#storefrontlab

[sharonsteuer]

My "RISE UP" poster for the #womensmarch #SanFrancisco—feel free to print and use if you wish. Thanks to @storefrontlab for hosting! Hang on in there baby… Good to be there with Flora and @lauriewigham too. #SanFrancisco #art #workspace #artspansf #art #missionart #storefrontlab

[librarification]

Call: San Francisco

StoreFrontLab

season 4: NOW! Call for proposals

Deadline June 10 2016

For Season 4: NOW! StoreFrontLab puts into practice the philosophical questions explored in Season 3: The Unknown, the Unknowable, The Future. NOW! is an opportunity to shake off outmoded attitudes, to evaluate our progress, and to confront the tyrannies of contemporary life.

How can one challenge systemic racism through sound? How can one fight economic inequality in the spirit of Fluxus? How can one biohack the social sphere for the greater good? Given the complex dilemmas of our society, how can creators and citizens build systems for direct action?

NOW! disrupts the stagnancy of habitual behavior through actions, noise, visual art, environments, design prototypes and implementation, journalism, research, film, happenings, gatherings, food, scores, interruptions, and transformations. Project duration can range from one day to one month, encouraging event-based, short-term projects where concepts are anchored by strong visual, performance, and installation-based components.

StoreFrontLab is a small space for big ideas, a venue for dialogue and constructive public engagement. Each season, we promote the development of participatory projects that bridge disciplines and prompt discussion through grants and curatorial support.

http://www.storefrontlab.org/submit-1

[poopmovestheworld]

Anneli 

PR photo shoot in preparation for http://www.storefrontlab.org/awe-lab/, a little experimental gallery I’m creating an exhibition with. 

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Call: San Francisco

StoreFrontLab

Deadline: June 30

For the upcoming Season 3: The Unknown, The Unknowable, The Future, StoreFrontLab invites creative thinkers to explore the fundamental questions of humanity. Designers, artists, researchers, musicians, writers, philosophers, scientists, and futurists are encouraged to push beyond the bounds of their practice in order to develop an expanded and unexpected view of reality—one that informs our work as creators and shapers of society.

What underlying philosophies guide and motivate us as we design cities, advance medicine, create art? What principles fuel our most vital decisions?

The Bay Area has always been a breeding ground for cultural revolution and technological innovation. From the Gold Rush to Google, New Age to social media, the region attracts inquisitive thinkers and doers. Extending our gaze from urbanism out into the natural and supernatural sciences, StoreFrontLab welcomes proposals for a series of investigations that visualize and make tangible the grandest of ideas in the realm of the unfathomable and fantastic.

What if the most profound answers lay far beyond our usual modes of inquiry? Why do we dream? Why are we here? Can a machine think? What will happen to us after we die? Is there a place for us among the stars? By indulging in the loftiest of questions, we may discover a common ground amidst our differences.

StoreFrontLab is a small space for big ideas, a venue for dialogue and constructive public engagement public engagement. We are interested in participatory projects that bridge disciplines and prompt discussion. Salons, interactive and performative installations, lectures, film screenings, workshops, pop-ups, poetry, music and other experiments lasting one day to one month are all up for consideration.

Schedule

May 4, 2015: Call for proposals issued

May 27, 2015: Pre-proposal Open House, 5-8pm

June 30, 2015: Proposals due

July 21, 2015: Participants notified

Micro Mission 888 Grants

We will award up to eight Micro Mission 888 Grants to support the development and implementation of selected proposals. These grants will range from $88 to $1,888, relative to the scope of each project.

Categories

Applicants may propose a project in one of the following categories:

// Installation

One week to one month-long installation in the project space.

// Salon

One-time event or ongoing series of conversations, presentations, workshops, film screenings, performances, or others such activities.

// Instagram (new!)

Take over our Instagram account for one day to one month.

// Vitrine (new!)

A street-facing window display illuminated 24/7 in StoreFrontLab's modular glass façade.

How We Collaborate

In addition to the use of our project space (view plan and elevation), promotion, logistical support, and an opening celebration, StoreFrontLab provides active curatorial support. Grant recipients work closely with our curatorial team to refine project concepts and programming details. We strongly encourage participants to consider auxiliary program components and collaboration with other StoreFrontLab projects. Participants are responsible for the development, production and installation of their projects, along with leaving the space ready for the next project.

We are open to a variety of projects, from the practical to the conceptual, the local to the extraterrestrial. We welcome proposals from far flung places as long as the proposers demonstrate the wherewithal to make it happen here on Shotwell Street. Commercial ventures will also be considered, provided they are clever, provocative or otherwise enlightening. We won’t tax any proceeds, but it’s up to you to settle up with the state. We encourage prospective participants to explore our Season 3 blog, which provides ideas, inspirations, research, and updates.

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.”

— James Baldwin