In Conversation
Making the Moonshot
Tom Sachs and Adam Savage with Joseph Becker
Saturday, January 19, 2019, 3pm
Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, San Francisco
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As part of FOG Design+Art programming, Tom Sachs and Adam Savage will discuss their artistic practices with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator Joseph Becker. Becker is curating the museum’s upcoming exhibition Far Out: Suits, Habs, and Labs for Outer Space, which both Sachs and Savage will have work in. To attend the event, purchase tickets at fogfair.com.
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Tom Sachs. Photo: Mario Sorrenti
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Paradox Bullets
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As part of the curated film program for Frieze Los Angeles, Tom Sachs’s Paradox Bullets (2018), directed by Van Neistat and narrated by Werner Herzog, will be screened in the historic Paramount Theatre. The short film follows a man, played by Ed Ruscha, who loses his keys in the Mojave Desert and has to use nine bullets, or rules, to get home. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Sachs, Herzog, and Neistat, moderated by Frieze editorial director, Jennifer Higgie. The event is free with fair admission.
Tom Sachs, Paradox Bullets, 2018 (still) © Tom Sachs
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Paradox Bullets
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Tom Sachs, Paradox Bullets, 2018 (film still) © 2018 Tom Sachs
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