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July 19 - October 04, 2012
Stage Presence Performance Series Fourth-floor performance gallery The exhibition Stage Presence, exploring the theatrical in contemporary art, is paired with performances in the fourth-floor media arts gallery and, in a grand finale, the Haas Atrium.

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Buy tickets Shana Moulton and Nick Hallett: Whispering Pines 10 View excerpts from the performance in our video archive.

Moulton's alternate persona, Cynthia, moves between domestic spaces, technology, and mental (if colorful) breakdown in her ongoing video series. In Whispering Pines 10, she inhabits…

Buy tickets Margaret Tedesco: Catalogue #3 and Cameo. Nights, and night July 26: Catalogue #3 and Dear Hanna, July 28 and 29: Cameo. Nights, and night. View excerpts from the performance in our video archive.

Tedesco works across performance, installation, and photography. In her weekend appearances she draws on and restages her 2005 work Cameo, in which a woman translates…

Buy tickets Anne McGuire: Music Again View excerpts from the performance in our video archive.

Drawing on her earlier video work I Am Crazy and You're Not Wrong (1997), Bay Area artist McGuire develops an in-gallery television special where live, simulcast, and recorded…

Buy tickets Cliff Hengst: Maybe
Thursday, August 9
Ballimbo, 2004
Incantation to Destroy a Cultural Institution, 2012
with Wayne Smith and Scott Hewicker

Saturday, August 11
Ballimbo, 2004
Suicide, 1997
Make Me Wanna Holler, 1992
Lines, 2012
In My Room, 1992
Clowny Sadcakes, 1993

Sunday, August 12
Ballimbo, 2004
When Life Puts That Juju on Me, 2009
Shout Out to All My Departed Pets, 2001
You Can If You Think You Can, 2012
Maybe, 1999
You, 2004
Stink Bomb, 2005

View excerpts from the performance in our video archive.

Hengst is a San Francisco-based painter and performance artist. Here he presents a series of new and revisited solo works, including Stink Bomb, I Am a Tree, and Elvis. Hengst's…

Buy tickets My Barbarian: Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater View excerpts from the performance in our video archive.

My Barbarian animates theatrical styles from Baroque spectacle to camp drag to riff on the absurdities of the American financial crisis. In a performance of wastefulness,…

Buy tickets D-L Alvarez and Kevin Killian: The Visitor Owl View excerpts from the performance in our video archive.

This collaboration between writer Killian, visual artist Alvarez, and the San Francisco Poets Theater features hyperbolic reenactments of two seminal Sidney Poitier films about…

Buy tickets Richard T. Walker: the speed and eagerness of meaning (longer longing version) View excerpts from the performance in our video archive.

Walker's meditative works combine spoken language, original music compositions, video, and photography to focus on the relationships among humans, language, and the environment.…

Rashaad Newsome: Shade Compositions

Newsome's Shade Compositions takes up the body language and voice of certain women of color — wondering how a seemingly sassy street expression extends across the globe as an…

Image: Tucker Nichols, 2012. Commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Courtesy the artist.

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