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“Aesthetic Blitz” 3D Collage: 2016 U.S. of Asian America Festival | SF

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
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The Sequoias SF | 1400 Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA

Event Details

“Civil Dis(place)ment”: 2016 U.S. of Asian America Festival | SF

Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) is proud to present 20 multidisciplinary arts programs and events throughout San Francisco from April 29-June 30, 2016, showcasing the dynamic experiences of the contemporary Pacific Islander and Asian American arts community as part of the annual United States of Asian America Festival (USAAF).

The 2016 thme, Civil Dis(place)ment​, references a recently published study by the San Francisco Arts Commission that alarmingly found more than 70% of surveyed artists in San Francisco are experiencing displacement.

> 2016 Festival Lineup

Events will:

  • Investigate themes of gentrification, displacement, placemaking, and the artist’s role in the community via installation, performance, video, sculpture, painting and drawings with Resistance​.
  • Preview how filmmakers will tell untold stories from San Francisco’s underprivileged neighborhoods most affected by displacement in Cinematic SF​.
  • With performance, art, and storytelling, find the connections between the struggles of working class Filipinos and people of color in San Francisco to that of indigenous people in the southern Philippines in San Francisco to Salupongan ​and URBAN x INDIGENOUS​.
  • Uncover Fillmore and Japantown’s neighborhood history of evictions through art, poetry, and music with Still Standing

Aesthetic Blitz is an exhibition in which female artists and poets of mostly Asian American ethnicity showcase work that is central to not only who they are as an artist, but who they are as a person in a large scale collage-like form.

The concept of an “aesthetic blitzkrieg” is born out of the way that our minds process identity. We latch onto an image, symbol or word and make it our own in ways that are wholly personal to the individual creator, and this occurs in rapid succession. By presenting all work in a collage-like structure, where things overlap or layer in ways that still preserve the integrity of each art piece in itself, and visually inundate the audience with aestheticism—it’s as if it’s an actual explosion of things that are fragmented and connected in new ways. This exhibition celebrates how we come to know ourselves: as Asians, as women, as people.

Exhibition: Wednesday, May 4th – Saturday, June 25th

Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 4th – 3:30 – 7:30 PM

Free, but an RSVP is requested.

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Cost: FREE*
*Free, but an RSVP is requested.
Categories: **Annual Event**, *Top Pick*, Art & Museums, San Francisco
Address: 1400 Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA