Kim Anno, Still from 'Water World: Berkeley,' 2014. (Photo: the artist)
Bay Area Artists Dive into the Big Blue
In her ongoing project Men and Women in Water Cities, painter and multimedia artist Kim Anno creates large-scale events in collaboration with actors, composers and dancers that culminate as finely-edited films. Most recently, Water City: Berkeley asks, “What is the future when the seas have entered the cities?” Among the half-submerged performers, chants from Oedipus Rex, pom-pom wielding cheerleaders and crowds of people running through wet sand, Anno paints a picture of a deranged yet poetic society attempting make meaning in a newly watery world.
