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Ballybaba, 2005

June 21 - August 15 2005
Richmond Art Center
2540 Barrett
Richmond, California 94804
510.620.6772
http://www.therac.org/

Review from 8 Days a Week
San Francisco Bay Guardian
June 21, Tuesday

Get into it Forget plot, characters, and setting. In Molloy, Samuel Beckett abandons the ABCs of narrative for a more abstract exploration of language, time, and space: an imagined philosophical place called Ballybaba. Inspired by Beckett's concept, four artists collaborate to construct a version of Ballybaba using photos, sound, objects, and light projection. Yet the crucial ingredient is the individual observer. Ballybaba is less an exhibit designed for passive viewing and more an interactive experience. The show invites us to enter this dynamic milieu of perception and imagination to contemplate our relationship to the physical world we reside in, in all its awful beauty.