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  • “NOMADSIGHT A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD” – ATA Gallery ART Opening

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    ” NOMADSIGHT A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD”
    Allen Myers is a unique and talented photographer, film maker, writer and humanitarian. On January 15th, 2006, he made a life changing decision to change something in the world. With a backpack of clothes, a camera and a journal he headed to Turino Italy which was the first of many destinations. The artistry and vision of his work takes shape as he weaves himself into the communities in which he discovers.

    He works with, lives with and feels with the peoples he later captures on film and in stories. Nomadsight is a temporary street art instalment of world photography, it moves from city to city around the world and in this manner grows in its collection.

    Each exhibit and arrival into a new place is also filmed, with the final film being edited to music from a local musician. The film serves as a digital diary of that time and place. This project reminds us of some of the fundamental pieces we all share in across culture, country and religion.

    This show has received several awards had been selected on 2014 San Francisco Pictoclick Festival and with an honorable mentions at Lucie Awards the same year.

    We feel honored to have this exhibition along March 2015, Allen Myers AKA Nomadsight, will be with us on the Opening night completely available to talk this amazing project and share very unique and interesting stories behind of the world of photography.

    ATA Gallery – 992 Valencia St

    OPENING: March 4th 2015 from 6-9pm

    gallery@atasite.org

    www.nomadsight.com

  • Small Press Traffic:Report from the Field with Amy De’Ath, Jennifer Tamayo and Cassandra Troyan

    Small Press TrafficJoin us for an info-share with poets in, from, and moving between Vancouver, Chicago, New York and London. How are other scenes, institutions, editors and curators responding to rape and sexual violence in writing communities? De’Ath, Tamayo and Troyan will share their experiences organizing meetings, potlucks and online interventions, in a discussion of the dymanics, difficulties, and benefits of their respective locations, actions taken and not taken. What does feminist solidarity look like? What might it look like? How can we take better care of one another? What kind of socialities and spaces do we want to create?

  • ATA Window Gallery: Kit Young, Believing is Seeing

    ATA Window Gallery: Kit Young, Believing is Seeing

    ATA Window Gallery presents the opening reception for Kit Young, Believing is Seeing, February 6th, 7-9pm.
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    I am is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist working in the combined genres of video,

    sound, kinetic sculpture, and performance. I also sketch, draw and journal to keep my

    eye­ to­ hand connection fresh, to catalogue ideas and images, and to keep some roots in

    traditional methods of production.

    In my practice of art, I hold several lines of inquiry in mind:

    Can the elements of a work of art be as diverse as possible while still allowing the piece

    to function as a whole?

    How do the mechanisms of our perception determine our reality?

    What is the relationship between art and reality, given the crucial role of perceptual

    mechanisms in producing what we take to be reality?

    How do our systems of belief and our media­ saturated environment distort and

    transform what we perceive?

    What is the relationship between art and democracy, historically and currently?

    Why is the art world still so lacking in diversity and integration?

    What place can ethics and mindfulness have in the practice of art?

    My art is improvisational and explorative. I enjoy using compositional systems of loose

    structures that can respond to chance and chaos. I also appreciate the way that humor

    and play loosen our rigid reactions and assumptions, allowing us to re­experience reality

    in unexpected and liberating ways.