EXPLORATORIUM-CLIMATE WEEK APRIL 24 6pm
Come Create a New Word for the Feelings & Experiences You Are Having as Our Climate Changes. We are bringing our mobile field office to San Francisco Exploratorium’s (Pier 15) for Climate Futures 6-9pm.
KAIROS LONDON NOV 8 2024
The Bureau will be hosting a word making workshop at KAIROS, the new climate space in London. See KAIROS website for details.
GETTY’S PST: ART & SCIENCE COLLIDE SEPT 7 2024
The Bureau will be participating in Getty’s PST: Science & Art Collide. Exact Location Coming Soon!
EXPLORATORIUM: SEA LEVEL RISE AUGUST 8 2024
Spend an evening with us discussing sea level rise and creating neologisms for this rapidly rising phenomena. SF EXPLORATORIUM 6-9pm August 8 2024.
EXPLORATORIUM JUNE 15 2024
We are bringing our mobile field study office to San Francisco’s Exploratorium SAT June 15 2024 11am-3pm as part of the ExtraOrdinary Exhibit. Come make a neologism!
ECOFUTURES FESTIVAL APRIL 20 2024
The Bureau will be bringing our mobile field study office to Town Life in Oakland April 20 from noon – 5pm. Stop by and share your feelings and experiences for which no word yet exists. Town Life – Ecofutures Festival O2AA, 2311 Magnolia St, West Oakland, CA 94607
MARCH 12 2024 – The Long Now
We will be sharing learnings, new neologisms from the past decade as well as celebrating our 10 Year Anniversary with the Long Now Foundation this March 12, 2024. Please visit Long Now Foundation for details.
CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM JULY 9 2023
The Bureau is honored to be invited by artist Cara Levine to hold a word making session with the public on naming individual and collective grief at the Contemporary Jewish Museum July 9 2023. We will be there all day from 11am-5pm.
JULY 1-AUG 28 2022
The Bureau will be in nATURE “an exploration of the disembodied relationship and sense of separation from nature.” Birnam Arts, Scotland.
JULY 14-17 2022
The Bureau will be leading The Power of Words Workshop for Science Gallery International, Netherlands. “Bringing together people from across the globe to exchange ideas and share knowledge to inspire action for climate justice”.
MARCH 7-APRIL 10 2022
Commonstrust: Artist and the Commons. Named in collaboration with Exhibiting Artists and The Bureau of Linguistical Reality, “Commonstrust presents six artists (including The Bureau), whose works interweave essential elements of the commons: ecology, culture, and trust.” This exhibition includes a Public Word Making Field Study March 31 2023 from 6 – 8:30 PM in the […]
SeeChange: Pacific A Future 2020-2021
The Bureau is spending 2020-2021 in partnership with The Sanchez Art Center, Kim Anno & Modesto Covarrubias to host conversations with the local community around the reframing of managed retreat, bringing community members together to name their experiences and feelings as they navigate this difficult subject. We will be facilitating 11 Field Study Salons within […]
NOV 6 + 7 2021
SeeChange: Pacific A Future, Sea Level Walks. The Bureau, in partnership with The Sanchez Art Center, Kim Anno & Modesto Covarrubias will host two consecutive sea level walks. A culmination of two years (2020-2022) of collaborating with the community to create new words will be installed as colorful lawn signs throughout the community. Community participants […]
OCT 28 2021
MagicEarthMotherTongue: Language for a New Ecology, The Bureau will be presenting at this public symposium on language, art and its relationship to our changing ecologies. “Join us for an evening of presentations and conversations with artists and scholars investigating the ways language, culture and nature exist in an adaptive, interwoven socio-logical relationship that influences and […]
JULY 25-SEPT 28 2020
Experiments in the Field: Creative Collaboration in the Age of Ecological Concern, curated by Svea Lin Soll, Berkeley Arts Center. This exhibition addresses ecological concerns as well as serving as a conceptual centrifuge for future exploration and action. The 7 artists in the show expand on the particularities of site, ownership, history, representation, perception, public domain, […]
AUG 10 2020-FEB 1 2023
Bureau of Linguistical Reality Solo Exhibit. 2nd Floor Gallery, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, CA. A site specific solo exhibition in the gallery. This long term installation will run from August 10, 2020 to Feb 2023. As part of the exhibition we collaborated with faculty and community stakeholders to coin Nauselixir. A […]
2020 EVENTS CANCELLED due to covid-19
(cancelled due to covid-19) A Place Beyond, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), SF, CA (cancelled due to covid-19) Natural Capital Symposium, Stanford University, CA (cancelled due to covid-19) Collaboration w/ HughenStarkweather, SPUR, SF, CA (cancelled due to covid-19) Transhumance Festival, Sonoma, CA
SEPT 24-29 2019
The Bureau will be engaging participants at the annual San Francisco Green Film Festival. Come visit our Mobile Field Study Office!
JUNE 1-10 2019
The Bureau will be traveling to Toronto, Canada for an Artist in Residency with Blackwood Gallery. More about the Wind, Air, Land, Sea, Residency here.
JUNE 15 2019
Continuing our S.F. Residency with the Institute for Advanced Uncertainty, The Bureau’s Mobile Field Study Office will be holding office hours 2-5pm 1687 Market Street (near Valencia), SF CA. Come visit us and create a neologism! Theme = Displacement
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality 