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Brave New World | Off Space

Brave New World


Posted on July 12th, by admin in 2013, exhibit archive. No Comments

Brave New World

Image courtesy of artist Michael Bianco

Brave New World, probed the issues, strident conversations and constant state of instability surrounding climate change with unconventional and even flippant responses

What is the role of the artist as citizen in this climate? How might we reclaim our choice, our connection, our social power when immersed in a deteriorating environment? Sixteen artists from around the globe addressed our hopes and fears for the future with objects, images and gestures that are poetic, irreverent and challenging. Ranging from direct actions with the public to meditative sound and video, photography and painting; these artists responded to our dismay, proposed solutions, offered support and tended to the soul with poignant métaphores.

Staged at Spare Change Artist Space in the vénérable offices of Rhodes & Fletcher, LLC. in the Merchants Exchange Building 465 California St Suite 838 in San Francisco; Brave New World confronted our anxieties within our individual, social, political and economic surroundings.

Featuring artists: Amy BalkinDavid BeckMichael BiancoA Mused Collective*, Gioj de MarcoAlicia EscottAngus ForbesAlan HopkinsClaire Jackel, Cigdem Kaya, Andréanne MichonBarbara MilmanEmmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov+ Elyse HochstadtMichelle Wilson and Kathrine Worel 

*A Mused Collective, performers:
Dancers – Kristen Boberg, Shelly Gilbride, Abby McNally, John Miller & Jenjen Wong
Musicians – Sean Araneda, Tobin Mayell, Tony Poeck, Anna Stearns, Katie Sablinsky & Saranique Schwartz

 

As always with OFF Space, there was a full line-up of events:

Artist Reception: With a preview performance of Unquenchable by A Mused Collective, sales of Carbon Corpus shares by Michelle Wilson and direct action inspiration from Elyse Hochstadt and Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov

Panel Discussion: The Personal Economics of Climate Change at The City Club of San Francisco

PerformanceUnquenchable by A Mused Collective in the Leidesdorff Alley

Artist/Curator talk

Documentary Film Screening: Surviving Progress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artists images left from right, top to bottom: Not Drawing Down by Kathrine Worel, Unquenchable, performance by A Mused Collective,  Artificial restoration: Re-glaciation project by Alan Hopkins,

Viewer participating in Superhuman Exchange by Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov & Elyse Hochstadt, 35.8 kilograms by Michelle Wilson





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