We Cannot Look Away
Meet the Moment Video Art Festival presents videos and moving images engaged with the urgent conditions of our present. The Festival brings video work by local and international artists downtown—from arts organizations and storefront windows to local businesses, vacant spaces, and large-scale outdoor projections.
Curatorial Committee
- Natasha Becker, de Young Museum
- Mushi Wooseong James, Djerassi Resident Artists Program
- Việt Lê, Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association
- Julio César Morales, Southern Exposure
- Efe Ozmen, Slash
- Twyla Ruby, di Rosa
A Walkable Cultural Loop
The Festival will create a walkable loop beginning at TnT Art Lab, traveling along Market Street through Yerba Buena Lane to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), and returning along Mission Street to Root Division.
- TnT Art Lab 67 Turk Street, SF 94102. Where the loop begins, with the opening reception on October 30 at 5pm.
- De Dos Tierras 998 Market Street
- Warfield Commons 988 Market Street, SF 94102
- Mi Cocina Denim 992 Market Street, SF 94102
- 966 Market Street 966 Market Street, SF 94102
- Blick Art Materials 979 Market Street
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission Street, SF 94103. Through Yerba Buena Lane; the loop turns here and returns along Mission.
- Sentro Filipino 814 Mission Street
- Mahal Mural Project Jessie West Alley at Mission Street
- 6M Community Arts 1008 Mission Street
- Root Division 1131 Mission Street, SF 94103. Where the loop ends.
- YOTEL 1095 Market Street, SF 94103
- Saluhall 945 Market Street, SF 94103
Programming
- Oct 30 – Nov 1
- Free, 4–9 p.m. nightly, along the walkable loop.
- October 30
- Opening Reception, 5pm
TnT Art Lab, 67 Turk Street - October 30, 7pm
- After the opening reception at TnT Art Lab, join artist Michele Pred for a
guerrilla projection of Projecting Democracy at a nearby location, kept
secret until the night. Walk over with artists and curators and watch Pred turn
the facade of a civic building into a canvas where art, democracy, and public
space meet. It’s a rare chance to see a guerrilla projection up close, as it
happens.
Michele Pred, We the People VOTE, projected on the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Selected Artists
Khala Brannigan, Adrian Burrell, Alexa Christine Burrell, FAUNA, Ana Teresa Fernández, Frank Foreman, Paul Kos, Suzanne Lacy, LigoranoReese, Megan Lowe and Johnny Nguyễn, Deborah Oropallo, Tuğçe Evirgen Özmen, Bogdan Pastor, Didem Pekün, Narges Poursadeqi, Claudia Rankine and John Lucas, Yoshie Sakai, Dread Scott, Leila Weefur, Jasmine Narkita Wiley, Bruce Yonemoto and Karen Finley.
Partners include Root Division, Mid-Market Business Association, Timbri Hotel, Culture Forward and Svane Family Foundation, Rappaport Family Foundation, COVEN Arts, YBCA, 6M Community Arts, Mahal Mural Project, Warfield Commons, and Yotel.
Sponsors
We cannot look away.