Anya Gallaccio's 1871 Fellow Lecture
dal 20/10/2002 al 21/10/2002
Segnalato da
20/10/2002
Anya Gallaccio's 1871 Fellow Lecture
SFAI Lecture Hall, San Francisco
Known for installations that ponder issues of transience and decay through visceral materials such as flowers, chocolate, salt, or ice, Gallaccio plans to use the residency to investigate social, economic, and political attitudes toward food, farming and gardening.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2002, 7:30 pm, due to international travel difficulties.
For more information, call 415-749-4507.
British artist Anya Gallaccio's lecture will occur as part of the San Francisco
Art Institute / University of Oxford 1871 Fellowship for 2002. During the fall
of 2002 Gallaccio also takes part in a 16-week residency at the San Francisco
Art Institute as part of the fellowship, designed to provide the opportunity to
pursue in-depth research, to develop new work, and to exchange ideas with
colleagues and students in both the United Kingdom and the United States.
Known for installations that ponder issues of transience and decay through
visceral materials such as flowers, chocolate, salt, or ice, Gallaccio plans to
use the residency to investigate social, economic, and political attitudes
toward food, farming and gardening. She recently completed an eight-week
research residency in England at the Rothermere American Institute in
association with New College, Oxford and The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of
Drawing and Fine Art.
"The project's aim is to explore different relationships with the land using
food production on both the domestic and industrial scales as a starting point,"
says Gallaccio. "My initial research has led to two model garden projects in
California-The Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in
Berkeley, CA (established by renowned chef Alice Waters) and the Garden Project
established by artist Catherine Sneed, who worked inside the San Francisco
County Jails.†As part of her research project, she plans to further investigate
these projects and to visit other Bay Area farms, gardens and non-profit
organizations. Gallaccio will also conduct graduate critiques and visit an
undergraduate seminar during her sixteen weeks at the school.
A graduate of London's Goldsmiths College, Gallaccio has shown her work
internationally and is among the group of young British artists known as the
"YBAS." She has created work in locations as diverse as London galleries,
abandoned swimming pools, beaches, meadows, and pumping stations.
SFAI lecture hall
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco