2009: Breathe residency
Posted August 16, 2008
I'm excited to experiment, make new work, and get involved with the Manchester art community during my first artist's residency...
The Breathe residency is a three-month opportunity to provide an artist the time and space to contemplate their practice. First established in 1986, Chinese Arts Centre is the international development agency for contemporary Chinese artists. It is based in Manchester, UK.
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9/5-10/19: galleon trade: bay area now 5 edition
Updated July 17, 2008
I am looking forward to presenting new light-based works in dialogue with the work of Yason Banal, a Manila-based video/performance/installation artist.
Gina Osterloh, Rapture (C-Print) 36"x40"
Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition
Opening Reception: September 4th. 5–8 pm
Exhibition: September 5–October 19, 2008
YBCA Terrace Galleries
The Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition, guest-curated by Jenifer Wofford is a collaborative project that builds international bridges between the Bay Area and other cities on the globe through a process of exchange and dialog. Taking the historic Acapulco-Manila galleon route as a metaphor of origin, the Galleon Trade exhibitions seek to create new routes of cultural exchange along old routes of commerce and trade. Galleon Trade I brought work by twelve California artists to three galleries in Metro Manila, Philippines in summer 2007. Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition addresses the deeply transnational ties between the Bay Area and the Philippines by pairing artists from both places. It features work by local artists Jaime Cortez, Megan Wilson, Johanna Poethig, Gina Osterloh and Christine Wong Yap, all of whom went to Manila with the project in 2007, and met many local artists. Their work is in conversation with the work of five artists from Manila: Poklong Anading, Norberto Roldan, Maria Taniguchi, Yason Banal, and MM Yu.
Galleon Trade is entirely about reciprocity and gathering momentum to create a viable new map that other grass-roots international arts alliances and exchanges can trace.
See Johnny Ray Huston's "Bay Area Now: Hitching a ride with Galleon Trade" in the S.F. Bay Guardian, July 16, 2008.
7/19-10/18: bay area now : Ground scores
Updated July 11, 2008
I was invited by Jessica Tully to contribute to Syndicate, a collaborative project for Ground Scores / Bay Area Now 5.
Syndicate Walking Tour Map
Ground Scores: Guided Tours of San Francisco Past and Personal
Guest Curated by Valerie Imus
YBCA Terrace Galleries & Off-Site Locations
Bay Area Now 5
Opening Night: July 19, 2008 | 8 pm-midnight
Exhibition: July 19 – October 19
Ground Scores: Guided Tours of San Francisco Past and Personal, guest curated by Valerie Imus, is an interactive project that is both situated within the YBCA galleries as well as offering tours or self-guided explorations of sites in and around San Francisco. Ground Scores will offer cartographical and audio portraits of sites that reveal the city’s forgotten histories, as well as mapping out invisible networks within the city’s infrastructure. The Ground Scores artists are BARGE (Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics), Jonn Herschend, Alison Pebworth with James Goode, Jeannene Przyblyski and the Bureau of Urban Secrets, The Studio for Urban Projects, Michael Swaine, and Syndicate (organized by Jessica Tully, Kim Munson, Wendy Crittenden, Christine Wong Yap, Greg O'Toole, Tom Griscom and the Labor Archives and Research Center). Ground Scores will run July 20 to October 19, 2008 in YBCA’s Terrace Galleries and in off-site locations, with an opening on July 19.
Syndicate Walking Tour
Saturday, July 26 +
Saturday, October 4
noon–2:30 pm
A walking tour of sidewalk art installations which nod to the history of labor unions at performing arts venues in San Francisco. This tour will be led by Jessica Tully, Kim Munson and historians from the Labor Archives and Research Center. This tour is accessible.
See ban5.org for the full list of Ground Scores tours and Bay Area Now 5 exhibitions, performances, film/video and public programs.
recently released: activist imagination catalog
Posted May 25, 2008
Activist Imagination catalog
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Designed by contemporary art book designers Sophine Lim and Jon Sueda (StripeLA), the 72-page Activist Imagination catalog includes rich full-color reproductions of the gallery exhibition, an insightful essay by the well-respected curator and artist Kevin B. Chen, as well as duotone photographs and selected transcripts of the discussion series, including quotes by APA artists, journalists and academics like Carlos Villa, Nancy Hom, Erika Chong Shuch, Wei Ming Dariotis, Alison Lee Satake, Robynn Takayama, Pireeni Sundaralingam and many more.
Activist Imagination is made possible by to the support of the Creative Work Fund, the San Francisco Foundation and individual donors.
Activist Imagination exhibition catalog
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