Three Turns: 150th anniversary exhibition projected onto the SFAI Tower

SFAI and SF Artists Alumni (SFAA) proudly present Three Turns, a juried exhibition of video works by SFAI alumni artists. Featuring 26 artists, Three Turns stems from the concept that engaging artworks provide a viewer with three different entry points, prompting a deeper exploration into the work itself. Projected on the historic SFAI Tower at 800 Chestnut Street, which houses the Institution's 150 year old archive, Three Turns will echo the notion of traveling three turns in time and space by showing the selected alumni video works on the Tower in dialogue with video works selected from the SFAI archive. Archive works were selected by Margaret Tedesco and Leila Weefur, curators of the upcoming 150th anniversary exhibition Spirit of Disruption, and include: Nao Bustamante's Untitled #1 (from the series Earth People 2507), Yin-Ju Chen's 2006 Three Decades of Static, HD video, color, stereo, no dialogue, and Steven Arnold's 1967 work The Liberation of Mannique Mechanique.

Jurors include Christopher Coppola: SFAI faculty and alum, BFA 1985, Director of Cinema Projects and Studies; Kathy Brew: Former SFAI staff, faculty at School of Visual Arts, guest curator at MOMA; and Minoosh Zomorodinia: SFAI alum, MFA 2015, Recology Artist in Residence 2020.

Each night, each rotation of works will be looped, and the evening will include brief programming highlighting artists and jurors participating in the exhibition. Three Turns can be seen live on SFAI's historic tower at 800 Chestnut Street or via live stream at sfai.edu/three-turns.

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Friday, January 22, 2021
7 PM - 8:30 PM PST
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SFAI Archive Film
Nao Bustamante: Untitled #1, 4:28 MIN
(from the series Earth People 2507)

Excerpt: "Earth People 2507" is a video project that is part Public Service Announcement and part time capsule. It is a message in a bottle to be screened in 500 years. Nao Bustamante is a cosmovideographer shot into space and time.

Artists In Response
Jackie Buttice, Don Hai Phu Daedalus, Marshall Elliott, Ying Gu, Dale Hoyt, Heather Jones, Jade Mar, Lauren Szabo, Lourdes Portillo, Deepali Raiththa, and Brandon Truscott.

Saturday, January 23, 2021
7 PM - 8:30 PM PST
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SFAI Archive Film
Yin-Ju Chen: Three Decades of Static (2006), 4:06 MIN

This video work combines both performance and video art. The artist portrays a state of stress - the stress from self-pressure and the fear of turning 30 years old. Using a unique architectural structure and video technology, the artist imagines three decades of herself.

Artists In Response
Murat Adash, Caleb Duarte, Gregorio Figueroa, Mark Freeman, Elisabeth Kohnke, Nasim Moghadam, Lourdes Portillo, Mika Sperling, Deepali Raiththa, Jesse Eric Schmidt, Jevijoe Vitug, Habibi Winter, and Zimo Zhao.

Sunday, January 24, 2021
7 PM - 8:30 PM PST
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SFAI Archive Film
Steven Arnold: The Liberation of Mannique Mechanique (1967), 14:43 MIN

A haunting, genuinely decadent work about mannequins that may be real and girls that may be models, journeying through strange universes possible self-discovery. An exorbitant, perverse sensibility informs the ambiguous images and events.

Artists In Response
Barry Despenza, Pete Herzfeld, Collin Pollard, Deepali Raiththa, Ouater Sand, and Brandon Truscott.