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| Rigo | Shannon Spanhake | Cheryl Coon | Kevin Radley | Jessica Hobbs & Sonya Blesofsky | Jackie Sumell | Veronica Duarte | ||
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| David Rudolph | Veronica de Jesus | Twin Heart Collective | Deric Carner | Randall Sinner | Tim Martinez | |||
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| recent press |
Cohn, Terri.
ArtWeek. (Nov 2004) Download PDF Slayton, Joyce. SF Weekly. (Nov 2004) Download PDF |
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Pond, San Francisco, 2004 | Columbia University, New York, 2004 | ??? (your place here)
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Exhibition Run: Sat Aug 14 - Fri Sept 17th, 2004 Location of flags: exterior of Pond and other off-site locations TBA Opening Reception: Sat Aug 14th, 6-9 pm Unfurled is an experimental public exhibition of flags that presents critical responses and alternatives to the political and cultural hegemony that the United States' flag currently symbolizes. Up to six flags will be chosen to be displayed outside Pond's building at 324 14th St. and will be viewed by residents, morning and evening commuters, and incidental passersby. In addition, the Opening Reception will showcase a few submissions which are related interpretations but not functional flags. Succeeding the Opening Reception, a few flags will be displayed at off-site locations TBA. Individuals and organizations interested in hosting a flag should contact us. The works selected for the exhibition, ranging from overtly political to intimately personal, surprise and challenge traditional understandings of the function of a flag. For example, David Rudolph's Filtration Flag, constructed from filter cloth (a material used to sift pollutants and impurities out of the air), will debut in the exhibition as completely white, its stars and stripes largely undifferentiated from the field behind them. Over the course of the exhibition, the flag will both flutter AND filter, catching exhaust and other emissions in its fabric. Because of differentials in fabrics used and their different filtration properties, the stars and stripes may become more legible the longer the flag filters, as parts of the flag darken with pollutants. By creating the image of a flag from air contaminants, this flag a critique of both the United States (the greatest C02 emitter), and the current administration (its withdrawal from the Kyoto treaty and weakened pollution controls at home). Rudolph's flag is both mirror and doppelganger, American symbol and its waste product folded into one. |
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