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Thursday, Feb 7, 2019
4 PM–7 PM
BAMPFA
Five Tables of Fire
On view this session, Chinese hell scrolls and Tibetan thangkas; Ant Farm’s Media Burn materials (a.k.a. how to set fire to a pyramid of television sets and invite the media); Bruce Nauman’s artist book Burning Small Fires; four Dipak raga Indian miniatures (depictions of a dangerous, fire-starting musical mode); John Haley’s WPA lithograph Muckers; a version of the Ban Dainagon ekotoba handscroll with its tenth-century vision of Kyoto engulfed in flames; and more!