Oct/Nov 2006 pdf - Mission Arts Monthly

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INSIDE Leena Prasad p3 Eve Shen p5 Scott Young p5 Open Studios Map p6 Open Studios Artist List p7 Intersection p12 MAPP p13 Women’s Building p14 MCCLA p15 Ursula Huete p16 Meri Page p17 Carla Caletti p18 Rebecca Bazell p19 Miranda p20 Young Frankenstein p21 Richard III p22 Manifestival p23 Lani Asher p24 ATA Film Fest p25 �� MISSION ARTS MONTHLY 744 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 www.missionarts.org Mission Arts Monthly is published by Mission Arts Foundation which is a nonprofi t organization dedicated to helping the artists and art organizations of the greater Mission District. It is distributed free of charge during the fi rst week of the month.The Online version can be found at: www.MissionArts.org Mission Arts Monthly encourages writers, artists, arts organizations, galleries, theaters, cartoonists and anyone else to submit articles, photos, letters and press releases for inclusion in the magazine by e-mail to: editor@missionarts.org All submissions for publication must be by e-mail and may be edited for clarity and length. For Inside the Studio section please e-mail an artist statement and three jpeg images of your work.
Visual Narratives: “Shut Up Honky” By Leena Prasad Your Existence Gives Me Hope, a sidewalk stencil proclaimed. I pulled out my tiny digital camera and snapped a quick shot, happy to add another entry to my growing visual journal of these phrases stenciled into the sidewalks of The Mission neighborhood. A few weeks later I noticed a similar stamp, except with a small update. Next to the Your Existence Gives Me Hope was also stamped Your Existence Gives me Diarrhea. Although I enjoyed the gushy sentimentality of the original graffiti, I was delighted to see that the original clichéd stencil had been retrofitted into the mission culture. Several months ago, I had written a column about the Kill Yuppys sidewalk graffiti. Since then, there has been an exponential increase in these pavement graffiti and an antagonistic conversation seems to have started between the original ‘artist’ and some of the graffiti audience. A quick search on Google revealed a wide fascination with these sidewalk stencils: there were photos posed on Flickr.com, Webshots.com, Tribe.net, and many other websites. Who is behind these sidewalk musings? I met a documentary filmmaker who wants to find and interview the ‘artist.’ On the social network tribe.net, some guess that the messages are from a Christian group spreading its gospels. There is an ongoing debate whether these are art, vandalism, or public service. I’m not interested in knowing the artist or the culprit or the religious fanatic. The stencils have simply added a new dimension to my regular walks. Whenever I see the ubiquitous I Want You So Bad or You Make My Dreams Come True or any of the other original stencils followed by an editorial Shut Up Honky, I feel an affirmation of the character of The Mission, a place with a personality that I love more than any other neighborhood in San Francisco. I love finding a stamp that I have not seen before or a response to existing ones. I especially enjoy the fact that the new stencils are attempting to wrestle back The Mission voice from the original mushy gushy potentially religious messages that are out of tune with the ‘rebel with a cause’ Mission culture. It is kin to experiencing an emotional discussion between two friends. I’m sure that not everyone is as gushingly supportive of these minor forms of entertainment as I am and might look upon them as nothing more than vandalism. During a recent walk, I started looking around the graffiti to see if they were destroying the ambience of their surroundings. The effect was actually quite the opposite. They detract from some of the old, worn our and sometimes dirty sidewalks. I don’t see these stencils in my own Noe Valley neighborhood where flowers and plants abound on the sidewalk Mission Arts Monthly Oct/Nov 2006 www.missionarts.org page 3
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Page 7 and 8: NAME MAP# STUDIO NAME ADDRESS Amand
Page 9 and 10: Larry Robinson 58 Oakdale Painting
Page 11 and 12: Joshua Coffy 268 130 Hazelwood Ave.
Page 13 and 14: The MAPP MISSION ARTS & PERFORMANCE
Page 15 and 16: CALL FOR ARTISTS & COMMUNITY Dia De
Page 17 and 18: IN THE STUDIO... Meri Page Design F
Page 19 and 20: Rebecca Bazell I was born in Bright
Page 21 and 22: Impossible Productions presents YOU
Page 23 and 24: Manifesti-val Dance Brigade’s Fes
Page 25 and 26: ATA Film & Video Festival Program A

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