Disembodied States: Skin Trade : Open Space

Organized by Claudia La Rocco + Gordon Faylor

You may have heard that SFMOMA is reopening. In anticipation of this fast-approaching reality, Open Space has commissioned “Disembodied States” — a special nine-part Collection Rotation from artists, writers, and thinkers outside of California — as a celebration of the breadth and reach of the collection, and a nod to these last moments in which the museum exists as a hypothetical space, a space that can best be accessed through the virtual, and the imagination. We see these pieces as stand-alone works-of-art, rendered in a variety of media, and jostling in a larger, strange conversation with the collection. Welcome — please come in.

April 13, 2016

Disembodied States: Skin Trade

by David Kelley

Skin Trade is an elastic collage. I intend for you to download this file to the intimacy of your own device. There, you can navigate through the composition as you listen to the embedded audio file. Skin Trade is composed of works by Yto Barrada, Robert Cumming, Alexander Girard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, David Kelley, Abelardo Morell, Daido Moriyama, Dennis Oppenheim, Gina Osterloh, Josef Sudek, and Shomei Tomatsu. The voice you hear is mine; the audio file is four minutes and nineteen seconds long.

Download the file (180MB) here. If the audio and video are not playing on your device, download Adobe Reader for free here.