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9 Apr, 2008

Nowtopia Release Party!

2008-04-09T19:00:17-07:00By |Categories: Events, Images|

Wed, April 9, 7:30 pm Come and help celebrate NOWTOPIA, a new book by CounterPULSE's own Chris Carlsson, host of Wednesday Talks and director of Shaping San Francisco. Chris will read from the book, introduce some special guests who are profiled in Nowtopia, and hold a discussion about the book's look at a vital new form of work politics. Party and refreshments to follow, and books for sale! $20 at the door gets you a book and a party and

14 Mar, 2016

Shape Shifting: A conversation with Dana Michel about Yellow Towel with Rob Avila

2016-03-14T22:21:42-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Photo by Ian Douglas Shape Shifting: A conversation with Dana Michel about Yellow Towel with Rob Avila Yellow Towel, the much lauded solo by Montreal-based choreographer-performer Dana Michel, makes its San Francisco debut this weekend. Riffing on a blurred range of black stereotypes, the piece has the effect of unsettling the specific in favor of an investigation of the condition of otherness—a two-way street in which the audience can find itself squirming under the burden of its reflex

8 Apr, 2016

A brief genealogy of 35F

2016-04-10T19:21:06-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Salinas workshop participants (photo Zen Cohen) Perhaps it is right to begin our blog by positing ourselves this way: Like with much in our contemporary lives, The 35th Floor / Another Stor(e)y Above and Beyond Her Fall (35F) is largely informed by our necessity to face the violence that surrounds our bodies, and that other one in need of so much healing, the earthbody of which we are an extension. Perhaps the brutal notion that we are indeed

27 Oct, 2016

San Francisco, CounterPulse, and Proposition S

2016-11-16T23:49:25-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Me and my family at CounterPulse's Magenta Party earlier this year A note from Executive Director Tomás Riley on Prop S   Dear CounterPulse Family,   We are in the thick of the struggle for simultaneously preserving San Francisco as the creative capital and safe haven for families it represents for thousands of artists and long-time residents that have made this city home for decades. Those of you close to me know that my family and I had

17 Nov, 2016

Art & activism with dana e. fitchet & Sammay

2016-11-29T22:57:11-08:00By |Categories: Performing Diaspora|

By Erica Dixon   I met with our 2016 Performing Diaspora artists to chat about their process two weeks ago, the week before our recent election. After last week's reaffirmation of our country's divisiveness and bigotry, the exploration of the artist's role in activist work feels more important now than ever. A question that I have been perpetually interested in, in CounterPulse's work, the work of our artists, and my own artistic endeavours, is why we choose art as our medium

31 Jan, 2017

CounterPulse Spring 2017 Season Announcement

2017-08-01T02:02:35-07:00By |Categories: edge residency, Jesse Hewit, meg stuart, season announcement, spring 2017, Uncategorized|

CounterPulse Spring 2017 brings forth a milieu of performance makers for a season of works that will be respite from and resistance to the powers that be. We make space this spring season for risk, pleasure, solidarity, conflict, and futurity. CounterPulse is your home for radical ridiculousness, dissident discomposure, and all adjacent anarchic alliterations ; ) We take stock to look forward with our collaborative presentation of Lost and Found: Bay Area Edition, with SFMOMA’s Open Space and Danspace, investigating

15 Mar, 2017

Project Space artist Alice Combs: power and idleness

2017-06-13T23:39:15-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Photo by Robbie Sweeny Project Space artist Alice Combs: power and idleness By Erica Dixon   I had a great conversation with Alice Combs, our March Project Space resident artist, during her residency earlier this month. We sat down in the windowless, concrete room amidst her then in-process installation, charger cables hanging from the ceiling all around. While in residence at CounterPulse, Alice installed Total Turn On, a project exploring power and turn on, through plugged in chargers

7 Oct, 2017

On change and collaboration…presenting the new CounterPulse org chart

2017-10-13T00:24:21-07:00By |Categories: Organizational Design, Uncategorized|

At CounterPulse, we invite change as our constant, from moving into our new facility to our ever rotating cast of artists and accomplices. We persistently strive to work better together, excited by the way that true collaboration necessitates an aptitude for change. We've updated our org chart to reflect new changes and new ways of working. Not all change is easy. The recent changes to our core administrative staff have certainly come with challenges. There’s no easy path through reforming

7 Sep, 2018

Drumroll please… presenting the Tenderloin Public Art Exchange

2018-09-07T21:13:18-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , |

Erica here, writing as your soon to be former engagement and strategy lead here at CounterPulse. That’s right, today, Friday, September 7, 2018 is my last day, after (nearly!) four wild, weird, amazing years. I wanted to mark this transition, this go-around of the cycle, with a final blog post sharing one of the engagement cohorts finest projects of the past year. The  is a document our little team put together to chart the public art initiatives of CounterPulse, created

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