- July 15 - December 11, 2010
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Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
At multiple locations
Solnit's forthcoming book Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas reimagines traditional map-making to chart not just space and place but people and time in 22 inventive maps. From July through December, SFMOMA is issuing six broadside copies of seven maps. Each map launch is joined to a series of Live Art events featuring many of Infinite City's collaborating writers, artists, and cartographers.
Past
- Infinite City: Monarchs and Queens
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With art by Mona Caron and an essay by Aaron Shurin, this broadside map juxtaposes the habitats of local butterflies with the shifting locations of queer public space. By…
Read moreThursday, July 15, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 17, 2010, 11:00 a.m.At multiple locations
- Infinite City: Right Wing of the Dove
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Upending the image of the Bay Area as a liberal safe haven, "Right Wing of the Dove" documents the muscular history of military centers and corporate-military…
Read moreThursday, August 12, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 14, 2010, 3:15 p.m.At multiple locations
- Infinite City: Cinema City
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September's "Cinema City" map charts the genesis of cinema at the hands of Eadweard Muybridge in 1870s San Francisco; the making of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo here in…
Read moreThursday, September 9, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 11, 2010, various timesAt multiple locations
- Infinite City: All Identity Is Local
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Two maps about identity are featured in October. A joint project by Rebecca Solnit and artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña responds to the question "Who am I…
Read moreThursday, October 7, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 9, 2010, 8:30 p.m.At multiple locations
- Infinite City: Poison/Palate and OPENwater
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November's "Poison/Palate" map traces the Bay Area as an ecosystem of paired opposites: Napa vineyards versus Silicon Valley interiors, Chez Panisse abutting Chevron, San…
Read moreThursday, November 11, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 3:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 14, 2010, 11:30 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.At multiple locations
- Infinite City: Lost World
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San Francisco's South of Market district is a poignant example of a shifting landscape that holds many histories in a small area. The "Lost World" map looks at the few…
Read moreThursday, December 9, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 11, 2010, 3:00 p.m.At multiple locations
Image: Alison Pebworth, Infinite City Cover Illustration from Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit, 2010
