Sushi in San Diego
Joe on May 16th, 2010 | Filed under Food and Drink
There is always a sense of somehow touching the most elemental forms of forms when touching ground in San Diego. It might be the proximity of the ocean to everything, as well as the overwhelming greenness in the landscape. A San Diego hotel is always somewhere in between the green and the blue, offering a promise that there is something lovely outside and inside. Every moment here is varied and on the verge of becoming something else, like the tidepools that make worlds in moments, and worlds that only exist for a few moments. The crabs will still defend these, of course, protecting them as if they were the only things they ever had, and there are crabs running through the visual arts and culture here.
Crabs and other crustaceans are central to the ineffability of contemporary art, and have been a personal favorite of some of the world’s great impersonal avant-garde artists, working toward obscuring meaning as a way of objecting to how a culture comes to mean. In this day and age. It’s a difficult thing to mean anything, and there are more questions than answers. While San Diego may not exist on the frontier of artistic innovation in a way to register on the world stage, it does innovate, and there are lobsters here making waves. The hidden frontiers are what the artists who created Sushi are after, and San Diego is becoming a perfect place to be hidden and seen simultaneously.
With shows that challenge and ask difficult questions in difficult ways, the work of artists sponsored by Sushi share some very basic thematic traits, but there is more variety than uniformity. The avant-garde has always been furiously fighting against any kind of expectation, so much so that it often refutes its own name, and will only settle down when everyone can agree on terms like experimental or alternative. Whatever the terms, and whatever the forms, be in music, performance, dance, or something else entirely, it’s here in town, and it’s here for three decades running, and it runs sideways.
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