Tom Sachs
Space Program: Europa
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
September 16, 2016 – January 15, 2017
Life in Space: from Europa to Aliens: November 9, 7 pm (tickets)
Tea Ceremony Activation: December 3-4, 2016

Now on view at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Space Program: Europa is the latest installment of Tom Sachs’s ongoing Space Program project. For Space Program: Europa, Sachs presents an immersive installation of large scale sculptures including the Mobile Quarantine Facility, Mission Control, and the Landing Exploration Module (LEM), as well as a variety of materials and equipment for conducting scientific experiments. A live activation of the exhibition by Sachs’s astronauts took place the opening weekend; a second is scheduled for the closing weekend (details to be announced).

As an accompaniment to Space Program: Europa, Sachs presents Logjam Café, a multi-media installation/coffee shop/bar featuring a custom coffee cart built in collaboration with Peddler NY and coffee from Brooklyn-based roaster Lofted Coffee. Sachs’ menu also offers whiskey, mezcal, Tecate, and a vacuum-sealed Oreo-Ritz cracker hybrid: the Ritzeo. The café sells books, zines, stickers, and T-shirts. Logjam Café is also an “OCD rehab center”, offering visitors opportunities to engage firsthand with Sachs’s studio systems.
 

Landing Excursion Module (LEM), 2007. Mixed media: steel, plywood, resin, electronics, and assorted found objects, 277 x 263 x 263 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Landing Excursion Module (LEM), 2007. Mixed media: steel, plywood, resin, electronics, and assorted found objects, 277 x 263 x 263 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.


 
Tom Sachs, Logjam Café. Photograph by Celeste Layne. Courtesy of the artist and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Logjam Café. Photograph by Celeste Layne. Courtesy of the artist and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.


 

Grilling shrimp on the hibachi on the surface of Europa. Take a look at @instagram and it's story tonight.

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