Ever want to get down like a raccoon and party in the town dump? You can now with a fascinating exhibit at Recology San Francisco, featuring upcycled art and a DJ spinning records salvaged from the facility’s piles of garbage.
Recology runs an artist-in-residence program that encourages the use of discarded materials. This summer, Rania Ho is showing off her “503 Social Club,” an experimental space with a dance hall built from plywood scrap. It’s augmented with a salvaged audio system and snippets of found recordings ranging from music to a 1968 James Baldwin speech. A separate room encourages conversation with a comfy patio and soft murmurings from a fountain made out of an old inflatable raft.
Leonard Reidelbach, meanwhile, has built a “ party-themed multiverse” that invokes the feeling of an intimate celebration. There’s ambient music and groovy imagery torn from an astronomy book, as well as a six-foot mirrored globe the dump’s bulldozers smashed in half. If that doesn’t scream “party,” what does?
The art is on display 5-8 p.m. June 10, noon-3 p.m. June 11, 5-7:30 p.m. June 14; music and dancing should happen on June 10 and June 11 and both artists will discuss their work starting at 6:30 p.m. on June 14.
Details: 503 Tunnel Avenue (art studio) and 401 Tunnel Avenue (Environmental Learning Center Gallery) at Recology San Francisco; free, proof of vaccination and masks required, recology.com/recology-san-francisco/artist-in-residence-program/next-exhibition
Source: www.mercurynews.com