REAL TIME & SPACE

Auction/Raffle Fundraiser

November 09, 2022

We are excited to host an auction & raffle fundraiser event Saturday, December 3 from 12-5 pm. The event will be in person(125 10th St Oakland, Ca). We will also be raffling amazing prizes. Raffle Tickets are $5.

Refreshments will be outside.

Safety precautions: everyone who enters the building must wear a mask, keep distance between each other, and there will be hand sanitizer available.

All proceeds will fund our 2023-2024 residency program. Our program awards 4 local bay area artists. Each artist receives a space for a 3-month period, a stipend, access to facilities, and more. Please help keep this amazing program alive. Thank you.

Real Talks: Leena Joshi & Ahn Lee

October 24, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Leena Joshi and Ahn Lee Wednesday, November 9th from 6-8pm PST.

Real Talks will be held at RTS, located at 125 10th St. Oakland. We are excited to have this event back in person again!!!! We do ask everyone to wear a mask indoors, and there will be hand sanitizer available.

Leena Joshi is an artist, poet, and educator working across sculpture, video, performance, and text. Their work considers experiences of desire, illness, and the labor of appearance for queer, racialized, and trans people, often engaging the digital and speculative as spaces to explore a shifting, illegible, and expansive definition of personhood. Joshi’s work is curious about new forms and practices in an embrace of amateurism and play. Leena’s poetry and written work can be found in SFMoMA’s Open Space, baest: a journal of queer forms and affects, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. They work as the Digital Media Arts Instructor at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California.

Ahn Lee is a nonbinary (they/she), queer Cantonese artist and researcher. Their interdisciplinary practice of ceramics, research and performance relies on a combined methodology of autobiographical re-making and research on the Cantonese diaspora. As a person of Sunwui (Xinhui) descent, Ahn explores their ancestral roots to this contested site of capitalism and imperialism through leveraging archival research historiography, critical race and gender theory.Ahn received their MFA in May 2022 from UC Berkeley’s Art Practice Department, where they were the 2021 Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Awardee. Ahn previously studied in UCLA’s Gender Studies Department as a Eugene V. Cota Robles Graduate Fellow before leaving the program to pursue art full time. Their work has been shown at SOMArts, Root Division, The SF International Asian American Film Festival (CAAMFEST), TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, and as an Emerging Artist with Disabilities Grant recipient and a Creative Capital Artist Training Grant recipient at The Kennedy Center. In 2022, Ahn received the Simone V. Leigh Zenobia Award for the Watershed Ceramics Residency. Ahn is currently a 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts and a resident at Real Time and Space, Oakland.

Real Talks: Chris Hamamoto & Leena Joshi

August 02, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Chris Hamamoto and Leena Joshi Thursday, August 18th from 6-8pm PST.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81760779031

Meeting ID: 817 6077 9031

Chris Hamamoto is a designer, artist, and educator based in the Bay Area and teaching at California College of the Arts. In addition to teaching, he pursues an independent practice focused on how automation and algorithms affect communication and aesthetics – a topic he explores through graphic design, and software design and development. He has shown work, published, and lectured internationally at institutions such as Printed Matter, the Walker Art Center, Hongik University, Rutgers MGSA, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Leena Joshi is an artist, poet, and educator working across sculpture, video, performance, and text. Their work considers experiences of desire, illness, and the labor of appearance for queer, racialized, and trans people, often engaging the digital and speculative as spaces to explore a shifting, illegible, and expansive definition of personhood. Joshi’s work is curious about new forms and practices in an embrace of amateurism and play. Leena’s poetry and written work can be found in SFMoMA’s Open Space, baest: a journal of queer forms and affects, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. They work as the Digital Media Arts Instructor at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California.

Real Talks: Connie Zheng & Chris Hamamoto

April 30, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Connie Zheng and Chris Hamamoto Thursday, May 19th from 6-8pm PST.

Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 868 3621 3582
Passcode: 966721

2022-23 Artists in Residence

April 05, 2022

We are very excited to announce our residents for 2022-23!  Thank you so much to everyone who applied!  Congrats to Albie Anjos, Leena Joshi, Chris Hamamoto, Ahn Lee

We’re Back

February 20, 2022

Our application is OPEN!!!

https://realtimespace.submittable.com/submit/212878/bay-area-open-call-2022-2023

New Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 8th

Thank you

February 02, 2022

Thank you to everyone who attended our virtual/in-person Auction last December.Thank you to all the artists who contributed their time and work. Thank you so much for supporting the  RTS fundraiser and RTS as a whole. We raised over $3,000. These funds support our 2022-2023 residency program. Your contribution helped keep our program alive and well.

Residency OPEN CALL 2022-2023

January 27, 2022

Hi All. We are excited to announce our residency open call. On February 1 our application drops. The link below:

https://realtimespace.submittable.com/submit/212878/bay-area-open-call-2022-2023

The application deadline is February 28th. We will notify all applicants by end of March. The program starts May 1, 2022.

Our program: * 3-month long period * Studio with access to common space and woodshop * Stipend * Create an edition of 10 works for our RTS residency archive. * Give an artist talk

This is for local bay area artists only. If you live in these 5 counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin San Francisco and San Mateo, you are eligible and may apply. 

Exciting news!!!!

Real Talks: Alex Arzt & Connie Zheng

January 18, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Alex Arzt and Connie Zheng Thursday, February 17th from 6-8pm PST via zoom.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87071010727?pwd=R3FPOVYyeXRZTFNPNnRQbkNWYjREUT09

Meeting ID: 870 7101 0727 Passcode: 855661

Alex Arzt
Rooted in a connection to place and material explorations, Alex Arzt facilitates connections between human and nonhuman spaces by creating projects in the form of publications, interactive objects, workshops, group performances, lectures, videos, and experimental gardens. From 2018-2021, she was an Affiliate Artist at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. She runs a Risograph press called A Magic Mountain, and her publishing projects are in the collections of libraries such as Stanford, Getty Research Institute, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, she was awarded grants from The Puffin Foundation and The East Bay Community Foundation towards the completion of The Positions and Situations Project book series. She earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and has since attended residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, PLAYA Summer Lake, Hambidge Center, A-Z West, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mildred’s Lane, and This Will Take Time. She is currently a lecturer at UC Davis’ Department of Art and Art History and has taught at UC Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, and VCU.

Connie Zheng
Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer, filmmaker, and occasional field recordist based out of xučyun / Oakland, California. Her work primarily focuses on nonlinear representations of time and history as well as polyvocal, speculative fiction-based approaches to navigating environmental crisis. She has exhibited work in the Netherlands and around the United States, through venues such as the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, CA), Framer Framed (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and the IMPAKT Festival (Utrecht, Netherlands), with coverage of her work appearing in Hyperallergic, KQED Arts, MUBI Notebook, and other outlets. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, among others. Her written work has appeared in publications such as Errant Journal and SFMOMA’s Open Space, and she recently published a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change. She graduated with BAs in Economics and English from Brown University, an MFA in Art Practice from the University of California — Berkeley, and is currently a PhD student in Visual Studies at the University of California — Santa Cruz.

Studio Vacancy

December 08, 2021

Studio space is available on January 1, 2022. The studio space is private. This is a long-term, not a sublet situation. The monthly rent is $200 with a deposit of $261.05.

70 sq ft of working space plus 20 sq ft of storage space. Total sq ft 95

Application deadline Wednesday, Dec 15.

The Auction

November 20, 2021

The Auction is Saturday, December 4th from 12-5. The event will be in person and virtual(instagram-@realtimeandspace).

RTS is hosting an art auction to raise funding for our next year 2022-2023 residency program. All the proceeds will help maintain our program. Our current program serves 4 local Bay Area artists. Each artist is awarded a studio space for 3 months, a stipend, access to a wood shop, and more.

There will be a raffle of amazing prizes as well. The raffle will only be available at the in-person event. Tickets are $5. Prizes: Tender Gardener gift certificate, Saint Flora flower arrangement, plus more.

There will be safety measures in place. All guests will need to wear a mask before entering the building. A limit of guest will be allowed in the building at a time. Hand sanitizer will be available.

Refreshments will be outside in our parking lot area.

Please help us keep this amazing program alive.

Thank you for your continued support.

Real Talks: Richard-Jonathan Nelson & Alex Arzt

November 05, 2021

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Richard-Jonathan Nelson and Alex Arzt. Event via zoom from 6-8pm PDT.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81924008136?pwd=cEg0QTJWaFg0WW43Ni92Q0RiWjVWdz09

Richards residency program was from August-October and Alex’s program is November-January 2022. In this way we(RTS) are trying an “exit” and “intro” approach to our Real Talks series.

Richard-Jonathan Nelson is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses textiles, video, and digital manipulation to create alternative worlds of speculative identity. His work is multi-layered, chromatically intense and mixes images of the natural world with reference to hoodoo, queer culture, and Afro-Futurism. He uses his constructed worlds to examine the overlapping spheres of culturally perceived identity and the emotional memory of what it means to be a queer black man. Thereby creating a limbic space free from the weighted excepted western cultural reality, and able to examine the unspoken ways systems of power persist.

Born in Savannah, Georgia (1987) and working in Oakland, CA Nelson received his MFA from California College of the Arts in 2017. His work has been exhibited at Southern Exposure, Embark Gallery, Root Division in San Francisco, and Aggregate Space in Oakland.Rooted in a connection to place and material explorations, Alex Arzt facilitates connections between human and nonhuman spaces by creating projects in the form of publications, interactive objects, workshops, group performances, lectures, videos, and experimental gardens. From 2018-2021, she was an Affiliate Artist at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. She runs a Risograph press called A Magic Mountain, and her publishing projects are in the collections of libraries such as Stanford, Getty Research Institute, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, she was awarded grants from The Puffin Foundation and The East Bay Community Foundation towards the completion of The Positions and Situations Project book series. She earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and has since attended residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, PLAYA Summer Lake, Hambidge Center, A-Z West, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mildred’s Lane, and This Will Take Time. She is currently a lecturer at UC Davis’ Department of Art and Art History and has taught at UC Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, and VCU.

Artist Talk: Sholeh Asgary & Maureen Catbagan

June 22, 2021

RTS is excited to host an Artist Talk with Sholeh Asgary & Maureen Catbagan Wednesday July 28, 2021 from 5:00-7:00 pm PDT via Zoom.Wednesday July 28, 2021 from 5:00-7:00 pm PDT via Zoom.

Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist who creates immersive works, performances and audience participatory scores with interest in liminal spaces experienced by the viewer-participant. Asgary’s current and recent residencies as of 2020 include Real Time & Space, Headlands Center for the Arts, Mass MoCA, ARoS Art Museum, Wassaic Project, and Arab.AMP. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Minnesota Street Project, Gray Area Center for the Arts, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Charlotte Street Foundation, Soundwave Biennial, Wassaic Project, and Krowswork, amongst others. She has also performed as a solo artist, collaborated, or created compositions for many of these institutions, including CounterPulse, Center for Cultural Studies at University of Santa Cruz, Kulturmødet Mors, Mødet Mors, Aggregate Space Gallery, and SOMArts. Asgary is a 2020/21 California Arts Council grantee for her workshop series “Majles” created in partnership with with Arab.AMP, a 2019 Kenneth Rainin Foundation New Project Grant recipient through Dance Elixir, and recipient of a 2014 Alternative Exposure Grant for curatorial initiatives as Curator and Director of Education and Public Programs at Incline Gallery, where she founded The Project Room. Asgary received her MFA from Mills College and BA from San Francisco State University, and is a Lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice. 

Maureen Catbagan is a Filipinx American, multi-media artist based in New York whose work engages social collectivity, examines relations between identity and experience, and explores new forms of empowerments. Collaborative projects include Flux Factory and HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? Collectives. They have also written critical essays with Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser. Catbagan has exhibited in venues such as ARoS Museum in Denmark, Witte de Withe Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu. Their current collaborative work with artist Jevijoe Vitug as Abang-guard focuses on immigrant experience within the context of labor and visibility.

Topic: Artist Talk
Time: Jul 28, 2021 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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UnTerminal – Mourning Songs Beyond the End

May 17, 2021

RTS is excited to host Artist in Residence Sholeh Asgary in a collaborative performance.

Sunday May 23, 2021 4-5:30 pm PDT / 6-7:30 pm CT / 7-8:30 pm EDT

A performance, informed in part by Iranian Shia mourning rituals and in part by contemporary politics of protest, includes chants and poetry, theoretical recitations, intonations, laments, Live VJing, electro-acoustic improvisations, needle play, interdimensional contact, finger dancing, black light graffiti art, and textural invocations. This iteration of the mourning is dedicated to Palestine.

Performance by the Ad Hoc Collective for Improvising Mourning Technologies for Future Griefs. Members: Sholeh Asgary, Abou Farman, Leonor Caraballo, Shelby Coley, Danielle Gauthier, and Saphe Shamoun.

Bios:

Sholeh Asgary, an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist who works with sound. Abou Farman, an Iranian-born artist and anthropologist. Leonor Caraballo, an Argentine-born artist who left her earthly body in 2015 but who continues to collaborate with many living artists. Hossein Sharang, an Iranian-born Montreal-based poet and the founder and president of the Wild Republic of Sharangestan, a republic of words. Shelby Coley, a queer black filmmaker of everyday revolutions. Danielle Gauthier a poet and multidimensional spirit working on healing and trauma.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84714565371?pwd=SzRTMFZyZjRHUUNWbW5lbXVrcHUrUT09Meeting

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2021-2022 Artist In Residence

April 19, 2021

Congratulations to the 2021-2022 RTS artist in residence. We are so excited and cannot wait for your real time in our space.

Residency OPEN CALL 2021-2022

March 03, 2021

Real Time and Space is happy to announce our 2021-2022 Residency Open Call. This call is for LOCAL artists ONLY. If you live in these 5 counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo, you may apply. All residencies are 3 months long.

For detailed information and to apply click the link below:

https://realtimespace.submittable.com/submit/189114/bay-area-open-call-2021-2022R

Deadline for applications is March 26th, 2021.

All applicants will be notified by April  12th, 2021.

On My Manner of Working

January 05, 2021

RTS Members Show

Artists:

• Minoosh Zomorodinia
• Sam Vernon
• Kico Le Strange
• Emma Spertus
• Aay Preston-Myint
• K.R.M. Mooney
• Beth Krebs
• Tanja Geis
• Jo Easton
• Johnna Arnold

Curated By: Aaron Harbour & Jackie Im

Virtual Artist Talk: Anthea Black & Jessica Whitbread

November 24, 2020

RTS is excited to host Virtual Artist Talk with Anthea Black & Jessica Whitbread Friday, December 4, 2020, from 11:00-12:30 pm via Zoom.

Anthea Black is an artist and writer based in Toronto and Oakland where they are Professor of Print Media at California College of the Arts.

Jessica Whitbread is a queer activist, artist and Visual AIDS Vanguard based in Toronto and Bulgaria. Together they are partners, publishers and co-editors of The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism.

The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism is a limited edition art newspaper published by Anthea Black and Jessica Whitbread that focuses on global grassroots HIV art and cultural production. Artists have and continue to play a fundamental role in shaping broader societal understandings of HIV and working within communities that are most impacted by the virus: queer and trans people, people who use drugs, sex workers, people of colour, and indigenous peoples. Together we reflect the immediacy and urgency of global HIV/AIDS dialogues as well as their historical continuities. The HIV Howler is a forum for dialogue, a demand for aesthetic self-determination, a response to tokenism, and a guide to navigating the vibrational ambiguities between policy, pathology, and community.

Register here:
https://portal.cca.edu/events-calendar/artist-talk-hiv-howler-publishers-anthea-black-and-jessica-whitbread/

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Virtual Artist Talk: Simone Bailey & Sekai Machache

September 04, 2020

RTS is excited to host a Virtual Artist Talks with Simone Bailey & Sekai Machache Sunday, September 27, 2020, from 12:00-2:00 pm via Zoom.

Simone Bailey is an artist who utilizes video, performance, sculpture, and site-specific installations in her artistic practice. Her practice is an interrogation of disembodied poetics and the impulse to grasp the intangible. Her work focuses on perception, process, ephemerality, desire, surrogate bodies, violence, and the impossible, all while maintaining an intimate proximity to blackness. Simone’s work has been exhibited at The Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA), The Lab (San Francisco, CA), Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA), Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA), and the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY), among other venues.  She received both an MFA in Fine Arts and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. She also earned a BFA in Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute. Simone lives and works in San Francisco.

Sekai Machache is a visual artist and curator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self. Having been born in Zimbabwe and raised in Scotland, she has a particular interest in W.E.B Dubois’ notion of Double Consciousness, which expresses the psychological challenge of having African heritage whilst living in the West. She is interested in the relationship between spirituality, imagination, and the role of the artist in disseminating symbolic imagery to provide a space for healing. Sekai works with a wide range of media including photography and performance. Her photographic practice is formulated through digital studio based compositions utilizing body paint and muted lighting conditions to create images that appear to emerge from darkness. Sekai often works collaboratively, for and with her community, and is a founding and organizing member of the Yon Afro Collective. She believes that intentionality is key to establishing a creative practice that aims for sustainability and longevity. As an artist and curator of color, it is her intention to create new and innovative projects that engage a wide audience while speaking directly to the experiences of her community.  Her goal is to always consider with intention, the implications of working as an international artist and curator to facilitate the practice of others while maintaining her own artistic vision.

Please email realtimeandevents@gmail.com to obtain the zoom information for this event. Thank you.

Virtual Artist Talk: Tanja Geis

June 04, 2020

RTS is excited to host a Virtual Artist Talks with Tanja Geis on Wednesday June 10, 2020 7:00-8:00pm.

Zoom Artist Talk Schedule:
2-3 mins introduction of Artist
20-25 mins Artist Talk
10-15 mins Q&A

Please email realtimeandevents@gmail.com to obtain zoom information for this event. Thank you.

Tanja Geis makes paintings, installations, videos that explore human disturbed spaces as zones for the transformation of ecological perception. Geis holds an M.F.A. in Art Practice from University of California Berkeley, an M.R.M. in Marine Management from the University of Akureyri, Iceland, and a B.A. in Fine Art from Yale University. Her work has been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and various venues in Europe and Asia. She co-founded Wildfjords Artist Residency in Iceland and has taught at University of California Berkeley. Geis’ awards include a Graduate Fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award from The San Francisco Foundation, and a Graduate Arts Grant from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. She has been an artist-in-residence at Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Blue Mountain Center and Kala Art Institute. Geis was born in Hong Kong and lives in Berkeley, CA.