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.
