we celebrated the third year by visiting GOATS! especially the BABY GOATS! Went to Harley Farms in Pescadero, was also taught how they made their world famous – MONET cheese. Definitely a fun trip and a high recommend, but one thing we realized was that you really didn’t need to reserve, plus their tour that claimed “No Children” was untrue – there were kids in our group AND they didn’t even ask for our names.
Hello Everyone – here’s some information on a show I’ll be in this coming May – which is around the corner!
From Saturday May 2nd to Friday, June 19th the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism in partnership with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Random Parts, and Incline Gallery will present The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers, a transbay visual art exhibition about housing security and digital privacy at Random Parts in Oakland and Incline Gallery in San Francisco. Curated by Dorothy R. Santos, the exhibition will feature work in both venues by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Eliza Barrios,COLL.EO, Leslie Dreyer, Tom Loughlin, andElizabeth Travelslight.
In The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers, Bay Area artists offer a collection of work about the convergence of privacy and gentrification unique to the Bay Area, in particular the impact of surveillance technology and the digital economy on housing security and how affluence secures both privacy and housing.
Exhibitions Dates and Locations
OAKLAND
May 2 – June 5, 2015
Random Parts
1206 13th Avenue, Oakland, CA
Opening reception: Saturday, May 2 • 4-8pm
SAN FRANCISCO
May 16 – June 19, 2015
Incline Gallery
766 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
Opening reception: Saturday, May 16 • 5-9pm
Public Events and Programs
Outdoor Film Salon
Saturday, May 9
7-9pm @ Random Parts
1206 13th Avenue, Oakland, CA
EFF Digital Privacy Workshop
Saturday, May 23
2-4pm @ Random Parts
1206 13th Avenue, Oakland, CA
Closing Panel Discussion
Sunday, June 14
4-6pm @ Incline Gallery
766 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
All events are free, all ages, and open to the public.
Historically, the artist has served as a figure who illuminates what is emblematic of the times serving as a luminary that provides the necessary historical, political, and cultural contexts that explains the significant shifts and changes within an environment. Since the emergence of dotcom businesses of the late 1990s, Bay Area residents have witnessed the rise and fall of the initial technology driven economy. The resurgence of online businesses and explosion of start-ups have resulted in exponential growth of the tech workforce across industry-leading companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
This two-city parallel exhibition aims to open conversation about these topics on both sides of the Bay and is supported by free, public programming, including an outdoor film salon, a panel discussion with organizational partners and artists, and a workshop on digital privacy. These free community events enable visitors to delve further into the exhibition themes and be in dialogue with artists and community leaders.
Hoooray for time to update! After a good friend moved out of the country, I’ve realized the best way to share what’s going on with me is by keeping my blog updated. After over a year of projects, a new job and a few other things – I’ve been able to re-visit my site – code and everything. Been contemplating redesigning the whole thing – but realized it was not necessary at all. Yeah I know “responsive” is the way – BUT – I think I’m ok with what i’ve got. I just need time to edit and upload! Not saying I have ALOT of time, but just enough to get it going. As a matter of fact I’m working on a show called The Dissidents, The Displaced and the Outliers a show curated by Dorothy Santos and will be taking place at two venues – Random Parts Gallery (OAK) and Incline Gallery (SF). More on this one.
At any rate – I will be bringing in photos from the past of projects that I’ve done. Here’s one from a Project Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. did last year in San Diego with Chris Ree at Drive By Cinema. This was our attempt at Manananggoogle Executives (2 out of 3) of recruiting folks at the Border. Have a look.
Daily Slots sent a powerful message a couple weeks ago. The results from the social media involved: SF Media scraping up money to compensate artists for their Rock the Box Contest
The backstory:
Paz and I decide to an action in front of the Twitter building. Inspired by calls for artists by the SF Media Co – to “Help us trick out 15 San Francisco Weekly, The Examiner, or San Francisco Bay Guardian boxes in the city.” We looked at the guidelines and noticed there was NO compensation whatsoever for the artists to design a piece, except for exposure. In their Do’s and Don’ts – they specifically ask artists to ‘Plan out space for one of our logos’. We totally thought this was yet another one of those instances where artists were yet again being exploited to create for free. So, last Friday we did an action..which generated alot of buzz – so much so that the action that we were directing to – SF MEDIA Co responded quite promptly and immediately to remedy the situation. Paz posted our action on her FB page asking folks who were game – to send pictures of our action to the actual calls. Then from there the message went slightly viral. All this talk about gentrification and the exploitation of the creative class were all a buzz. The result from our actions (along with FB respondents) was that SF MEDIA Co. scraped up a few bucks to compensate the artists. Apologizing profusely saying that when the calls went out – they weren’t even sure if they were able to fund the recipients of the awards…but alas money came through – thank you Mark. But you’re really missing the point. Back –pedaling and featuring our project in the Bay Guardian does not make us simpatico..it merely means you’d rather have your enemy close to the sleeve. We never asked you to publish our work in your paper which was odd as we were featured in a show at Mission Cultural Center last September and no mention of it your paper. We’re glad you are motivated by your reputation…but know that press is really not our aim…our aim is movement, thoughtfulness and change – which is what you did meager as it may be.
so it began by being included in this gorgeous publishing edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan Duong, Mariam B. Lam, and Kathy L. Nguyen titled: TROUBLING BORDERS: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora. M.O.B. and our personal work are feature in these full color pages (click on the image to view)
then I was asked to be part of a conversation on Forum (KQED) where we discussed the Tech Boom and how it has the effected the landscape of Creativity and Art in San Francisco (part of KQED’s ‘Priced Out Series’) – the conversation was great and Courtney and Lisa Ruth ROCKED IT – (click on the image to listen)
and lastly I was featured at my alma mater’s (MILLS COLLEGE) paper – the Campanile (click on the image to view)
