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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The ACC provided support for five visiting artists from India to participate in a residency program and the exhibition India in the Imaginary at Yerba Buena in San Francisco in fall 2011. Founded in 1993, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco is a community-based, interdisciplinary center for arts and culture that was created on the model of European kunsthalle (a local art association of local collectors and artists mounting temporary art exhibitions). Housed in two landmark buildings that include gallery, performance, and film screening facilities, the Center presents programs bridging the worlds of traditional, contemporary, and community arts. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ India in the Imaginary, a world premiere exhibition that opened in October 2011, featured works by photographers and installation artists from India and the diaspora and explored three interconnected strands of "the imaginary" that resonate within the subcontinent: the role of mythology in pictorial narrative; the importance of the term “imaginary” within the lexicon of post-colonial theory; and “the imaginary” in pragmatic orientations towards constructing a “future” India in the public sphere. In conjunction with this exhibition, Yerba Buena invited five of the installation artists from India to participate in a two- to three-week residency to complete their work onsite and to participate in a series of residency activities and public programs designed to engage the broadest possible audiences.

Grants Awarded

to support five visiting installation artists from India in the participation of a residency program and the exhibition India in the Imaginary at Yerba Buena in San Francisco in fall 2011

to support the participation of Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul in a residency for two weeks in September 2004

to support participation by five artists from Asia in the exhibition Time After Time: Asia and Our Moment in April 2003

to provide support for four curators from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to undertake research in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea for an exhibition of contemporary Asian visual arts

to enable gagaku master Suenobu Togi, noh percussionist Shonosuke Okura, and two music assistants to participate in the development of Sun Cycles at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2000-2001

to support a one-month workshop residency at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts by butoh artist Akira Kasai in summer 1998

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