SFAQ: ISSUE 14 A note from the Publisher SEP.OCT.NOV.DEC 2013 As I write this, it is the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights march on Washington DC, and I feel like asking a naive question: “Why is everything still so TABLE OF CONTENTS Publisher // Editor in Chief fucked up?” It seems we are on the brink of another world war, not to mention per- Andrew McClintock petual attacks against the rights of people of color, reproductive choice, the LGBT 40-47 ROBERT BECHTLE community, and basically any social good or equality in the world. Not to mention Interviewed by John Held, Jr. Assistant Editors the relentless attacks on voting rights and the unmanageable parody of the Trayvon Whit Brayton, Gregory Ito, Leigh Cooper Martin trial and verdict. The only positive development I’ve witnessed in recent 48-55 PAUL SCHIMMEL months, has come from the courageous acts of Bradley [Chelsea] Manning and Online Editors Interviewed by CHARLES DESMARAIS Gregory Ito and Andrew McClintock Edward Snowden, who put their own freedoms and lives at risk attempting to wake up our sorry excuse for a forward thinking and intellectual nation. A call for us to 56-71 MARK FLOOD: The Information Sequence Online Contributors acknowledge the fact that we might have actually lost our “democracy” long ago... Interviewed by DEAN DEMPSEY Chris Rusak, Dean Dempsey, Eric Kim, Bianca Guillen, Hailey Loman, John Held, Jr., Kathryn McKinney, FYXMJIZIVMXI\MWXIH[LIVIHMHMXKS#2SXXLEXEVXGER½\ER]SJXLMWFYXEVXMWXWGER Kelly Inouye, Lucas Soi, Leora Lutz, Brigitte Nicole Grice, Alberto Cuadros, Nikki Greene, Roula Seikaly, I call upon artists of all generations to get more radical, get weird, get revolutionary, Heather White, Robert Strang, Louis M. Schmidt, Ariel Rosen, Jarrett Earnest, Peter Doby 67-69 Pull Out Artist Project get arrested... the rest of the world is putting their lives on the line for what they Lightning Strike, July 25, 2013 SFAQ Interns believe in, perhaps it’s time we started to do the same. By Sean McFarland Kelley Bennett, Lucy Kasofsky, Margot Elena Rada Cover Image: This issue of SFAQ is dedicated to: Ryan McGliney Staff Writers 72-77 HIJIKATA TATSUMI & BUTÔ Bradley [Chelsea] Manning, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Julian “Hand Out” 2013. John Held, Jr., Jamie Alexander, TOM MARIONI BRUCE BAIRD Assange, Trayvon Martin and Stokley Carmichael. 2013 c-print 72 x 108in. Interviewed by GIANNI SIMONE Contributing Writers Courtesy the artist and Team Gallery. CHARLES DESMARAIS, Sean McFarland, GIANNI SIMONE, TERRI COHEN, V. VALE, CARLO MC- 78-83 BONNIE ORA SHERK CORMICK, JARRETT EARNEST, Peter Doby, Ava Jancar, Eric Jones, Vincent Uribe, Sam Lipp, Johnny Interviewed by TERRI COHN Abrahams, Mark Van Proyen, Austin McManus

Contributing Photographers CONTRIBUTORS 84-89 DON ED HARDY Brian Forrest, Andrew McClintock. Interviewed by V. VALE Johnny Abrahams MWEREVXMWXERHHIPMGEXI¾S[IVVITVIWIRXIHF].EGO,ERPI]+EPPIV]MR Eric Renehan Jones is co-director of Jancar Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, which he co-founded City. in in 2008. Images Courtesy of 90-97 RYAN MCGINLEY Robert Bechtle, Gladstone Gallery, Gallery Paule Anglim, Peres Projects, Mark Flood, Zach Feuer Gallery, Nakatani Takashi, Morishita Takashi Butoh Materials, NPO, The Research Center for the Arts Jamie Alexander is owner of Park Life Store + Gallery and Paper Museum Press. He stud- Sam Lipp lives and works in Chicago. Recent projects include Great Skin at Bodega, Phila- Interviewed by CARLO MCCORMICK and Arts Administration, Keio University, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Don Ed Hardy, Jancar Jones Gallery, Josh ied design and art history, has been a patron of Bay Area arts for over 15 years and is a board delphia and a forthcoming two-person exhibition at Devening Projects, Chicago. He is also a Reames, LVL3, Queer Thoughts, Puppies Puppies, Oliver Francis Gallery, BOSI Contemporary, Dean member of The Headlands Center for the Arts. member of the artist group PplSft. 98-101 SANDY KIM: The endless ways to have a good time Dempsey, the Internet, TOM MARIONI, Ratio 3, Team Gallery, Ever Gold Gallery, Ryan McGliney Interviewed by JARRETT EARNEST Luis Miguel Bendaña grew up in New York and Nicaragua and is currently based in Chi- TOM MARIONI 1969 One Second Sculpture, curate Invisible Painting and Sculpture, 1970 Advisors cago. He recently exhibited his work in Detroit, Belgrade, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City. He founder (MOCA) Museum of Conceptual Art, curate Sound Sculpture As, 1970 The Act of 102-105 A Timeline of Important Events in the Art World of the John Sanger, Eric Rodenbeck, Kevin King, John Held Jr., Tom Marioni, Paule Anglim, Maurice Kanbar, Paul has an upcoming solo exhibition at Important Projects in Oakland this month. Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art, 1972 Drawing a Line as Far as I Can Kos Last Six Months, or A Farewell Postcard from the Sumer Reach. Drum Brush Drawings, 1975 Thinking Out Loud, Warsaw, Poland, 1975-1981 editor/ When Contemporary Art Was Digitized, Bought Out, Terri Cohn is a writer, curator, art historian, and editor. Her research and writings focus on designer VISION magazine, 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1991 The Yellow Sound for Kandinsky, Special Thanks Boxed Up, and Shipped Away. conceptual art, technology, public art, and socially-engaged art practices. A Contributing Editor radio play, Cologne, Germany, 1996 founded The Art Orchestra, Beer Drinking Sonata, 2003 A 8MRE'SR[E].IWWI1G'PMRXSGO(EZMH'SJ½R&IXXI3OI]E6S]GI-XS%PI\-XS0IMKL'SSTIV)PM6MHK- to Artweek magazine for 20 years, she currently writes for Public Art Review, Art in America, Memoir, Beer, Art and Philosophy, 2012 Beer with Friends… Vienna, Paris, Bristol. By Peter Dobey way, SIA Club, Jeff Gunderson, Jamie Alexander, Peter Kirkeby, Paule Anglim, Alan Bamberger, Charles Desmarais, Rena Bransten, Chris Perez, Julian Cox, SFAQ Contributors and everyone who supports caa.reviews, and Art Practical. Terri edited and co-authored Pairing of Polarities: The Life and Art 106-107 CLAIRE NEREIM us through advertising, subscriptions, and donations. We support unions and good times…End the US of Sonya Rapoport (Heyday, 2012), and curated exhibitions of Rapoport’s work for Kala Art Austin McManus is a photographer, writer, curator, and publisher. He founded the web- wars, end Gitmo, keep Facebook out of SF, Stop the Keystone XL pipe line, stop the bailouts of big Institute and Mills College Art Museum (2011, 2012). Her many public talks include SFMOMA, based zine publishing and distribution collective TheFlopBox.com in 2003. Austin is involved in a Interviewed by Ava Jancar and Eric Jones business and banks, increase minium wage, stop the drone war, liberate Syria and end occupa- Columbus College of Art of Design, University of London, and Oxford Brookes University, Eng- wide range of creative projects and currently works as an editor for Juxtapoz magazine. tion of Palestine. land. 108-109 JOSH REAMES: In Regards to VACATIONS Mark Van Proyen is an artist and art critic based in northern . His writings have Interviewed by Vincent Uribe All Material © 2013 San Francisco Arts Quarterly [SFAQ] Dean Dempsey is a visual artist and writer based in with an increasingly high appeared in Art in America, Art Issues, CAA Reviews, New Art Examiner, Bad Subjects, Art HITIRHIRG]SRHVYKWERHFSH]QSHM½GEXMSR,IMWVITVIWIRXIHF]&37-'SRXIQTSVEV]MR Practical and Square Cylinder. 110-111 PUPPIES PUPPIES Printed on 60% post-consumer papers in Hunters Point, SF. New York City and MC2 Gallery in Milan, Italy. Gianni Simone escaped from his home country in 1992 and found refuge in Japan, where Interviewed by Sam Lipp SFAQ used environmentally friendly soy based inks Charles Desmarais was appointed President of the San Francisco Art Institute in 2011 after he promptly found a job teaching people how to shout HELP! and avoid being robbed on for- Made in San Francisco, California a career in art museums, including appointments at the Museum (as Deputy Director eign buses. Since 1997 he has been unhealthily active in the mail art network, unleashing on the 112-113 DEAN DEMPSEY for Art) and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (as Director). Desmarais and Paul unsuspecting public, among other things, the “Treatise of Pataphysical Anatomy” and the inter- By Johnny Abrahams Schimmel met in Southern California more than 25 years ago as representatives of colleague in- national fake political campaign poster project. He has recently opened the Stickerman Museum CONTACT stitutions. Desmarais brought Schimmel’s Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition ©Murakami - Tokyo Annex. When not running after his two kids and from his wife, he is usually busy making 114-115 TOM MARIONI: Art Etiquette # 7 to Brooklyn in 2008; in 2012 he participated as an advisor and catalogue essayist for Schimmel’s zines, writing for high- and lowbrow magazines, and exploring Tokyo. By TOM MARIONI Founders Andrew McClintock: [email protected] MOCA spectacle Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981. Gregory Ito: [email protected] Stephanie Smith received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of California at Berkeley, 116-117 THEDA’S ISLAND // CHAPTER 4 // Theda en Extremis Advertising [email protected] Peter Dobey is an artist and psychoanalyst raised in the exact epicenter of the Loma Prie- where she majored in Psychology and Art Practice, with electives in Art History and Italian. She Listings [email protected] ta earthquake. The foreign correspondent for San Francisco Arts Quarterly currently lives in has remained active in the Bay Area art community, gaining exhibition and curation experience By Mark Van Proyen Distribution [email protected] Dublin,Ireland and divides his time between Dublin, San Francisco and Paris. at several galleries in the East Bay. She maintains an interdisciplinary art practice, including instal- General Info [email protected] lation, new media, social practice, and arts writing. 118-119 SELECT EDITIONS Jarrett Earnest is an artist, writer, and co-director of 1:1, a collaborative that took the form By Jamie Alexander SFAQ of an art space in the Lower East side of Manhattan. He writes regularly on contemporary art Vincent Uribe is a creative entrepreneur who originates from Los Angeles. He graduated 441 O’Farrell St. and pursues the interview as a distinct critical form, publishing long innovative interviews with with a dual degree in Fine Arts and in Visual Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute San Francisco, CA, 94102 120 THE FLOP BOX ZINE REVIEW artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Richard Tuttle, and Nayland Blake, among others. He is pres- of Chicago. He has been the founding director of LVL3 gallery in Chicago since early 2010, where USA By Austin McManus ently at work on a book of writing and drawing exploring the aesthetics of intimacy. All of his the focus is to help promote connections between emerging and established artist from around disparate projects engage the intersections of performance, poetry, the visual arts and politics. XLI[SVPH:MRGIRXIRNS]WVIH¾EZSVIHXLMRKWEW[IPPEWIEXMRK8EGS&IPP LXXTPZPKEPPIV]GSQ 121 The Return of Abstract Expressionism, 1969 John Held, Jr. is a staff writer for San Francisco Arts Quarterly. He is currently the subject V. Vale, publisher of the late seventies zine Search & Destroy, helped bring local, national, and Curator’s catalog introduction, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California. of the play, “With Held,” performed at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. His reviews of Bay Area international attention to a Punk scene every bit as vibrant, weird, and progressive as more highly By TOM MARIONI art events are a regular feature on sfaqonline.com. Held’s two-volume work, “Where the Secret publicized ones to the south and to the east. The publication was launched with grants from is Hidden,” containing over one hundred essays on the alternative arts composed over a thirty Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. For Vale, Punk became a gateway for a host of cultural 122-124 DISTRIBUTION LOCATIONS: National /International year period, is available from lulu.com. obsessions, including industrial music, the writings of J.G. Ballard and William S. Burroughs, femi- RMWQTVEROWXIVMWQERHXLIQSVIFM^EVVIIRHWSJ½PQQEOMRKERHQYWMG[LMGLLILEWGLVSRMGPIH PULL OUT EVENT CALENDAR: SEP.OCT.NOV.DEC 2013 Ava Jancar is an archivist and is the co-founder and co-director of Jancar Jones Gallery, Los for over three decades with the RE/Search series that he founded. 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