Scott Snibbe: Falling Girl June 2, 2008

Multimedia Art Exhibition and Opening Event

Scott Snibbe: Falling Girl
June 1, 2008 - August 31, 2008
On view in the Theater Gallery (free admission)

Media artist Scott Snibbe animates BAM/PFA’s Durant Avenue entrance, making it the backdrop for a silent, dreamlike narrative of mortality, empathy, and whimsy. Falling Girl is based on a short story by the Surrealist writer Dino Buzzati. The work presents audiences with the story of a young girl falling from a skyscraper, so both the story and the presentation of the work itself take place on the side of a building. During her miraculously slow descent, the girl reacts to the people and events in each window. The daylight fades, night falls and passes, and at dawn when the falling girl finally lands on the sidewalk she is an aged woman who bears no resemblance to the young girl who started her fall a few minutes before.

June 2, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Reception, Exhibition Opening, and Musical Performance
Join us in the Museum Theater Gallery and adjacent Garden to celebrate the opening of Scott Snibbe: Falling Girl and to close the first day of the Berkeley Big Bang symposium. Feed your body with light refreshments and move your body to the music of DJ Kid Kameleon.

Official Website: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/scott_snibbe