iFort Mason Center for Arts & CultureMarina, San Francisco
Video, painting and archives turn the historic Guardhouse into a fortress for a fictional 'Attentive Realignment Center'. Visible at all times, free.
You don't walk into this one. You stand at the main entrance to Fort Mason and look through the windows of a former military guard station, now the field office and archive of an "Attentive Realignment Center": a fictional outpost of underground scientists who have found out that the Earth is sentient.
Oakland artists Muzae Sesay, a painter of flat, skewed geometric worlds and Bay Area murals, and Alexcia Sundra, a filmmaker whose screen credits include Uncut Gems, built it from short videos, painting and collected artifacts. The story is set in a future where people are cut off from nature and public attention is fully commodified, and the scientists are trying to win that attention back. It's the one research center in San Francisco studying your attention that isn't trying to sell it.
It's free and visible through the glass 24 hours a day until 24 January, at the campus entrance off Marina Boulevard. There's no going inside.
You want to step inside and look closely: the installation is seen only through the Guardhouse windows.