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Photo: Amadeus Julian Regucera
Free, Performance

Sarah Cargill:
Lucid Dreams of the Apocalypse

Friday, Mar 19, 2021

6 p.m. PDT | 1 hour

 

ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided for this event.

Don’t miss the culminating performance of Sarah Cargill’s meditative and otherworldly new series Lucid Dreams of the Apocalypse, followed by a live Q+A with the artist. This special broadcast, a collaboration with SFMOMA’s Open Space, will stream on SFMOMA’s YouTube channel.

About Lucid Dreams of the Apocalypse

How might an intimate relationship to sound, frequency, and vibration inform how we participate in shaping collective change?

Centering improvisatory experimentation, creative intimacy, process, memory, and Black temporalities, the series features three Bay Area sound artists investigating sonic interaction as an embodied liberation practice for co-creating new realities. Performing artist and cultural worker Sarah Cargill is joined throughout the series by composer and scholar Amadeus Julian Regucera, and installation artist and sound engineer Leviathe (Lien Do). Together they become a deconstructed ensemble, reimagining the possibilities of ensemble-based instrumental performance. In the final performance, filmed in SFMOMA’s White Box, Cargill will use acoustic and electric instruments and other sonorous found objects to activate Leviathe’s sympathetic resonance installation, SOPHIE SRII, building a sonic dreamscape where thematic elements from the series converge.

Lucid Dreams of the Apocalypse is sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission and presented by SFMOMA’s Open Space.

About the Artists

Sarah Cargill (she/her/they/them) is a performing artist, cultural worker, writer, and freelance curator whose work articulates and is the alchemical consequence of Black interiority, somatic memory, and queer intimacies. Exploring these relationships through the spectrum of sound and silence is central to their practice.

Leviathe (Lien Do) is an engineer, music producer, percussionist, and sympathetic resonance researcher based in San Francisco. Their work has been featured in Tom Tom Magazine, Keith Urban’s Escape Together World Tour, and the SOMArts Cultural Center’s festival But Tell Me What it Feels Like.

Amadeus Julian Regucera engages with the embodied and acoustical energy of sound and the erotics of its production. His work has been presented widely, including at the ManiFeste (France), the SONiC Festival (New York City), the Havana Festival of Contemporary Music, and the Hong Kong Modern Academy.