coming & going: San Francisco (BART)
Peter d’Agostino © 1978 / 2019
Nine channel video installation Preview: 2 of 15 min loop Edition: 5+2 AP
This video encompasses the everyday experiences of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) commuters – buying tickets, waiting on platforms, boarding and exiting trains. Within this context several layers of information related to BART are portrayed. They include: scenes from surveillance cameras and the master control room displaying the progress of the trains throughout the system, and a car driving from Berkeley to San Francisco crossing the Bay Bridge while a train travels toward the tunnel beneath the Bay.
Produced with support from: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Floating Museum, California College of Arts and Crafts, Bay Area Rapid Transit. Special thanks: Suzanne Foley, Lynn Hershman, Mimi Roberts, Lynette Taylor, Hale Zukas, Don Day, John St George, Knate Stahl, Mike Healy, BART passengers.
Collection: Oakland Museum of California Selected Exhibitions: 1978-80 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Museum of Modern Art, New York Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2008 Oakland Museum of California, 2026 [ Catalog ]