Bernie Lubell: Conservation of Intimacy July 17 - Sept 19 2

An interactive installation presented in partnership with the 01SJ Art Biennial.

In true Silicon Valley fashion, Lubell has created his low-tech machines in his San Francisco garage for over twenty years. However, instead of working with computers, software, and electronics, the artist collaborates with pine wood and ancient technologies—cranks, pulleys, and springs, for instance—to build the immersive and interactive works. The deliberate handmade aesthetic, along with the ingenuity of the complex designs, give Lubell's works the appearance of a different era—a time of the master craftsmen and old technology. The creations are in fact deeply rooted in the artist's research and explorations of historic scientific instruments and obsolete machinery.

Lubell's Conservation of Intimacy serves as a stage where people are invited to touch and play with the work—an unlikely, but thrilling, proposition in the context of the "do not touch" policy in the gallery and museum environment. As participants crank, rock, and create sounds with the work, they tap into what the artist describes as the "vast reservoir of knowledge stored in each of our bodies," and become important collaborators in the realization and understanding of this massive installation.
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