Tyler Holmes
Tyler Holmes (They/Them) is a singer-songwriter, visual and performance artist who uses music as a therapeutic tool.
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May, 2023
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Apr, 2023
Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr
Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr (he/they) is a trans conceptual artist and Drag performer based in the Bay Area. Through sculpture, installation, and performance he gives form to semiotic and social boundaries meant to govern our identity, sense of worth, and communal relations. Their performance work lives in a contemporary and almost ready-made aesthetic, uniting the artist's hand with the robot’s manufactured one. His practice is an amalgamation of influences ancient and new, from Greek ruins to TikTok dance trends.
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Apr, 2023
Driven Arts Collective
Driven Arts Collective is a Bay Area based team of makers, dancers, visual artists, musicians, engineers, and thinkers. We investigate the social implications of technological change through planned and spontaneous performance art, dance, real-time generative music and video, as well as custom-designed wearable instruments and controls. We build performances that play on our different approaches and individual histories, aiming to create works that allow audiences and participants to imagine alternate spaces and realities. drivenartscollective.com Driven Arts Collective is a
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Mar, 2023
h0t club
h0t club is a psychedelic consumer-driven company of artist technologists and music makers performing the internet and beyond. The collective features Kate Bergstrom, Martim Galvão, Alex Dupuis, Todd Anderson, Miller Puckette and Bryan Jacobs. Kate Bergstrom, Martim Galvão and Miller Puckette will work with developers at Thoughtworks and the community of CounterPulse in San Francisco to develop and extend their performance work exploring entanglements with surveillance, systems infrastructures and the web. Kate Bergstrom, Martim S. Galvão and Miller Puckette Building bespoke performance systems and open
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Mar, 2023
Unsettled/Soiled Group
Image Description: A photograph of the top part of a building through a worm’s-eye view. The multi-family apartment building has 3 units side by side, and in the picture 2 stories are visible. In front of the building, the top part of a street lamp can be seen. Behind the building, a gray sky. We are a group of East, Southeast, and South Asian diasporic movers, makers, and settlers on Ramaytush and Chochenyo Ohlone land. What brought us
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Mar, 2023
Cherie Hill IrieDance
Cherie Hill (choreographer) is a choreographer, dancer, teacher and scholar, whose art explores human expression and how it is conveyed through the body in collaboration with nature, music and visual imagery. Her IrieDance works have been showcased at the Live Oak Theatre, the African American Cultural Center, the Black Choreographer’s Festival, Anschultz Theatre, Bao Bao Festival, P.L.A.C.E Performance, the San Francisco Cathedral, Omni Oakland Commons, SF Moving Arts Festival, Kinetech Arts, Alena Museum, the Milk Bar, SAFEhouse Arts, and the
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Mar, 2023
Vera Hannush/VERA!
Image Description: VERA! Stands in profile, wearing a red bellydance top with jingle belt, and deep red eyeshadow, gold under eyeshadow, long, wavy brown hair, large Armenian eyebrows, painted mustache and beard, and a deep red lip. Vera Hannush/VERA! (they/them) is a queer Armenian American drag king, dancer, and community activist. VERA is a member and host of the Rebel Kings of Oakland, a member of SWANA Kings (South West Asian North African drag king collective), board member
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Mar, 2023
Dilate Ensemble
Dilate Ensemble is an audio-visual collective featuring multimedia installation artist Carole Kim and musicians Gloria Damijan, Scott L. Miller, Luisa Muhr and Jon Raskin. Gloria Damijan, Carole Kim, Scott L. Miller, Luisa Muhrand and Jon Raskin In April 2020, Carole compressed her work in video installation to fit beneath her kitchen table, creating an intimate live “venue,” and invited Gloria, Scott, Luisa and Jon to work with Kim’s live visuals in a form of interactive improvisation-based dialogue. Work is collaboratively developed, involving a shared visual element delivered over Zoom.
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Mar, 2023
Audrey Johnson
Audrey Johnson (she/her) is a queer Black mixed-race movement artist with roots from Detroit and Plymouth Michigan, currently rooting in Oakland, CA. Audrey’s work lives, arrives, and changes in the realms of embodiment, movement, food, relationship, magic, ritual, plants, and land. Audrey's project at CounterPulse will explore Black freedom practices in food, farming, and rootwork through dance, ritual, interview, and performance. www.audreyjohnson.space About this Project [and then we must be] is a performance and ritual, storytelling and research process,
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Mar, 2023
Anna Rotty & Kristi Chan
At, The Sun as Camera: Cyanotype Printing at Block Fest, participants harvested the sun's rays to develop their own alternative process photographs. Kristiana Chan is a first generation Malaysian-Chinese artist, writer, and educator whose work explores the intersection of ancestry, healing, and mythology. She combines traditional storytelling and art making techniques of embroidery, paper cut, and shadow puppetry with projections, alternative photo processes, and other new media. She helped curate this year’s visual arts showcase at Kearny Street Workshop's
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Mar, 2023
Nkeiruka Oruche
Nkeiruka Oruche is a cultural organizer, producer and multidisciplinary artist, specializing in Pan Afro-Urban culture and its intersections with personal identity, public wealth and sociopolitical action. Currently, she is focused on expanding and sustaining grassroots change-making and community health through work as co-founder of BoomShake, and Afro Urban Society, and as Artistic Director of Gbedu Town Radio. About this Project ‘Mixtape of the Dead & Gone #1’- Egwu Onwu Ahamefula Every track must come to an end, but you
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Mar, 2023
Gabriel Christian & Chibueze Crouch
Gabriel Christian is an artist bred in New York City and baking in Oakland. Their work metabolizes the vernaculars within BlaQ diaspora—futurity, afrovivalism, faggotry—through body-based live performance and poetics; moreover, they feel the bio to be an unfortunate by-product of capitalistic modes like chattel slavery. Chibueze Crouch is a queer Nigerian-American (Igbo) actor and artist from Danbury, Connecticut (Paugussett land) currently living in Oakland, CA (Chochenyo Ohlone land). Her creative practice straddles theater and performance art, examining Diasporic longing and constructions