coming & going: Angel Island
Peter d’Agostino © 1974/1977 Installation-performance event Preview: 3min Edition: 5+2 AP
This project was commissioned for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s presentation of “America, 1976” a Bicentennial exhibition. Looking for a location where a social activity could serve as a vehicle for investigating the nature of experience as art, I selected Angel Island, a state park in the San Francisco Bay. A film I made there in 1974 became a 'score' for this event.
Coming & going: Angel Island will result in an edited version of a 3 minute film d’Agostino made of a walk from the top of Mt. Livermore on Angel Island, to the ferry and back to San Francisco. On Saturday, October 29, 50 people will be given 2’ segments of the film to retrace the walk in reverse. They will try to find the places where the segments were filmed and return the filmstrips to d’Agostino, who will splice them together in the order in which he receives them. Both the original film and edited version will be shown at 3:30 pm. Participants will meet at Pier 43 in San Francisco at 11:30 am for the noon ferry to Angel Island and return at 4:30 pm.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition announcement
Image: coming & going: Angel Island (1974/2011) wood box, camera, video
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