Evidence: Holding Space for the Ephemeral @ UNTITLED vol.2
Celebrate the opening of EVIDENCE: Holding Space for the Ephemeral. The first of 3 performances from the featured artists, Selby Sohn will be performing Long Arms, Slow Dance. Sohn’s Photo installations and other permanent works from Eugene McCoy and Guillermo Gómez-Peña will be on view through June 27. The evening is accompanied by a reading and video poem from Hannah Möller. Limited editions and curated goods available in the gallery shop. Beverages sponsored by Goodtimes Oakland.
Selby Sohn is a Bay Area artist who creates objects and actions on the brink of utility. They consider technology’s hyperbolic usefulness and art history’s valuing of objects without utility. Most of their projects involve wearable sculptures that queer use, reconsidering sociability and human connection. In their performance pieces, they also consider audience members to be performers.
They have exhibited nationally, internationally, and in outer space. Right now, their work is on a NASA PACE-1 satellite orbiting Earth. They curated a space called Your Mood Projects in Dogpatch, San Francisco, and their writing is published in KQED, Squarecylinder, The Racket Journal, Third Iris, Journal.fyi, and the LA Telephone Book.
About the Exhibition
EVIDENCE considers the symbiotic relationship between performance and its documentation, not as a secondary or supplementary act, but as an integral part of the work itself. Photography, video, text, and residual objects do not simply capture performance; they reconstitute it. In many cases, they become the primary state through which the work is encountered, remembered, and archived.
The works gathered here approach Evidence as interpretation—an active, generative process that reshapes the live act into something that can circulate, endure, and be reactivated across time. What emerges is not a fixed record of something past, but an ongoing negotiation between disappearance and permanence. Performance, in this context, is never fully lost; it is continuously re-performed through its traces. Likewise, documentation is never neutral—it is a living extension of the work, capable of producing new meanings and new ways to engage with the human condition throughout time.
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Photo + Video + Installation Credits:
Zen Cohen
Selby Sohn
Eugene McCoy
Anne McGuire
Jasmine Zhang
Elizabeth Preger
Shirin Khalatbari
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Readings by:
Hannah Möller- May 23
Emily Chan- June 13
Quinn Edlin- June 27