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Contemporary Art Month Closing Party
Chrispark and Linda Pace Foundation Offices
March 27, 2010
7-10:30pm

Edgar Arceneaux’s Old Man Hill
Thursday, April 16, 2009
6:30-9pm
Mission Drive Inn Theater
3100 Roosevelt Ave, San Antonio, TX
Performance at dusk

For its debut, the eight-minute film will be projected onto the screen of the Mission Drive-In Theater. Arceneaux will release metallic balloons into the night time sky, which spells out the name Old Man Hill translated into Bosnian. Artists, collectors, and the general public are invited to attend this free, public event. The performance will be in celebration of the late Linda Pace’s birthday, and will be held at the now defunct Mission Drive-In Theater, located on Roosevelt Avenue on the San Antonio’s South Side. The work will be shown only once and not screened again. Arceneaux was an Artpace resident in 2006. Linda Pace purchased Old Man Hill that same year.

Old Man Hill is Arceneaux’s attempt to address the magnitude of the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Sarajevo. He filmed the video among the architectural remnants and ruins of Sarajevo. As he walked through the city, he thought of his grandfather, who had a Bosnian name. The artist never knew his grandfather; indeed, no one in his family, including Arceneaux’s own father, ever met him and knew no details of his life. When Arceneaux’s father was 51, he learned his father’s nickname - Old Man Hill. “Old Man Hill is a memorial to that which cannot be represented,” said Arceneaux. “It reveals meaning to us as it disappears from our perception.”