Big Art Group: S.O.S.
Photo courtesy of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Big Art Group
UNITED STATES
SAN FRANCISCO • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • Ongoing
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YBCA presents the Bay Area premiere of New York-based Big Art Group, a company that uses media language to push the narrative boundaries of performance, film and visual art. S.O.S. utilizes ten performers and a video matrix that inhabit a multi-camera, multi-screen installation. Inspired by the primal themes of the symphony/ballet Rite of Spring, Big Art Group creates its own contemporary rite of spring, using ordinary rituals of renewal that are abstracted and refracted though video. As these common actions morph into metaphors of war and environmental breakdown, a larger discussion emerges of sustainability and its daily practices. S.O.S. explores futureness, survivalism, revolution, ritual and sacrifice with this question in mind: “Can sacrifice create a new beginning?”
S.O.S. began as an investigation into the nature of sacrifice within a supersaturated, hyper-acquisitive society. Set in a forest of technology the performance unwinds through overlapping abstract narratives. Animals lost in their native habitat turn on each other in a hopeless contest for survival. Revolutionaries broadcasting from a skeletal studio implode under the pressure and failure of their own rhetoric and technology addicts enmeshed in a self-created universe seek escape from a tightening web of perception. As these environments collide and overturn, the stage transforms into a celebration of chaos verging towards the freedom of annihilation.
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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San Francisco 94103-3138
Tel: (1) 415 978 27 00
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