Packard Jennings, Long Shot: Dining, Labor & Ponies, 2010

Date and Time: Tuesday August 31, 7:30-8:30 PM
Location: Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia Street (Btwn 15th and 16th)
Tickets: Available at the door only. $5-$15 sliding scale. All proceeds go to pay the participating actors.
Join us for Circular Time, a live reading of artist Packard Jenning's project, Longshot: Dining Labor and Ponies on view now at the SFAC Gallery as part of the exhibition Now & When. For Longshot, Jennings invited eight conceptual artists to meet in the private dining room of an upscale restaurant to discuss what project to make with their project budget provided by the gallery. The brainstorming for a time capsule took place over the course of a three-hour meal. After the bill was paid there was not enough stipend left to produce the project. All that remained was the conversation.

During this live performance, Jennings has hired actors to read a transcription of the Longshot dinner conversation. The names of the original particiapting artists will be left anonymous with the idea that the potential value of this reading comes, not from thinking of any specific artist’s perspective, but from experiencing a collaborative conversation between a group of artists. Like revealing the larger mass of ice that lay beneath the small cap of an iceberg, we want to make this normally invisible aspect of art-making visible.

The point of this work was to value process over product, to fund the development side of a work, rather than a physical final object. Please join us for this unusual experiment.
Based on the project Longshot: Dining Labor and Ponies by Packard Jennings with Amy Balkin, Anthony Discenzam Aaron Gachm Jonn Herschend, Lizabeth Rossof, Steve Shada and Stephanie Syjuco. Currently on view as part of Now & When at the SFAC Gallery through Saturday, September 4, 2010.