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DESCRIPTION:ROOT DIVISION PRESENTS: Second Saturday June 2009: Leave the 
 Capital\nCurated by Deric Carner* and Jessica Tully* \n\nSAN FRANCISCO, CA 
 – Root Division invites you to Leave the Capital, an exhibition about the 
 agency of the periphery—beyond political, economic, and media centers. 
 \n\nOpening Reception: Saturday, June 13th, 7–10 pm\n\nFeatured 
 Artists:\nDavid Buuck (BARGE)\nZoe Crosher   \nJetske de Boer  
 (S.T.O.P.)\nEdmundo de Marchena\nScott Kiernan \nFang Lu\nDominic Nguyen 
 \nJennifer O'Keeffe \nKamau Amu Patton\nNancy Popp\nSam Snowden \nKevin E. 
 Taylor*\nChris Treggiari*\n* Root Division Resident Artist\n\nAny capital. 
 Polite no-manners plus\nbarman of the year claimants =\nquick exit.  - The 
 Fall\n\nThe 13 artists in the show offer a critical mix of observation, 
 confrontation, urban intervention, hybridity, and cathartic celebration in 
 order to assert the self and counter-publics. This is a timely 
 investigation in the face of current economic restructuring. 
 Re-considerations of the role of the public sphere and the individual 
 within larger machines of production are more relevant than ever.\n\nThe 
 title is taken from a 1981 song by UK post-punk band The Fall (who in turn 
 are named after the Camus novel The Fall). The song is a starting point 
 from which to investigate how artists address and break off from the need 
 to perform for “Capital,” represented in the widest sense of the 
 word—as money, media, power, rules, lines, roles, etc. \n\nThe exhibition 
 presents artists negotiating between the demands of the centers of power 
 and the possibilities presented by secondary zones and identities in the 
 Bay Area, Los Angeles, Stanislaus, Amsterdam and elsewhere. \n\nOpening 
 Reception: Saturday, June 13th, 7–10 pm\nSliding Scale Suggested 
 Donation: $2-$20\n\nExhibition Dates: June 10th–27th, 2009\nGallery 
 Hours: Wednesdays- Saturdays, 12–4 pm (or by appointment)\n\nOff-site 
 Performance: "Rank and File", by Chris Treggiari \nJune 20, 2009, 1 pm – 
 3 pm\nMarket Street from Embarcadero to Valencia Street\nROOT DIVISION 
 \n3175 17th Street (at South Van Ness & Shotwell)\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94110\nwww.rootdivision.org\n415.863.7668\n\n\nHighlights\n\nDavid Buuck & 
 BARGE (The Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics) – Matta-Clark 
 Parks\nFor this exhibit BARGE will present selections from ongoing research 
 on the intersections of public space and private property in the Bay Area. 
 In the spirit of Gordon Matta-Clark's "Odd Lots" project, BARGE will be 
 mapping sites for 'conceptual squatting,' claiming new commons for public 
 use from the leftover and discarded private and municipal property. 
 Directly confronting the conflictual logics of private property, land use, 
 real estate speculation, and housing foreclosures, BARGE will present maps, 
 photographs, and text, suggesting new ways of framing our urban 
 landscapes.\n\nZoe Crosher – Transgressing the Pacific series traces the 
 locations of ocean drownings of troubled famous and fictional figures. It 
 is part of LA-Like (2004-), a body of work inspired by the sun-drenched 
 noir of Raymond Chandler and F.Scott Fitzgerald, anoydyne boosterism of 
 Helen Hunt Jackson and the other early salesmen of the Los Angeles 
 proto-myth.\n\nJetske De Boer – The Governmental Agency for Future 
 Organization and Planning, S.T.O.P., supports the Dutch government with 
 empirical research into social cohabitation. The objective of S.T.O.P. is 
 to approach social problems from alternative, more constructive points of 
 view. De Boer displays a penchant for the situationist dérive, for the 
 generally unnoticed, unloved places in the city.\n\nFang Lu – Straight 
 Outta HK is a music video of the same titled song from the San 
 Francisco-based Chinese-American Canto-core rock band, Say Bok Gwai. The 
 video scene is located in the Mission district of San Francisco and 
 intersperses footage of both Say Bok Gwai’s band members, a Chinese 
 immigrant drinking bubble tea, and Oakland-based hyphy rapper, Keldamuzik 
 and her crew.\n\nKamau Amu Patton – San Pablo Avenue\nKamau Amu Patton 
 will present a selection of images and artifacts gathered along the San 
 Pablo Corridor from Oakland to Richmond, that depict aspects of the rich 
 cultural history of the region.  Along this corridor exists a myriad of 
 businesses, many of which are closing down due to poor local economic 
 conditions. Likewise, many of the communities along the avenue are in 
 transition due to economic pressures. Add to this the aging population, and 
 what emerges is an area in flux, whose recent history exists through the 
 stories and cultural artifacts left behind by folks who have lived and 
 worked there, and are now passing on.\n\nChris Treggiari – Rank and 
 File\nThe 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike saw the rise of the “rank and 
 file” as a united front fighting for workers’ rights and was an 
 important catalyst for the rise of industrial unionism in the 1930s. Major 
 events from this 83-day strike took place in San Francisco. July 5, 1934 
 saw the most intense demonstrating and conflict to that point as the day 
 ended with the use of teargas, the overthrowing of trucks and the deaths of 
 two strikers. Treggiari will commemorate these strikes with a parade float 
 that will illustrate some major scenes took place in San Francisco. The 
 parade float will be performed June 20, starting at 1 p.m. along the 
 Embarcadero leading to Market Street and will proceed down Market Street to 
 Valencia Street.\n\n\nAbout the Curators\nDeric Carner is a current 
 Resident Artist at Root Division, San Francisco. He is a collector and 
 manipulator of signs and messages, replaying them in speculative relation 
 to media and narrative. He makes drawings, posters, publications and the 
 occasional performance. Deric Carner has had solo exhibitions at Ping Pong 
 Gallery (SF, 2008), 21 Grand (Oakland, 2007) and 5er (Rotterdam, 2004); 
 Group shows at Geisai (Miami, 2008), Silverman Gallery (SF, 2008), ICA 
 (Philadelphia, 2008); Performances at the Witte de With (Rotterdam, 2006), 
 CAC (Vilnius, 2005) and Kunstverein Malkasten (Duesseldorf, 2005). Carner 
 is a member of Kunsole, a multimedia collaborative project recently on view 
 at the San Francisco Arts Commission Grove Street Site and at Swissnex (SF, 
 2008). www.dcarner.com\n\nJessica Tully is a current Resident Artist at 
 Root Division. As a cultural worker and artist, Jessica Tully's work 
 activates the intersection of performance and social sculpture. She sets 
 her site specific video, performances and drawings within socially charged 
 public spaces such as a San Francisco Housing Project prior to demolition, 
 San Francisco’s public water system, a salt water hotel pool in Havana, 
 Cuba, the Bay Bridge, and a 16-site walking tour of San Francisco's major 
 unionized creative institutions. Her vividly shot Hip Hop aesthetic 
 overlays spectacle and synchronicity. She has exhibited widely in the Bay 
 Area including recent shows at Southern Exposure, Intersection for the 
 Arts, Oakland Art Gallery and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (The Way That 
 We Rhyme, BAN5). She currently serves on Southern Exposure's curatorial 
 committee and is a co-founder of the Regime Change Cafe, a political and 
 cultural salon series the Brittenham-Thomas estate in Santa Monica, CA. The 
 salon is now in its 6th year.  www.jessicatully.com\n\n\n\nABOUT ROOT 
 DIVISION:\nRoot Division is an arts & arts education non-profit located in 
 the Mission District of San Francisco. Root Division's mission is to 
 improve appreciation and access to the visual arts by connecting personal 
 inspiration and community participation. We provide subsidized studio space 
 to working artists in exchange for their service in creating shared 
 learning opportunities for the community. Artists develop creatively and 
 professionally by teaching art to under served youth, leading adult 
 education classes, and producing exhibitions that showcase local emerging 
 artwork. By combining multiple opportunities for creative exchange, Root 
 Division cultivates an artistic ecosystem that enriches life throughout the 
 Bay Area.\n\nRoot Division is supported in part by grants from Grants for 
 the Arts: San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund & Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund, 
 The San Francisco Foundation, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, and Potrero Nuevo 
 Fund.  The Second Saturday Exhibition Series is sponsored by the Phyllis C. 
 Wattis Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission through a Cultural 
 Equity Grant/Organizational Project Grant, the Fleishhacker Foundation, and 
 the Zellerbach Family Foundation.\n\nFor further information regarding 
 events and/or press materials, please do not hesitate to contact Selene 
 Foster at 415.863.7668 or  events@rootdivision.org.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Leave the Capital
LOCATION:ROOT DIVISION \n3175 17th Street (at South Van Ness & Shotwell)\nSan 
 Francisco, CA 94110\nwww.rootdivision.org\n415.863.7668\n
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