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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 12 noon-8 p.m.; Sunday, 12 noon-6 p.m.Free First Tuesday of Every Month: 12 noon-8 p.m.SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. ─ (July 12, 2012) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is very pleased toannounce its new programming for 2012–2013 which includes in visual arts, the United Statespremiere of David Shrigley’s Brain Activity, new works from Nayland Blake, and NathalieDjuberg’s The Parade; plus performing arts pieces: Keith Hennessy/Circo Zero’sTurbulence (A Dance About the Economy), the Bay Area Premiere of Voices of Strength:Contemporary Dance & Theater by Women from Africa, New Frequencies Fest 2012, theWorld Premiere of Clas/sick Hip-Hop with Les Twins, return of the world renowned WoosterGroup, the West Coast Premiere of Shen Wei’s Undivided Divided, and San Francisco’sown Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet with Kronos: Listen Local that includes twoworld premieres and one West Coast premiere.YBCA utilizes four Big Ideas to organize its wide-ranging programs and provide a context withwhich to engage the art. These ideas, which encompass art from all disciplines, are designed tofocus an investigation of contemporary art and its relationship to the larger world. Using the BigIdeas as portals, YBCA has established a framework of thought that invites exploration and risktaking, quiet reflection and active engagement. The Big Ideas are: ENCOUNTER: Engagingthe social context; SOAR: The search for meaning; REFLECT: Considering thepersonal; and DARE: Innovations in art, action, audience.VISUAL ARTSSole U.S. PresentationDavid Shrigley: Brain ActivityNow through Sunday, September 23, 2012/YBCA GalleriesAdmission for All Galleries: $10 adults; $8 students/seniors/teachers; FREE YBCAMembers, YBCA: YouBig Idea: SoarThe work of David Shrigley effortlessly infuses a comedic sensibility into a serious fine artpractice. David Shrigley: Brain Activity showcases the diversity of the artist’s work— seeminglyamateurish, crude drawings, sculptures made of unusual materials, and installationscharacterized by incongruities of scale—offering insightful and often surreal commentary on theabsurdities of life, death and everything in between. Irreverent and mischievous, Shrigley’s artpresents the kind of odd scenarios you never come across in real life, but wish you did.When was the last time you laughed out loud inside an art gallery? And I don’t mean sniggeringat contemporary art… [David Shrigley’s exhibition] should come with a promise: laughterguaranteed, or your money back. -- Alastair Sooke, The Telegraph, LondonYBCA is the only United States venue for this exhibition, which comes to YBCA directlyfrom the Hayward Gallery, London. It was curated by Cliff Lauson.David Shrigley (b.1968, Macclesfield, England) lives and works in Glasgow. He has had soloexhibitions at venues including UCLA Hammer Museum of Los Angeles, Kunsthaus Zurich,Malmo Konsthall, Museum Ludwig, Camden Arts Centre and the CCA Glasgow. His work wasfeatured weekly in The Guardian from 2005 to 2009 and he has had a number of books of hiswork published, most recently the retrospective What the Hell Are You Doing?: The EssentialDavid Shrigley. He collaborated with animator Chris Shepherd on the film Who I am and What IWant in 2005. Worried Noodles, a CD released in 2007, features settings of the lyrics from his2
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013book Worried Noodles – the Empty Sleeve by artists as diverse as David Byrne, FranzFerdinand and TV On The Radio. www.davidshrigley.comOccupy Bay AreaSaturday, July 7-October 14, 2012/YBCA GalleriesAdmission for All Galleries: $10 adults; $8 students/seniors/teachers; FREE YBCAMembers, YBCA: YouBig Idea: EncounterSince the Occupy Movement took hold across the country in the fall of 2011, protesters inOakland and San Francisco have produced a substantial output of art and writing in support ofthe principles of economic fairness, equality and reform. One of the legacies of the culture ofactivism in the Bay Area is this rich tradition of creating imagery in support of political and socialcauses. YBCA has curated an exhibition of political posters, and documentary photography andvideo stemming from the Occupy movement; and several projects by contemporary artists,representative of the spirit of Occupy.Additionally, to connect to earlier movements and provide a historical context for the project, theexhibition includes posters and photographs from other political struggles, including the BlackPanther Party (1966-82), I-Hotel (1968–77); the ARC/AIDS Vigil (1985–95); the occupation ofAlcatraz (1969–71); the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley (1964–65); and the SanFrancisco State University protests, to gain an ethnic studies program (1968–69). While theseearlier movements certainly differ in ways from Occupy, they all are the result of a deep desirefor the representation and equal treatment of often underrepresented people.Nayland Blake: FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX!Friday, October 12, 2012-Sunday, January 27, 2013/YBCA GalleriesAdmission for All Galleries: $10 adults; $8 students/seniors/teachers; FREE YBCAMembers, YBCA: YouBig Idea: ReflectIn the 1990s, Nayland Blake was known for his pioneering work in performance art. Since then,he has created an impressive body of work that includes conceptual video, sculpture,participatory performance, as well as self-deprecating cartoonish drawings. Blake was a majorforce in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene from 1984-1996. An avid AIDS activist, hepromoted an aesthetic that combined politics, biography, and queer practices such as cruisingand chance encounters.Blake’s most recent sculptures are created through spontaneous processes reminiscent of hisworking method during his early years in San Francisco, where materials are manipulated intosurprising and oftentimes amusing forms that are informal, odd, and unpredictable. For hisupcoming solo exhibition at YBCA, Blake will create works onsite using memories from his lifeas a creative catalyst. An important reference and inspiration for this exhibition is a videotape bythe late fashion designer Alexander McQueen titled The Bride Groom Stripped Bare (2002).While this video is not part of the exhibition, the deconstruction and reconstruction of the fabricwrapping and shaping is representative of mutability in art making. Blake’s work involves acertain amount of risk, coupled with a capacity to yield elegant works from found, banal, andabject materials. For one artwork in the exhibition, audience members are invited to DJ from theartist’s collection of over 3,000 LP albums.During his years in San Francisco, Blake taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and servedon the board of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and New Langton Arts. He also was a cocurator,with Larry Rinder, of a ground-breaking exhibition, In a Different Light (1995) at the3
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