• 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

  • May 25, 2017

    A picture of the stop motion set

    Our Future Ends _ in residence

    By Published On: May 25th, 2017

    It was in the post-election darkness at the end of November when my stop motion animation residency for Our Future Ends in CounterPulse’s Project Space began. I was delighted to be in a windowless unfinished basement with lemur puppets. My production goals were overly ambitious for the two months ahead, but a studio space in

  • April 28, 2017

    Dancing about VR

    By Published On: April 28th, 2017

    We all know that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, but what about dancing about virtual reality (VR)? (and no a dancer wearing a headset and the audience seeing what she/he is seeing on a flat screen is not dancing about VR). That is one of the questions that I am trying to answer with

  • April 25, 2017

    Throw another blog on the fire! Ok, it’s actually my first here at Counterpulse

    By Published On: April 25th, 2017

    Movement towards a new work as part of 'Combustible'. Sharing an image from a studio visit with respected peers and a video of a gentle 'arriving in the studio' improv >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.instagram.com/p/BSpCwN6B2OX/?taken-by=freyaolaf https://www.instagram.com/p/BSzhCV1hnZa/

  • April 11, 2017

    Block Fest: Creating a Traveling Mural by Dawn Leigh

    By Published On: April 11th, 2017

    Traveling Mural Block Fest participants Late in the winter of 2016, CounterPulse’s call for artists invited me to their new home in the heart of San Francisco’s Tenderloin.  That evening inspired the idea of a mural created on a collection of canvases made by Block Fest participants. The mural would travel around the Tenderloin

  • March 30, 2017

    There is no white way to be right

    By Published On: March 30th, 2017

    We are living in a time of endless self definition. Adding to this complexity are the physical phenotypes and social markers which may have us outwardly appear to the world one way, while mismatching our inner reality and self identity. But we exist with others- in a world of labels- responding to intersections of identity