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REVOLT! RE-IMAGINE! OCCUPY!
REPRESENTATION IN POLITICS & ART

Friday, September 21
6-8 pm

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Lobby

Free


To mark the closing of the Occupy Bay Area exhibition, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a special added program REVOLT! RE-IMAGINE! OCCUPY! REPRESENTATION IN POLITICS & ART. 

This event will be both a panel discussion and forum, intended to ensure dialogue and audience participation, led by writer and art historian Robert Atkins. A unique online component via Facebook athttp://bit.ly/occupybayarea will enable visitors to submit questions, which may be directed to specific panelists or to the audience prior to the date of the panel. Questions may be submitted through September 20.

While the program is inspired by Occupy Bay Area, it also offers an opportunity to discuss larger issues that transcend this particular exhibition’s scope. The most central will involve Occupy’s relationship with art and communications media, and art’s relationship to activist politics in an era of digital communications. For example, if Occupy represents a new political formation, do the representations and strategies it has generated embody similar innovation? 

The panel will bring together an expert, multi-generational group of presenters with diverse perspectives and varied activist experiences. Lincoln Cushing recently organized the exhibition All of Us or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area, at the Oakland Museum of California and authored its catalogue. Jeff Jones is an arts fundraiser who has helped shape San Francisco’s multicultural arts funding policies for the past two decades. One of two panelists represented in Occupy Bay Area, graphic designer Jake Levitas is a member of the Occupy Design collective and is the research director at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Iranian-born artist Sanaz Mazinani, whose work draws connections to the Arab Spring uprisings, appropriates photographic images she finds online to create artworks (not posters) based on mosaics inspired by the Occupy movement. Occupy Bay Area curator Betti-Sue Hertz will be the panel’s respondent. More about the exhibition at OCCUPY BAY AREA