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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)