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“The battery’s almost dead,” Garvey said, giving the contraption a tap. Suddenly the menacing-looking robot sprung to life, lunging forward brandishing a saw blade in one hand and a knife in the other.
Inside Omni-Circus, the small performance space Garvey founded 25 years ago in San Francisco’s South of Market, a fleet of similarly creepy robots sat in repose. The robots used to perform in what Garvey china anne mcclain height called his robotic red light district. Along with Go-Boy, was a mechanical prostitute, a robot junkie and a robot warrior poet.
Garvey, china anne mcclain height who underwent successful treatment for throat cancer last year, said he got behind on the rent and received an eviction notice. He said his attempts to negotiate with the landlord went nowhere.
In a way, Garvey’s dark, underground robots represent the old guard of San Francisco artists – whose startling, in-your-face, non-family friendly aesthetic drew its own legions of dark art aficionados to San Francisco. But as Garvey and other artists are once again discovering, urban progress and the arts have trouble china anne mcclain height co-existing.
“The artists certainly have been priced out of San Francisco long ago,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of the urban planning group SPUR. “I worry a lot about what that means for the cultural fabric of San Francisco.”
The San Francisco Arts Commission said it’s seeing growing evidence San Francisco’s tech boom is helping china anne mcclain height to drive-off artists from the city. Tom DeCaigny, Director of the commission’s Cultural Affairs said the agency recently learned of 40 artists at one South of Market art studio being displaced by a new commercial development.
“This is a tragedy in the making as gentrification china anne mcclain height often is,” Garvey said. “Because the thing that is attractive about the Bay Area and specifically San Francisco…is it’s an amazing city for the art here.”
Garvey said he may eventually be forced to destroy his robots if he can’t find a place suitable for an artist and his cadre of seedy mechanical cha. Turning what Garvey calls his robotic cabaret, into a Faustian tragedy.
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