Participatory Performance Art Event
Artist Oliver Herring's TASK Party SF
- When
- Sat Oct 4, 2008
- Where
- Workspace
- Time
- 3pm - 9pm
- Tags
- Theater, Performance Arts, Galleries, City Events, Arts & Crafts, Family
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Description
Get in an argument with a watering can. Build a catapult from cardboard. Start a revolution. You never know what your task will be at one of Oliver Herring's TASK parties, but this October San Franciscans will have an opportunity to experience this free mass performance art event for themselves as part of SF Camerawork's fall exhibition I feel I am free but I know I am not.TASK Party SF begins with a simple task devised by artist Oliver Herring and left in an envelope becoming the catalyst for mass performance. When this first artist-assigned action is completed, participants originate their own tasks for other performers. An improvisational event with a simple structure and very few rules, TASK Party SF takes on an open structure without any limitations of size or divisions between viewers and participants. These works generate complex, highly social, potentially anarchic and intensely inspiring situations. A website featuring the project's video, images, and participants' experiences will also be on view in the Camerawork gallery and online throughout the month of October.
Oliver Herring lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1964, he received a BFA from the University of Oxford (Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art) in Oxford, England, and an MFA from Hunter College in New York. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Task and Task-Parties have been performed in London, Paris, Philadelphia, Toronto, Seattle, and at Washington D.C.'s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. multiTASK is a group of local artists working with Herring to envision and execute TASK Party SF.
Herring's TASK Party SF is part of SF Camerawork's fall exhibition I feel I am free but I know I am not. Through a series of participatory multi-media performance events and ongoing interactions in the gallery, this dynamic exhibit evolves as artists and audience collude to turn SF Camerawork into a participatory space and to blur the boundaries between art maker, viewer and media. The public is encouraged to participate in events, interact with gallery installations and to view the resulting photographs, video and online documentation on display.
WHAT:
Artist Oliver Herring's TASK Party SF a mass participatory performance art event led by artist Oliver Herring as part of SF Camerawork's fall exhibition I feel I am free but I know I am not.
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