Apr 27, 2015
This week Brian and Patricia sit down with
curator Tanya Zimbardo during her
residency at Krowswork, a center for Video and
Visionary Art, in Oakland. Tanya is a San
Francisco-based curator. Her research and writing is primarily
centered on conceptual art and experimental media in California in
the 1970s and 1980s. She is co-curating the group
survey Public Works: Artists' Interventions
1970s - Now at Mills College Art Museum this
fall. As the Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she curated select film and video
screenings and co-organized the past two SECA Art Award exhibitions
and overview Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA
Awards, among other exhibitions. She has contributed essays to
several SFMOMA publications, most recently West Coast
Visions(2015, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul). As a guest
contributor to Open
Space (2012‒14), Zimbardo highlighted
various site works, public interventions, and artist-run spaces in
the Bay Area, including Receipt of Delivery, her
weekly series featuring exhibition mailers.
The Krowswork Residencies
feature a diverse range of visionary artists and artwork—from
graffiti to poetry and from elaborate sci-fi video installations to
Kabalistic painting. These Krowswork Residents present their own
work, host conversations and events, and in some cases present the
work of others. Each Resident is implicitly or explicitly in
conversation with those who come before and after, as well as in
dialogue with the total arc of the year.
Caption:
Kristin Lucas, Air on the Go, 2014,
multi-channel video on different size monitors with sound, 4 min.,
courtesy the artist; © Kristin Lucas