About this Event
On Monday May 1st the Proteus Forum will be hosting a conversation with the distinguished California artist Gail Wight on the occasion of the publication of her new book Hexapodarium. Wight’s practice explores the boundaries between art and science, and their methods of display; her home and studio is by Salt Point, Sonoma, and she finds enchantment in the unexpected life between the tides on the Northern California coastline. In harmony with the Proteus Forum's first event with The Western Flyer Foundation, Wight's recent work finds the challenge of our times in "between Pacific tides".
Wight will join in dialogue with Iain Boal, social historian of science and technics. Boal has researched the maritime and estuarial commons (sardinops and ostreia) in California and the British archipelago. He contributed an essay to Hexapodarium entitled “Deep Time, Shallow Space”, exploring Gail Wight’s fascination with taxonomy and the interacting scales of the geological and the ephemeral. He suggests that Wight’s art can help us, in the gathering crisis, think — and feel — new relations with the more-than-human.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
San Francisco Elks Lodge #3, 450 Post Street, San Francisco, United States
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