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Let's Go See Some Art
Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin Street)
Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration
August 4 – November 5
The premise: six acclaimed Pakistani artists around the world-all trained in the tradition of miniature painting, but each reflecting an individual perspective-collaborate on a dynamic creative experiment. Each artist initiates two new paintings and passes them on to another artist, until all have contributed to each piece.The result: twelve engaging artworks responding to historical events of the past and present.
Image: Untitled (8), 2003, by Nusra Latif Qureshi, Saira Wasim, Talha Rathore, Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Hasnat Mehmood, Aisha Khalid, Gouache, mixed media on wasli
The LAB (2948 16th Street @ Capp)
The Capp St. Aeronautical and Lighter Than Air Space Program (Reaching Towards Heaven)
Performative Demonstration and installation opening: Friday, Aug. 4, 6 - 9 p.m.
Kal Spelletich, a Bay Area-based machine artist and founder of the interactive performance collective SEEMEN, presents his kinetic installations. Spelletich's work compels audience members to fuse themselves with his machines and perceive the world and their place within it differently as a result. His materials consist largely of reapplied industrial items from junkyards and dumpsters. Participants control (or are temporarily controlled by) the art-bots, many of which are engineered to respond to human biological data. Spelletich's latest work involves experimenting with bio-morphic inputs that trigger machines and robots to provide viewers with a direct real-life experience. This exhibition will include kinetic sculptures triggered from input on Capp Street, adjacent to The LAB.
CounterPULSE (1310 Mission St. @ 9th)
"Remote," a multimedia performance by Kraft and Purver
Performances Aug. 4-12, 8 p.m.
In a time where traditional intelligence networks seem to have failed, and where "faith-based" decisions challenge scientific "objectivity", this new multimedia theatre project by award winners Kraft + Purver weaves live video manipulation with theater to blur the lines between reality and perception.Both hilarious and revealing, Remote draws from factual research into bizarre experiments in psychic spying performed by the U.S. military and the CIA, and also from the impact of communications technology on the nature of relationships, and takes an unconventional look at our attempts to connect and control while still paradoxically maintaining a safe distance.