Artist Groups
* HOME AWAY FROM HOME is a collaborative group including Barry Beach, Colby Claycomb, John Melvin, Kit Rosenberg and Izumi Yokoyama. Using drawings made by kids at the Tenderloin Boys and Girls Club, they built a portable structure exploring the ideas of home and mobility installed at the McAllister & Larkin.
* OFFSTAGE is a collaborative group that includes Melkorka Helgadottir, Christophe Piallat and Brandon Truscott. Their cocoon-like installations will be perched on the Warfield Theater and Show Dogs Cafe.
* JÅW Mathias Josefson, Per Åhlund and Thomas Watkiss have been working together since 2006 with the material of sound in redefining aspects of media and language. For Wonderland, they are working to build a new framework for the cultures that may be taken for granted in the Tenderloin.
* STAKE Layman Lee, Thomas Kosbau and Lars Chellberg are building the project that is titled Stake. Stake reveals essential – often intangible – spaces, objects and moments, by exposing the boundaries between the public and the private as related by residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin.
* WNA Block Party Jessica Higgins, Erika Knerr, Joshua Selman, Christopher Burch will foster a series of Fluxus like happenings that will occur at Boedekker park on Oct 17th from 10 am until 6 pm. All activities are designed and performed by artists and groups who live and work in the Tenderloin.
* TENDER TRANSMISSIONS is an aural network produced by Screenlab artists Alex Beckman, Kaif Ghaznavi, Malak Helmy, Lynne McCabe, Lauren Marsden, Mike Maurillo, Ranu Mukherjee, George Pfau, and Kris Timken. These audio sojourns create listening environments and activate public/ private thresholds via local radio, cell phone and broadcasts at their base in the Tenderloin National Forest/ Luggage Store Annex.
* DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Down the Rabbit Hole is an art collaboration consisting of artists Jonathan Fung, Monika Jones, Mark Lee, Erik Otto and Brandon Robinson. The installation is located in a residence hotel in the heart of the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, and is a graphical and metaphorical depiction of the working and living environment of a young girl who is hostage to the underground sex trade.
* TENDER AT A DISTANCE Doug Hall, John Roloff, Queen Kurbally. This work recognizes the talent and also hardship of the local artist living in the Tenderloin. Queen Kurbally will be given a working and exhibition studio in which she can return her gift of batik. She will also conduct 4 workshops for children and adults living in the Tenderloin to learn this almost forgotten art form.