Artists on YOUTUBE

LINKS

Walter Benjamin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArzS7EX9Uwg

Frank Stella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9OT9KCaTPc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTM0ehPzQvE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU5WjJvVdQw

Yves Klein
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4eguBFbC11E
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LSO_aMg7nEI
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8859506883702524061

Ad Reinhardt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnwYIutjo10

Roy Lichtenstein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqsI09Tx2Sk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lopyK98imU

Pop Art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZseTObbFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZD7eES84WM&mode=related&search=
http://www.nuvo.net/updatepodcast.php?url=NUVO_Video&mp3=55.m4v&id=102

Andy Warhol
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bqB4lz5QiRo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t_Rg8xhNi2g
http://youtube.com/watch?v=neRnmcpZ9S0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pFRWg2y0qDY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XN2dmcSvLlE
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cuWTWBPT5Dc
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KPRXW8rQ-cI
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=c860df3ccf66c83fb61bb2ffd934330b.933787
http://grouper.com/video/MediaDetails.aspx?id=1540371

Robert Rauschenberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YZL2gI2Vyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-pBSxUDsJ0

Jasper Johns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gid5qVh1hQM
http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/Jasper%2BJohns/video/x236x_tlc-taking-the-jeopardy-online-test

Donald Judd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQEXTkGx-ew
http://www.travelistic.com/video/tag/donald%20judd

Tony Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeMQKtvkQ2E
http://video.aol.com/video-category/smith-anthony/411_529055

Sol LeWitt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_v3dagaNGw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpIPKCVTk4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCFmaUe_yIc
http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/sol%2Blewitt/video/x17ug3_a-sol-lewitt

Carl Andre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o0YBsJaTNU

Richard Serra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpBr1AkGn_Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ2ocRppv9w

Robert Morris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI8SiKOYgXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJSgzZjL0y8

Bruce Nauman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea6yCyHk78U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5zwFh1NleQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adJfG56R4mY

Chris Burden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez1QkjBiWeA

Joseph Beuys
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dr0Vu4l1vnU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6TjHIyKzWVw&mode=related&search=

Claes Oldenburg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogNYKX2m7Lw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiOSOn8wOSY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYVv5ADfWA4

Le Monte Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pv7CrJOXis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXRT8UjmJKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENDpn0Ktzw4

Nam June Paik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuaJAgx0x_4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWx-98WD3Xo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WRCYUJTIg4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=C6XkiaycyPI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hCyEHm9pZkk

Gerhard Richter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDQUwtIxrfU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clP7SPfJlS4

On Kawara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdvoBUCSOwU

Ed Ruscha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjmfoROrWGw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhRsVQgVIu4

Robert Smithson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTx4Pp4aPXA

Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRh6kkQO6Zw

David Lamelas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCONVWhnwFw

Lawrence Weiner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=861mP7b3DpA

Robert Barry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qsVTZcL_M

Art & Language
Language Arts video montage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMkH6XuQCHc

John Baldessari
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlWMbpxUAqk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFV5lMRLuws&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPbPGGOdZNc&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPlQsEyHQOo&mode=related&search=

Richard Long
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z523vn4_a30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwHdkoyd3Bc

Dennis Oppenheim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnmax0N3xy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsKrm7oQfsE

Gilber & George
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKzEJcY54vY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzqlvrdepi4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKzEJcY54vY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDWyr7RB1Mo

Victor Burgin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kle1TxnHXzM

Adrian Piper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3fDMjOND8

Christo
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christo+the+gates&search=Search
http://www.not-rocket-science.com/gates-complete.htm

Vito Acconci
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHlKT8y8RQM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsCopICnXuY&mode=related&search=

Dan Graham
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tuLQzx4vl1c
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AZr3K8Uhz9c
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ilIYPZM9oJI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a9IVlJ4xVbY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rj4HTPTVStA

Richard Longo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tjF_-9Q7OSI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ccTKENvaPdA

Jack Goldstein
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ai1o72u3Y
http://youtube.com/watch?v=s5gFVB68_vM

Richard Prince
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uKdEUKDZ9BE

Jenny Holzer
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-A6N3oB5eKU

Gary Hill:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=X7ENNl-v-IY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OPhrhscHJaw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=A7QuukauRes
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TOuaawPLX2k

Mark Leckey
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=mark+leckey&search=Search

MOMA:
First hit on Youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2oWGlRaYNvE
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ej19Y6oUNbA&mode=related&search=

MATTHEW BARNEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0l1VpU7WM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ8a6UD7tG4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHyJH1yGKZY&mode=related&search=

Fischli/Weiss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTZ1-_KUNPo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3xzHm9pHw

Louise Bourgeois,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKYGJK1SlcU

Chris Burden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLt3RsMsEwc

Laurie Anderson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FeyGTmw0I0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESYC82GN0VQ

Vanessa Beecroft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNE4qKJgw-c

Barbara Kruger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp7Q3Rjy0kk

Yayoi Kusama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teYbSiabnmE

Agnes Martin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPB1Pq8ahpU

Sarah Sze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UB0uXNIjUE

Sophie Calle
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7ZRQVK0cfMs

Fiona Banner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcrxoIR9DrA

MISC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K_NQe57C-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DfVt8RgHEs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTx3qDZV0M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTx3qDZV0M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IsFVXUH_FQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqjUdiywPcc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sFDzJHYK00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmtmYX1F49Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZzSXUhwDco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bufRlApJtxk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k6sCFV7FdI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjSAjUaYic8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9zG7ydVY1w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByQtmILHnbU&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvCzFyO8PAw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8c9QP8uv8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImBxuqBDJL0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Fz-DuHUEk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-qqiKyTs1w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAWP7NMSlbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B16G9T_r3So
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYo8qTqIPd4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eeTzBWkbjk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HswUl5cuJLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V59YQ2ikYk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fks4dr_FQDA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a0HxLRl7VR0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=J8AFOmf8rMY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7CtwFCsUwb4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aINlu8bl4cg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yn65bslIBeE
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-MiAQLi4HmI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QmjO0ZltMOs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tAQ4iok9Eho
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BNKXdA2Afwk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bEAe_D6Nnv0&mode=related&search=
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1YrtN4prvzk
http://youtube.com%2

STATE OF EMERGENCY: The Place and Function of Contemporary Art in Society

STATE OF EMERGENCY: The Place and Function of Contemporary Art in Society

A Lecture by Evelyne Jouanno
Thursday, April 26, 2007 4 p.m. 691 Barrows Hall
University of California-Berkeley

In the cultural debates of the last decades, if the challenge of multiculturalism offered new alternative models of social organization, more open to the real coexistence and exchange of cultures and human values, how do we turn these concepts/discourses into reality? How do we attract public attention and stimulate a more ample debate on controversial social and political topics, easily ignored and forgotten realities, countries that do not have visibility for historic reasons and peoples who have been deprived of territories and identities? What kind of new strategies must be developed to carry out this responsibility beyond the existing institutions and market places and their political/financial constraints?

Evelyne Jouanno, an independent art critic and curator from Paris, has written extensively on contemporary art and geopolitics and organized numerous transnational art exhibitions and events. She will discuss her project, the Emergency Biennale, a suitcase art project and transnational traveling exhibition organized in Chechnya (www.emergency-biennale.org), and multiculturalism in the context of ambivalent globalisation.

Organized by the Visuality and Alterity Working Group. Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Center for Race and Gender, UC-Berkeley.

Anne Colvin at GBE@Passerby

Majuscule is a group project that revolves around different approaches to, and interpretations of the idea of reenactment, using it as a structure, a metaphor, or a social and cultural mode of operation. Treating the form of an existent narrative as a kind of material to work with, the artists in the show develop forms and situations that utilize and mutate linear movement into anatomies that operate independently, with a logic all their own.

http://www.gavinbrown.biz/passerby/passerby.html

"This world is crazy."
-my dad



BEN SHAFFER

"With Signs Following"
April 20 - May 26

Opening: April 20, 7 - 10 pm

Silverman Gallery
2295 Third St. (corner of 20th)
San Francisco, CA 94107
415 255 9508


more info...

Silverman Gallery
www.silverman-gallery.com

Ben's work
www.foreverever.com



"With signs following" will be on view at Silverman Gallery San Francisco (2295 Third Street, cross street 20th) April 20 through May 26, 2007. Hours: Friday from 12am-6pm and Saturday from 12am-6pm or by appointment. For further information or reproductions please contact Jessica Silverman at Jessica@silverman-gallery.com.

FUTURISM SIMPLIFIED: EXTINCT PROMISES FROM THREE WORLD'S FAIRS

FUTURISM SIMPLIFIED: EXTINCT PROMISES FROM THREE WORLD'S FAIRS

• Synopsis

Rated: NR Runtime: 90 mins
Tuesday, April 17 7:30

In honor of The San Francisco World's Fair of 2007, an exhibition organized by The California College of the Arts' MA Curatorial Practice class of 2007, Rick Prelinger will present a series of never before seen Worlds Fair footage.

World's fairs have always been showcases for new technology and visionary ideas. Though many of us look at them with nostalgia, though, it turns out that predictions don't age too well. Each one of the four corporate-sponsored films in this program sends messages to the present about the future, and the messages all turn out to be pretty much the same: "Trust us with the future. Technology will get us there." Presented by Rick Prelinger; all films from Prelinger Archives.

CENTURY 21 CALLING (Jerry Fairbanks Productions for the Bell System, 1962, 15 min, color). An amped-up young couple visits the telephone building at the Seattle World's Fair, where they learn about inventions we take for granted today.

TO NEW HORIZONS (Jam Handy Organization for General Motors, 1940, 10 min segment, color). Vision of the "world of 1960" at GM's "Futurama" exhibit at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.

OUT OF THIS WORLD (Jam Handy Organization for General Motors, 1964, 15 min, color). Futurama +25 years, showing how humans have conquered the ocean bottom and the moon.

THE MIDDLETON FAMILY AT THE NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR (1939, 55 min, Technicolor). The quintessential industrial film, blending a family drama, romance, futurism, anti-communism, robots, the World's Fair, modern art, television and time capsules into one mini-featurette.

Rick Prelinger will introduce the films and conduct a Q&A after the screening.

For more information pleae visit www.sfworldsfair.org.
Admission = $4.00.

SF WORLDS FAIR MAP IS DONE!

Saturday, April 21 - Sunday, April 22
projects open 1 pm - 7 pm

PROJECTS AND EVENTS

2. Anchored in the bay next to Agua Vista Park is Poppa Neutrino's newest raft, "Dwight's Soup". Constructed with found materials, "Dwight's Soup" will carry Neutrino on his upcoming voyage from San Francisco to China. Poppa Neutrino will be in conversation with Erin Elder and Zoe Taleporos at 2:00 on Saturday.

3. [Saturday only] LIVE from Sundance Coffee, Neighborhood Public Radio will broadcast a daylong program of interviews with artists and community members. Tune in to 88.9 FM. Also at Sundance Coffee, William Pope.L presents 141Demands in collaboration with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. A mural by Malik Seneferu and youth at Bayview Safe Haven will be on display.

4a-4e. Lyfe Nowadays, a collaborative poem by Gamespitahz Collective begins at Sundance Coffee (a) and continues South along Third Street at Hard Knox Café (b), Double K (c), La Laguna (d), Community Produce (e) and Aquila de Oro (f). Each window displays a stanza from a longer poem created by the youth from Bayview Safe Haven.

5. Daniel Cheek: Off Third Street is a new series of photographs documenting contested sites along the Third Street Corridor - on exhibit at the Noonan Building.

6. Warm Water Cove Park hosts One Trees, a pair of Natalie Jeremijenko's cloned walnut trees, one of several sets planted around San Francisco. Jeremijenko is at Warm Water Cove Park on Saturday, recruiting participants to be involved in her new project, Clear Skies Bike Masks, a limited edition of bike masks that visually gauge levels of air pollution.

6a. Historical Reconstruction: Balloon Bridge by Alternative Contexts references San Francisco's first major transportation artery, the Long Bridge - constructed in 1867. This wooden causeway connected present-day Bayview-Hunters Point to Downtown and closely mirrors the route serviced by the newly constructed Third Street Light Rail.

7. On exhibit at Bayview Opera House are works by William Scott in collaboration with architect Kyu Che. Scott's paintings re-imagine San Francisco as peaceful "Praise Frisco" .

8. Film Screenings at Cyclone Arts Center All films listed below are screened simultaneously on Saturday at Cyclone and via scheduled projections on Sunday.

-Maquilapolis created by Sergio de la Torre and Vicky Funari with a group of female activists in Tijuana. 2:00 screening on Sunday

-The School of Panamerican Unrest documentary by Pablo Helguera.

-Straight Outta Hunters Point by Kevin Epps.
3:00 screening on Sunday

9. [Sunday only] Amy Franceschini will inaugurate San Francisco's third Victory Garden, planted at Bayview Hunters Point Healing Arts Center. With her Victory Gardens project Franceschini resuscitates a local food growing initiative that was subsidized by the city during WWII. Join the planting party and barbeque. 3:00 - 7:00 on Sunday

World's Fair PARTY
7:00 Saturday
Celebrate the San Francisco World's Fair
At Cyclone Arts Center - final bus stop
Catered by the Culinary Students from San Francisco City College
Beverages provided by New Belgium Brewery
Entertainment by Bread Me Out Family

www.sfworldsfair.org
info@sfworldsfair.org

Map drawn by Gabrielle Teschner and printed by Krishna Digital, 605 20th Street
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Metagymnastics

Per shumann and Malte Zacharias Monday, April 16, 7pm

Silverman Gallery invites Hamburg artists Per Schumann and Malte Zacharias as part of the In the basement series. With their first US exhibition, Metagymnastics, Schumann and Zacharias have created an immersive environment in which taste and smell, sight and speech, hearing and touch are engaged through a cross pollination of disparate art practices.

Their work will be on view at the Luggage Store Annex April 13- May 4, 2007

Come check them out tonight!

Just Kick It Till It Breaks

Corey McCorkleble, Perfectionist (Free Love) Monument, 2007, steel, copper, nickel, and silver, dimensions variable.

Check out this show which includes Meredyth Sparks who has shown at TART.

Just Kick It Till It Breaks

March 8 - April 28
THE KITCHEN

512 West 19th Street

Josephine Meckseper’s Rest in Peace, 2004, the first work one encounters in this exhibition, sets the tone for the entire show. The video mixes footage of recent political demonstrations in New York with flower power–style party scenes, all complemented by a sound track drawn from urban music genres. This and other pieces brought together by curators Debra Singer and Matthew Lyons offer an allegorical reading of the current ideological landscape and limn various methods of resistance to dominant values. A critique of the materialism that characterizes our global economy pervades the project.

One continually pertinent topic addressed by the selected artists is the process of fetishization undergirding advanced capitalist societies, by which any countercultural thinking, action, or object is seamlessly absorbed by the market. Fia Backström's elegant installations examine this process intelligently: For example, RECYCLE—Hanging proposal for “Untitled” (2006), Sculpture by Kelley Walker (Ecco Art #2), 2007, consists of a delicate arrangement of pillows, dishes, plastic cutlery, and other picnic items placed alongside Walker’s piece atop a small green carpet and in front of a large wall banner decorated with the logo of the oil company BP. Corey McCorkle's sculptures The Circular, 2007, and Perfectionist (Free Love) Monument, 2007, on the other hand, allude to the Oneida Community, a nineteenth-century utopian group based in New York State that advocated pacifism yet manufactured animal traps for subsistence.

Emphasizing a metaphoric approach to the theme, the exhibition deftly sidesteps the charge of proselytizing against the current state of affairs. Instead, the show offers poetic visions of politics that, in highlighting how individuals change things through quotidian acts, may describe the only form of activism that can make a difference now — Miguel Amado (Artforum).

Queen's Nails Annex talk with Julian Myers

Please join us for a special closing and walk through with guest curator Julian Myers this Saturday from 12 to 2PM.

Queen's Nails Annex is pleased to present a solo exhibition by ERLEA MANEROS, an artist based in Los Angeles, curated by San Francisco-based writer JULIAN MYERS. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday, March 16th, 7 – 11 pm. The exhibition will continue until April 13th, 2007.

Maneros is a painter who addresses the abstractions and absurd architectures of power. Her work involves collecting images and re-articulating them in artistic form – in the process transforming, in subtle or aggressive ways, how the picture communicates its information. So too is she interested in making visible the way that painting's historical forms are constantly referenced in contemporary photography – in advertising, of course, but also in documentary and news photography which are understood to represent "real" events. Made with watercolor or watered-down India ink, her paintings' medium and style point back to these printed origins.

For her show at QNA, Maneros will reinstall a constellation of borrowed images from the wall of her studio in Los Angeles, an exploration of the unexpected and odd collusions among museum architecture, art, nationalism, and power. The exhibition will also investigate the case of Charles Willson Peale – painter of the American Revolution, amateur naturalist, and curator of the nation's first museum, which was established in 1792. Peale is also famous for excavating the colossal bones of a mastodon from a bog in New York. The poster for the exhibition reproduces (in Maneros's altered form) Peale's painting of this glorious scene: The Exhumation of the Mastodon (1806-1808). His exhibition of this ungainly fossil would become his museum's most spectacular draw, an attraction so popular that the United States considered appointing the wooly beast as its national animal rather than the bald eagle.


ERLEA MANEROS lives and works in Los Angeles. Born in 1977 in Basque Country, Maneros completed her undergraduate studies at Glasgow School of Art and her graduate studies at California Institute of the Arts.
She has exhibited with Garash Galeria (Mexico), China Arts Objects Galeries (Los Angeles), Pelham Arts Center (New York), Blum & Poe (Los Angeles) and Sala Rekalde (Bilbao), among others. She is founder and
co-director of ART2102 of Los Angeles.

JULIAN MYERS is a critic, historian, and curator whose writings have appeared in Documents, October, Afterall, frieze, and elsewhere. His published works include essays in Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco
(2002), Sightlines (2005), Super-Pride and Super Prejudice (2005) and Zoe Crosher: Out the Window (2006). He presented Riot Show, a collection of recordings of crowd violence at rock concerts, at the Backroom in Los Angeles in 2005, and at New Langton Arts in 2006. He received his PhD in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. He is currently an assistant professor in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts, and visiting professor in Arts at University of California, Santa Cruz. Myers lives and works in San Francisco.



QUEEN'S NAILS ANNEX
3191 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-992-2041/415-202-3199
gallery hours: thurs-sat 12-6
or by appointment 415 637 9741

FACTION

Jessica Brier, TART's intern and her cohorts (the FACTION team) have been hard at work on a screening at New Langton Arts coming up this Friday April 13, as well as a zine and exhibition, which will launch and open next Thursday in PLAySPACE Gallery at CCA from 5-7.

Screening Friday April 13, 2007 7pm
New Langton Arts $3 general admission

Langton, in conjunction with the first- year Curatorial Practice students at California College of the Arts, presents FACTION, a video screening including work by Iris Charabi-Berggren, Marion Kellmann, Walid Raad, Steve Reinke, and Sean Snyder. FACTION is a three-fold program that delights in a fanciful remix of fact and fiction and prods at the classical ideal of truth in representation.

The first manifestation of FACTION is a screening at Langton. Addressing the variety of ways in which we receive information, the program also consists of an exhibition at CCA's PLAySPACE Gallery, and a printed zine. The coinage of the term FACTION brazenly alters the word's true linguistic lineage in order to hold us to a new vision of FACTION as "an act of fiction and fact." Each of these programs will be an eclectic sampling of artists who confuse a vocabulary of the real by pushing familiar objects, sites, or sentiments into the realm of the imagined. This program is a timely exploration of themes central to the information age. The resulting presentation of video, text, objects, and images seduces while it confounds and thus highlights a revolving negotiation within the history of art: the tension between the real and the imaginary.

Selections for FACTION are gathered to reflect the full gamut of practices from emergent to established artists, and the breadth of issues being discussed within the California College of the Arts and beyond. The selected videos explore the processes of historicizing events, or resisting the impulse to historicize, through the lens of documentary filmmaking.

Program: Steve Reinke, Anal Masturbation, 2002; Object Loss, 2002 Marion Kellmann, The Retraining, 2006 Iris Charabi-Berggren, How to Engage With a Child, 2007 Steve Reinke, Excuse of the Real, 1989 Sean Snyder, Casio, Seiko, Sheraton. Toyota, Mars, 2005-2005 Walid Raad, The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs, 1999. Participating curators: Petrushka Bazin, Jessica Brier, Chialin Chou, Courtenay Finn, Anna Gritz, Clare Haggarty, Danny Orendorff, Kate Phillimore, Sarah Robayo Sheridan. For further information about the exhibition and zine please visit: www.factionzine.org

Tonight at TART

Monday, April 9th, 7-10pm

Tonight we re-activate Oliver's space with music from The Kitchen's 1979 audio archives. Bursts of improvised sound and voice meet Oliver's ink explosions. Michael Nyman, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk and other greats bring the paintings alive in a new way, transporting us back to the heady days of the 1970's experimental music/performance scene.

Rail

Rail is an independent alliance run by a group of cultural workers (visual artists, curators, among others) based in San Francisco. Rail was founded in Fall 2007 and looks forward to producing a number of exhibitions, artist presentations, discussions, film screenings, and performances. Additional to its own program Rail occasionally serves as a host for related external activities and projects.

Rail aims to install and uphold a collaborative, process-related, informal platform for open thought, information exchange, spatial experiments, transdisciplinary approach and the reflection on contemporary visual and auditive culture.

Rail is informed by and related to its local context and situation.

Julio Morales talks this friday

Please join me for exciting evening of music, video and artist talk at Galeria this Friday from 7PM to 8:30PM.

Julio


There’s Gonna Be Sorrow, is Julio Cesar Morales’ first solo exhibition at the Galería de la Raza. The exhibition is inspired by singer David Bowie’s 1974 failed theatrical adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which later became the concept album Diamond Dogs.

There’s Gonna Be Sorrow is a stunning sonic and visual landscape that evokes the dystopian future explored by Orwell’s novel and Bowie’s music. In Morales’ work, peril, expectation, desire and disillusion create a field of tension. Working from a Latino perspective, Morales uses mutated sound samples of Diamond Dogs, language, typography, and idiosyncratic symbols from the Latin American urban landscape —such as the broken bottles that are often found embedded in the concrete atop walls to protect and define property boundaries—to create a dangerous topography that evokes issues of immigration, alienation, dystopia and surveillance.

The project includes multi-channel video, sculpture and sound with original music by Los Creamators and additional audio of the artist’s aunt singing obscure Mexican songs. Morales utilizes digital media in the broadest sense – as a printed mural, recorded sound, LED signs,
video etc. His artistic practice can be described as employing the DJ’s method of remixing as a means to analyze the politics of culture.

Morales’ work has been previously shown at The 2006 Singapore Biennale, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; 2005 ARCO International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; Swiss Cultural Center, Paris, France; The Rooseum Museum of Art, Malmo, Sweden; Peres Projects, Los Angeles; 2004 The San Juan Triennial, San Juan Puerto Rico; Fototeca de Havana, Cuba; Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York City; MUCA ROMA, Mexico City; and The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.

There’s Gonna Be Sorrow was made possible thanks to an Individual Artist Grant from The San Francisco Art Commission.

Exhibition Dates:
MARCH 9 - APRIL 28, 2007
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 9, 7 p.m.
Artists' Talk :
Friday, April 6, 7 p.m.

Galeria de la Raza
2857 24th St, @ Bryant
SF, CA 94110
(t) 826-8009, (f) 826-6235

PING PONG GALLERY: JEFF EISENBERG, Automatic Transmission, Friday April 6, 6-9pm

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JEFF EISENBERG
Automatic Transmissions

Opening Reception, Friday April 6, 6:00 - 9:00pm

Exhibition Dates:
Saturday April 7, 11:00am - 5:00pm, and 7:00pm - 9:00pm* (*As Part of Art Walk, a RAIL action)
Sunday, April 8, 11:00am - 5:00pm

Ping Pong Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with San Francisco artist Jeff Eisenberg. The artist who, at age 3, had a recurring nightmare that involved trips to multiple layers of the underworld, and at age 32 had a strange dream about heaven involving a complex and bizarre interactive architectural map, presents a new series of drawings, Automatic Transmissions. Eisenberg's painstakingly hand drawn works on layered mylar represent a world heavily inspired by science fiction, architecture, nano and biotechnology, surrealist landscape, industrial installations, and other quasi science-like things.

What intrigues me about all of these things is the gray area between a vision informed by objectively collected facts and a world of fantasy that arises when we attempt to piece the facts together. Most compelling to me is the relationship we have with the tools we use to model images of the unseen: When the model itself becomes what we expect to see and the tools we've developed to aid our vision begin to drive the way in which we imagine.
- Jeff Eisenberg

Alongside the drawings, Eisenberg will exhibit a new, site-specific audio installation which, much like the works on paper, involves a unique signature that can be used to 'mimic, model, or even invent reality.'

Eisenberg received his MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005 and has recently exhibited at Receiver Gallery, Southern Exposure, and the Headlands Center for the Arts.

For additional information and images, please contact Vanessa Blaikie and Joey Piziali at 415.550.7493 o

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