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Exhibitions

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company 30th Anniversary Exhibition

Presented by YBCA

September 20–November 3, 2013

Significant works by visual artists and designers that have played integral roles in works by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company since the early 1980s.

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Exhibitions

Brenna Murphy: Liquid Vehicle Transmitter

Presented by YBCA

July 19–September 8, 2013

Working in sculpture, game design, installation, performance, sound and the internet, Portland-based artist Brenna Murphy is interested in digital technology’s capacity to connect and expand human consciousness.

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Public Art

Kota Ezawa: Boardwalk

Presented by YBCA

June 28, 2013–November 30, 2015

Kota Ezawa rebuilds in YBCA’s Sculpture Court a side view of the Seaside Heights boardwalk on the New Jersey shore, which was devastated during Hurricane Sandy.

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Exhibitions

Migrating Identities

Presented by YBCA

June 28–September 29, 2013

Artists reveal the ways in which their identities have been transformed by the confluence of mobility, cultural retention, and personal history.

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Exhibitions

Erin Shirreff: Lake

Presented by YBCA

March 1–June 30, 2013

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.

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Exhibitions

Shih Chieh Huang: Synthetic Seduction

Presented by YBCA

March 1–July 7, 2013

Shih Chieh Huang creates sculptural ecosystems using computer parts and common objects, such as plastic bags and bottles, which he animates in installations that mix a machine aesthetic with an organic impulse.

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Exhibitions

Without Reality There Is No Utopia

Presented by YBCA

February 15–June 9, 2013

Work by more than two-dozen international artists, and features works of photography, video, drawing, painting, collage, and more.

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Exhibitions

smoke signals: viviendo pa’ la ciudad

Presented by YBCA

October 26, 2012–February 17, 2013

William Cordova attempts to reconcile themes of displacement and transition through his use of urban ephemera to shape what he describes as our contemporary situation.

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