October 5, 2006
SFist Tonight: Swinging through SoMA

It's been five years since SF Camerawork, a non-profit dedicated to photography and digital media, had its own gallery. Since 2001, Camerawork has shared exhibition space with New Langton Arts, but no longer. SF Camerawork has moved back to its old hood, and is celebrating its new location at 657 Mission St. (at 3rd) with a Grand Opening party from 5-9pm. Check out the inaugural exhibition at the new gallery, Ghosts in the Machine, which considers "the notion of haunting as a set of cultural conditions that arise when estranged moments in national histories and collective memory are not given their due."
And while you're in the neighborhood, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosts a pre-screening reception for Jack Stevenson's program of Scandinavian Sex Cinema of the 70s starting at 6:30pm. We love how Yerba Buena has these themes for all their shows now - with this event listed under "Deeply Personal." Just remember, Folsom Street Fair was last month. Yerba Buena may say they're "multi-inter-intra-everything," but they're not that multi-inter-intra-everything, if you know what I mean.
We are then crossing Market Street to catch the SFist-sponsored MATCHA series at the Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin near City Hall and UN Plaza), featuring the OngDance Company channelling Korean goblin creature, Doggebi, set to a mix of Korean classical music, drumming, and electronica performed by wHOOL starting at 7pm.

