"Hub"
A site specific intervention combining video, installation, and performance by Victoria May
View by appointment through March 1, 2008
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In this site-specific performance based project, Victoria May explores the various ways in which West Oakland functions has a hub for the conveyance of goods, information, and people via its geographic proximity to the International Port of Oakland, the Alameda County Postal Distribution Center, and the Bay Area Rapid Transit and AmTrack Train stations. Through the physical act of sewing with a pedal operated vintage Singer-brand treadle sewing machine, circa the same time period as the Victorian-era building that houses Invisible Venue, May stitches together envelopes designed to hang from the picture rails original to the space and display the various collateral documentation relative to the local conveyances, such as train schedules and junk mail addressed to previous tenants