San Francisco
New date: Naama Tsabar: Work On Felt (Variation 2) and (Variation 11) Black
21 Dec 2023
Dylan Edrich and Jenna Flohr performing on Naama Tsabar's Work on Felt (Variation 2), 2019 (in the exhibition What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 20, 2023); © Naama Tsabar; photo: Tenari Tuatagaloa
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- Naama Tsabar: Work On Felt (Variation 2) and (Variation 11) Black, presented in partnership with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Thursday, December 21, 2023, 4.30 and 5 pm
- (Originally scheduled for Thursday, December 14, 2023, 6 and 7 pm)
Experience the synergy of art, sound, and movement in a new performance composed by Naama Tsabar and local collaborators that engages sculptural works from the artist’s ongoing series Work on Felt. Tsabar subverts our expectations of the seemingly soft sculptures by inserting carbon fiber and epoxy into felt to create a rigid hybrid material that holds its shape as it retains the tension of a piano string tethered to a guitar-tuning peg. These artworks defy the place of felt in instruments as a silencer and become the resonating chamber itself.
- For this performance at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tsabar and female-identifying and gender non-conforming musicians will explore the various physical movements and sonic possibilities from activating Work on Felt (Variation 2) and Work on Felt (Variation 11) Black. Witness the creative power of artistic collaboration as these felt sculptures from the museum’s collection are transformed into modified string instruments and brought to life in this performance that merges the worlds of contemporary art and music. The works are jointly owned with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
- This event takes place at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as part of the exhibition What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms. A limited number of tickets are available for KADIST guests who are not members of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Please email sanfrancisco@kadist.org to RSVP by December 20, 2023 and specify whether you would like to attend the 4.30 or 5 pm performance.
- A limited number of lightweight portable stools are available for seating during this gallery program. Accessibility accommodations such as American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and assisted listening devices are available upon request 10 business days in advance. Please email publicengagement@sfmoma.org, and we will do our best to fulfill your request.
An earlier performance of Work on Felt (Variation 2) and Work on Felt (Variation 11) Black took place on Thursday, July 20, 2023.