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Event
SF Intl. Arts Festival. Element Dance Theater, Navarrete x Kajiyama, Ilya Noe & Chris Lanier "The Mapping Project"
San Francisco International Arts Festival
The fifth annual San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) kicks off on May 21 and runs through June 8 with more than 40 performances and three major visual arts exhibits being presented by more than 25 San Francisco Arts organizations at multiple venues throughout the City. With its annual theme, "The Truth in Knowing/Now: Threads in Time, Place, Culture," SFIAF 2008 will include numerous World Premieres, US Debuts & International Collaborations featuring leading artists from the Bay Area performing and exhibiting with and alongside their international peers from around the world. This year's festival includes dance, music, opera, theatre and visual arts and events will take place at the Asian Art Museum, Chinese Cultural Center, CounterPULSE, Dance Mission Theater, Herbst Theatre, Union Square, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens and on numerous billboards in downtown San Francisco.
"THE MAPPING PROJECT"
"The Mapping Project" (world premiere) is an evening of installation performance created by the Bay Area's Navarrete x Kajiyama and Element Dance Theater and digital artist Chris Lanier working in collaboration with Mexican visual artist Ilya Noe. The work explores the human penchant for creating maps of our geographies and our histories, and will include oral histories, dance, theater, sculptural stage design, and video projections.
"The Mapping Project" explores the ways in which mapmaking can drive our perceptions of the world, and the ways in which we can create our own maps to change our realities. Using visual installation, narrative, and contemporary movement, the artists will construct ancestral and present-day maps that examine the fallout of history through family stories and political dynamics. These maps will trace some of the strange continuities between the upheavals of the mid-20th century and the current War on Terror, and address current debates on immigration across the highly charged US-Mexico border.
Although we often think of maps as objective representations of the world, maps have often been used to illustrate the reality that colonialists wanted to impose on a territory and the people living there. Map creators were often successful at imposing their borders and categories, thus altering people's lives and conceptions of themselves. But maps have also been used as a tool of empowerment throughout history by those who dared to question existing classifications, boundaries, and ways of seeing the world. In the theater, the artists will distort the normal orientation of the audience-performer relationship by using the space in unexpected ways. They will theatrically create a zone where North becomes South; South becomes North.
The performances of "The Mapping Project" at SFIAF are presented by Navarrete x Kajiyama and Element Dance Theater.
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LocationCounterPULSE
1310 Mission Street (@ Ninth)
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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