Saturday, May 6, 2023, 8:00 pm
GREER/FACING WEST’s THE ENDLESS END + REINIGER + BICKFORD +
Following up on their first major museum exhibition at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Lydia Greer‘s shadow ensemble brings its “performative installation” up to big-City SF, for us locals to get a look! In their immersive environment, shadow puppets play with hand-made silhouettes, rear-screen projection, and a multi-dimensional soundscape. Here whole species live and die over the span of a half-hour of looping overlays. This marvelous sculptural environment situates homo sapiens as animals within a larger system, with humans as the primary predator. Supporting Greer‘s shadow theater is The Art of Lotte Reiniger, certainly one of her primary inspirations. ALSO: An opening cast call of hand-made mannequins, including clips from DeeDee Halleck‘s doc on the Bread and Puppet outdoor pageant, the premiere of Max Mueller‘s uncanny Strange Bedfellows, a harrowing 10-min. excerpt from Bruce Bickford‘s Prometheus’s Garden, and the Mission‘s own David Cox with his crafty Puppenhead. The luv-fest is festooned with delightful glimpses of German, Hungarian and Slovakian puppetry. $10