Dan and Cheryl: Bay Area Not Now

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Artist team Dan and Cheryl hosted a talk show formatted evening in which guest artists addressed the title topic Bay Area Not Now through their work. Seeking a critical distance from the pervasive here and now, looking beyond the local, and acting outside or in contrast to the context was the working concept for the evening's program.

Special Guests: Karla Milosevich, a San Francisco based video artist. Wayne Smith, a San Francisco-based visual and sound artist. Musical guest: Torsten Kretchzmar, a German electro-pop performer.

This event took place Thursday, August 18, 2005 as part of Green Room Now, Stretcher's project for Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' fourth triennial survey of Bay Area artistic activity which was held July 17 - November 6, 2005.

Dan and Cheryl bio

The art team Dan and Cheryl™ have been working together since 2004. They have done collaborative works at ATA’s Window Performance series “Almost Public/Semi-Exposed, ” SOMARTS’ “100 Performances for the Hole,” in “Micromanagement” at the Performance Art Institute, with “Capitalism is Over If You Want It,” and under Stretcher’s exhibitions in Bay Area Now 4 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and in “The Way We Work” at Southern Exposure. Dan and Cheryl utilize interviews and situational interventions, fusing the tensions of lived interaction with the artificiality of the studio, site, or relational set-up. Dan and Cheryl™ is a product of Dan Spencer and Cheryl Meeker, visual artists living and working in San Francisco.