• August 28, 2017

    Block Fest Activator: How to Make a Coloring Book (Like Us)

    By Published On: August 28th, 2017

    This is how my co-artists and I started and completed our first coloring book. To begin, we asked the larger questions then focused on the technicalities and details. Large questions are, for example, what is your message or general theme for the book? What do you want to say or share with your audience? We wanted

  • August 25, 2017

    Groundwater and Grassroots: The Curious Tale of Justin Ebrahemi

    By Published On: August 25th, 2017

    My Path: My career trajectory seems foreign to my family. “You’ve been studying water for 2 years and now you’re at a dance organization?” Well, not quite. You see, I got my Masters in a social science research program entitled Environment & Community, where I interrogated the disparate cultural themes surrounding water management in search

  • August 12, 2017

    Collaboration in the age of multimedia art

    By Published On: August 12th, 2017

    Hey everyone, This time I wanted to talk about my views on collaboration and how it applies to our residency with Freya at CounterPulse. So let's start by dumping some ideas. Collaboration to me... is about communicating is about the work/project not individuals is also the individuals enjoying is the process of getting multiple people involved

  • August 11, 2017

    Digital friends

    By Published On: August 11th, 2017

    https://instagram.com/p/BWRZ6aoFRW7/ [Photo by: Josh Dookhie, Performers: Freya Olafson, James Phillips, and Lise McMillan]

  • August 1, 2017

    CounterPulse Fall 2017 Season Announcement

    By Published On: August 1st, 2017

    CounterPulse is launching into an electrifying fall season with a series of performances that seek virtual bodies, radical bodies, quantified bodies and missing bodies through movement. We face extinction and environmental toxicity while finding resilience in community, pleasure, and corporeality. We'll kick things off with new works from Combustible, CounterPulse's newest residency program that synthesizes

  • July 12, 2017

    A Malfunctioning Body: An Explication of Kinetech Art’s MESH

    By Published On: July 12th, 2017

    As technology complexifies with increasing vigor, it’s easy to overlook perhaps the most complex (and intimate) technological system: the human body. At the intersection of dance and creative technology, projectors illuminate dancers; beneath the canvas/dermis exists a intricate network of blood vessels channeling through bones that protect our organs that keep us alive. The projector

  • June 30, 2017

    REFLECTIONS on Community Engagement with Anne Bluethenthal

    By Published On: June 30th, 2017

    REFLECTIONS on Community Engagement Krista DeNio in conversation with Anne Bluethenthal Why do we enter the process of Community Engaged Art making? More importantly, how do we enter the process and what do we do? In preparation for ART MATTERS: An Introduction to Community Engaged Art, Anne and I reflected on various processes we have

  • June 9, 2017

    Block Fest: Shattering Assumptions and Building Community

    By Published On: June 9th, 2017

    It’s not immodest of me to say that CounterPulse is one of the best things that could have happened to the Tenderloin, because it’s true. Although we have been in operation at 80 Turk since March 2016, we are still the new kids on the block. The mission of CounterPulse is deeply rooted in social

  • June 7, 2017

    Wildlife & Wild Life: A conversation with Clement Hil Goldberg

    By Published On: June 7th, 2017

    Lemurs are an interesting creature. A native primate of Madagascar, the lemur has what’s called a “Toilet Claw” used for grooming. The lemur’s tail is longer than they are and is used for balance and communication within the species. Lemurs are also used as a poignant metaphor for cultural atrophy in Clement Hil Goldberg’s satire,

  • June 6, 2017

    Kinetech Arts rehearsal with Hien Huynh

    By Published On: June 6th, 2017

  • June 6, 2017

    The American Health Care Paradox

    By Published On: June 6th, 2017

    The American Health Care Paradox The American Health Care Paradox - Why Spending More is Getting Less - is a great book for those trying to understand the gaps on the USA health care system. According to the authors, not enough money is invested in social services. They say " They continue to

  • June 2, 2017

    What we mean when we say…ART MATTERS

    By Published On: June 2nd, 2017

    Artists like Rick Lowe have changed the landscape of Art Practice in this country. In ART MATTERS we survey artists who have created major works that give us powerful models to reference, learn from, be in dialogue with as artists engaged in social change, civic engagement, and/or community engaged work. Project Row Houses, is one