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Featuring Scrap and Salvage


Performances: July 23 - August 2nd
Wednesdays through Saturdays, 8:00 PM
$10 - 20 sliding scale admission
Tickets available for advance purchase at:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/38753

Lab Or is a new site-specific performance / installation created collaboratively by Scrap and Salvage and artists from a variety of mediums including sculpture, film-making, architecture, theater design, and music composition. The work is highly physical, visual, musical and almost entirely non-verbal. The Labor Temple, or Redstone Building, where The Lab is located is a historic landmark on 16th street between Mission and South Van Ness. It was built in 1914 and played an integral role in the San Francisco Labor movement of the early 20th century. For this piece, artists from all mediums have been invited to investigate and respond to the space’s history, myths, legends, and ghosts. The room’s past, present, and potential future are distilled into a performance and installation that digs deeply into the conflict between humankind and the world it has made for itself.
 
How Lovely on the Mountain Print E-mail

Mariah JohnsonFeaturing Mariah Johnson
in the Front Gallery


Exhibition runs: July 16 - August 2, 2008
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays - Saturdays, 1-6 PM

Mariah Johnson’s work with bed sheets grew out of her mother’s efforts to maintain aesthetic order in her home by keeping her linen closet beautiful, even when the rest of the house was not. With her mother’s habits in mind, Johnson folds, wraps, and stacks bed sheets and pillowcases found in thrift shops into sculptural installations. She considers these activities to be akin to painting -- the interactions among color combinations, printed patterns, and folding systems become visually engrossing and reference minimalist or abstract paintings. The materials also carry with them a history of the bodies and lives of their previous owners. The histories of these objects now lost, the sheets become Johnson’s to piece together into her own re-imagined narratives.
 
2008 Bay Area Poetry Marathon Print E-mail

Curated by Donna de la Perriere & Joseph Lease


Saturday, May 17, 7-9 PM: Daphne Gottlieb, LaTasha Diggs, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Matthew Shears, Israel Haros, and Richard Silberg
Saturday, June 28, 7-9 PM: Dodie Bellamy,  Brian Teare,  Truong Tran,  Elliott Harmon,  Elizabeth Sylva,  Stanford Chen, and video footage of the late kari edwards
Saturday, July 19, 7-9 PM: David Blair, Claire Chafee, Maxine Chernoff, Gillian Conoley, Lorelei Lee, D.A. Powell, Bin Ramke, Chad Sweeney
Saturday, August 30, 7-9 PM: Edward Foster, Myron Hardy, Sara Larson, Michael Nicoloff, Elizabeth Robinson, Cynthia Sailers, Jennifer Scappettone, Matthew Zapruder
$3-$15 sliding scale admission

"An ear and mind opener... this event delivers the real thing: edgy stuff, poetry with a real bite!" --SAN FRANCISCO magazine

For the fifth summer in a row, the Bay Area Poetry Marathon brings its exciting mix of innovative literary voices to The LAB. Since its 2001 inception in Boston, de la Perriere and Lease's Marathon has developed a national reputation among experimental poets.

* For KQED's 2007 review of the BAPM, go to http://www.kqed.org/arts/lit/index.jsp?id=17560
* For more information on the BAPM, go to http://www.myspace.com/bayareapoetrymarathon