Kamau Patton & Sara Kraft In Conversation
Thu, Feb 25 2010
YBCA Galleries
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Thu, Feb 25, 7–8 pm • Gallery 3
FREE w/gallery admission
Join Kamau Patton and performance artist Sara Kraft as they discuss commonalities within their artistic practices, including themes of hybridity, media and technology, audience relationships and altered states. Patton and Kraft will also present samples of sound, image and text as part of this performative insight into each other’s work. The conversation will be broadcast "live" via a low powered radio station from Patton’s Icons of Attention exhibition.
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Jan 30–Mar 7, 2010: EXHIBITION: Kamau Patton: Icons of Attention
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Mar 18–20, 2010: PERFORMANCE: Sara Kraft: HyperReal
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Kamau Patton
Kamau Patton is a Bay Area-based video and performance artist, whose work uses and often reassembles traditional African imagery and costume in order to explore the formation of modern mythology, African-American identity, and popular culture. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Sociology. He received his MFA from Stanford University, Spring 2007. Patton has exhibited his work in solo shows in Los Angeles at Machine Project, in San Francisco at Queens Nails Annex and at Tilton Gallery in New York. Kamau Patton has worked on numerous community based art projects for organizations such as The San Francisco Art Institute, The School House, the Museum of Children’s Art, Southern Exposure and the Richmond Art Center. He has worked on public art projects commissioned by The San Francisco Arts Commission, the City of Walnut Creek, the City of San Jose, and Creative Time. Patton has worked collaboratively on artists’ projects at the MoMA in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Kamau Patton is currently a Lecturer in New Media at UC Berkeley.
Sara Kraft
Sara Kraft is a San Francisco based interdisciplinary artist, performer, director, writer, composer/vocalist and teacher who creates original work drawing from her eclectic background in theatre, dance, performance art, film/video, music, installation and site specific events. Her award winning work has gained acclaim for its integration of interactive media and live performance, fusing interdisciplinary form and content in groundbreaking ways and weaving disparate non-linear narratives into evening length works. Transcending the use of media in performance as mere spectacle, her work often directly questions our relationship to technology and the nature of live performance itself.
In addition to creating and performing her own work, she has collaborated with numerous local and national artists, was a founding co-artistic director of Chicago’s Baubo Performance Project and most recently was founding co-artistic director of acclaimed San Francisco multimedia performance collaborative Kraft + Purver (creators of REMOTE and WOODS FOR THE TREES). Her work has been presented in numerous venues and festivals including YBCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the HERE American Living Room Festival (NYC) and the SF International Arts Festival. She has received residencies at ODC Theater, CounterPULSE, and the Exit Theatre as well as numerous grants. Kraft has also been a songwriter, vocal composer and vocalist for theatre and in bands since the early '90's, as well as working extensively in film and video production with pioneering filmmakers.
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