Streetopia
By: edited by Erick Lyle
Publisher: Booklyn
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780692424285
Subjects: Social problems in art; Modern Arts; Exhibitions; Gentrification; Group work in art; Art fairs
Description: After San Francisco's new mayor announced imminent plans to "clean up" downtown with a new corporate "dot com corridor" and arts district--featuring the new headquarters of Twitter and Burning Man--curators Erick Lyle, Chris Johanson and Kal Spelletich brought over 100 artists and activists together with residents fearing displacement to consider utopian aspirations and plot alternative futures for the city. The resulting exhibition, 'Streetopia', was a massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place in venues throughout the city, featuring daily free talks, performances, skillshares and a free community kitchen out of the gallery. This book brings together all of the art and ephemera from the now-infamous show, featuring work by Swoon, Barry McGee, Emory Douglas, Monica Canilao, Rigo 23, Xara Thustra, Ryder Cooley and many more. Essays and interviews with key participants consider the effectiveness of Streetopia's projects while offering a deeper rumination on the continuing search for community in today's increasingly homogenous and gentrified cities.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Erick Lyle; title: Living in Boomtown  -- Rebecca Solnit; title: Streetopia  -- Chris Kraus; title: Opening night May 18, 2012 --; title: Utopia in the Tenderloin: the Streetopia Free Cafe and beyond  -- Erick Lyle; title: A people' history walking tour of the Tenderloin  -- James Tracy; title: Free cities and urban utopias  -- Jesse Drew; title: The Streetopia Free Cafe: an interview with Sy Wagon  -- Ivy Jeanne McClelland; title: The Healing Arts Studio: an interview with Ivy Jeanne McClelland  -- Sy Wagon; title: Drop in, draw up, walk out: a drug users utopia  -- Isaac Jackson; title: How the water wars were won  -- The Water Underground; title: Streetopia on Market Street : Luggage Store installation views --; title: The future of nowhere  -- Erick Lyle; title: Ecotopia lost and found: an interview with Ernest Callenbach  -- Eve Ekman; title: A brief and very incomplete history of alternative arts spaces in San Francisco  -- Renny Pritikin; title: The city of refuge  -- Micah Bazant; title: The Luggage Store back room  -- with a word from Mission Mini Comix; title: The Free Event Series at Streetopia --; title: The gentrification of the mind: a talk at Streetopia May 21, 2012  -- Sarah Schulman; title: Applying successful tactics of The Food Movement to other movements  -- Antonio Roman Alcala and Amy Francheschini; title: DIY muckraking for everyone  -- AC Thompson; title: Reclaiming public space through the act of planting trees  -- Joey Alone; title: Veterans Alley  -- Amos Gregory; title: Hidden in plain sight: plop art and utopia in San Francisco  -- Sam Green; title: At the Bookstore  -- V. Vale; title: Remember Los Siete  -- Veronica Majano; title: The unwritten future  -- Chris Johanson; title: How to raise money for an independent, progressive, fairly anarchistic, art and culture fair by publishing an assembling book  -- Marshall Weber; title: Relax, nothing is under control  -- Kal Spelletich -- Mission Babylon / -- Roxy Monoxide; title: Poemsomnia -- Daphne Gottlieb.