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TOMORROW @ 9pm PST is our penultimate screening in the series From the Tower: Transmission curated by @labattony. . Featuring a NEW WORK by @msjenniferlocke made for SFAI’s Tower . FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2020... SPELLS I (POWER CORD, CANDLE, BALL, MIRROR, HAND OF GLORY, SALT) BY JENNIFER LOCKE (2020) Six technologically manipulated actions intended to: 1. Trap electricity 2. Loop time 3. Levitate 4. Reverse looking 5. Temporarily immobilize the viewer 6. Dematerialize/rematerialize ABOUT JENNIFER LOCKE Working primarily in performance and video, Jennifer Locke composes physically intense actions in relation to the camera, audience, and specific architecture. Within this framework, she explores viewing structuresredistributing hierarchies between artist, model, camera, and audiencein order to explore spectatorship and the construction of meaning. Her actions focus on cycles of duration and draw from her experiences as a dominatrix, wrestler, and artists’ model. Locke has exhibited extensively, both locally and internationally. She received her BFA (1991) and her MFA (2006) from the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently the chair of SFAI’s New Genres Department. . #sfaiofficial #fromthetower #transmission #tonylabat #jenniferlocke #newgenres #artinthepandemic #outdoorprojection #northbeach #sanfrancisco #contemporaryart . Image caption: Spells I (Power Cord, Candle, Ball, Mirror, Hand of Glory, Salt) by Jennifer Locke, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.

But wait THERE’S MORE! Tune in tonight at 9pm PST for another screening in the From the Tower: Transmission series curated by @labattony. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2020 IRAN-ISRAEL BY MAYA SMIRA & SAMIRA HASHEMI (2013) Iran-Israel is a video and live performance showing two young female artistsone from Iran and the other from Israelleaning on each other, both pushing and holding at the same time. The scene takes place in a deserted landscape, recalling the remote landscapes of th...ese now enemy countries. The women use their bodies to create a simple triangle which they use to keep stable even when their bodies start to become exhausted and shake. The artists manifest the interpersonal tension that is generated by their bodies, as well as the political situation, while reflecting on a feminine manifestation of coexistence, depicting how the bodies interact with each other in a situation of dependence & conflict. The durational live performance takes place simultaneously with the ongoing video projection. ABOUT MAYA SMIRA Maya Smira is an award winning multidisciplinary artist who uses time based media, photography, installation and performance. Her creative process is deeply involved in larger global and social issues and events, and is influenced by her constant travels around the world. In 2012, she obtained a BA in Arts and Humanities and a BFA in photography in Tel-Aviv. In 2014 she received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in New Genres, along with the Ella King Torrey Award. In 2016 she received The Outset Foundation Award for best video artist at the Fresh Paint Contemporary Art Fair in Tel-Aviv. She exhibits in museums, galleries and festivals around the world. #sfaiofficial #fromthetower #transmission #tonylabat #felipedulzaides #newgenres #artinthepandemic #outdoorprojection #northbeach #sanfrancisco #contemporaryart

In Solidarity with Leonard Peltier By Rigo 23 On view Oct 9, 2020 - Feb 26, 2021 In December 2016, during a particularly strong snowstorm at Standing Rock Reservation - elders participating in the protest against the pipeline, were taken to the tribal Casino there for refuge.... Photographer Marc Hors and artist Caleb Duarte (SFAI alumni), who were driving the statue’s feet to DC were also there and were welcomed into the casino to photograph many of the gathered taking a stand in solidarity with Leonard Peltier. Photo: Marc Hors

TODAY @ 3PM Online Unveiling of the Leonard Peltier Statue - https://mailchi.mp//exhibitions-public-programs-august-352

Join us tomorrow! A live-streamed, online unveiling ceremony on October 9, 2020 from 3-3:30pm PDT will include remarks from Kathy D. Peltier (daughter), Chauncey Peltier (son), and Anne Begay (AIM activist and mother of Kathy). The public can participate through the SFAI website. The public can experience the statue online at SFAI’s website. The virtual exhibition includes drone footage of the statue in situ on SFAI’s rooftop terrace, photographs from the statue’s travels ac...ross the country, information on the importance of land acknowledgement, and more about Peltier and the artist. // Alumnus and former faculty member Rigo 23 brings his large-scale statue of Leonard Peltier to SFAI's rooftop terrace this fall to gaze across the bay to Alcatraz, a pivotal place for the American Indian Movement (AIM) and Indians of All Tribes. The 12-foot-high likeness of Peltier, a Native activist incarcerated since 1977, is based on a small hand painted self portrait that Peltier created in prison. The statue has traveled around the United States and has, at times, met with an animosity all too familiar to Indigenous activists the world over. At the Katzen Art Center at the American University in Washington DC in 2016, it was censored and taken down after complaints from the president of the FBI Agents Association and subsequently disappeared for nearly a year until the artist was able to recover it. It was then exhibited at the Main Museum in downtown Los Angeles and greeted with an outpouring of community support.

SFAI is honored to announce the placement of The Leonard Peltier Statue by Rigo 23 @rigo23studio The work will be on view virtually pending reopening of SFAI’s Chestnut a Street Campus. Please join us tomorrow for a online Unveiling Ceremony starting at 3pm PST. Visit SFAI.edu for a link to the work tomorrow! On view Oct 9, 2020March 28, 2021... Rooftop Terrace and Atholl McBean Gallery, SFAIChestnut Street Campus Online Unveiling Ceremony: Friday, October 9 | 3pm PST Alumnus and former faculty member Rigo 23 brings his large-scale statue of Leonard Peltier to SFAI's rooftop terrace this fall to gaze across the bay to Alcatraz, a pivotal place for the American Indian Movement and Indians of All Tribes. The 12-foot-high likeness of Peltier, a Native activist incarcerated since 1977, is based on a small hand painted self portrait that Peltier created in prison. The statue has traveled around the United States and has, at times, met with an animosity all too familiar to Indigenous activists the world over. At the Katzen Art Center at the American University in Washington DC in 2016, it was censored and taken down after complaints from the president of the FBI Agents Association and subsequently disappeared for nearly a year until the artist was able to recover it. It was then exhibited at the Main Museum in downtown Los Angeles and greeted with an outpouring of community support. The detachable feet of the statue have travelled Indian Country to many protest and ceremony sites including Standing Rock, Alcatraz Island, and Crow Dog's Paradise. On these journeys, Rigo 23 and collaborators invite people to stand on the feet to show their solidarity for Peltier. Hundreds have, including well-known activists like Angela Davis. The installation of the work at SFAI places the statue in dialogue with the Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Ceremonies that have taken place on Alcatraz annually October 12 and November 26 since 1975 to honor the Indigenous Peoples of America, promote their rights, and to commemorate the Native activists who occupied the island in protest in 1969. Image caption: The Leonard Peltier Statue by Rigo 23 at SFAI, 2020. Photo by Alex Peterson.

Don’t miss out! Tomorrow, Wednesday October 7th at NOON! with artist and filmmaker MARY HELENA CLARK! Join us on Zoom - link in the @sfaiphoto bio! - - SFAI FOOD FOR THOUGHT LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES IS.....BACK!!!! EVERYONE IS INVITED! BRING YOUR LUNCH! ... - - Mary Helena Clark’s films explore invented spaces and hyperreal landscapes. She manipulates visual and sonic fields to mysterious effect, with fractured slices of sound and image serving as clues to narratives that are just out of reach. Clark’s work has been screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Wexner Art Center, thE National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Bridget Donahue Gallery, and the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Clark lives and works in Queens, New York. Filmography (selected): And the Sun Flowers (2008), Sound over Water (2009), By Foot-Candle Light (2011), The Plant (2012), Orpheus (Outtakes) (2012), The Dragon Is the Frame (2014), Palms (2015), Delphi Falls (2017), The Glass Note (2018), Figure Minus Fact (2020)

TONIGHT @9pm PST is our 5th screening in the series From the Tower: Transmission curated by @labattony. . FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2020 SCENE I AM CUBA BY FELIPE DULZAIDES (2006) I Am CubaSoy Cuba in Spanish; Ya Kuba in Russianis a Soviet/Cuban film produced in 1964 by director Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm. The movie was not well received by the Russian or Cuban public and was almost completely forgotten until its rediscovery thirty years later by American filmmakers. The mov...ie’s acrobatic tracking shots and idiosyncratic mise-en-scène prompted Hollywood directors like Martin Scorsese to campaign to restore the movie in the early 1990s. In 2006, Dulzaides traveled to Cuba to remake a small part of the film which became Scene I Am Cuba, a two-fold narrative in which one storyline is based on a real event, and the other is the process of turning evidence into the theatrical. . ABOUT FELIPE DULZAIDES Felipe Dulzaides studied drama at the Instituto Superior de Arte of Havana and received an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. A poetic and metaphoric sensibility underlies his practice, which ranges from single-channel videos to video installations and documentaries. Some of his works begin with actions executed for the camera; others use autobiographical experiences to illustrate the emotional stress of cultural displacement or to reveal memory as an unstable process of endless revision. Dulzaides oscillates between his American and Cuban identities, and he views his bicultural background as a bridge. He has received prestigious awards from the Cintas Fellowship, Creative Work Fund, Art Matters, and the Rome Prize among others and his work has been included in biennials, museums, contemporary galleries and art centers around the world. This screening is curated from the @kadistkadist collection. . #sfaiofficial #fromthetower #transmission #tonylabat #felipedulzaides #newgenres #artinthepandemic #outdoorprojection #northbeach #sanfrancisco #contemporaryart . Image caption: Scene I am Cuba by Felipe Dulzaides, 2006. Courtesy of the artist.

The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and the San Francisco Art Institute’s (SFAI) Anne Bremer Memorial Library are partnering to present an online art exhibition that celebrates the rich history and continued vitality of San Francisco’s iconic art school. "Orbits of Known and Unknown Objects: SFAI Histories / MATRIX 277" (www.MATRIX277.org) is an innovative digital platform that invites visitors to explore SFAI’s artistic legacy through more than seven...ty-five objects relating to the school’s history, presented in an interactive format that highlights connections between these items and the people, places, and movements of the Bay Area art scene. The website launched on September 30, 2020, as part of SFAI’s 150th anniversary year. "Orbits of Known and Unknown Objects: SFAI Histories / MATRIX 277" marks the latest installment in BAMPFA’s MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art. In keeping with the MATRIX program’s emphasis on flexibility, spontaneity, and experimentation, the exhibition is the first in the series to be presented exclusively online, following the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on art institutions worldwide. The concept for the exhibition emerged from an ongoing book project initiated by SFAI archivists Becky Alexander and Jeff Gunderson, with assistance from alumna Nina Hubbs Zurier; BAMPFA has partnered with SFAI’s library to present a variation on the theme of SFAI artists and history as an interactive digital experience. The exhibition is organized by Apsara DiQuinzio, BAMPFA’s senior curator of modern and contemporary art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator, with Curatorial Assistant Claire Frost, and the online platform is designed by the Bay Area firm MacFadden & Thorpe. MATRIX is made possible by a generous endowment gift by Phyllis C. Wattis. Here are the handles that I know of too: @macfaddenandthorpe @jeffgunderson7 @ninazurier @rkatherinealexander @apsaradq @cefrost @bampfa @sfai_library @theblackdavinci @sherwin.rio @artist.rye See more

TONIGHT @9pm PST is our 4th screening in the series From the Tower: Transmission curated by @labattony. . Friday, September 25, 2020 Bull in the Ring by Shaun Leonardo (2008) In Leonardo's 2008 installation and performance piece, Bull in the Ring, the artist and 10 semi-pro football players perform a banned training routine that was commonly practiced in high school and college level American football teams. In the routine, the team forms a revolving circle around one player... (the matador) who waits in the center of the ring. The coach selects other players (the bulls) to charge at the player in the center, often catching him off-guard and delivering a strong blow. Leonardo had been practicing this training routine since he was 12 years old and through the Bull in the Ring performance Leonardo explores the pressures young men have to face and conform to in order to prove their toughness. . ABOUT SHAUN LEONARDO Shaun Leonardo’s multidisciplinary work negotiates societal expectations of manhood, namely definitions surrounding black and brown masculinities, along with notions of achievement, collective identity, and experience of failure. His performance practice, anchored by his work in Assemblya diversion program for court-involved youth at the Brooklyn-based, non-profit Recess, is participatory and invested in a process of embodiment. Leonardo is a Brooklyn-based artist from Queens, New York, and received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. From 2018 to 2020, Leonardo enacted socially engaged projects at Pratt Institute’s School of Art as a Visiting Fellow. This screening is curated from the @kadistkadist collection. Image Caption: Bull in the Ring by Shaun Leonardo, 2008. Courtesy of the artist. #sfaiofficial #fromthetower #transmission #tonylabat #shaunleonardo #newgenres #artinthepandemic #outdoorprojection #northbeach #sanfrancisco #contemporaryart

TOMORROW From the Tower: Transmission curated by @labattony FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 . ICE MAKES FIRE BY PAUL KOS (1974)... Ice is fashioned into a magnifying lens and used to start a fire. This short but fascinating ode to human inventiveness was created in 1974 and restaged in 2004. Paul Kos translates a well-known instruction from a survival manual into video: If there is no magnifying glass around to light kindling, try making fire with ice. . ABOUT PAUL KOS Born in 1942 in Rock Springs, Wyoming, Paul Kos attended San Francisco Art Institute, receiving his BFA (1965) and MFA (1967). Kos was central to the Bay Area Conceptual Art Movement, working in a materials-based practice, bringing together imagery of landscape with precepts of socialist ideals and the Everyman. Since the early 1970s Kos’s work has challenged conventions of art media and subject matter. For a global audience, he staged new possibilities for artistic treatments of time, space and cultural systems. Kos was influential to many students at SFAI where he taught and was a key figure in the development of its New Genres program. . #sfaiofficial #fromthetower #transmission #tonylabat #paulkos #newgenres #artinthepandemic #outdoorprojection #northbeach #sanfrancisco #contemporaryart See more

TONIGHT From the Tower: Transmission - SFAI's historic tower at its Chestnut campus, is transformed into a monumental wraparound canvas for video screenings and more! https://mailchi.mp//exhibitions-public-programs-august-352 #fromthetower #newgenres

SFAI is visible across the Bay Area in the piece Dance of Dreams by SF Ballet who collaborated with Jim Campbell to place the work atop Salesforce Tower. Repost from @salesforcetower New art alert!... Dance of Dreams is a new dance film by Benjamin Millepied for San Francisco Ballet. On Friday, August 14th and Saturday, August 15th, video clips from the short film are being projected atop Salesforce Tower. . Filmed in iconic San Francisco locations including the Palace of Fine Arts and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, "Dance of Dreams" offers a glimpse of San Francisco as the city enters its fifth month of shelter-in-place restrictions. . Here in San Francisco, we’re still sheltering in place and I wanted to explore new work under these circumstances. 'Dance of Dreams' celebrates San Francisco, while giving our dancers the freedom to move outdoors in some of the most beautiful landscapes in the Bay Area, and with choreography by some of the finest choreographers of our time." - Helgi Tomasson, SF Ballet Artistic Director : @hosfeltgallery #sfaiofficial #sfballet #danceofdreams #jimcampellart #hosfeltgallery #salesforcetower #ballet #benjaminmillepied #vertigo #bayarea #contemporaryart #shelterinplace

Congrats to Lava Thomas and SFAI alumni Marcela Pardo Aries for being the 2020 Artadia Awardees! Repost from @artadia Artadia is pleased to announce the Awardees for the 2020 San Francisco Awards: Marcela Pardo Ariza and Lava Thomas! Marcela and Lava will each receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds, as well as access to the ongoing benefits of the Artadia Awards Program. The San Francisco Artadia Awards jurors were: Allison Glenn, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, Crys...tal Bridges; Anthony Huberman, Director & Chief Curator, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art; Lucy Mensah, Clinical Visiting Assistant Professor, MUSE Program, School of Art & Art History at University of Illinois at Chicago; and Xiaoyu Weng, Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Please visit our website to read the full press release, link in bio . . . . @marcelapardoa @lavathomas #sanfrancisco #bayarea #visualartists #artadia #artadiaawardees #artistgrant @msallisonglenn @anthonyhhhhhhh @xiaoyuxiaoyuxiaoyu @lkmensah #sfaiofficial @ San Francisco, California See more