Southern Exposure — Alternative Exposure San Francisco
Seven past recipients of Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure grant present projects at various locations throughout San Francisco. Alternative Exposure supports the independent, self-organized work of artists and small groups that play a critical and significant role within the San Francisco Bay Area arts community.
Alternative Exposure provides monetary awards—giving grants of up to $5,000—to foster the development and presentation of artist-led projects and programs that are direct, accessible, and open to the public. Funded activities may include a new exhibition or exhibition series, the ongoing work of an arts venue or collective, a public art project, a one-time event or performance, publications directly related to the visual arts, an online project, an artist residency, a series of film screenings, and more.
Schedule:
Other Cinema
992 Valencia
10:00 – 11:30AM
Conceived and stewarded by Craig Baldwin and housed in ATA (Artists’ Television Access) Gallery, Other Cinema is a long-standing bastion of experimental film, video, and performance in San Francisco’s Mission District. Baldwin surveys the history of Bay Area alternative spaces, with a focus on Artists’ Television Access and Other Cinema and the contemporary microcinema scene. He will provide a lecture-demonstration with film and video clips from past Other Cinema programs, addressing Black Lives Matter, anti-eviction essays, North/South issues, street/public art, Psycho-Geography, Media Archeology, Optronica, and experimental media art.
ADA Access note: ATA Gallery does not have a restroom equipped with grab bars.
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Living Room Light Exchange
Two Living Rooms in the Mission (check www.soex.org for details)
12:00 — 2:00 PM
Living Room Light Exchange invites artists and curators to open up their living rooms for dialogue and to widen their circle of intimacy to include other thinkers and makers, as part of a monthly salon series. The format of the Exchange is committed to present undertakings, unanswered questions, and the ability for presenters to jump into the thick muck of worksin-progress with a group of artists and thinkers.
Video artist, photographer and art director Zen Cohen and Rick Prelinger, archivist, writer, filmmaker, and founder of the Prelinger Archives, discuss their work at the homes of artists Adam Gray and Jenny Odell. Check www.soex.org for the address of each Exchange.
ADA Access note: Unfortunately the locations for Living Room Light Exchange are not ADA Accessible.
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A Simple Collective Project
2830 20th St, #105
12:00 — 2:00 PM (ASC Gallery Open 12:00 — 4:00 PM)
A Simple Collective is an organization of artists and arts professionals dedicated to community, equity, and content-driven contemporary art.
ASC founder Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen presents Advantage of Disadvantage. To varying degrees, we all have our disadvantages in life. We lament them, compare them, but they’re ours. Sometimes there’s a particular disadvantage that means more to us than the rest. For better or worse, it is our (dis)advantage that we don’t want to lose. Within other communities, we spot (dis)advantages, too. When we see others cling theirs, wear it as a badge, play it as their trump card, do we get frustrated? Angry? Or do we sometimes wish we could claim it as our own? Advantage of Disadvantage creates a space to claim your badge, and to long for another’s.
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PLACE TALKS (Nicole Lavelle and Charlie Macquarie)
Prelinger Library, 301 8th Street @ Folsom Street, Room 215
2:00 — 3:30 PM (Prelinger Library Open 1:00 — 6:00 PM)
PLACE TALKS is a series of visual lectures about location that takes place at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco. Bay Area artists, writers, designers, archivists, and other curious people share lectures on place-related topics, illustrated by content from the Prelinger Library’s rich collection.
The Prelinger Library is an independent research library open to the public for exploration and reuse. PLACE TALKS is an artist project presented by Nicole Lavelle with Librarian in Residence Charlie Macquarie.
For Open Engagement, the library will be open to visitors, and will present two PLACE TALKS from Bay Area speakers. Check www.placetalks.online for exact speaker information.
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Stairwell’s
Meet at Southern Exposure, 3030 20th Street @ Alabama
3:00 — 4:30PM
Stairwell’s is an itinerant project by artists Sarah Hotchkiss and Carey Lin. Starting at Southern Exposure, they will lead participants on an interactive group walking tour, challenging familiar understandings of everyday surroundings.
Tickets reqiured: $5 via Brown Paper Tickets, available beginning April 1, 2016 at stairwells.org
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Art for a Democratic Society
Mission Dolores Park
Ongoing, 12:00 – 6:00PM
Art for a Democratic Society is an artist collaborative whose work addresses political activism, urban planning, faux bureaucracies, and class war. For Open Engagement, A4DS takes on the persona of a redevelopment agency, asking the public how they would want to change their urban environment. In the form of an impromptu charrette, they ask passers-by to reconsider the use of public space.
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Queens of the Castro
Southern Exposure, 3030 20th Street @ Alabama
Ongoing, 12:00 – 6:00PM
Queens of the Castro brings awareness about the differences between gender and sexuality to high schools and universities by empowering LGBT Youth and allies to express themselves. For Open Engagement, they operate a photo-booth located at Southern Exposure, inviting the public to participate and take selfies with drag performers, while empowering participants to have frank conversations about gender.