Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Produced in collaboration with Stink Studios, “Duct Tape and Dreams: Reviving the Soapbox Derby at McLaren Park” captures the essence of SFMOMA’s first artist Soapbox Derby in more than forty years: the creativity, collaboration, and exuberance of everyone who participated — and, of course, all that exciting downhill action!
Year: 2022
Running time: 27 minutes
Producers: SFMOMA and Stink Studios
Directors: Ian Watt and RJ Kosineski
Director of Photography: Jan Reichle
Editor: Ian Watt
About SFMOMA’s 2022 Soapbox Derby at McLaren Park:
After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was time to bring art outside the museum’s walls. On April 10, 2022, SFMOMA revived the legendary artists’ soapbox derby — first organized by the museum in 1975 — and thousands of people lined the curving hill of McLaren Park’s Shelley Drive to watch the action unfold. Selected by invitation and an open call, more than 250 artists and fabricators collaborated on art-on-wheels to compete for thirty artist-designed trophies. The cars took numerous forms, including recognizable food items, animals, everyday objects, and tributes to our local landscape. All of them capture the spirit of radical joy that this event brought to our creative community and to the people of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Learn more about SFMOMA’s 2022 Soapbox Derby at McLaren Park: https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/2022-soapbox-derby-at-mclaren-park/
Cover image: Andrew Sungtaek Ingersoll and Oliver Hawk Holden, “Shrimp Car,” 2022; courtesy the artists, Expert Art Service, and Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco; photo: Nikki Ritcher