- October 14 - October 18, 2009
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Metal + Machine + Manifesto = Futurism's First 100 Years
At multiple locations
In this first preview of RoseLee Goldberg's visual art performance biennial outside of New York City, Performa and SFMOMA join with the Italian Cultural Institute and several community partners to weigh the legacies of Italian Futurism — one of the seminal and most controversial avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century. This year marks the centennial of the movement's founding document, F. T. Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto," which boldly denounced nineteenth-century nostalgia for the past and instead embraced the noise, technology, and rapid change of modern life. This series of programs in San Francisco will reexamine Futurism's relationship to innovative artistic form, radical and regressive politics, and performance work today.
Past
- Fortunato Depero 50
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Organized by art critic Maurizio Scudiero, this exhibition celebrates the work of Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), the Italian futurist designer perhaps best known for his iconic…Wednesday, October 14, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Italian Cultural Institute, 425 Washington Street, San Francisco
- "Let me have my fun": Aldo Palazzeschi on the Press
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As part of this open-house printing, the public may help create and take home a free poster of Aldo Palazzeschi's poem "Let me have my fun" (1910), an early futurist text…
Read moreThursday and Friday, October 15 and 16, 2009
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (drop-in hours)The San Francisco Center for the Book, 300 De Haro Street
- Buy tickets Marjorie Perloff on the Futurist Moment
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Founded in 1995 through the generosity of Phyllis Wattis, this SFMOMA lecture series brings innovative thinkers to the Bay Area. Known for her seminal text The Futurist Moment:…
Read moreThursday, October 15, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater
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Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners
New compositions by Blixa Bargeld; John Butcher; Luciano Chessa; James Fei; Ellen Fullman; Carla Kihlstedt and Mattias Bossi; Ulrich Krieger; Pablo Ortiz; Mike Patton; the sfSoundGroup; Elliott Sharp; Text of Light; and Theresa Wong.
Performances by John Butcher and Gino Robair; Luciano Chessa; Ellen Fullman; Carla Kihlstedt and Mattias Bossi; Ulrich Krieger; ensemble players from Magik*Magik Orchestra; the sfSoundGroup; Text of Light; and Theresa Wong.
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Futurist sound artist Luigi Russolo constructed special hand-cranked instruments to realize an expanded field of orchestral sound. Called intonarumori (noise intoners), these…
Read moreFriday, October 16, 2009
8:00 p.m.
Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard Street, San Francisco
- Poetry + Painting + Politics × Professors = Futurism Past
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Futurism's 1909 founding manifesto called for the destruction of museums and libraries. The 1910 manifesto "Against Professors" deplored the "professorial passion…
Read moreSaturday, October 17, 2009
1:00 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater
- OPENfuture: Spinning Marinetti's Wheels
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Feeding on Futurism's appetite for destruction, OPENrestaurant revisits F. T. Marinetti's provocative Futurist Cookbook from 1932 — which combined polemics with actual recipes…
Read moreSaturday, October 17, 2009
8:00 p.m.
Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Atrium
- Buy tickets Action! Futurism Projected + Performed
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In their manifesto "The Futurist Cinema" (1916), Marinetti and his cohorts sought an integration of art forms through the following equation: "painting + sculpture +…
Read moreSunday, October 18, 2009
4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.Brava! for Women in the Arts, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco
Image: Luigi Russolo and Ugo Piatti with the intonarumori (noise intoners); photo: Rovereto, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Archivio del '900, Fondo Russolo
Coorganized by Performa and SFMOMA with the Italian Cultural Institute. Copresented with Brava! for Women in the Arts, The San Francisco Center for the Book, UC Berkeley Department of Italian Studies, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Support for Live Art at SFMOMA is provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
