The New Inspirational Movement

This month…

Hunting the Now/ Cazando El Momento by The Counter Narrative Society
Begin at the corner of 14th and Valencia Streets

For this SAT. Dec. 1 - 11am-5pm
To download a map locating this project from GROUNDED? go to http://soex.org/Event/152.html

Game will be available at various venues and online after Dec. 1 at: TheCounterNarrativeSociety.org

Hunting the Now is a bilingual and peculiar treasure hunt that intends to divulge unique but ordinary features of the present social-urban development of Mission and Valencia Streets between 14th and 24th Streets. Brochures containing map, instructions and clues to the unique destinations we have gathered will be available at Southern Exposure.

Cazando el Momento es un juego bilingüe artístico de encontrar tesoros que divulga cualidades únicas pero cotidianas del presente desarrollo social-urbano de las calles Mission y Valencia entre la calle 14 y 24. Afiches con mapa, instrucciones y pistas de estas destinaciones inusuales estarán disponibles en el local de Southern Exposure.

Hunting the Now is part of Southern Exposure and Intersection for the Arts’ GROUNDED? 1st Annual Juried Public Art/Urban Interventions Day. For more information about GROUNDED? including the 16th Annual Juried Exhibition, 5-week Performance Series, and 7th Annual Film/Video Screening please visit soex.org or theintersection.org.

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The new thing is that there’s a mural project finally happening on my block in da mission… finally after all these years. i first got the idea in Rigo’s Public Mural class when i was his TA in 1998 at the San Francisco Art Institute. I tried to get it off the ground several years ago as a female graffiti mural project with crisaida and leslie, but we couldn’t get permission from anyone and it turned into a big headache. But now, finally, my neighbor’s Randolph and Lisa have begun to get permission from many of the building owners and the LILAC MURAL PROJECT is off the ground. it’s not what i originally envisioned, but it still has good energy and is full of plenty of great graffiti pieces (vs traditional brush painted murals). i’ll blog later with pics of all the pieces, but i wanted to share this one to start. this pic was taken a couple of weeks ago. it’s me and Jet (from Clarion Alley Mural Project) reunited. Jet was my student in Rigo’s class at SFAI. Jet’s doing something on Lilac, but not for a bit cuz he was in the middle of wedding plans. Anyhow, i just thought it was a great pic. Jet’s really cool and Randolph captured it in the photo. thanks Randolph for taking this flick!

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My work is inspired by the psychological impact that mass media- and mass production have on our society. I am especially interested to re-make those mass produced objects that seem no longer relevant to our society and transform them into new realities, changing our memories and our perceptions of them.
Because my work is interactive it gives the viewer an active role on the decision whether to be removed or not from a reality to which they have become accustomed. My work engages them to reflect on our relationship with material and culture.

For the Chicana/0 Biennial I am showing Osiloscopiando from the Recycling Junk series.

I hope you will enjoy it!

Daniela

www.danielast.com

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here’s an except (plus a little extra) from a message that i wrote to crisaida 5.2.07…

“Catharine Clark asked me to paint her roll down doors on her new gallery at 150 minna (directly across from the messenger drop off entrance for the moma on minna) on monday in an email… but i didn’t actually talk to her till yesterday. i went down to meet her at 49 geary yesterday afternoon and we walked over to the new space. she gave me 100 bucks for supplies. i bought some paint. i came home ate dinner, changed clothes, and got all my stuff together and painted all night (began at 8:30 pm, went home @ 12:30 pm & took an hour and a half break and then went back to finish… got home at 4:45 am)… 2 roll down doors. she wanted them done right away for this moma hotsey totsey event going on tonight. santana is playing and they have a tent outside in the minna alley right next to my graffiti. it’s cool. it’s like a dialog between my graf and the moma. someone walking by said i was painting tomato soup in a can and i was really happy cuz they were comparing me to warhol. i was thinking about warhol when i did it. it goes big dice, js throw up, big dice, js throw up, with dots and tags in the background. the dots are stenciled and on the dice are stenciled hearts. i totally pulled it out of my ass cuz i had no time to plan. it was really like doing real graffiti cuz it’s like polished throw ups and it was so spontaneous, except for the permission part.”

here’s the pics…

next came champagne at the gallery and the party at the moma last night. i’ve never drank so much champagne… and good champagne at that. For all of you in SF, go see my doors sooner rather than later. they’re only temporary. they should be up thru May 14th or sometime afterward, until she replaces the roll down doors with glass windows, so that the gallery will look like a real storefront when it opens in June 2.

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