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Other Walks, Other Lines One of our most elemental behaviors as physical beings—like eating, sleeping, and breathing— is walking. It’s an amateur activity. But what happens when we become explicit, inquisitive, and deliberate about what is as natural to us as eating and breathing? Walking is both universal and idiosyncratic: we all walk but choose different paths, peppered by different interactions and experiences. As Rebecca Solnit, the famous geographer and walker of San Francisco, said, “walking is a mode of making the world as well as being in it.” This project examines the variety of ways in which artists take this specific, mundane activity and use it to make meaning. Inspired by Solnit’s history of walking, the exhibition considers what walking can mean today, touching on topics as disparate as urban planning, immigration, and the dérive. SJMA
Pecha Kucha Night: New Terrains/San José 2040 SJMA and Pecha Kucha San José present an evening of fun, fast-paced presentations related to the future of mobility in San José. The event features seven partners from New Terrains; Mobility and Migration, a cross-disciplinary exploration of how bodies move through time and space; the navigation of social and political space; what it means to be mobile—or not; the significance of place; how such disparate concepts as sound, history, and economies drive movement; location, dislocation, and orientation; boundaries; freedom and imagination. Funding is provided by the Knight Foundation as part of Speak Up San José. SJMA
Lunchtime Lecture: Thanksgiving on Mars: Planning for Space Migration Human exploration throughout history has been linked with different modes of mobility, and oftentimes, follow-on migrations and even settlement. So it is with space exploration. As part of the collaboration New Terrains: Mobility and Migration, Margaret S. Race, Senior Scientist, Planetary Protection at the SETI Institute will discuss astrobiology and searches for extra-terrestrial life in our solar system. Lunchtime Lectures take place on the first Wednesday of the month at noon in the Charlotte Wendel Education Center. Visitors are welcome to bring food and beverages. SJMA
Lunchtime Lecture: Think like an Activist: Embracing Hopes and Utopian Visions Sylvanna M. Falcón, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Director of the Research Center for the Americas, at UC Santa Cruz explores activism while encouraging hope Lunchtime Lectures take place on the first Wednesday of the month at noon in the Charlotte Wendel Education Center. Visitors are welcome to bring food and beverages. SJMA |
