Intersection for the Arts presents a unique event as part of our current exhibition at Intersection 5M, Recycled Re-Mix: Eighty-sixed Thirty-threes, 2007-2008.

Eighty-sixed Thirty-threes is a performance piece in which records from this exclusive curated collection of more than 200 vinyl LPs are played by a DJ unfamiliar with the collection. It can be performed for any duration and song selection is left to the discretion of the DJ. Audience members at this event will be able to sign up for 15-minute DJ sets.

The artist, Scott Oliver, who was an artist-in-residence at Recology San Francisco, amassed the collection during his residency. All of the records were found, many of them in remarkably good condition, in the public disposal and recycling area at the San Francisco dump over a four-month period between October 2007 and January 2008. Scott is also one of the artists whose work is featured as part of the current exhibit at Intersection 5M, Art at the Dump: Twenty Years of the Artist in Residence Program at Recology, which will run through October 3, 2010.

This exhibition celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the art and education program at Recology San Francisco, a one-of-a-kind initiative that enables artists to work with materials taken directly from the city of San Francisco’s waste stream, while teaching the public about recycling and resource conservation. Art at the Dump presents a sampling of work made by some of the more than eighty artists who have participated in the program. Work in a variety of mediums—sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, performance, video, textiles, and musical composition—is represented, and often runs counter to traditional notions of what art made from found materials should look like.

See a video clip of the opening reception of Art at the Dump at Intersection 5M last month below:

Recycled Re-Mix, in the same spirit as the overall exhibit - Art at the Dump, will give us another chance to consider the things we throw away, how we can rethink this act and perhaps find other ways to reuse, repurpose or recycle what could otherwise, end up in our landfills. The evening will be a festive evening full of energy, light fare and drinks, where guests will be encouraged to dance as the DJs Re-Mix selections that were on their way to contributing to the waste stream. Entrance for the evening is $10, Intersection for the Arts members are free and any guests they bring are $5 each.

Recycled Re-Mix: Eighty-sixed Thirty-threes, 2007-2008

Thursday, September 9, 2010

6-9PM

Intersection 5M. 925 Mission Street @ 5th Street