Streetopia

After San Francisco’s new mayor announced imminent plans to “clean up” downtown with a new corporate “dot com corridor” and arts district – featuring the new headquarters of Twitter and Burning Man – curators Erick Lyle, Chris Johanson and Kal Spelletich brought over 100 artists and activists together with residents fearing displacement to consider utopian aspirations and plot alternative futures for the city. The resulting exhibition, ‘Streetopia’, was a massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place in venues throughout the city, featuring talks, performances, skillshares and a free community kitchen. This book brings together all of the art and ephemera from the show.