SF’s Tiny Pop-Up Art Studio on Market St.
San Francisco has launched a new Living Innovation Zone (LIZ). The project, called Studio 1, is a mobile art studio that will be activated by a series of Bay Area artists giving lectures and performances working in the space. The installation will be up for seven weeks throughout the summer.
The whole thing should be pretty fun and weird. There are eight artists in total who will be doing short (roughly 1-week) residencies in the space more or less during business hours.
Studio 1 is a public art project, mobile work space and micro residency center. The 65 square foot “off the grid” solar powered art studio is built on the back of a flat bed trailer and can be deployed to locations around the Bay Area in support of public art projects, artist residencies, and performances. Studio 1 is built primarily of reclaimed and salvage materials, designed and constructed by artist David Szlasa.
Studio 1 Pop-Up Art Show with Artist Andrea Bergen
June 14-19, 2015
10th and Market, San Francisco
FREE
See an exhibition of Andrea Bergen’s poster for the 100th anniversary of City Hall.
For the events below, we’re not sure if the donuts, pizza and coffee are free or note, so bring a few bucks just in case.
• Sunday, 6/14 – Installation of Trailer Parklet
Trailer Parklet will juxtapose kitsch and “lowbrow” objects with the expensive, sleekly contemporary Nema Building. Using sculpture, collage, found and purchased materials, Bergen will transform the interior of Studio 1 and the surrounding sidewalk area into a three-dimensional version of her artwork. The effect will be a colorful, immersive environment based on her artistic interests, which include animals.• Monday, 6/15 – Donut Coffee Open House
General Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Activity: 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m., Donut Coffee Open House with Trailer Tour• Tuesday, 6/16 – Pigeon Prosthetics
General Hours: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Activities: 12:30 p.m. – 3 p.m., Pigeon Prosthetics – The artist will make prosthetic legs and protective gear for San Francisco’s maimed pigeons inside Studio 1.
6 p.m. – 8 p.m., #Quittintime #Onedayclosertotheweekend – end of work refreshments on the lawn.• Wednesday, 6/17 – San Francisco Dog Collages
General Hours: 10 a.m. -6 p.m.
Activity: 1 p.m. – 6 p.m., SF Street Dogs Collage Project – The artist will take photos of pedestrians’ dogs (with permission) and make small collages of them. Owner can leave information to have portrait snail mailed to their home.• Thursday, 6/18 – Pizza Party
General Hours: 12 p.m. -8 p.m.
Activity: 12 p.m.-12:30 p.m. – PIZZA PARTY• Friday, 6/19 – Closing Party
General Hours: 10 a.m. -8 p.m.
Activity: 5 p.m.-8 p.m., #TGIF Centennial Celebration & Residency Closing Party – join the Bergen in celebrating the end of her residency and City Hall’s 100th anniversary.
Following Bergen’s week-long residency, a series of artists will alternate short residencies in the Studio 1 through mid-July.
- It will start in front of NEMA at 10th and Market (across from Twitter) and will stay there for three weeks.
- It will then move up to Mechanic’s Plaza for a couple of weeks after which it will return to NEMA for another 2-3 weeks.
Projects will include a new work by choreographer and media artist Sheldon Smith; a dance performance by inkboat honoring the work of legendary choreographer Anna Halprin; a series of durational practice sessions exploring faith by local choreographer Jesse Hewit; a “slow fashion project”, Make Thrift Mend, by artist Katrina Rodabaugh; a performance art piece by José Navarrete and a new collaborative work by Szlasa and Sara Shelton Mann exploring the video, written and print archives of Shelton Mann’s 40+ years of performance history. See below for specific dates and complete project descriptions.
June 27 2:30-4:30 p.m. inkboat
“Ritual 71: transient” is a performance in and around Studio 1. This event is part of a larger performance project, “95 Rituals,” directed by inkBoat’s Shinichi Iova-Koga, presented by Dancers’ Group/ONSITE. “95 Rituals” honors the work of legendary choreographer Anna Halprin, in celebration of her 95th birthday with a series of free site-specific performances at various locations, culminating July 7-11, with guest musicians and artists from around the world. www.95rituals.org
July 6-11 Jesse Hewit
Jesse Hewit is a dance and performance artist based in San Francisco. Through re-imagining sociological contexts of the body, his works attempt to unsettle dominant ideas about things like power, narrative, safety, and beauty. Visit strongbehavior.com
His ambitious Studio 1 project will engage in a series of durational practice sessions that interrogate a different way of having, giving, or showing faith. As part of his project he will write daily sermons on contemporary manifestation of faith, and invite collaborators Marvin K. White (poet and pastor at GLIDE Memorial Church) and Sara Shelton Mann (choreographer, healer) to present sermons as well. Along with singers Tossie Long, Melecio Estrella, and Andrew Ward, Hewit will experiment with durational state-based group singing practices. Along with dancers Abby Crain, Larry Arrington, and Miriam Wolodarski, he will also complete a durational session of Mann’s SOLO/NEUTRAL/FOLLOW score, with a spoken presentation about its socio-political relevance to accepting and believing in a larger web of influence among stranger-bodies, cohabiting communities, and interconnected political projects. Additionally, he will invite various visual artist-colleagues and friends to create “new gods in the studio, using mediums of drawing, sculpture, and collage, as an act of questioning and processing our ancestral narratives. This residency will serve to develop and expand Hewit’s ongoing project, FAITH MATERIALS, through engaging publicly in a location that provokes and ignites questions about “economic development” and its affect on the body’s ability to have an experience of faith.
July 13-18 Katrina Rodabaugh
An artist and writer working across disciplines, Rodabaugh explores environmental and social issues through traditional craft techniques. Visit www.katrinarodabaugh.com.
While in residence at Studio 1, she plans to focus on her slow fashion project, Make Thrift Mend. She will invite textile artists and sustainable fashion advocates to join her for conversations, workshops, and public interactions that highlight the potential for sustainable clothing and handmade wardrobes as alternatives to fast fashion. Some of the interactions might include weaving, spinning, natural dyeing, sewing, or mending. I will also share my research on fast fashion alternatives and resources regarding slow fashion. http://www.makethriftmend.com
July 20-25 José Navarrete
José Navarrete is a native of México City where he was first exposed to theater and dance, choreographing and performing in parks, hospitals, and children’s parties as a clown and dancer. His company NAKA Dance Theater in collaboration with Debby Kajiyama creates interdisciplinary performance works using movement, theater, art installation, multimedia, and site-specific environments. The work is influenced by ritual, cultural studies, and the political and environmental concerns of the world in which we live. In the last eight years, the themes have shifted to address deepening concern with social and environmental issues. Recent themes include: racial profiling and state brutality, genetic modification of native crops, the commodification of water, cultural colonization, and the human response to overwhelming disaster. http://nkdancetheater.com/
