Solaris Screening @ YBCA October 10, 2010

Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky
In conjunction with How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?
Sun, Oct 10, 4:30pm
In conjunction with Ralph Lemon's performances of How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? (Oct 7-9), we present this rare screening of Solaris, which has profoundly influenced Lemon's work. Based on the science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, it is the story of Cosmonaut Kris Kelvin, who is dispatched to a space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris. The scientists discover an alien intelligence of the ocean-covered planet, which is able to materialize anyone from the past. Kelvin must face his dead wife, and again confront the division between them which drove her to a suicide. (1972, 167 min, 35mm archival print)

Thu, Oct 7-Sat, Oct 9, 8pm: Ralph Lemon performance: How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?
Thu, Oct 7-Sun, Oct 10: Ralph Lemon exhibition
Fri, Oct 8: Ralph Lemon post-performance Q&A
Sun, Oct 10, noon-6pm: Ralph Lemon installation: Meditation

How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?
By Ralph Lemon
Hailed as “one of the most adventurous artists working today” (Time Out New York), renowned interdisciplinary artist Ralph Lemon returns to YBCA with a groundbreaking multimedia project of epic – and intimate-- proportions. Through live performance, a multimedia installation, film, video and an exhibition of objects, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? explores human connections, loss and the elusive but ever-compelling possibility of grace. The culmination of an eight -year collaboration with Walter Carter, a 102-year-old former sharecropper, carpenter and gardener from Bentonia, MS, How Can You Stay… reflects on the memories and futuristic dreams of life fully lived. Lemon’s work combines footage of Carter’s world with a performance by dancers and actors whose turbulent movements push the boundaries of exhaustion, to create a visceral examination of what it means to be human.

To fully experience the breadth of this extraordinary new work, performance patrons are encouraged to return on Sun, Oct 11, for the final chapter of How Can You Stay…, entitled Meditation, a visual art installation in the Novellus Theater at YBCA, as well as for the accompanying exhibition in the YBCA Gallery and a screening of Andrei Tarkovksy’s classic sci-fi romance, Solaris, in the YBCA Screening Room.

Film Screening: Solaris
$8 Reg/$6 YBCA Mem/Stu/Sen/Tea/$4 w/ performance ticket

Performance: How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?
$30 Reg; $25 YBCA Mem/Stu/Sen/Tea
Post-Show Conversation with Ralph Lemon//Fri, Oct 8//Novellus Theater//FREE w/ performance ticket

Installation: Meditation
Novellus Theater at YBCA//FREE

Exhibition: YBCA Terrace Gallery//FREE

Screening Room
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Public Info: 415-978-2787 or www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=11420

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