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Original program notes: Approaching: Martin Kersels | Deathcaps/One-on-One In Search of Obscure & Dangerous Desire Sun June 14 1998 In conjunction with the survey show of his work at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (June 13 – Aug 23 1998) conceptual/performance/installation artist Martin Kersels will extend a slide-accompanied overview of his work into a simultaneous one-on-one basketball game with audience members who accept his challenge; in addition, the audience will be invited to stump the artist with questions from any field of general knowledge including but not limited to pop culture, science, and history. This interaction will be followed by a fun, informative discussion with mycology expert Bill Freedman, focusing on the perils and recent proliferation of deathcap mushrooms in current meteorological conditions. Through this real-world investigation and physical and mental challenges, the artist will underline the startling points and paths he pursues in producing his own creative work, as well as proving that he might be justified in the fear of looking stupid as he runs the risk of employing chance elements in the presentations themselves. Beginning his career as a performance artist, Los Angeles-based Martin Kersels was greatly influenced by film, music, and dance. He later applied aspects of these disciplines to create new sculptural forms – forms he refers to as “performative objects.” Using many elements – video, photography, sound, and dance – Kersels’ work becomes animated by its own personality. His work has appeared in the Whitney Biennial and the Young Americans exhibition from the Saatchi Collection. Bill Freedman MD is a retired Doctor of Internal Medicine with a strong interest in mycology, particularly in poisonings from either mushrooms or molds (Toxicology Committee Chair), and prehistoric evidence of fungal presence. Bill is the former president of the Mycological Society Toxicology Committee. This program, a co-production with The Public Programs Series of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, is free to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and HCA Members.
Type
moving image
Format
Sound Video8
Extent
1 Tape of 1
Identifier
casauhc_000021
Language
English
Provenance
Headlands Center for the Arts California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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