One thing that hasn’t changed about Priceless over the years: we love art, interaction, and surprises!
Thanks to all the artists who submitted proposals for art grants. We have more projects that we’ll be adding to this page soon, keep checking back!
Interlude:Actuate (Faernworks)
Mixed Media Photography with some installation accoutrement.
~~~>> think of it this way-its like putting together your life, a giant puzzle.
“In my creative mind the past few years I have been exploring the ways in which we bind ourselves, what that means and how we can benefit from that. There are things we impress upon ourselves intentionally, whether we realize this or not, this is an integral part of passing through, moving forward, or activating. With this project, ‘Interlude : Actuate’ I have chosen to address this part of the growth process visually while allowing for the connection to the natural progression of life.” Produced with a combination of fine art photographic techniques and printing with a mixed media process (acrylic and India ink).
More information at: http://interlude-actuate.com/
Petal Pushah (Da Joolz)
Petal Pushah seeks to engage audiences into a reflection on their perception of nature.
By carefully selecting materials from a variety of California’s forests, beaches, fields and open spaces, Petal Pushah presents a new relationship between organic and inorganic substances originating from different habitats. By placing natural matter into homogenous groupings and designs, the viewer experiences a relatable yet novel reappreciation for the familiar and atypical juxtapositions. The pieces also bring attention to future ways of looking at specifics in our natural landscapes, inspiring to create ones own renditions.
Headroom (Brent Bishop)
The Head Room is a suspended, non-descript cardboard box that contains an entire world within. Upon entering, the unsuspecting participant is suddenly transported to the stately world of Lord Hestershire–a vision of tub-bubbly whimsy and sheer pimpery.
As Lord Hestershire’s guest, you are treated to the finer philosophical points of his fancy, meanwhile forgetting that to the outside world, you are standing with your head in a box. Fortunately, there’s a line behind you, waiting to do the same thing.
More information at: http://www.brentbishop.com/
The Soundcave (Tyson Ayers)
The Soundcave is a room sized musical instrument that transforms nine salvaged pianos into an interactive chamber of echoes.
Equal parts interactive art, musical instrument, sound healing device, and unique performance stage the Sound Cave utilizes over 2000 musical strings to play with the phenomenon of sympathetic resonance and innovative new tuning systems. When someone crawls inside any sound that they make gets captured in the strings and echoes back. In addition, they can play the walls and ceiling as musical instruments / interactive art.
More information at: http://www.soundcave.org/experience.php.
Capacitor (Jodi Lomask)
Capacitor, San Francisco’s interdisciplinary dance company, is renowned for conceptually- rich, bound-breaking performances.
Capacitor artists collaborate with members of the scientific community to create mind-expanding, heart-gripping live performance. From the movement of the human diaphragm to the story of evolution, from the behavior of electricity to genetic manipulation, from the birth of the moon to the cycles of digestion – natural and synthetic processes form the basis for Capacitor’s study of performance. Obsessed with the mechanics of the human body as well as machines that propel the body through space, Capacitor artists have become masters of rigging systems, coutures of wearable sculpture, and engineers of large-scale props designed to stretch the limits of physical poetry.
At Priceless, Jodi Lomask, Artistic Director of Capacitor will be performing her solo piece, Thread. More information at capacitor.org.
Galaxy Conduit (Rich Trapani)
Galaxy Conduit (Rich DDT)Galaxy Conduit is an immersive interactive art dome and cosmic portal that transports the participants into the vast recesses of space, evoking wonder at the beauty of the universe and offering interconnectedness with participation activated by hand-holding. Participants complete human circuitry and trigger higher energy sound and light states coupled with imagery that reveals the concentric patterns of the universe from the largest to smallest scale, journeying out from the farthest voids of space back to the surface of the Earth and into the nucleus of an atom.
More information at: http://lovetechsf.com/