Know Janet Cardiff? YOU SHOULD! The forty part motet is incredible, and was here in SF at our very own Fort Mason for months, a few years ago. If you missed it, go travel to see it. (Congrats, it’s on view starting April 7th in North Carolina, with a bunch of other DOPE LOOKING SHIT)
Anyhow, there’s a work of theirs that’s showing up in Santa Cruz starting April 7th. It’s five bucks to get in to the arboretum. Here’s what Luhring Augustine has to say about FOREST (for a thousand years…)
To experience the piece, you follow a path through a densely forested redwood grove. Branches crunch under your feet until you reach a small clearing populated by tree stumps. As you sit down, the sounds of rustling trees, crackling branches, and bird calls subtly intensify. An airplane passes overhead. Someone laughs. It is nearly impossible to determine which sounds are coming from a recording and which sounds are live. When machine guns begin to fire and an explosion detonates, the eeriness of the experience becomes laced with quickly amplifying uneasiness. An indeterminate history merges with the present, filled with both horrors and the sublime, and becomes an audible presence in the shadowy forest.
1156 High St,
Santa Cruz, CA
95064
April 7th through June 30
Daily 9am-5pm
Exhibition link: http://ias.ucsc.edu/content/2018/forest-thousand-years-janet-cardiff-and-george-bures-miller