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. 

Excursion #1 with Miguel Arzabe, Friday September 26, 9am-1pm

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Miguel Arzabe, sightlines, cement tablet (detail) 2014
















Please join SFL artist Miguel Arzabe this Friday, September 26, at 8:45 am for Excursion #1, part of his current StoreFrontLab installation, sightlines. Arzabe will lead participants on a silent hike to an undisclosed hill on public land to reveal a secret vista point that is at the same elevation as the top of the TransAmerica Pyramid.

 Excursion #1, Friday September 26, 9am - 1pm.

 1. Participants are invited to hike 1.5 miles each way with an elevation gain of 853 feet.

 2. Be sure to bring sturdy footwear, sun protection, water, and a snack/lunch.

 3. The excursion will be a silent hike, so once the participants enter into the StoreFrontLab gallery, they will take a vow of silence. 

 4. Participants will leave the gallery at 9 am. The artist can fit four people in his car, if there are more people, we will arrange a car pool beforehand. The car ride to the trail head will be no more than a 35 minute drive with traffic.

 5. Upon arrival at the trailhead, participants will each be given a slip of paper with simple instructions. 

 6. The climb will commence.

 7. Upon arrival at the vista point, a signal will be given that the vow of silence has ended.

 8. Rest, eat, socialize.

 9. Hike back to car

 10. Drive back to StoreFrontLab by 1pm.
If you are interested in participating, please email arzabe*at*gmail