Bringing the Political into Focus: Speculative Archive and Rigo

Sun, Sep 11
4 PM
$10 General Public, $8 Members, Seniors, Students

Headlands Center for the Arts (Headlands) will bring together artists
that engage and bring attention to current political issues. The
Speculative Archive produces video, publication, and installation
projects, which seek to open a space for the critical contemplation
of political violence. Archive projects approach this subject not
through its most visible effects, but rather through the operations
of its documentary forms and procedures--the records of its effects.
They will discuss their current work, including a work-in-progress
"Not a matter of if but when," which was recently selected to be
shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Rigo's work has ventured into many terrains--drawing, painting,
organizing, documenting, building and meeting--with a preference for
working in the public realm. Recent work includes involvement in the
campaign for the release of the Angola 3, Black Panthers held in
solitary confinement since 1972, including painting several support
murals on their behalf in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans,
Lisbon and Havana. He is currently working on a commemorative
sculpture for Tommie Smith and John Carlos at San Jose State University.

The Archive is a collaboration of Los Angeles-based artists Julia
Meltzer and David Thorne. Speculative Archive projects have been
screened internationally including in the International Film Festival
Rotterdam, Toronto International Film Festival, and San Francisco
International Film Festival. Their recent video project "It's not my
memory of it," was shown at the International Short Film Festival,
Brazil, where it won the prize for Best Documentary.

Rigo received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his
MFA from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited
internationally at such venues as The Royal College of Art, London,
UK; Museo de Arte Contempor-aneo, Santiago, Chile; IT-Park Gallery,
Taipei, Taiwan; ARCO 98, Madrid, Spain; Deitch Projects, Artist's
Space, New York; and in the Bay Area at Gallery Paule Anglim, San
Francisco Museum of Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco, the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Oakland
Museum of California, and the Richmond Art Center. He is represented
by Gallery Paule Anglim.

DINNER AT HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS

The public is invited to join us for a sumptuous, family style dinner
in Headlands' Mess Hall at 6 PM in conjunction with Public Programs
and Artist Talks. The fee for dinner is $15 per person. Reservations
are required three days prior to each event. For reservations or
additional questions, please call (415) 331- 2787, ext. 31 or email
our chef at

ABOUT THE HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Located in a cluster of artist-renovated military buildings in the
Marin Headlands, which is 15 minutes north of San Francisco,
Headlands Center for the Arts (Headlands) runs their internationally-
recognized Artist in Residence Program; hosts interdisciplinary
public programs; and offers subsidized studio rentals for Bay Area
artists of all disciplines. Headlands is a laboratory for the birth
of new work and ideas, where artists and creative thinkers are given
the rare gifts of time, space and support in a breathtaking natural
setting. Through programs for artists and the public, Headlands
facilitates collaboration, creative exchange, and cross-disciplinary
experimentation helping to extend appreciation for the role of
artists in society. Please visit www.headlands.org for additional
information.

Venue:

Headlands Center for the Arts
944 Fort Barry, Marin Headlands, GGNRA
Sausalito
415-331-2787
www.headlands.org

From the North:
Highway 101 South to the fourth Sausalito exit, the last exit before
the Golden Gate Bridge. Turn right toward Sausalito at the stop sign.
Take first left turn to tunnel. Follow Bunker Road for 2 miles. Fork
left onto Field Road. Take the first left onto Bodsworth Road and
another left onto Simmonds Road. Headlands Center for the Arts,
Building 944 is the second building on the left hand side of the road.


From the South:
Highway 101 North to Alexander Avenue exit, just after the Golden
Gate Bridge. Bear right, toward Sausalito. Take first left turn to
the tunnel. Follow Bunker Road for 2 miles. Fork left onto Field
Road. Take the first left onto Bodsworth Road and another left onto
Simmonds Road. Headlands Center for the Arts, Building 944 is the
second building on the left hand side of the road.


By Bus:
Sundays and holidays MUNI Bus #76 runs every hour between 9:30 a.m
and 5:30 p.m.

Additional Info:

415-331-2787
www.headlands.org