Event Listing - Museums
Sat Jan 23 - Sun Mar 7, 2010

Icons of Attention; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Galleries


Tel. 415.978.2787
Website
$5 - $7
Tickets
Box Office: 415.978.2787

Location
Date and Time
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
cross street: 3rd St.
district: SoMa

Sat Jan 23 (12-8)
Sun Jan 24 (12-6)
Thu Jan 28 (2-8)
Fri Jan 29 (2-8)
Sat Jan 30 (12-8)

Description
YBCA presents Kamau Patton, a Bay Area-based video and performance artist, whose installation Icons of Attention experiments with a new type of radio created by the local art community. Modeled after 1930s science fiction broadcasts and underground music shows, the installation experiments with radio’s potential to bring the distant, fantastic, or confusing into vivid, close proximity for listeners. During the first two weeks of the installation, Patton invites local performance art personalities, musicians and intellectuals to explore a dynamic workshop/studio environment and improvise with installed objects and sounds. Patton and invited guests develop narratives as well as sound scripts and ask gallery visitors to perform various tasks which include voice dramatizations, sampling and special effects. A low-power radio transmitter at YBCA allows listeners within a two-mile radius to tune in to the installation. Please visit www.ybca.org for more details about times and dates.