OPHELIA is an architectural live performance and video sculpture that invites the audience to re-imagine Ophelia as rebel meme for climate change and emotional power. Focusing on the human destruction of the biosphere, OPHELIA invokes historical icons 'Ophelia' (John Everett Millais, 1852), 'Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank' (Jeff Koons, 1985), and 'The Werld' (Daniil Kharms, 1939)—merging body, art, science, and technology to parallel relationships between the Anthropocene age and gender inequality, speaking to the democratizing power of the meme. Floating in a salt-water solution in a life-size stainless steel sarcophagus, wearing a breathing mask and Ophelia’s dress, the artist Nadja Verena Marcin will quote text from Daniil Kharms’ 'The Werld' about our limited human subjective perception. The image of a nineteenth-century Ophelia, supported via a breathing mask and reconfigured within a technologically constructed reality, becomes a metaphor for our current state of existence in the Anthropocene Period.

Additional Programming:

OPHELIA: REBEL MEME TO SYSTEMS OF POWER & OPPRESSION
A panel discussion with Dena Beard, Director, The Lab; Dorka Keehn, San Francisco Arts Commissioner and Principal, Keehn on Art; Joseph Becker, Associate Curator Architecture and Design, SFMOMA (TBC); and Nadja Verena Marcin, Artist.
Thursday, March 22nd | 6pm-8pm        
The Atrium at 1275 Minnesota St.
RSVP (encouraged as seating is limited).

OPHELIA: REBEL MEME TO SYSTEMS OF POWER & OPPRESSION
A Workshop Led by Nadja Verena Marcin
March 16th–March 18th | 12pm-6pm
The Growlery
235 Broderick St., San Francisco, CA 94117
Registration