Senga Nengudi: R.S.V.P. | RADICAL PRESENCE | YBCA

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Maren Hassinger activates Senga Nengudi’s work from the well-known 1955–77 series R.S.V.P. Nengudi creates an installation out of common nylon stockings that are stretched into poetic sculptural form. In activating the work, Hassinger moves through it, pulling, stretching, and knotting the nylon and, in doing so, highlighting the muscular forces of the body itself.

About "Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art":

YBCA is thrilled to be the only West Coast venue for Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, the first comprehensive survey of performance art by black visual artists from the United States and the Caribbean. The artists included in this exhibition have been using performance in their work for more than five decades, generating an incredible wealth of performance art that has been largely unrecognized until now. Radical Presence explores the history of black performance traditions within visual arts, beginning with Fluxus and Conceptual art in the 1960s all the way through present practices. This groundbreaking exhibition features video and photo documentation of performances, performance scores and installations, audience interactive works, as well as works created as a result of performances. Live performances will be scheduled throughout the run of the exhibition, including a special opening day celebration packed with nine performances.