

Exhibition presented in partnership with SFAI and SFAA
SFAI TOWER + ONLINE
January 22, 23 and 24, 2021
Every night starting at 7:00pm, PST
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and SF Artists Alumni (SFAA) proudly present Three Turns, a juried exhibition of video works by SFAI alumni artists. Featuring 26 artists, Three Turns stems from the concept that engaging artworks provide a viewer with three different entry points, prompting a deeper exploration into the work itself. Projected on the historic SFAI Tower at 800 Chestnut Street, which houses the Institution’s 150 year old archive, Three Turns will echo the notion of traveling three turns in time and space by showing the selected alumni video works on the Tower in dialogue with video works selected from the SFAI archive.
Archive works were selected by Margaret Tedesco and Leila Weefur, curators of the upcoming 150th anniversary exhibition Spirit of Disruption, and include: Nao Bustamante’s Untitled #1 (from the series "Earth People 2507"), Yin-Ju Chen’s Three Decades of Static, and Steven Arnold’s 1967 work The Liberation of Mannique Mechanique.
Each night, each rotation of works will be looped, and the evening will include brief programming highlighting artists and jurors participating in the exhibition.
Friday, January 22, 2021
7:00 - 8:30pm, PST
SFAI Archive FIlm
Nao Bustamante:
Untitled #1 (from the series Earth People 2507), 4:28 MIN
Excerpt: “Earth People 2507” is a video project that is part Public Service Announcement and part time capsule. It is a message in a bottle to be screened in 500 years. Nao Bustamante is a cosmovideographer shot into space and time.

Artists In Response

Heart of San Francisco
Jackie Buttice

Unsounded.
Ying Gu

Mouse on Earth
Jade Mar
Drop
Lauren Szabo and Floorplay

Buffaloes (after Ocean Vuong)
Don Hai Phu Daedalus

Transgenic Hairshirt
Dale Hoyt

State of Grace
Lourdes Portillo

Dead Things Death Valley
Marshall Elliott

Time Sail
Heather Jones

The Passage
Deepali Raiththa

Sunrise
Brandon Truscott
Saturday, January 23, 2021
7:00 - 8:30pm, PST
SFAI Archive FIlm
Yin-Ju Chen:
Three Decades of Static (2006),
4:06 MIN
This video work combines both performance and video art. The artist portrays a state of stress – the stress from self-pressure and the fear of turning 30 years old. Using a unique architectural structure and video technology, the artist imagines three decades of herself.

Artists In Response

Correspondance (Contact)
Murat Adash

Body/Bag
Mark Freeman

Sometimes My Feet Go Numb
Lourdes Portillo

Becoming a Mother
Mika Sperling

Embassy of the Refugee
Caleb Duarte

Waiting to Show up
Elisabeth Kohnke

Dhundhloo
Deepali Raiththa

Abang-guard Work Habits (Disturbance)
Jevijoe Vitug

Believe In Something Bigger
Gregorio Figueroa

A Little Bit of Rest
Nasim Moghadam

Kaleidoscopic (ME) Objects Exerting Nowhere
Jesse Eric Schmidt

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Habibi Winter

Alone
Zimo Zhao
Sunday, January 24, 2021
7:00 - 8:30pm, PST
SFAI Archive FIlm
Steven Arnold:
The Liberation of Mannique Mechanique (1967), 14:43 MIN
A haunting, genuinely decadent work about mannequins that may be real and girls that may be models, journeying through strange universes possible self-discovery. An exorbitant, perverse sensibility informs the ambiguous images and events.

Artists In Response

All of A Sudden The Truth Became
Barry Despenza

Mergence
Deepali Raiththa

Ode to Oscar Wilde
Pete Herzfeld

Act of Renaissance
Ouater Sand

Self Portrait as Diver
Collin Pollard

Domesticate
Brandon Truscott
Jurors

Christopher Coppola
SFAI faculty and alum, BFA 1985, Director of Cinema Projects and Studies.

Kathy Brew
Former SFAI staff, faculty at School of Visual Arts, guest curator at MOMA.
