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24 Jun, 2013

Where’s the beef? The Thick Rich Ones serve up Minced Meat June 28-29!

2013-06-24T20:50:40-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Summer Special 2013|Tags: , , , , , |

photo by Weidong Yang America is built on the concept that consumption keeps our world afloat.  We know in order to have a thriving economy we have to put our money where our mouths are and invest, consume and purchase to keep the system running.  What happens when the system falters and we end up in a recession?  How have we failed the system?  How has our culture failed us?  And should we question our correlation of consumption

1 Nov, 2013

Year Of The Snake : November 15-17, 2013

2013-11-01T14:33:33-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , |

NEW EDGE presents Year Of The Snake a work for dance, music, and text WHAT "However long it takes to reach each other's shores." -Karl Jensen, All This We're Each Forced Into; Private Painful Insight YEAR OF THE SNAKE is a work conceived by three bay area artists: composer Jason Hoopes, choreographer Peiling Kao, and writer/visual artist Karl Jensen. The three elements that make up Year Of The Snake include the choreography, a physical record of the music (available November 15th),

26 Dec, 2013

Video highlights of 2013

2013-12-26T22:19:36-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

5 Jun, 2014

CODAME ART + TECH PLAYGROUND at the Future Home of CounterPULSE

2014-06-05T18:16:15-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Images, Video|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On MAY 31, 2014, CODAME turned our future home in the Tenderloin into a vibrant playground for ART + TECH enthusiasts and practitioners. We buzzed with activity all day long, with workshops, live performance, electronic music, and interactive projections. Here are some takeaways: [View the story "CODAME ART + TECH PLAYGROUND at the Future Home of CounterPULSE" on Storify]

11 May, 2015

RIOT

2016-03-18T21:34:05-07:00By |Categories: (X)Change, CounterPULSE, Mica Sigourney|Tags: , , , |

"A riot literally tears the city apart. It is a striation...like a skater from the days before skateparks, it sketches invisible trajectories in the urban motif. A shapeless event that eludes reification, even if it relates to rituals, and thus summons the repertoire of tricks and knowledge accumulated by a provisional community bound by a transgressive dynamic."  Withches: Hunted, Appropriated, Queered ed. Anna Colin, The Rioter and the Witch by Olivier Marboeuf

25 Jul, 2015

The River

2016-02-02T02:57:22-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Liz Tenuto|Tags: , , , , , , |

Focusing on wellness and self help during the process of creating "This Year Is Different..." has been both illuminating and challenging. This morning I read "The River" by Thich Nhat Hanh. I'm sharing it here because it describes a process of self understanding similar to my personal transformation instigated by creating this piece for the Artist-In-Residence Program. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Once upon a time there was a beautiful river finding her way among the hills, forests, and meadows. She began by being a

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