Downstairs Gallery
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Teacher, curator, publicist, and writer of the Afrosurreal Manifesto, D. Scot Miller will activate Holding Court to discuss manifestos in art movements.
Often misunderstood documents, art manifestos – as opposed to political or economic ones – are works of art in their own rights. They are living documents that can breathe, grow, and even reproduce. The Dada Manifesto, The Futurist Manifesto and the many Surrealist manifestos of Breton and Artaud made serious impacts on the tenor and tone of a period or movement.
Created from tables, chairs, and desks salvaged from a now-closed public school on Chicago’s South Side, Theaster Gates’s "See, Sit, Sup, Sing: Holding Court"—much like a classroom—is designed as an experience for learning that is created by the people assembled in and around it.
About the exhibition, "Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art":
YBCA is thrilled to be the only West Coast venue for Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, the first comprehensive survey of performance art by black visual artists from the United States and the Caribbean. The artists included in this exhibition have been using performance in their work for more than five decades, generating an incredible wealth of performance art that has been largely unrecognized until now. Radical Presence explores the history of black performance traditions within visual arts, beginning with Fluxus and Conceptual art in the 1960s all the way through present practices. This groundbreaking exhibition features video and photo documentation of performances, performance scores and installations, audience interactive works, as well as works created as a result of performances. Live performances will be scheduled throughout the run of the exhibition, including a special opening day celebration packed with nine performances.
Catalogue available.
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