Minnesota Street Project Presents OPHELIA: REBEL MEME TO SYSTEMS OF POWER & OPPRESSION Panel

This Thursday, March 22 from 6-8pm, the panel discussion OPHELIA: REBEL MEME TO SYSTEMS OF POWER & OPPRESSION, will be held in conjunction with the live performance and video sculpture installation of Nadja Verena Marcin's OPHELIA at Minnesota Street Project (March 3 - 31).

Panelists include Dena Beard, Executive Director of The Lab; Dorka Keehn, San Francisco Arts Commissioner and Principal KEEHN ON ART; and Nadja Verena Marcin, Artist.

The discussion will focus on the processes and concepts behind the OPHELIA project-recently featured in CULTURED Magazine's "NADJA VERENA MARCIN'S OPHELIA GOES ON A WORLD TOUR-including the Anthropocene age and climate change, the fragility of human life compared to the forces of nature, dichotomies of representation and gender inequality in the media, systems of power and distribution, appropriation and democratization of iconography through internet-memes, and the increasing role of performance and public art.

This event is free and open to the public by RSVP, and made possible with the support of the Goethe Institut San Francisco.

Awarded a Franklin Furnace Grant, and supported by a successful Kickstarter Campaign, the Goethe Institut San Francisco, as well as Centro Cultural Simón I. Patiño Santa Cruz, Nube Gallery, and Kulturamt Cologne, Marcin's OPHELIA investigates the relationship between the human destruction of the biosphere, and the history of female hysteria-while speaking to the democratizing power of the meme.

First unveiled as video-sculpture during Art Basel Miami Beach 2017 at CONTEXT Art Miami, it was highlighted both in Artnet's Everything You Need to Know About All 23 Artfairs at Art Basel Miami Beach and Hyperallergic's Your Concise Guide Miami Art Week 2017.

The live performance premiere of OPHELIA opened the New Ear Festival of sound and performance art in New York in February, prior to it's West Coast premiere on March 3, curated by Amy Kisch of AKArt-which was featured in CULTURED Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Examiner. The immersive installation featuring the video sculpture of OPHELIA, will remain on view in Minnesota Street Project's Gallery 211 through March 31.

Thursday, March 22, 6-8pm
Minnesota Street Project Atrium
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
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