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Disclosure: Whiteness of Glass Opens
Sep
30
to Jan 26

Disclosure: Whiteness of Glass Opens

Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass is a research-based exhibition organized by artist collective Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson) that examines systemic racism, exclusion, and inequity in the field of glass. Much like a game of telephone, Disclosure invited a series of artists to creatively translate hard data about the demographics of the glass field. The exhibition showcases three iterative stages of interpretation: originating data visualizations by Related Tactics; artist instruction responses by Joyce Scott, Ché Rhodes, Einar & Jamex de la Torre, Cheryl Derricotte, Corey Pemberton, and Emily Leach; and glass responses by Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez, Vanessa German, Helen Lee, Pearl Dick, Kim Thomas, and Raya Friday.

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🎤 Lecture: Tyler School of Art + Architecture Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist Series
Nov
8
12:00 PM12:00

🎤 Lecture: Tyler School of Art + Architecture Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist Series

Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist Series: Related Tactics, A Collective

The arts collective Related Tactics, founded by Nate Watson, Michele Carlson and Weston Teruya, facilitates projects at the intersection of race, art, and culture. Collective artists often work with a wide array of community members to make Related Tactics’ work possible.Their projects have been supported by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Chinese Cultural Center of San Francisco, Berkeley Art Center, Kellen Gallery (New York, NY), Augusta University, and Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure grant program.

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Climate Changing opens
May
9
11:00 AM11:00

Climate Changing opens

Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nathan Watson) present second iteration of Ready in Climate Changing at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Foregrounding contemporary artists’ engagement with social issues and shaping institutions, Climate Changing raises critical questions as we face the entwined crises of systemic racism and a global health pandemic. What role do art and culture play in revealing legacies of oppression and violence? How might artists help imagine a different future? How can all of us, collectively, create a real climate for change?

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FAR & Away Conversations at Florida State University
Mar
23
7:00 PM19:00

FAR & Away Conversations at Florida State University

FAR & Away Conversations: Virtual conversation between the members of Related Tactics: Nate Watson, Michele Carlson, and Weston Teruya. Hosted by Facility for Arts Research, Florida State University

To start off 2021, the members of the artist collective Related Tactics will join FAR & Away Conversations for a virtual discussion. In this live-streamed event the collaborators have the platform to talk about topics that they feel are pertinent in the moment and you as the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions via the chat.

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Related Tactics is announced as 2021-2022 Kala Art Institute Print Public artists.
Jan
1
to Jan 1

Related Tactics is announced as 2021-2022 Kala Art Institute Print Public artists.

Kala Art Institute is thrilled to announce that our public art residency & community engagement project, Print Public, has evolved and is back with new funding from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Our Town program. Kala looked for projects that will tie in print and digital media in site specific and experimental ways, and will be outside and offsite.

We are excited to be hosting two artist teams that will create temporary public art that engages the community along San Pablo Avenue in Kala’s West Berkeley neighborhood. These selected artists will receive an artist stipend and a 14-month residency at Kala with 24/7 access to our printmaking studio and digital lab.

Public sites are determined by the artists and respective businesses. Kala will assist in creating relationships with surrounding partners of the past Print Public projects, or aid in coming up with new creative endeavors.

2021-2022 Print Public – San Pablo Avenue
Emma Logan and Cristine Blanco
Related Tactics: Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, & Nathan Watson

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Stand Arm in Arm To Resist: An Evening with Related Tactics
Dec
1
5:30 PM17:30

Stand Arm in Arm To Resist: An Evening with Related Tactics

This conversation between art collective Related Tactics and USF’s MA in Museum Studies students will include the launch of a new survey exhibition as well as a preview of a public art project commissioned by Thacher Gallery. Register for this webinar

Attendees will be the first to view the online exhibition Become The Monuments That Cannot Fall with a video tour, making connections between the group’s work and the individual art practices of members Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nathan Watson.

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Become The Monuments That Cannot Fall at Thacher Gallery
Nov
19
to Feb 14

Become The Monuments That Cannot Fall at Thacher Gallery

Organized by Astria Suparak with University of San Francisco’s MA in Museum Studies Curatorial Practicum class in collaboration with Thacher Gallery
San Francisco
November 19, 2020—February 14, 2021
www.usfca.edu/become-the-monuments

Become The Monuments That Cannot Fall is the first survey exhibition of Bay Area and Washington D.C.-based art collective Related Tactics. It includes a newly commissioned public art project sited in 14 storefronts within walking distance in Bayview, San Francisco’s newly designated African American Arts and Cultural District.

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"The future now" opens in the Bayview
Nov
19
to Feb 14

"The future now" opens in the Bayview

Beginning November 19, 2020, The future now, a sprawling, site-responsive public art project will be viewable along the 3rd Street corridor of San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. Commissioned by the Thacher Gallery, this poster series illuminates facets of Black life in the city and explores the state of national politics. The map below shows the 14 poster sites, all within walking distance and visible from the street.

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SUPPLY CHAIN, Museum of Capitalism, Kellen Gallery, NYC, 2019
Nov
1
to Dec 21

SUPPLY CHAIN, Museum of Capitalism, Kellen Gallery, NYC, 2019

  • Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Parsons School of Design (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Supply Chain is an interactive installation by Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nathan Watson) in the Museum of Capitalism (curated by Fictilis) that invites museum visitors to question the impact of consumption of goods within global capitalism, particularly on historically vulnerable communities, people of color, and the environment.

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READY, Berkeley Art Center, Oct 26-Dec 21, 2019
Oct
26
to Dec 21

READY, Berkeley Art Center, Oct 26-Dec 21, 2019

Curated by Related Tactics

Ready presents a pair of mobile stations created by Related Tactics that gather and deploy a collection of artists’ interventions, tools and strategies that can be used by audiences to interrupt systems of marginalization, exploitation and erasure, large and small. The assembled materials range from the poetic to prompts for guerilla actions, from stickers to seeds, from prompts for literary analysis to the building blocks for temporary gatherings, but are all linked through their interest in encouraging individual agency in challenging everyday moments where we are often caught off guard or isolated from allies. Ready offers a variety of tools to be utilized beyond the exhibition.

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QUESTION. LEARN. REMEMBER. ACTION // Present Tense 2019: Task of Remembrance, Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Apr
27
to Oct 20

QUESTION. LEARN. REMEMBER. ACTION // Present Tense 2019: Task of Remembrance, Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

PRESENT TENSE: TASK OF REMEMBRANCE

APRIL 27, 2019 - DECEMBER 21, 2019 CCC VISUAL ART CENTER 750 KEARNY ST, 3RD FLOOR

GALLERY HOURS: TUE - SUN, 10AM - 4PM. FREE

Chinese Culture Center (CCC) presents the latest iteration of its Present Tense Biennial with a group art exhibition that reflects on the complexity, gravity, and responsibility of remembering. Marking the thirtieth year since the global, cultural, and political upheavals of 1989, including the student protests in Tiananmen Square, the Loma Prieta Earthquake, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Present Tense 2019: Task of Remembrance looks broadly at struggles for freedom, the weight of history, and the ways artists and their communities build and engage with memory.

The exhibition’s artists are working together to explore the responsibility of remembering, especially in light of threats to democratic forms of government, rising global xenophobia, the impact of regressive policies on the lives of migrants and refugees, and the retrenchment of systematic violence and racism,

Working in a variety of media from sculptural installation to experimental film, participating artists and art collectives—seven of whom are local to the Bay Area—include Sofía Córdova, Yan Jun, Hung Liu, Ming Mur-ray, Lam Tung-pang, Related Tactics, Xu Tan, Tina Takemoto, Jenifer Wofford, Gao Xia, Li Xiaofei, Wu Yuren, and Stella Zhang.

The Present Tense series is a biennial group exhibition that fosters discussion and provides a survey on current issues and is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Present Tense promotes robust artistic dialogue around issues relevant to the community with Chinese, Chinese diasporic, and non-Chinese local artists. Previous Present Tense exhibits include: New Urban Legend: Resistance of Space (2017), Future Perfect (2015), and Chinese Character (2009).

Present Tense 2019: Task of Remembrance is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Phyllis C Wattis Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, Mayor’s Office Community Challenge Grants, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts.

Present Tense 2019: Task of Remembrance opens with a free reception on Saturday, April 27, 2 – 4 p.m., with a program at 2pm and is on view April 27-December 21, 2019; Tuesdays – Saturdays 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St., 3rd Floor. Admission to the gallery is free. For more information, the public should visit www.cccsf.us or call 415-986-1822.


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Sep
22
to Sep 23

SFMOMA, Added Value: An Alternative Book Sale

*SEPTEMBER 22-23, SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: ADDED VALUE: AN ALTERNATIVE BOOK SALE BY STEPHANIE SYJUCO W/THE PRELINGER LIBRARY + RELATED TACTICS

How do the ways in which we categorize books and information reflect invisible power structures and hidden hierarchies? What would an intervention into this system look like, and how can artistic processes re-shape, re-organize, and re-evaluate it? “Added Value” is a temporary vending project organized by Stephanie Syjuco in conjunction with SFMOMA’s Public Knowledge Initiative, and with participation from Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, The Prelinger Library and the collaborative artist team Related Tactics. Over the course of three days, the museum’s Schwab Hall will be transformed into a massive public book sale, featuring a radical re-organization of thousands of used books, with all sales proceeds going to benefit the San Francisco Public Library. A program of screenings, talks, and commissioned artist projects involving the manipulation and transformation of books-as-knowledge (Re-Valuation) will activate the Public Knowledge Library and the Wattis Theater. View the schedule for specific times and events.

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