GRNASFCK // Summit on Invisible Urbanism Panelists Announced

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GRNASFCK has announced the panelists for the Summit on Invisible Urbanism taking place this Saturday, October 25, at StoreFrontLab.

Part of GRNASFCK's three-day installation, I Love Extremophiles, the Summit on Invisible Urbanism brings together interdisciplinary thinkers to speculate on the biological, virtual, and moral tools at our deploy in confronting the post-industrial landscape, and designing for resiliency in an ecologically destabilized future.

Join GRNASFCK founders Ian Quate and Colleen Tuite for an expansive and informative discussion with:

• David Fletcher, Landscape Architect, Fletcher Studio
• Andrew Cal, Molecular Genetics + Cell Biology, Mango Materials
• Nicholas Korrody, Artist, Theorist + Writer, Archinect
• Geneva Travis, Management Consultant, Water Division of ARCADIS
• Murphy Stein, R&D, Google; Futurist

Summit on Invisible Urbanism Saturday, October 25, 2014
11:00AM to 2:00PM 
StoreFrontLab
337 Shotwell Street, SF
Free! Please register here!

October 19 Closing Reception

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This Sunday, October 19, 2014 marks the closing of StoreFrontLab's first show in the City Making series. Ilyse Iris Magy's Lines Made by Walking and Miguel Arzabe's Sightlines extended the bounds of the StoreFrontLab gallery by leading visitors to the city's edge and the greater Bay Area. 

 Both Magy and Arzabe's ever-evolving gallery installations chart the progression of these walks. The artists tell two very different city narratives, each through a unique language of mapping.

 Please join us as we take a final look at how these two artists have charted our city.

 Closing Reception
Sunday, October 19, 2014
6-8pm

[Coming up, October 24-26, 2014: I Love Extremophiles! by GRNASFCK]

Lines Made by Walking, 2014
Artist Ilyse Iris Magy (far right) leads participants towards Ocean Beach from the Mission District. 

Lines Made by Walking, 2014
Perched on Mount Davidson, San Francisco's highest point, artist Ilyse Iris Magy (center)with Tom Wiltzius (left) and Rachel Cassandra (right), discuss the topology and microclimates of the city
Miguel Arzabe
From left to right: Sightlines Excursion Two, October 6th, 2014, Wildcat Canyon; Sightlines Dirt Drawing Two, 2014, site-specific dirt on Fabriano paper, 28in x 40in


Miguel Arzabe
Sightlines Excursion Three, October 10th, 2014, Montara Mountain

October 24-26: I Love Extremophiles

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I LOVE EXTREMOPHILES
by GRNASFCK
October 24-26, 2014

StoreFrontLab is pleased to present the upcoming exhibition, I Love Extremophiles, by New York-based experimental landscape studio, GRNASFCK, opening Friday, October 24. Get back to basics with extremophile bacteria, nature's original metabolic organisms, and now the de-facto stewards of the post-industrial landscape. GRNASFCK will transform the gallery into a laboratory and a conference center to illuminate the forms and habitats of these little-known urban citizens, and examine diversity and hyper-resiliancy at the microscale.

On Saturday, October 25, GRNASFCK's Summit on Invisible Urbanism will gather experts for a discussion about the potential for extremophiles to act as silent partners in the remediation of contaminated urban sites, and the possibility of design to act as a physical coping mechanism when challenged by environmental flux. How does one thrive in a wasteland?

March to the EPA!
Friday October 24, 3pm
Please email studio*at*greenasfuck*dot*com for covert details

Opening Happy Hour
Friday October 24, 6-8pm
Stop by for some post-protest libations with GRNASFCK

Summit on Invisible Urbanism
Saturday October 25, 11am-2pm• David Fletcher, Landscape Architect, Fletcher Studio
• Andrew Cal, Molecular Genetics + Cell Biology, Mango Materials
• Nicholas Korrody, Artist, Theorist + Writer, Archinect
• Geneva Travis, Management Consultant, Water Division of ARCADIS
• Murphy Stein, R&D, Google; Futurist
RSVP here

Gallery Open Hours
12-6pm all weekend

Miguel Arzabe's Excursions

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Upcoming Excursions:
Monday October 6, 9AM - 1PM
Friday October 10, 9AM - 1PM
Monday October 13, 9AM - 1PM
Saturday October 18, 9AM - 1PM

Join StoreFrontLab artist-in-residence Miguel Arzabe on outings throughout the Bay Area for his performance series Excursions, the offsite component to his current StoreFrontLab installation, sightlines.

Last Friday, September 26, Arzabe led a small group of hikers on an extraordinary excursion through a Coastal Redwood trail in southeast Oakland. It was a silent hike that commenced in a residential neighborhood, transected the unusual site of an urban fly-fishing pool and climbed through a steep grade of waterfalls, ferns, and footbridges before arriving at the overlook. Upon arrival, the group delighted in their discovery of an embedded concrete tablet, relocated from the StoreFrontLab gallery space.

If you are interested in participating in an upcoming excursion, please email: arzabe*at*gmail

This Thursday: Join us for Urban Symposium 1!

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Join designers Lyndon Manuel and Leah Nichols as they host Urban Symposium, an interactive happy hour that tackles critical issues affecting our city. As part of StoreFrontLab's Season 2 City Making series, the dialogue-based event is structured as a mash-up of familiar discussion formats: symposium + social experiment + play. 

Urban Symposium 1
Thursday, October 2
6:30 to 8:30 PM

It's free, but space is limited.
Sign up here!


About Urban Symposium
San Francisco residents are angry. They are angry about the city — their city — exemplified by the ongoing storm of headlines, sound bites, and neighborhood tensions. Google bus protests and Twitter tax breaks. Ellis Act evictions and another proposition to limit building heights. In response to the seemingly disconnected consciousness of our city and its citizens, the Urban Symposium series fosters an interactive and participatory dialogue about urban life as it relates to San Francisco's restless social and political climate.