Sidewalk Green Magus - David Buuck

photo by Stephen Vincent
David Buuck, urban poet explorer/pioneer image & thought maker was working his magic this evening in a basement lecture hall at the San Francisco Public Library. Took the gathered on a “49 mile detour” about the City via Powerpoint with a questioning voice layered over, under and inbetween past, present and futurist metropolitan visions. A work of counter-surveillance, metaphor and broken metaphor; a search for and revelation of sculptural and body manifestations of a body politic in erruption, individual and group injection and struggle with and against template architecture, corporate branding, ‘public art’, civic, military and police imposition. Wonderfully ironic and subversive - like Mr. Magus here - at work to invoke a gestural vocabulary in which momentum and power is restored to the citizen maker/player & actor en communicatus. It was an under the skin - individual and public - kind of night. Wish you had been there. Not to worry, David will variously reappear, no doubt playing on a real or magical keyboard, to manifest more visions and thoughts in the playland of the local real.

Cross-posted from stephenvincent.net/blog/.