success – GAMBLING WITH OTHER PEOPLE’S $? Paz & Eliza wish to thank Michael Rauner, Megan Wilson & special guest Katherine from SD!
The metaphors used by financial institutions when talking about money evoke fluidity and movement, however, we’re now living with the consequences of this fiscal hyperbole: “runaway greed”. Artist Patricia K. Kelly will stand still holding a small painting of Saint Francis while facing the iconic “Banker’s Heart” located in front of the former headquarters of Bank of America in San Francisco’s Financial District. Based on recent experiences standing outside a London bank, this simple gesture may invite comment, interaction, and conversation with members of the public. At 555 California Street.
A group of local artists and bloggers on the site Capitalism is Over! will hit the streets of San Francisco this week for a series of performance art pieces designed to highlight the damage that powerful players in our economic system are doing to people and the environment, an action they dubbed “Capitalism is Over! If You Want It (The Summer of Tough Love).”
“The inspiration was our fear about the insanity that’s happening out there, with BP, with Goldman Sachs, with all the people who are out of work, with all the sadness about what’s going on,” Megan Wilson, one of five event organizers, told the Guardian. “Our hope to to get people talking about it and hopefully get some political action.”
Among the pieces are a big pink pig giving back after going to the market, a repurposing of newsracks called Daily Slots, a consumer strike at Union Square, and distribution of “No We Can’t” buttons in the Mission. Check here for a complete list, along with times and places.
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Tues. July 27
11 am – 1pm This Little Piggy Went To Market (Megan Wilson)
A bright pink pig, having gone to market for some of America’s richest companies is helping them to give back, pushing a cart of gifts for all. Piggy will be representing Visa/Mastercard along Market and Montgomery Streets and can be found at the corner of Market/Montgomery at noon.
4 pm Bankers’ “Heart” Action (Patricia K. Kelly)
The metaphors used by financial institutions when talking about money evoke fluidity and movement, however, we’re now living with the consequences of this fiscal hyperbole: “runaway greed”. Artist Patricia K. Kelly will stand still holding a small painting of Saint Francis while facing the iconic “Banker’s Heart” located in front of the former headquarters of Bank of America in San Francisco’s Financial District. Based on recent experiences standing outside a London bank, this simple gesture may invite comment, interaction, and conversation with members of the public. At 555 California Street.
Wed. July 28
By 10 am Daily Slots (Eliza Barrios and Paz De la Calzada)
Daily Slots repurposes newsstands with alternative messages focusing on the economy, consumerism and the un-sustainability of the capitalistic culture. Find messages in the newsstands along Market St. Beginning at Embarcadero then heading west towards to Powell St. with the complete message at Market & Montgomery (by the BART station) AND Powell & Market (by the Trolley turnaround).
Noon World Border Acupuncture Treatment (Lowell Darling)
Lowell Darling places needles in the earth to increase the flow of people on the planet starting at The Great Highway in SF. Where the sand meets the water’s edge at the end of the N Judah line, San Francisco Ocean Beach.
Thurs. July 29
11 am – 1pm This Little Piggy Went To Market (Megan Wilson)
A bright pink pig, having gone to market for some of America’s richest companies is helping them to give back, pushing a cart of gifts for all. Piggy will be representing ExxonMobil along Market and Montgomery Streets and can be found at the corner of Market/Montgomery at noon.
Noon Together We Can Defeat Capitalism (TWCDC)
TWCDC sticks (it) to the system with a capitalist pig-knapping, making good their escape in “Das Vegatal”, the waste vegetable oil powered getaway car. Free stickers will be distributed Streets of downtown San Francisco with pig-knapping at the corner of Market/Montgomery at noon.
Friday. July 30
By 10 am Daily Slots (Eliza Barrios and Paz De la Calzada)
Daily Slots repurposes newsstands with alternative messages focusing on the economy, consumerism and the un-sustainability of the capitalistic culture. Find messages in the newsstands along Market St. Beginning at Embarcadero then heading west towards to Powell St. with the complete message at Market & Montgomery (by the BART station) AND Powell & Market (by the Trolley turnaround).
Sat. July 31
Noon NO WE CAN’T (Steven Wolf)
Buttons with the project’s title will be offered to people in a basket on a table next to a sign that says Free, Please Take One, in the mission district for one hour around lunchtime. At 20th and Valencia.
1 pm CONSUMERS ON STRIKE! (CONCENTRIC FLEXUS)
A consumer strike around Union Square. CONCENTRIC FLEXUS will hold signs with various slogans and do a silent march around the shopping district. In the grand spirit of The Flower Cops, CONCENTRIC FLEXUS is a modern dance performance troupe dedicated to the surreal and silly while spreading a message of peace and benevolence. Beginning at Macy’s and ending in Union Square Park.
CAPITALISM IS OVER! Mural at University of California Berkeley Extension Art & Design Center Gallery painted by youth in the Meridian Interns Program, an arts education and empowerment program for at-risk youth offered through Meridian Gallery. The mural offers passersby an alternative message that speaks to the current oppressive economic system. Mural on view at 95 Third Street through August 3RD.
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CONSUMERS ON STRIKE! (Concentric FLEXUS Dance Unit 13), Saturday, July 31, 1 pm
A consumer strike in Union Square. A group of us will hold signs with
various slogans and do a silent march around the shopping district beginning
at Macy’s and end in the park.
In the grand spirit of The Flower Cops, CONCENTRIC FLEXUS is a modern
dance performance troupe dedicated to the surreal and silly while
spreading a message of peace and benevolence.
Using news stands located along Market and Montgomery Street as “vehicles to deliver information”, artists Eliza Barrios and Paz De la Calzada send bi/weekly messages through the windows of these structures (Wed + Fri)
Week #1’s word – “Capitalism Is Over If You Want”
Check out these great images taken by infamous photographer Michael Rauner
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Leah Garchik writes in the San Francisco Chronicle: “At the end of July, e-mails former gubernatorial candidate and artist Lowell Darling, “I’m acupuncturing the U.S.-China border along the Great Highway as part of a series of events organized by Cheryl Meeker.” Darling explains: “The Pacific Ocean is what lies between America and China and the Far East. One goes West to find East. So I am placing needles in the sand at the water’s edge. … In acupuncture, the needles are seldom placed directly into the troubled area, but where the energy flows. … To increase the flow of people and ideas between nations divided by borders, my treatments add to the dialogue of this need.”
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