• July 24, 2012

    Two amazing Homo File shoots last weekend

    By Published On: July 24th, 2012

    We had two amazing shoots last weekend for Homo File. The first was with tattoo artist  Zeph Fish who was inking our Sam Steward played by Ned Brauer. Sam was mentored by tattoo artist Amund Deitzel. Sam himself was mentor to tattoo artists Ed Hardy and Cliff Raven here in the Bay Area after he

  • July 17, 2012

    CEREMONY: Summer Special sneak peek

    By Published On: July 17th, 2012

  • July 13, 2012

    Call for tattooed actors/models for video/photo shoot for upcoming Homo File Performance Project by Seth Eisen

    By Published On: July 13th, 2012

    Call for tattooed actors/models for video/photo shoot for upcoming Homo File Performance Project by Seth Eisen Sunday, July 22nd  at Center For Sex and Culture 1349 Mission St between 9th & 10th Streets, on the corner of Grace Street, San Francisco, CA   Interested models please send photos and info on your body type and

  • July 5, 2012

    The Gold Fish: Summer Special sneak peek

    By Published On: July 5th, 2012

  • July 3, 2012

    Kennedy Kabasares’ trapeze skills

    By Published On: July 3rd, 2012

  • July 2, 2012

    GROUND SERIES : JULY

    By Published On: July 2nd, 2012

      Hello from past CounterPULSE interns, Sarah Ashkin and Brittany Delany! We are the curators of GROUND SERIES - a meeting place for artists to share, research and connect.  The events happen each 1st and 2nd Thursday night of the summer at the Temescal Arts Center.  To learn more, check out our first blog post on

  • July 1, 2012

    The Gold Fish– follow it to the source

    By Published On: July 1st, 2012

    Spit on your fingers. Feel it... Taste it... This water sucked from your soft palate has a history. Follow it to the tap, up the pipes, circumvent the morning fog and late spring showers, and find the melting snow pack in the Sierras. Voice 2 Rain Follows the Plow Can you taste the tang of

  • June 4, 2012

    GROUND SERIES

    By Published On: June 4th, 2012

        The week before I finished my internship with CounterPULSE in May, my collaborator and partner in crime Brittany Delany (also a past intern at CounterPULSE obviously) told me that on a whim she had booked the Temescal Art Center in Oakland for the first and second Thursday nights for the rest of the

  • May 24, 2012

    Sordid Meditations of a Cyborg/Rasquacha Muchacha Cucaracha

    By Published On: May 24th, 2012

    Exodus. Last chapter, last verse of Porn a la Mexicana In the end there was La Cucaracha and she was pronounced dead: dead and alive--alive and dead with a bud light. (response to Guillermo Nericcio Garcia's birth of a Latina Bombshell) Everyone has dealt with at least one in their space and some of us

  • May 17, 2012

    News from Tales of Pangu!

    By Published On: May 17th, 2012

    Here are some thoughts about this Saturday's performance from Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) about the performance this weekend: "Saturday 5/19 'Tales of Pangu' will sparkle!!  If you are at all interested in interdisciplinary performance, multi-media, collaboration and dramatized Asian American history dating back to the early days of 1850, this is the performance for

  • May 11, 2012

    Samuel Steward links and connections

    By Published On: May 11th, 2012

    Phils Tattoo Joynt Okay. Since my first post it has become obvious that I need to make a list of all of the links and connections with Sam Steward that are on the web. The first is this amazing blog that was created by a writer who blogs about Steward's life and his

  • May 10, 2012

    Homo File Begins

    By Published On: May 10th, 2012

                                           Over the past year I’ve been in the research phase for my next Queer history performance project titled Homo File, chronicling the life of Sam Steward, (1907-1994). I will write, create and direct an ensemble of