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October 2010

The Conclusion of Play Me, I'm Yours

Submitted by ZERO1 on Wed, 2010-10-06 15:20

The Play Me, I’m Yours installation concluded last week, and as I work to wrap up the final details of the project, I can’t help but reflect on my experience as the project coordinator.

For those of you reading this who have never worked in public art, I can sum it up for you in one word: unpredictable.

Play Me, I’m Yours was a highly unpredictable project in two distinct ways: First, and perhaps more obviously, when working with the public, anything can happen. A few pianos were graffiti’d and vandalized, I fielded a handful of noise complaints, and one piano was even stolen. There was even one day when an act of God entered the equation: it nearly rained and the pianos had not been outfitted with protective covers.

Cinema by the Bay Festival

Submitted by ZERO1 on Tue, 2010-10-12 09:23

The annual San Francisco Film Society's Cinema by the Bay festival is almost here. It takes place November 5th-8th, celebrating the passion, innovation and diversity of Bay Area filmmaking, featuring new work produced in or about the San Francisco Bay Area that demonstrates the incredible depth and breadth of America’s film and media frontier.

Thoughts on Collecting the Impossible

Submitted by ZERO1 on Wed, 2010-10-20 09:50

Writer and blogger Maureen Davidson, recently discussed the 01SJ Biennial in her column in the Santa Cruz Weekly and blog on KUSP. I wanted to share a glimpse of her experience of ZER01's collectors panel that took place during the 2010 01SJ Biennial, "Collecting the Impossible." She touches on the topics that were discussed but also give a personal view to what it was like to be an audience member.

Catch O+A's East Coast Performance

Submitted by ZERO1 on Sat, 2010-10-30 12:57

Did you miss O+A's Requiem for fossil fuels performance at the 2010 01SJ Biennial, or want to see them perform again? O+A (Bruce Odland and  Sam Auinger) are performing their Requiem for fossil fuels at the World Financial Center  on November 12th at 7 pm. It is a full Requiem Mass written specifically for our times as a means of acknowledging the massive changes at hand. And it is FREE!

This performance has been tailor made for the Wintergarden, an Economic Cathedral, with windows out to Ground Zero and the building where oil futures were traded up to 130 dollars a barrel in 2008.