Join the City of West Hollywood in a celebration of the debut of Body Politic by Nancy Baker Cahill on Friday, October 4, 2024 from 5-8pm at 8775 Sunset Boulevard. The ten-minute video artwork will be on view simultaneously at the top of every hour on multiple digital billboards on the famed Sunset Strip in the City of West Hollywood from October 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025. The digital billboards are located at 8775 Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Spectacular billboard), 8743 Sunset Boulevard (Invisible Frame billboard) and 9157 Sunset Boulevard (Streamlined Arbor billboard). The second part of the work will exist in augmented reality, 3-dimensional space, above the billboards at 8775 Sunset and 8743 Sunset Boulevard. More Information about the artwork: go.weho.org/bodypolitic

Nancy Baker Cahill is an interdisciplinary artist and expanded filmmaker whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body through ecological thinking. She creates research-based immersive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects rooted in the history of drawing. Her monumental, augmented-reality (AR) artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, often highlighting civics and a desire for more equitable futures. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall, a free, AR public art platform exploring site interventions, resistance, and inclusive creative expression.

Her work is held in the collections of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; RFC Art Collection, Miami, FL; and 0x Collection, Prague, CZ.

RSVP: HERE

Artwork viewing opportunities at 5pm, 6pm, 7pm and 8pm

Speaker Remarks at 6:30pm

Staff contact: Rebecca Ehemann, REhemann@weho.org, 323-848-6846