The Lab (Venue Partner)
2948 16th St
415.864.8855
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Nao Bustamante
- When
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Friday July 10, 2009 (8pm)
- Where
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Directions: One half block east of 16th St Mission BART
- Price
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$1 - 8 sliding scale
- Links
As part of the Lab's 25th-anniversary performance series, multimedia artist Nao Bustamante pays a thrice-removed tribute to '40s Dominican screen siren Maria Montes — infamous for her star turn as the titular Cobra Woman in Robert Siodmak's 1944 camp classic of the same name. Montes was the muse of underground queer filmmaker Jack Smith, whose Flaming Creatures (1963) featured another acolyte of Montes, drag queen and Warhol superstar Mario Montes. Channeling Smith by way of Mario's hysteric tribute to Maria's own Hollywood brand of the exotic other, Bustamante uses multi-channel video and live performance to explore the intersections of race, glamour, and the silver screen. Initially commissioned by the LIVE FILM/Jack Smith festival, Silver & Gold makes its SF premiere alongside new performance-based works by local artists Margaret Tedesco and Cliff Hengst.
