Talk
A Skateboarder’s Lens
Related Exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture
Sunday, Dec 1, 2024
2 p.m.
Floor 2, Koret Education Center
Free and open to the public; museum admission is not required.
Accepted in the Olympic Games while prohibited in most public spaces, skateboarding’s role in sport and our society is nascent and evolving in comparison to organized sports. Yet the impact of skate culture transcends the act of skateboarding itself. Join author and skateboarder José Vadi for a multimedia presentation on how skateboarding — the act and its culture — creates a new lens that redefines our relationships with the built environment and contributes to new narratives. He’ll invite you to see recognizable Bay Area locations across time, observing both the ways they have changed and the innate understanding skaters have of civic landscapes.
As part of the program series Pick Up Games, a live reading by Vadi within the Get in the Game exhibition will follow the presentation.
About the Speaker
José Vadi is an award-winning essayist, poet, playwright, and film producer. He is the author of Inter State: Essays from California and Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens. His work has been featured by the Paris Review, The Atlantic, PBS NewsHour, KQED, Free Skate Magazine, Quartersnacks, Alta Journal, and the Yale Review.
Accessibility Information
Accessibility accommodations such as American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and assisted listening devices are available upon request 10 business days in advance. Please email publicengagement@sfmoma.org, and we will do our best to fulfill your request.