REAL TIME & SPACE

RTS TALKS: KERRY DOWNEY AND ZOE TUCK

January 21, 2015

Please join us this Thursday, January 22nd at 7pm for talks by Kerry Downey and Zoe Tuck. In line with RTS TALKS tradition, Downey and Tuck will present work and discuss their practices.

Kerry Downey, RTS resident artist for January, makes videos, sculptures and other work about places, bodies and the things between them.

Zoe Tuck is a poet. “Born in Texas, Zoe Tuck has been a participant in the Bay Area literary scene since 2008: she co-curated the Condensery Reading Series in Oakland and worked at Small Press Distribution for many years.”

JANUARY RESIDENT

January 05, 2015

RTS is pleased to welcome our January resident Kerry Downey who is based in New York City.

The body is an index of experiences, full of ruptures, sensations, needs and desires.  Embodiment is always an “in-relation-to” phenomenon; we are forever entangled in our environment.  Figure is to ground as body is to site, to situation, and also to support.  Downey’s videos, prints, and drawings explore the boundaries, possibilities and limitations of care, intimacy, and what it means to be healthy in capitalist America.  Private feelings bleed unpredictably into the rug, your neighbor, and the surrounding landscape.  Downey explores images, objects, places, and characters using uncertainty and desire as forms of defiance to the values of knowledge, independence, and privilege.

While in residence at RTS, Downey will  be figuring out how to make drawings and DIY prints that somehow contain the feeling of the place through her body. How can color, shape, or a somatic impression tell a story about a political moment?

RTS TALKS: DENA BEARD AND ASHLEY CARTER

January 01, 2015

Saturday, January 3rd, 7pm

Dena Beard, new director of The Lab, will present alongside current RTS resident Ashley Carter.

Read an interview in White Fungus with Beard here:  http://whitefungus.com/ interview-lab-executive-dir ector-dena-beard
See documentation of some of Carter’s work here: http://ashleymcarter.com/

DECEMBER RESIDENT

December 01, 2014

Real Time and Space is pleased to welcome New York based Ashley Carter as our December resident. Ashley’s sculptures record and suspend moments of dislocation in materials, images, space and perception. While in residence, Ashley is experimenting with new body of work and preparing for an upcoming show in New York.

RTS TALKS: ANNA SAGSTRÖM AND JAMES STERLING PITT

October 13, 2014

Please join Real Time and Space for artist talks by current artist-in-residence Anna Sagström and studio member James Sterling Pitt. October 14th, 7pm.

OCTOBER 2014 RESIDENT

RTS is pleased to welcome Anna Sagström joining us from Berlin/Stockholm. Anna’s work centres around materiality, sound and tempo – often with (pop) cultural references. By bringing together moments of the present with memories of the past, she wishes to make apparent the constant fluctuations of our everyday lives, whether be it time, emotions or distance – to other people or what we perceive as history. The work often employs different music genres and thinks about sound in a both tactical and audiological way.

Anna plans to use the time at RTS to research the role of sound in contemporary biopolitics – how a sonic vocabulary of war and chaos is being used as a mechanism for organizing society, in everything from Nike football commercials to contemporary pop music. She’s also interested in researching how we can understand objects and materials through studies of vibration and patterns of movement and rest.

RTS TALKS: JAY ATHERTON AND AARON FINNIS

September 29, 2014

Please join Real Time & Space for this week’s RTS Talks with presentations by RTS resident Jay Atherton, and San Francisco based artist Aaron Finnis.

TUESDAY, September 30th, at 7 PM 

RTS TALKS: ZACHARY DAVIS AND CONRAD GUEVARA

September 22, 2014

On Tuesday, September 23rd, at 7 PM, current artist-in-residence Zachary Davis will be presenting with studio member Conrad Guevara.

Zachary Davis’ work comes out of an ongoing inquiry into the nature of sense, knowledge, and creaturehood, mixing formal and symbolic play with contemporary research into artificial intelligence. While in residence, Davis plans to use his time in the studio to experiment with new techniques for working with stone and epoxy resin, and to read about the western Enlightenment, the lineage of which structures much of what it is possible or rational to think today.

Conrad Guevara received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2013 and a BA at the College of Charleston, in beautiful Charleston, SC in 2008. Conrad is one third of Bonanza, a collaborative group with Lana Williams and Lindsay Tully, with whom he has exhibited at n/a gallery, ATA Window Gallery and The Old Mint. Conrad is also half of “FrancoGuevara” with C. Franco Maldonado, with whom he has exhibited at The THING Quarterly, SOMArts and The Lab.

RTS MOVIE NIGHT

September 10, 2014

RTS Movie Night presents Smithereens

Hosted by Anastasia Pahules and Zoë Taleporos
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Friday September 12th, 7pm

Smithereens (1982) is the debut feature of Susan Seidelman who later directed Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), She-Devil (1989), and other popular films. Throughout her career, Seidelman’s work has consistently explored female identity and feminine archetypes by focusing on lead characters that have unlikable qualities but remain endearing in some way. Smithereens marks the beginning of this trajectory by following the story of Wren, a young woman trying to make a name for herself in the creative scene of New York City in the early 1980s. Through a series of misguided relationships and actions, Wren’s journey portrays an abject quest for greatness and subsequent survival tactics seen particularly through a female lens.

SEPTEMBER 2014 RESIDENT

Real Time and Space is pleased to welcome New York based Zachary Davis as our September resident. Davis’ work comes out of an ongoing inquiry into the nature of sense, knowledge, and creaturehood, mixing formal and symbolic play with contemporary research into artificial intelligence. While in residence, Davis plans to use his time in the studio to experiment with new techniques for working with stone and epoxy resin, and to read about the western Enlightenment, the lineage of which structures much of what it is possible or rational to think today.

RTS// AROUND TOWN – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014

September 02, 2014

Kristine Eudey
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Open Seas @ Kala Art Institute
September 4 – October 15, 2014
Opening Reception: Thursday September 4th, 6-8pm
http://www.kala.org/exhibitions/current.html

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Carrie Hott
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Residency @Headland Center for the Arts
Through September 5, 2014
http://www.headlands.org/artist/carrie-hott/

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Conrad Guevara, Jackie Im & Aaron Harbour, James Sterling Pitt, and Lana Williams
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Something Completely Different @ City Limits Gallery
August 30 – September 13, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 7 – 11 pm
http://citylimitsgallery.com/exhibitions/scd/index.html

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 Cybele Lyle
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Another Place @ Hunter College Art Gallery
Opening Reception: September 17th, 6-8pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/286008741600964/

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Amy M. Ho
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Threshold (with Kana Tanaka) @ Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Opening Reception: September 5, 6-8pm
http://chandracerritocontemporary.com/

Bay Area Now 7
Stairwell’s @Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Through October 5th
Tour: Sept 13th, 2-4pm
http://www.ybca.org/stairwells/public-program

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RTS TALKS: BECKY ALBRIN AND KRISTINE EUDEY

August 27, 2014

Real Time & Space is hosting artist talks by Becky Alprin and Kristine Eudey, two of our 2014 artists-in-residence this Friday, August 29 at 7pm. Please come to hear about their past projects, and their current work at RTS.

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2014 RESIDENT

August 20, 2014

RTS would like to welcome our August/September resident Kristine Eudey,  an artist living in Oakland, California. Most often, she uses photographic representations as the starting point for her work, exploring the tensions that exists within the elastic function of an image. Her work also takes the form of installation and text-based projects that act as meditations on the contingency of meaning in our representational language, and how the control of that language acts in producing relationships to the visible.

During her time at RTS, Eudey will work towards a book iteration of the ongoing project Register Star. Since 2012 Eudey has been photographing between the Midwest and the west coast, interested in the ways conquest and freedom are tied up in movement and our relationship to land and space. The work stems from a town in Illinois which was once the largest hardware manufacturing center in the United States. In contemporary times the industry has experienced a hollowing out, except for certain specialized and not-yet-elsewhere produced parts. The dematerialization of value-production that comes with the shift from manufacturing to service sits alongside a continual sprawl moving over the land. In this town a machine shop produces wares for military and private defense clients. This includes NASA, to whom they supplied the gear mechanisms for the rover Curiosity, currently exploring Mars. Starting from this shop, Eudey investigates the reality of human work alongside the mythology and spectacle to which these concrete efforts serve. At the core of her investigation is the human relationship to physical space and how photographic representation has expanded and irrevocably shifted our visual capacity within that relationship, producing a condition of abstracted and infinite views.

This work will be combined with an associated piece called The Tenuous Distance, to be release as a set of two books – one image based and the other text.

UNTITLED (SPEECH + ATTENTION) #3 – SARAH FONTAINE

July 29, 2014

The last installment of a three part lecture series curated by June/July Resident Christian Nagler. Thursday, July 24th, 7pm @ RTS.

UNTITLED (SPEECH + ATTENTION) # 2 – BINTA AYOFEMI

July 24, 2014

The second of a three part lecture series curated by June/July Resident Christian Nagler. Thursday, July 24th, 7pm @ RTS.

Among other things, Binta will be speaking on street trees and economic latency, parks as early software, cutting and pasting the city, equivalence of semantic units, the Shakers and The Animals.

Christian is asking the audience to create some conditions of attention: to depart for the event in silence, and to arrive in silence.

RTS// AROUND TOWN – JUNE/JULY 2014

July 09, 2014

Conrad Guevara
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No Can Handle @ City Limits Gallery
July 19 – August 23, 2014
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 19, 7-11pm
http://citylimitsgallery.com/exhibitions/conradguevara
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Aurora Crispin (Bay Area Art Workers Alliance), Amy M. Ho (Stairwells),
k.r.m. mooney (n/a), and Ian Dolton-Thornton (Publication Studio)
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Bay Area Now 7 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
July 18th – October 5th, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, July 18th, 8-11pm
http://www.ybca.org/ban7

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Carrie Hott
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Pop-up Talk: Carrie Hott On Whales @ Oakland Museum of California
Friday, July 18, 2014, 6:30–7 pm
http://www.museumca.org/event/pop-talk-carrie-hott-whales

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Christina Linden
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Radical Acts @ Oakland Museum of California, Curated by Christina Linden
Includes works by Wally Hedrick, Jay DeFeo, Bruce Conner, and Alexandra Jacopetti Hart
Opening Reception: Friday, July 18, 2014. Included with Museum admission. During Friday Nights @ OMCA, from 5 to 9 pm, admission is half-price for adults, free for ages 18 and under. Admission for Members is always free.

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Amy M. Ho
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We are Only Dust and Shadow @ Et Al.
July 11th – August 8th, 2014
Opening Reception: Thursday July 17th, 7 – 10pm
http://etaletc.com/
Artist Talk: August 8th

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James Sterling Pitt
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Color Shift @ BAM/PFA
June 18 – August 24, 2014
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/colorshift

UNTITLED (SPEECH + ATTENTION) #1 – NEIL MARCUS

July 08, 2014

The first of a three part lecture series curated by June/July Resident Christian Nagler. Thursday, July 17th, 7pm @ RTS.

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG CASSEROLE

Join us for the closing reception for Many Places at Once at the Wattis Institute, co-hosted by Real Time & Space. Please bring a dish you interpret as a self portrait. DJ Lloyd Cargo will be spinning and get ready for a balloon drop! BYOB and BYO serving utensils.

360 Kansas Street
San Francisco CA 94103
6-8 pm

JULY/AUGUST 2014 RESIDENT

July 07, 2014

RTS would like to welcome our July/August resident, Becky Alprin, an artist based in Oakland. Alprin’s process involves the languages of architectural model making and topographic mapping, both of which are simplified ways to depict complex forms of great scale. These reductive languages make vast things comprehensible and reveal patterns, lending the perspective of an archeologist in the distant future. Blended with geologic concepts deployed as metaphor, Alprin creates landscapes and cityscapes of indeterminate health set in ambiguous time.

During her residency at RTS, Alprin plans to continue work on the ongoing Cross Section Map series. For this series, Alprin has built lexicons of shapes that become the bits and fragments from which she assembles environments. These environments represent what she imagines would be seen if a swath of land was cut away to reveal the cross section of a landfill, a reclamation zone, or what it might look like if the world in front of our eyes was dismantled into its constituent parts. Pulled apart into fragments and then remade into new worlds, these landscapes examine the human condition through the fragility of the built environment, and through the lens of 2-dimensional design, in which positive and negative shapes may be interpreted in poetic terms.

RTS MOVIE NIGHT

June 24, 2014