We have as much time as it takes
Library Hours and Closing Reception
Saturday, July 31, 2–6 pm

Logan Galleries, San Francisco campus
415.551.9210 or www.wattis.org

Please join us on Saturday, July 31 in the CCA Wattis Galleries from 2-5pm for Library Hours followed by a Closing Reception from 5-6pm.

Sam Gould and Gabriel Saloman from the collective Red76 will discuss their installation, Counter-Culture as Pedagogy: Pop-Up Book Academy, presented as part of the current exhibition We have as much time as it takes. Red76 will guide visitors remotely via video chat through the objects and answer questions. Visitors will be able to view, touch, and peruse the forty-plus objects including photographs, books, pamphlets, fliers, organic materials, and other media.

Red76 is a multi-artist collective founded in Portland, Oregon, in 2000. This project is conceived and executed mainly by two of its members, Sam Gould and Gabriel Saloman. Counter-Culture as Pedagogy: Pop-Up Book Academy is a yearlong series of events that take place in a variety of venues. Participants meet and discuss the premise that countercultures could be educational for, rather than oppositional to, so-called mass culture. The hope is to provoke questions and share collective knowledge regarding sociopolitical histories and proposals.

For We have as much time as it takes, the artists have presented an eccentric collection of ephemera using the aesthetic strategies of traditional museums, such as vitrines and laminated index pages. This self-consciously museological display of ideas and objects aims to capture the character of their investigation thus far. The latest edition of The Journal of Radical Shimming, available for free in the gallery, includes interviews and a counterculture index created for this exhibition. It will also accompany the project's next iteration at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, this summer.

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