September 15- 28, 2006 (“Short Cuts”)
the Luggage Store Annex
509 Ellis Street (btw. Leavenworth & Hyde) SF CA
Hours: 12-4pm or by appointment (415) 255-5971
WE ALL LIVE PAPER NEST
The Paper Nest Project brings together some of the Bay Area’s visionary writers, visual artists and musicians for an exploration into the term "paper nest” as a metaphor for security, sustenance, and growth.
Curators Tan Khanh Cao and D. Scot Miller create a paper nest 7 feet in diameter, each piece of paper infused with personal meaning, as the centerpiece of the exhibition with work by:
Cocoa Bake
Melanin Buford
Danny Cao
CUBA
Ali Dadgar,
James Earle
Gene Jones,
Targol Mesbah
giovanni singleton
Tan Khanh Cao
D. Scot Miller
Performance and Reception
Saturday, September 16, 2006 7:30pm -10p
Readings:
Kwan Booth (Black Futurist Movement)
D. Scot Miller (Knot Frum Hear),
giovanni singleton (nocturnes (re)view),
Shawn Taylor (Big Black Penis) and
Music:
David Boyce (Broun Fellinis),
Danny Cao (Du Uy Quintet/Vinyl)
Walter Kitundu.
"Paper nest": The phrase is open to interpretation.
The nesting instinct in post-modern society can best
be defined in terms of paper. Bills of sale, photographs, books, invoices,
magazines, folders, calendars, check stubs: We all live in, and constantly build,
paper nest. Paper, since ancient times, has been considered amedium of transference of
energy, spirit, labor and devotion Now, paper has also
become a symbol of the constrictions that people place
upon themselves. We are bound by paper.
Paper, transformed through art, can free us. |