Tickets
Tickets to the Biennial are available as single or multi-day and include access to the following regularly ticket venues: South Hall, San Jose Museum of Art, The Tech Museum, and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles.
Day Pass Cost: $24.00
Multi-day Pass Cost: $45.00
CarmetIK Collective
Midnight Concerts
Requiem for Fossil Fuels
A Season in Hell
Stephen Vitiello
Olivia Block
Symposium tbd
Collecting the Impossible tbd
Individual Tickets
A Machine To See With
Blast Theory
A Machine To See With (2010) is a new work by Blast Theory for pedestrians and their mobile phones. Mixing documentary material, stolen thriller cliches and the films of Jean-Luc Godard it invites you to become someone else. Step inside a film as you walk through the city, receiving phone calls.
Requiem for fossil fuels
O+A
Requiem for fossil fuels, written and performed by O+A with four singers and an 8-channel “Orchestra of Cities”, is a unique setting of the Requiem Mass offered to a world struggling to reconcile its utter dependence on fossil fuels with the coming end of oil, coal, and peat.
Stephen Vitiello with guest, Molly Berg
Stephen Vitiello
The performance will draw on materials from the duo’s CD, The Gorilla Variations as well as new material related to Vitiello’s trip to Fort McMurray, Canada in search of the elusive Aurora Borealis.
untitled composition for piano, field recordings, sine waves
Olivia Block
Using the grand piano as both as a musical instrument, and as a resonating chamber for sounds, Olivia will perform a solo composition using the piano, small portable speakers, mallets, and other small objects as “preparations.”
Possible landscape (for Donald Judd)
Steve Roden
Possible Landscape (for Donald Judd) is created using field recordings gathered in Marfa, TX; as well as live acoustic objects, electronic objects and instruments, voice, and electronic processing.
A Season in Hell
Randall Packer
Created by Randall Packer, A Season in Hell (2010) is a historical portrait of political and social turmoil in the post-9/11 era, a hallucinatory spectacle of America as a vision of Hell.
Still Life with Banquet
Tuesday, September 14
Still Life with Banquet is an epicurean and media collaboration between chef Kitty Greenwald and media artist Grahame Weinbren, which investigates the contradictions present in 17th and 18th Century Dutch still-life paintings by translating them into a contemporary context.
Symposium
September 16 – 17, San Jose City Hall Council Chambers This two-day symposium will examine the interconnectedness of ideas and actions and the current relationships between art-making, science and ecology. A group of distinguished artists, scientists and policy-makers will present ...
