Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
415.978.2787
This event has passed.
-
Detail from site specific installation A Machine Project Field Guide to the LA County Museum of Art, Kamau Patton, 2008, Photo courtesy of the artist
- When
-
Jan 30, 2010 – Mar 7, 2010
Thursdays–Fridays (2–8pm)
Saturdays (noon–8pm)
Sundays (noon–6pm)
- Where
-
- Price
-
$7.00
Note:
A series of participatory performances with Kamau Patton occur between Friday, January 30 and Saturday, February 18, and on Thursday, February 25, Kamau Patton will be in conversation with Sara Kraft.
Before the Internet, another kind of magic — wireless telegraphy, aka radio — made teleportation possible, astoundingly collapsing distance to bring far away news and entertainment right into listeners' living rooms. While broadcast technology has lost much of its magic luster, artist and performer Kamau Patton sheds the light fantastic on radio once again, with his reference-rich Icons of Attention. Although drawing on multi-decade layers of source material, Patton is less interested in their literal representation, instead focusing on perceptual and experiential qualities. Collaboratively crafting, and in turn deconstructing, loose stories with well-known local artists and gallery visitors alike, Patton further draws audiences in by broadcasting his creations to those tuned in within a two-mile radius of YBCA.
