AW-TV is the first weather show produced by and for emerging artists. Our televisual gallery presents time-based videos and performances at the confluence of art and weather. From drag queens to durational performance artists, art historians to climate change activists, we showcase artists who explore the impact of weather on everyday life. .

Cloud Spotting

Sunburns

Exosexuality

AW-TV runs monthly on San Francisco Public Access. Artists can receive more information, calls for video works, and submission guidelines HERE.

PRODUCERS

Ryan Tacata, PhD is a performance maker and scholar living in San Francisco. He has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007) and recently received his PhD in Performance Studies from Stanford University. His recent performance projects include dancing in Doggie Hamlet (2015-) by Ann Carlson (a site-specific dance with four human performers, sheep herding dogs, and 60+ sheep); The Magical Order of … (2014) with Julie Tolentino for YBCA in Community (a group work with young Bay Area artists); Séance (a dance work with four Spiritualist mediums, forthcoming); Lolas with Julie Tolentino (a performance installation in honor of Filipino grandmothers); and Artists Weather Television (a televisual gallery of emerging artists working with weather conditions for SF Public Access, forthcoming). He has collaborated with Leslie Hill and Helen Paris of Curious on a number of performance and teaching projects, including Writing Desires, Performing Hope (2012) with women from Hope House in Redwood City (a six-month residential alcohol and drug treatment program for women who are released from the California Department of Corrections or are homeless). He received the Diane Middlebrook Prize (2013) in recognition of his work with the Hope House Scholar Program. His academic research investigates alternative methods of archival research, performance art historiography, and experimental spatial practice. His dissertation “La Mamelle: Bay Area Conceptual Performance Art and The Alternative Art Archive” engages the La Mamelle/Art Com archive and various histories of West Coast conceptualism. As an educator, his workshops and university classes cover a range of topics, including interspecies performance, love and gift economies, practice-based research, body art, automobiles in the avant-garde, and the sporting event. He is currently a Visiting Faculty member in the the department of History and Theory of Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Art Institute. 

Jamie Lyons: Avid surfer, educator, writer, filmmaker, sailor and stage director who received his AB and PhD from Stanford University.  As director of The Iota, he constructs site specific performances of the fragmentary plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.  For theatre he has worked at the Mark Taper Forum, Magic Theatre, The Public Theater, La Mama ETC, PS122, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and for six years with the avant-garde New York based theatre company, Mabou Mines. Jamie’s directing work includes that of William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest), Cyril Tourneur (Revenger’s Tragedy), Samuel Beckett (Krapp’s Last Tape, Not I, Rockaby, Footfalls, Quad), Harold Pinter (Mountain Language), Sam Shepard (Cowboy Mouth, The Unseen Hand), Peter Weiss (Marat/Sade), Lee Breuer (Prelude to a Death in Venice) and Heiner Müller (Hamletmachine). In recent years Jamie has taught at Stanford University, UCLA, USF, Yale and San Quentin State Prison.