Art gets off the wall at SFMOMA: Now Playing. On
three Thursdays this fall, artists electrify the museum
with live music, spoken word, films, installations, and
performances. Tasty drinks and good eats make the
experience even more delicious. So come by, listen
up, look around, rock out—in a word, play. With
Thursday nights like this, who needs weekends?
THURSDAY, 9/15:
8:30 p.m. Adam...
[read more] Art gets off the wall at SFMOMA: Now Playing. On
three Thursdays this fall, artists electrify the museum
with live music, spoken word, films, installations, and
performances. Tasty drinks and good eats make the
experience even more delicious. So come by, listen
up, look around, rock out—in a word, play. With
Thursday nights like this, who needs weekends?
THURSDAY, 9/15:
8:30 p.m. Adam Pendleton introduces BAND with David Hilliard, former chief-of-staff of the Black Panther Party
9 p.m. Performance by Deerhoof
A project of New York-based artist Adam Pendleton with the experimental musicians of the San Francisco-born Deerhoof, BAND is a three-channel video installation that re-imagines Jean-Luc Godard’s film Sympathy for the Devil. Godard documents the Rolling Stones as they record the lead track of their 1968 album Beggar’s Banquet, while also meditating on the Black Panthers, May 1968, and the possibilities of global revolution. In BAND, Pendleton presents new collisions of culture and politics, creating a three channel video of Deerhoof’s recording “I Did Crimes for You,” whose lyrics are based on Godard’s script, with documentary audio about one young man’s reflections on the struggle for civil rights. BAND’s SFMOMA appearance will include an all day screening of a single channel version of the piece, plus new footage of Black Panther Chief of Staff David Hilliard touring landmark Party sites in Oakland, CA, an on-stage interview with Hilliard, and a Deerhoof performance with projection work by Pendleton. BAND debuted at de Appel in the Netherlands, and was recently on view at the Kitchen in New York.
Free w/ museum admission!
