Golden Gate Park/Peacock Meadow - Open Skies Parks & Projects - Open Skies - Open Skies: Celebrating the Frontier Spirit of Today's Artists October 19-21, 2007 3 Days - 10 San Francisco Parklands - 15 Contemporary Artists Curated by Elliot Lessing Open Skies is a citywide Contemporary Arts Exhibition that celebrates the spirit of wonder, renewal, and creative social action through artist-driven public projects that activate space and community resources. Open Skies unites 15 Contemporary Artists with 10 San Francisco neighborhood parks to deliver extraordinary site-specific art projects of all media for families, new residents, and city visitors. All exhibitions, tours, workshops, special events, and educational materials are completely free to the public. Combined, these project features highlight our neighborhood parks as living outdoor classrooms - thus transforming Open Skies into a welcoming community enrichment project. Open Skies is at once a brilliant opportunity for families, community members, and city visitors to enjoy a rich synthesis of inspiring artistic visions, dynamic educational programming, and constructive civic engagement. For more info, please view: www.cocanow.org

Golden Gate Park/Peacock Meadow

Open Skies Parks & Projects

Artist: Rebecca Herman and Mark Shoffner
Project: Operation Desert Mirage

NOTE: TUG-O-WAR EVENT SAT/SUN 1 PM

Operation Desert Mirage is a sculptural installation and participatory event in Golden Gate Park’s beautiful Peacock Meadow.

This compelling and timely installation offers a hyperreal presence of a desert mountain range inserting itself the green landscape. Inspired by elements taken from ancient architecture and modern warfare, the suggestion of a sudden change in the ecosystem or a creeping military movement is evoked.

All-ages visitors are invited to take part in a tug-o-war game over a symbolic geological “fault line” or military “front line.” This playful tug-o-war participatory performance is half sport, half military exercise for the new urban resident, as two teams compete for camps that make up the Operation Desert Mirage mountain range.

Join Rebecca Herman and Mark Shoffner, as they invade our minds with subtle thought-bombs -- both exotic and eerily familiar.

Open Skies

Open Skies: Celebrating the Frontier Spirit of Today's Artists
October 19-21, 2007
3 Days - 10 San Francisco Parklands - 15 Contemporary Artists

Curated by Elliot Lessing

Open Skies is a citywide Contemporary Arts Exhibition that celebrates the spirit of wonder, renewal, and creative social action through artist-driven public projects that activate space and community resources.

Open Skies unites 15 Contemporary Artists with 10 San Francisco neighborhood parks to deliver extraordinary site-specific art projects of all media for families, new residents, and city visitors.

All exhibitions, tours, workshops, special events, and educational materials are completely free to the public. Combined, these project features highlight our neighborhood parks as living outdoor classrooms - thus transforming Open Skies into a welcoming community enrichment project.

Open Skies is at once a brilliant opportunity for families, community members, and city visitors to enjoy a rich synthesis of inspiring artistic visions, dynamic educational programming, and constructive civic engagement.

For more info, please view: www.cocanow.org