Intersection for the Arts: Terror? An International Interdisciplinary Project.

Artists: Melba Abela (San Francisco, CA), Ana Adarve (Bogota, Colombia), Adeel Ahmad (San Francisco, CA), Brett Amory (San Francisco, CA), Marisa Aragona (San Francisco, CA), Inaki Garcia Arambarri (Ondarroa, Spain), Kristoffer Ardena (Madrid, Spain), Christopher Arnold (St. Louis, MO), Michelle Arrieta (San Francisco, CA), John Ashburne (Kyoto, Japan), Glenn Caley Bachmann (San Francisco, CA), Joseph Junior Badio (Jacmel, Haiti), Eduardo Gomez Ballesteros (Madrid, Spain), Yee Jan Bao (Alameda, CA), David Benzler (San Francisco, CA), Charles Beronio (Oakland, CA), Mikho Bertlani (Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia), Emily Bezaire (Smyrna, TN), Doris Bittar (San Diego, CA), Daniel Blomquist (San Francisco, CA), Aaron Bowles (Denver, CO), Alex Braubach (San Francisco, CA), Jennifer Braverman (Dresher, PA), Ellie Brown (Philadelphia, PA), Timothy Byars (Concord, CA), Sandra Jean Ceas (Littleton, CO), Vazha Chachkhiani (Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia), Peikwen Cheng (San Francisco, CA), Nikoloz Chkhaidze (Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia), Antonis Christodoulou (Athens, Greece), Marcus Civin (Marina del Rey, CA), C.G. Clarke (Manchester, United Kingdom), MB Condon (Goldendale, WA), J. Crabb (Olympia, WA), Lisa Rybovich Cralle (San Francisco, CA), John Darwell (Carlisle, United Kingdom), Gabriel Delgado (San Francisco, CA), Theresa DeMyers (Bromma, Sweden), Lauren DiCioccio (Woodside, CA), Sara Dierck (Brooklyn, NY), Vladimir Dikarev (St. Paul, MN), Francesco D'Isa (Florence, Italy), Alan Disparte (San Francisco, CA), Destin Domond (Jacmel, Haiti), Andre Eamiello (San Francisco, CA), Adrienne Eberhardt (San Francisco, CA), Christian Ebert (San Francisco, CA), Minna Eloranta (Tampere, Finland), Allan Espiritu (Philadelphia, PA), Jordan Essoe (Pittsburg, CA), S. Blake Farrington (San Francisco, CA), Haakon Faste (San Francisco, CA), Ashlee Nicolle Ferlito (San Francisco, CA), Dieuny Fils-Aime (Jacmel, Haiti), Linda M. Ford & Pam Martin (San Francisco, CA), Matt Fulmer (San Antonio, TX), Anne Garden (Greenbrae, CA), Ani Garrick (Cambria, CA), Ben Gavin & Oliva Dimtrije Mitevski (London, United Kingdom, Sydney, Australia & Berlin, Germany), Kate Geddes (Mill Valley, CA), Iranshid Ghadimi (Oakland, CA), Michael Godwin (Santa Barbara, CA), Colin Goldberg (Bowling Green, OH), Xico Gonzalez (Sacramento, CA), Jules Greenberg (Tiburon, CA), Carlo Grunfeld (San Francisco, CA), The Haram - Arie Dyanto, Uji Handoko, Eko Nugroho, Riono Tanggul Nusantara, Wedhar Riyadi, Eko Didik Sukowati, Gde Krisna Widiatama (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), Mondo Jud Hart (San Francisco, CA), Dana Hemenway (San Francisco, CA), Albert Herter (San Francisco, CA), Susan Sims Hillbrand (San Francisco, CA), Klara Hobza (Brooklyn, NY), Warren Holt (Brooklyn, NY), Peter Honig (Berkeley, CA), Andy Diaz Hope (San Francisco, CA), Horea (Oakland, CA), Julia Robertson Hyde (Monterey, CA), Januri (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), Jessica Jenkins (Livermore, CA), Andrew Johnson (Pittsburgh, PA), Joann Jovinelly (New York, NY), Sandra Kelch & Designpool with participating collaborators Maria Jose Banos, Patrick Kelleher, Mary Lee McLaughlin, Peter Jacques, Angela Pesta, Sia Banihashemi, Kenji Oshima, Turtle and Hare, Julian Feinberg, Gary Chen (San Francisco and Oakland, CA), Michael Kerbow (San Francisco, CA), Davida Kidd (Vancouver, Canada), Hyeonjin Kim (Brightwaters, NY), Shama Ko (Austin, TX), Jeffrey Kohler (San Francisco, CA), Antonios Kosmadakis (Heraklion, Crete), Andrew Kozlowski (Richmond, VA), La Linea Interdisciplinario (Tijuana, Mexico), Jander F. Lacerda (New York, NY), Richard Lang (Forest Knolls, CA), Samantha Lautman (Berkeley, CA) Tiery Le... (Osaka, Japan), Kelly Gabriel Lee (San Francisco, CA), Laren Leland (San Francisco, CA), Jennifer Lemper (Oakland, CA), Andrew Lipson (Burlingame, CA), Anthony Lister (Mitchelton, Australia), Michael Bernard Loggins (San Francisco, CA), Mildred Joyner Long (Hillsborough, NC), Frederick Loomis (San Francisco, CA), Carolina Loyola-Garcia (Pittsburgh, PA), Kija Lucas (San Francisco, CA), Whitney Lynn (San Francisco, CA), Andrew Macfarlane (Vancouver, Canada), Ilham Badreddine Mahfouz (West Bloomfield, MI), Stela Mandel (Greenbrae, CA), Ginny Mangrum (Walnut Creek, CA), Giorgi Marr (Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia), Oz McGuire (San Francisco, CA), Sierra Melcher (San Francisco, CA), Aurora Meneghello (San Francisco, CA), Brian Merkel (Chelsea, MI), Michael Mersereau (San Francisco, CA), Gwendolyn Meyer (Point Reyes, CA), Eriko Mikami (Tokyo, Japan), Emilio Morandi (Bergamo, Italy), Alejandro "Alanis" Moreno (Campbell, CA), Nining Muir (San Francisco, CA), Kim Munson (Pacifica, CA), Susan Montana Murdoch (San Francisco, CA), Tim Murley (Brookline, MA), Ryan Sarah Murphy (New York, NY), Emmanuelle Namont & Aurora Meneghello (San Francisco, CA), Gabriel Navar (Orcutt, CA), Louie Navarro (Rosarito, Mexico), Jeffrey Obser (Oakland, CA), Kari Orvik (San Francisco, CA), Russ Osterweil (Oakland, CA), Clemente Padin (Montevideo, Uruguay), Mark Pearsall (San Francisco, CA), Jeff Petersen (San Francisco, CA), Johanna Poethig (Oakland, CA), Nancy Popp & Serena Wellen (San Francisco & Los Angeles, CA), Ben Pranger (Roanoke, VA), Yuri Psinakis (San Francisco, CA), Lucy Puls (Berkeley, CA), Agus Purnomo (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), Ana Riaboshenko, Lado Darakhvelidze & group TRAM (Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia), Manuel Fernando Rios (Sacramento, CA), Guadalupe Rodriguez (Canyon Country, CA), John Gilberto Rodriguez (San Jose, CA), Sandy Rodriguez (Los Angeles, CA), Sylvaince Romaine (Jacmel, Haiti), Blake Sanders (New Orleans, LA), Slamet Santoso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), Fabio Sassi (Bologna, Italy), Matthew Savage (Tiburon, CA), Zachary Royer Scholz (San Francisco, CA), Jessica Alicia Schramm (Newbury Park, CA), Katie Sehr (Buffalo, NY), Dadi Setiyadi (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), Ellen Shershow (San Francisco, CA), Gene Shih (San Francisco, CA), Sharon Siskin (Berkeley, CA), Elin o'Hara Slavick (Chapel Hill, NC), Andrew Stalder (Haslet, TX), Kate Stewart (Philadelphia, PA), Suryadi (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), Charlene Tan (San Bruno, CA), Sandra Ortiz Taylor (San Francisco, CA), Karen C. Thomas (Austin, TX), Ehren Tool (Berkeley, CA), Fausto Vargas (Tijuana, Mexico), Jerad Walker (Oakland, CA), John Webster (Glasgow, Scotland), Joseph Blaine Whisenhunt (Springfield, MO), Brian White (Seattle, WA), Ann D. Williams (Mill Valley, CA), Zac Willis (Rogersville, MO), Gordon Winiemko (Long Beach, CA), Danny Wolohan (San Francisco, CA), Bijan Yashar (Berkeley, CA), Nili Yosha (San Francisco, CA), Kelly Yount (San Francisco, CA), Alexander Tin-Han Yu (San Francisco, CA), Iliko Zautashvili (Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia), Efrat Zehavi (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Tricia Zigmund (Edinboro, PA), Rosa Mendez Zurutuza (Madrid, Spain).

Comment: Artists from around the world come together on this Fifth Anniversary of 911 to discourse through art on the subject of terror-- what it means and how it impacts our lives. The expressions range from unconventional to esoteric and the works are modest, but the concept is major-- that so many so different from so near and so far unite in peace over such a provocative topic.

Maybe this model has legs; maybe more people should know that such a diverse coming together is possible; maybe a little mass media attention for harmony through art is in order. But alas, it ain't gonna happen. It has no entertainment value; it lacks sensation. Viewers would click straight through to the sex, violence, polarizing partisan news talk, paternity tests, reality shows topheavy with obnoxious egocentric exhibitionists, campaign ads showing everything bad about every candidate running for office in the upcoming election, trash-mouth "judges" presiding over meaningless disputes between bickering nickel-dime dimwits, CNN's repackaging of war into a couch potato spectator sport, celebrity gossip, and related lewdness, because Lord knows, our lives are so devoid of meaning that we lap vomit from the gutter just to go to bed satisfied, like we've been somewhere, seen something, orgasmed on the 24/7 value-void flat panel freak show-- and in so doing, satisfy the corporate sponsors' unrelenting jones to bulk their bottom lines (regardless of the consequences) and deliver those almighty quarterly profits to the shareholders. Sick, isn't it?

Sorry, but every now and then I get irked.