From March 3 to May 5, 2019, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and San Francisco Art Institute jointly presented Under New Ownership, an exhibition of Maya Stovall’s innovative performance-based interventions in public life.
A self-described “radical ballerina,” Stovall explored questions of human existence through unannounced performances in contemporary urban spaces. The exhibition brought together selections from Liquor Store Theatre (2014–present), which stages and films performances in Detroit’s McDougall-Hunt neighborhood; The Public Library (2018–present), performed in Saskatoon, Canada; and video series Havnepladsen Ballet (2017) and Water City (2018). The exhibition also featured a series of conceptual sculptures made from abandoned commercial signage.
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On May 3, 2019, Stovall presented a live performance of Theorem, no.1, commissioned by FMCAC. The performance coursed through city streets from Fort Mason’s SFAI campus to partner organizations Tenderloin Museum and CounterPulse, featuring collaborators Seycon-Nadia Chea, Bana Kabalan, Mohamed Soumah, and Todd Stovall, who created an original electronic music score. A performance lecture titled Under New Ownership (GENERAL THEORY OF HISTORICAL MATERIALIST CRITIQUE remix) was presented as part of SFAI’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series.
Maya Stovall (b. 1982, Detroit) works across performance, dance, moving and still image, installation, and text. Equally an artist and anthropologist, she holds a PhD in anthropology from Wayne State University. Her work has been included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial and is in the permanent collections of the Cranbrook Art Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art. She is an assistant professor at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, and lives in Detroit and Los Angeles County.
From March 3, 2019 to May 5, 2019, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) and San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) jointly presented Maya Stovall: Under New Ownership, an exhibition of the artist’s innovative performance-based interventions in public life.
Maya Stovall:
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Todd Stovall:
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