From September 28, 2018 to June 15, 2019, the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara University is hosting the exhibition Radical Velocity, curated by Lauren Baines, showing the power of the human body to impact our sense of place. Several images from Bonnie Ora Sherk‘s Sitting Still Series (1970), a powerful and pioneering, environmental performance installation series, are being featured in the Exhibition.  The Sitting Still Series highlights how a seated human figure can very simply transform an environment. Seated in an armchair in diverse urban places – Army Street/101 Freeway Interchange Construction Zone, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Financial District including Bank of America Plaza, and various indoor/ outdoor cages in the San Francisco Zoo, Bonnie Ora Sherk transformed dead spaces into new and interesting environments that changed our perceptions about possibilities.

The Exhibition is presented as part of New Terrains: Mobility & Migration, an initiative developed collaboratively by South Bay Arts Organizations, to emphasize the movement of bodies through spaces – social, political, literal and figurative.

Stay tuned to get updates about the Exhibition and Bonnie Ora’s upcoming Keynote Lecture at Santa Clara University to introduce A Living Library to the University and Silicon Valley community.