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Art
Blackout

When

Feb 6, 2008 – Feb 23, 2008

Wednesdays–Saturdays (noon–4pm)

Where
Root Division (3175 17th St, 415.863.7668)
Price
Various prices
Details
http://www.rootdivision.org/020908.html
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Anyone who's gone camping or spelunking knows that our senses become heightened in pitch-black darkness. In Root Division's Blackout exhibition, more than a dozen resident and guest artists have created site-specific installations that play with this sensitivity to the dark. In tune with the winter months' light-deprived stretches, the gallery's exhibition space has been converted into a nocturnal environment "lit" only by the glowing artworks and ambient sound. Opening reception performers include psychedelic noisemakers Lemonade, ambient explorers 3 Leafs, and multimedia thespians the elastic future theater company — all of whom present works exploiting their cave-like surroundings.

Tanya Feldman