These objects, these things in our hands are our comrades. 1 As the effects of a long and deep decline in ...Read More
new video documentation available. This is the long version but features NEW footage, soundtrack and performance. [caption id="attachment_415" align="alignnone" width="540" caption="image courtesy Natasha Wheat"][/caption] Read More
Pieces-of-you-topia Residency & Performance Series, August 13 - 27 The Lab @ 2948 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 p: 415.864.8855 Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1 to 6 pm Our things in our hands must be equals, comrades... ! Alexander Rodchenko, Paris, 1925. In a materialistic culture there is ...Read More
On June 18th Sasha Petrenko was joined by some generous and talented dancers at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center for Performance. Below is an exerpt of the 45 minute performance. Instructions for movement with Furniture is scene 3 of of Pieces-of-you-topia, a ...Read More
Listen to the piece, 2011 by WWAWUT from Instructions for movement with furniture. ....there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of perception, 1945. Sasha Petrenko—working with ...Read More
Our things in our hands must be equals, comrades... ! Alexander Rodchenko, Paris, 1925. In a materialistic culture there is a gap between process and material. The relationship between the producer and the consumer is veiled. Material objects are fetishized as ...Read More
Documentation of site visit to InkWorks Press in Berkeley CA, March 2011. Click on link below. INKWORKS1 from sasha petrenko on Vimeo. Up Next: Meet the new Artists in Residence! Read More
Members of WWAWUT are pleased to announce a new opportunity for artists in the San Francisco Bay area. During our occupation of the Lab, in San Francisco, we will be hosting a small number of artist residencies. ...Read More
We confess to have a paper fetish. Ahhh the reams! More to come. Read More
Site visit to Heath Ceramics: We were honored and grateful to have free access to the Heath Production Studio in Sausalito. Much more to come. Still images from video below. Read More
April 2, 16 and 30th are the next object pick up days for the Bay Area. To schedule an appointment click here. Learn more about our project here. [caption id="attachment_187" align="alignnone" width="320" caption="Angela de la Cruz, 2005 "][/caption] We are looking for ...Read More