HIDDEN HISTORIES is a new project of Hypersea where visual artists, writers, urban adventures, and the public will gather for one month to explore some of the hidden histories of San Francisco. Projects will be presented in the form of performance, installations, tours, and alternative physical and geographical mapping that encourage public engagement and critical dialogue about a story or place that is concealed, obscured, or not immediately apparent.
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Artists: Yukako Ezoe, The Counter Narrative Society, Patrick Piazza, Francisco Hernandez, Amber Hasselbring
Curators: Joshua Short, Victoria Restler
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This public art project, on exhibition at Cell Space in September, is the start of a large-scale urban earthwork that involves replacing sidewalks with native plant life to establish a connective greenbelt between the Mission District’s two largest parks: Franklin Square Park and Dolores Park.
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I am working primarily with newspaper articles from San Francisco around the 1860's the time that Mission Bay was filled in and the Southern Pacific Railroad took possession of the land. I am also relying upon History texts like "Vanished Waters", by Nancy Olmstead and a history of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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The field of History has been an essential witness to the remembrance of places, people and events, but also to remember one's culture, language, and ideologies. "History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity."(1) (Cicero)
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Barbershops and hair salons in general are intriguing to me because they seems like
fun and easy going places where one can create style while chatting. Artistically, it is the place where the stylist's mind participates in instant creation.
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For the past several years I have been very interested, maybe a little obsessed with the ephemeral waters of Islais Creek. The driving idea that keeps hounding me is that somehow we traded a magnificent wetland and creek to build a freeway, warehouses, and quick oil change establishments – all things so expendable for a hydrological system tens of thousands of year in the making. When did this bargain get made? Did one person or a small group of people make it? Or was the process more piecemeal?
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