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, there will be an initial screening of Three Turns starting at 7pm followed by a Zoom based panel discussion between SFAI Film Archive Artists and Three Turn Jurors surrounding the response film/video works by the Artists in Response.
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
Panel Discussion
Starting at 7:30pm PST, SFAA Exhibitions & Programming Lead Beth Waldman will lead a brief Zoom based panel discussion with guests Juror Kathy Brew & Film Archive Artist Nao Bustamante as part of the Three Turns event available on live stream to watch as well as Zoom to chime into the conversation. An encore filming of Three Turns will follow the discussion.
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)
Abang-guard
(Jevijoe Vitug and Maureen Catbagan)
Believe In Something Bigger
Gregorio Figueroa
A Little Bit of Rest
Nasim Moghadam
Kaleidoscopic (ME) Objects Exerting Nowhere
Jesse Eric Schmidt
3
Habibi Winter
Alone
Zimo Zhao
Panel Discussion
Starting at 7:30pm PST, SFAA Exhibitions & Programming Lead Beth Waldman will lead a brief Zoom based panel discussion with guests Juror Minoosh Zomorodinia & Film Archive Artist Yin-Ju Chen as part of the Three Turns event available on live stream to watch as well as Zoom to chime into the conversation. An encore filming of Three Turns will follow the discussion.
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
Panel Discussion
Starting at 7:30pm PST, SFAA Exhibitions & Programming Lead Beth Waldman will lead a brief Zoom based panel discussion with guests Juror Christopher Coppola & Director of the Steven Arnold Museum and Film Archives Vishnu Dass as part of the Three Turns event available on live stream to watch as well as Zoom to chime into the conversation. An encore filming of Three Turns will follow the discussion.
Three Turns can be seen live every night on January 22, 23, 24 starting at 7:00pm PST on SFAI's historic tower at 800 Chestnut Street or through a live stream feed on sfai.edu/three-turns.
Check out this map for points around SFAI's Chestnut campus if you plan to see the show in person. Please wear your mask and keep social distancing when you enjoy the live show in person.
Take an umbrella in case of raining.
AIRING AT THE BEGINNING OF SFAI'S 150TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR
![[Jurors] Christopher Coppola Photo by Mi](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/15cf86_7a1ff93e78ad4af995f17bcfa44d4541~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_120,h_120,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/%5BJurors%5D%20Christopher%20Coppola%20Photo%20by%20Mi.jpg)
![[Jurors] Kathy Brew portrait by Roberto](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/15cf86_45f862a7c35f40c79278c0cb3f62a0e3~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_120,h_120,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/%5BJurors%5D%20Kathy%20Brew%20portrait%20by%20Roberto%20.jpg)
