Hidden Histories

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.

HIDDEN HISTORIES
Divulging Secrets of San Francisco's Eastern Landscape @ Crucible Steel Gallery 2050 Bryant St.

Opening Reception Saturday, September 8. 8pm
Closing Party Saturday, September 29. 8pm
Crucible Steel Gallery 2050 Bryant St. @ 18th Street, San Francisco CA.

Cities can be secretive. Sometimes, you have to search in the most out-of-the-way nooks to uncover their stories or understand how they came to be. Hidden Histories artists explore narratives of San Francisco's Eastern landscape that have been obscured by time, development, familiarity, and social norms. Artists Yukako Ezoe, Amber Hasselbring, Francisco Hernandez, Patrick Piazza, and The Counter Narrative Society consider concepts of geography, space, tours and tourism, and the way that places hide and reveal their own histories.

The Crucible Steel Gallery serves as the Hidden Histories Headquarters and
Visitors Center with visual projects displaying artifacts, maps, and narrative installations. The gallery also serves as a point of departure for artist-led and self-guided tours that take place in neighborhoods, parks, and secret locations all over San Francisco's Eastern edge.
 
Curated by Hypersea artists: Joshua Short and Victoria Restler

CONTACT:
Joshua Short
HYPERSEA :: Co-director
T: (415) 642-6576   
E: info@hypersea.net
W: www.hypersea.net

MISSION GREENBELT
CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
at the San Francisco
Arts Commission Gallery
401 Van Ness Avenue (at McAllister)
open Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 5 pm

November 10 - December 22 2007
For information call 415.786.4957 

Events in support of the Mission Greenbelt project are sceduled throughout November and December 2007. You are invited to stop by Headquarters and/or join us on a tour of the Mission Greenbelt.