Events

Amy Trachtenberg and Elliot Anderson will discuss practices of translation with respect to landscapes and their inherent social ecologies.

Thursday night, at SF Camerawork. See events.

Elliot Anderson: GreenhouseElliot Anderson // Average Landscape: "Average Greenwood Lake"Found in Translation: Photo by Amy Trachtenberg

The Nonsite Collective's "Translation As Social and Aesthetic Practice" curriculum continues at SF Camerawork with:

Amy Trachtenberg and Elliot Anderson

Thurs, July 10 at 6 pm
SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
415.512.2020 ext: 105

Amy Trachtenberg
Found in Translation on Paros

“In considering a place we look at passages of time, development and decay. As an outsider to any locale, we find ourselves in states of translation: both the navigator and the one in need of guiding. The physical and cultural realms are layered by an accrual of rites and texture to be misconstrued by the interloper. Without mutual consent, but as a means of interpretation, I use the camera like a tongue in search of speech. The projected slides in rhythmic sequences are a case study in questioning.”

Elliot Anderson
Weeding-In: Site Translation As Environmental Practice

My BARGE project BURIED TREASURE ISLAND opens this Saturday at YBCA as part of the Ground Scores exhibition, an off-site section of the Bay Area Now 5 show. 411 below. They'll be an online map and podcast, along with a downloadable guidebook as well - the site will be up and announced later this week. - DB

Buried Treasure Island - BARGE (the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics)
Given Treasure Island's long and complex history as an artificial staging ground for world's fairs, military bases, television shoots, and real estate speculation, as well as being an enormous landfill of dangerous and toxic substances, "Buried Treasure Island" attempts to unearth the secret histories of the site, and explore how the landscape is transformed not only by its usage, but also by what is elided from public view. Home to some of the most stunning views in the bay (but only if you turn your back on the island itself), Treasure Island remains a site full of hidden histories, presents, and possible futures. The work is presented in several overlapping iterations: installation, guidebook, self-guided tour, audio podcast, songs, performative bus tour, staged actions and photographs, and online. That some possible Treasure Island “itself” may be buried somewhere within the constellation of these versionings, between site and non-site, realities and representations, is a question that the work attempts to confront.

more info, with downloads, at:
http://www.davidbuuck.com/barge/bti/index.html

Opening Night party Sat July 19, 8pm-midnight
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission @ 3rd St
San Francisco
http://ban5.org/

My BARGE project BURIED TREASURE ISLAND opens this Saturday at YBCA as part of the Ground Scores exhibition, an off-site section of the Bay Area Now 5 show. 411 below. They'll be an online map and podcast, along with a downloadable guidebook as well - the site will be up and announced later this week. - DB

Buried Treasure Island - BARGE (the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics)
Given Treasure Island's long and complex history as an artificial staging ground for world's fairs, military bases, television shoots, and real estate speculation, as well as being an enormous landfill of dangerous and toxic substances, "Buried Treasure Island" attempts to unearth the secret histories of the site, and explore how the landscape is transformed not only by its usage, but also by what is elided from public view. Home to some of the most stunning views in the bay (but only if you turn your back on the island itself), Treasure Island remains a site full of hidden histories, presents, and possible futures. The work is presented in several overlapping iterations: installation, guidebook, self-guided tour, audio podcast, songs, performative bus tour, staged actions and photographs, and online. That some possible Treasure Island “itself” may be buried somewhere within the constellation of these versionings, between site and non-site, realities and representations, is a question that the work attempts to confront.

more info, with downloads, at:
http://www.davidbuuck.com/barge/bti/index.html

Opening Night party Sat July 19, 8pm-midnight
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission @ 3rd St
San Francisco
http://ban5.org/

Bay Area Nonsite General Meeting:

Monday, July 21 at 7 pm
Get Lost Travel Books
1825 Market Street
San Francisco (betwn Valencia and Guerrero)

Join us to discuss ongoing and future Nonsite projects, including Thom Donovan’s proposal for a Nonsite symposium in New York. (See Thom's recent blog post for the text of that proposal.)

A workbook page will also be posted where you can add items to the meeting’s agenda.

SF Bay Area:

Come out for a potluck dinner followed by a talk and discussion facilitated by Thom Donovan.

Wednesday, July 23
Dinner at 6:30
Talk at 7:30
Rob and Lee’s home in SF Mission district
email for address and directions:
rob[dot]halpern AT gmail[dot]com

Thom’s talk will pertain to the recent discussion on the website around disability and poetics, while considering work by Brenda Iijima and Robert Kocik.

“How might an art of ‘disability’ potentialize the body under threat of harm, erasure and (mis)representation? I believe this question addresses relations between poetics, performance, movement study, architecture/design. How might the poem itself be a site for recomposing (or ‘remembering’) the body thru ‘disability’ — a term which implies for me not the opposite of capability or ability, but its inverse counterpart? How also can language sites, like poems, offer tools for disability, just as disablement reveals sites of potential conceived as virtual power, or powers yet-to-be. And how, through, disablement, may we gain keener insights into what a ‘body can do’ as a means of ‘overcoming fitness’ (Kocik)?”

— Thom Donovan

If you're in the Bay Area, come out for a discussion following-up on questions posed by Amy Trachtenberg's and Elliot Anderson's recent presentations at SF Camerawork [see: http://nonsitecollective.org/node/435]

Sunday, August 3
3 pm
at the home of Elliot Anderson
for location, please contact Elliot at:
ewanders[AT]ucsc[dot]edu

Amy Trachtenberg asks: "How do we as writers and visual artists find modalities of translation when experiencing place from the position of 'the other' or interloper?"

No need to have been present at that event to participate in this.

Elliot and Amy have forwarded the attached texts for reference. These include the texts of both Amy's and Elliot's talks, and excerpts on the work of Robert Irwin.