SFAQ [Project] Space: Art Preview Party & Live Music | Tenderloin

Submitted by the Event Organizer

SFAQ magazine is celebrating the release of Issue 19 at 449 O’Farrell Street, the site of the first edition of SFAQ [Project] Space. The party will provide a sneak preview of the inaugural edition of SFAQ [Project] Space, a social sculpture, on February 12, 2015 from 6-9 pm.

The first incarnation of SFAQ [Project] Space will open in a 1,200 square foot Tenderloin storefront recently converted from a massage parlor into a raw exhibition space, and is slated to open March 13, 2015 with four months of programming scheduled through June, 2015.

SFAQ [Project] Space will be a multidisciplinary temporal institution that provides a place for its patrons to encounter, discuss and think about artifacts of contemporary of art and culture organized in exhibits and events on film, food, performance art, performing arts, visual arts and lectures and discussion. SFAQ [Project] Space will be open on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6-9 pm and on Saturday and Sunday from 11 am-5:30 pm. Entry is free for everyone.

What to expect:

Music by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour
Projection/Performance and Bay Area hip hop and Lebanese wedding music provided by the minds behind Et. Al and Curiously Direct, among other endeavors.

Amy Franceschini – founding member of Futurefarmers and SFAQ Issue 19 [Project] artist will present, The Conjurer—a tracing of three economic epochs in San Francisco through the purchase of three shares of stock (gold, grain and Google), the procurement of related raw materials and the enactment of a magic trick performed by The Reality Thief.

Dennis Leary – the San Francisco-based chef will be offering small dishes in collaboration with a surprise guest. Leary will be the head curator for the SFAQ [Project] Space’s cafe, Harvard.

Issue 19 of SFAQ features:
Petra Collins, Dave Hickey, Richard Hell, Ulay, Mark McCloud, Bill Daniel, Lee Mingwei, and many more. Columns on the militarization of the internet, WeChat, funding of digital art, Eco-poetics and John Cage, the hustle of language and contemporary performance, the globalization of the art market, immigration and U.S. imperialism, and different perspectives on feminism.

SFAQ [Projects] included in issue 19 as pull out posters: Tom Sachs and Amy Franceschini

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