Summer Solstice Art Labyrinth Walk | SoMa

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Cancelled – YBCA:ConVerge Monthly Art Gathering | SoMa

Please Note: The specific ConVerge series is no longer taking place at the YBCA, but we encourage you to still come out to the Yerba Buena district every 3rd Thursday for special events at YBCA and neighboring museums.

The YBCA:ConVerge series is a free monthly public gathering featuring creative and generative social art practices.

Community and innovative multi- and inter-disciplinary arts practices come together in the YBCA’s Grand Lobby and Room for Big Ideas with art, live music and curated performances in an interactive, experimental format. Cocktails are available for purchase.

Thursday, June 19, 2014
Solstice Art Labyrinth Walk | Cancelled – YBCA:ConVerge Monthly Art Gathering | SoMa

Please join us at YBCA ConVerge Summer Solstice Walk with Artist Paz de la Calzada, featuring her public installation The Nomadic Labyrinth on the YBCA plaza of 701 Mission Street.

Labyrinths have been used for millennia as a tool for meditation. The Nomadic Labyrinth is a temporary public art installation at YBCA offered during this Summer Solstice as a contemporary interpretation of an ancient design and tradition.

Inspired in an Arabic floral pattern, the carpets used in this design have been collected from several recycling companies in the Bay Area and they represent decorative classic western patterns. For the design of this labyrinth I was interested in the juxtaposition of two different cultural patterns, creating a movable, meditative environment where carpet from archetypical western places like the Ritz Carlton meet an inventive Arabesque.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.