BARGE @ Yerba Buena Center

My BARGE project BURIED TREASURE ISLAND opens this Saturday at YBCA as part of the Ground Scores exhibition, an off-site section of the Bay Area Now 5 show. 411 below. They'll be an online map and podcast, along with a downloadable guidebook as well - the site will be up and announced later this week. - DB

Buried Treasure Island - BARGE (the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics)
Given Treasure Island's long and complex history as an artificial staging ground for world's fairs, military bases, television shoots, and real estate speculation, as well as being an enormous landfill of dangerous and toxic substances, "Buried Treasure Island" attempts to unearth the secret histories of the site, and explore how the landscape is transformed not only by its usage, but also by what is elided from public view. Home to some of the most stunning views in the bay (but only if you turn your back on the island itself), Treasure Island remains a site full of hidden histories, presents, and possible futures. The work is presented in several overlapping iterations: installation, guidebook, self-guided tour, audio podcast, songs, performative bus tour, staged actions and photographs, and online. That some possible Treasure Island “itself” may be buried somewhere within the constellation of these versionings, between site and non-site, realities and representations, is a question that the work attempts to confront.

more info, with downloads, at:
http://www.davidbuuck.com/barge/bti/index.html

Opening Night party Sat July 19, 8pm-midnight
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission @ 3rd St
San Francisco
http://ban5.org/