REAL TIME & SPACE

RTS TALKS:SOFÍA CÓRDOVA + CHRISTIAN NAGLER

March 17, 2015

March 27th, 7pm

Real Time and Space presents talks (finally!) by two former artists-in-residence, Sofía Cordova and Christian Nagler.

Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Sofía Córdova received her BFA from St. John’s University in Queens, NY in 2006, and her MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Though Sofía Córdova began her career as a photographer, her work has expanded to include performance, video, and installation. She has performed at SFMOMA, SomArts and Galeria De La Raza among others. Her work has been exhibited at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, AMOA/Art House, Southern Exposure, Queen’s Nails, The International Center of Photography as well as other venues internationally. She was awarded the 2014-2015 Kala Fellowship and her work is part of Pier 24’s permanent collection.

Christian Nagler is a performer, writer and translator. He has performed with Anna Halprin, Isak Immanuel, Yuko Kaseki and Open Experiments Ensemble. His work has recently been presented at the Berkeley Art Museum, Headlands Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, and the Kadist Foundation. His novel The Capitalist, is forthcoming in 2014. His writing can recently be found in Fillip, Six Lines of Flight (UC Press), Somatic Engagement (Chainlinks Books) Encyclopedia, Aufgabe, and Performance Research. He has translated works by the political economist Alberto Masferrer, as well as writings by the contemporary novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya and psychoanalytic theorist Heriberto Yépez. He currently teaches writing and new genres at the San Francisco Art Institute.

http://www.sofiacordova.com/

https://www.google.com/search?q=christian+nagler

RTS TALKS: ALEX CHITTY + PUPPIES PUPPIES

March 16, 2015

MONDAY, MARCH 16

Real Time & Space is happy to present an evening of talks from Chicago-based RTS residents Alex Chitty (February) and Puppies Puppies (March).

Alex Chitty
Born = Miami, 1979
Lives = Chicago (mostly)
BFA = Smith College, 2001
MFA = School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2008

Puppies Puppies
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RTS RESIDENCY UPDATE

February 18, 2015

POTLUCK FOR GATHERING PEOPLE AND DATA

February 08, 2015

Potlucks for Gathering People and Data

A Compensation Foundation Survey Rally
Tuesday, February 10, 6-8pm

RTS will partner with The Present Group to host one of a series of potlucks taking place at organizations and individual homes throughout the Bay Area. To quote one of the organizers, artist and RTS resident alum, Helena Keeffe, about this project; “With the goal of 1000-1500 new reports, we’re aiming to gather people in the name of increased transparency in the arts, to break bread and collectively create a new resource for visual artists’ advocacy.”

FEBRUARY RESIDENT

February 01, 2015

RTS would like to welcome Chicago based artist Alex Chitty as our February resident. Here’s what Alex has to say about her work and how she plans to spend her time at the studio:

“Sometimes when you’re watching a movie on your laptop and there’s a part that’s darkly lit, the screen reflects your face like a mirror and you end up watching a reflection of your face super-imposed over the movie. It’s not that you forgot you were watching a movie; it’s just that up until that moment, you forgot you physically existed.  And because the story swallowed you up, you forgot the screen existed too.  It’s easy to forget about the surface of the screen and all the lit up pixels that work to get the story across.  I’ve been trying to notice those systems that you become so accustomed to using or being a part of that you no longer see them anymore.

At RTS I’ve begun working on a series of pieces I’ve been referring to as Structure Ptgs.  I’ve been thinking about them for over a year and am excited to have the chance to expand on the idea.  Loosely, I am thinking of them as a type of compressed shelf or wall tray that holds a composition via a sequence of photographs, gestures, and objects both made and found.”

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.