Artists in Residence

16 Nov, 2012

Of Limb & Language… we begin…

2016-03-18T22:49:21-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Miriam Wolodarski|

  This afternoon, a group of 5 experimental dance&performance people will begin rehearsals for Of Limb and Language, a 2012/13 ARC project. For my part, as the director, today marks the end of months of solo reading, dreaming, planning, and procrastinating. Thankyou CounterPULSE!!! Some tumbled thoughts I walk into the studio with…   #1 “ I’ve got your back, buddy.” Language requires trust, and sense of community. The trust required is challenged by physical reality. If you trust your buddy to protect

10 Dec, 2012

richien: Twindependent: CounterPULSE

2016-03-18T22:53:59-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Jennifer Chien and Rowena Richie|Tags: , , |

Jennifer Chien and I, Rowena Richie -- a.k.a. "richien"-- have settled on a new title for our piece. After much musing, wordplaying, and a poll we announce: Twindependent, formerly known as Twinstigate. We wanted to change the title from Twinstigate in part because we are past the instigating stage of the process. As the other winter artists-in-residence, along with Miriam Wolodarski, we are now in show-mode. Here's our two-sentence show description: Inspired by both the scientific and metaphorical implications of twinship,

20 Jan, 2013

Rapunzel reads the news

2016-03-18T22:48:51-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Miriam Wolodarski|Tags: , , , |

Sitting at the window, I repeat to myself: the project is to grapple with my inability to comprehend or speak about my world. From my castle, my ivory tower, my highest, whitest horse, I can read all about it — 87 are dead in Aleppo, 26 in Connecticut— all safely within view, and unreachable.  Next to me, a book about a genocide my very own family survived. Somewhere on the horizon, my very own death, at a considered and clinical distance.  Far.

11 Feb, 2013

DEMONS FOR HOT TEA, please.

2016-03-18T22:48:34-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Miriam Wolodarski|

Feb. 10, 2013 The crew of ‘Of Limb & Language’ travels to Earthdance today, to the E|MERGE residency, for two weeks of retreat. In the TSA line at SFO, my elation and gratitude is mixed with apprehension. Distance affords politeness: how will we survive two weeks of non-stop abstract somatic investigation into the production of meaning and the nature of language? In the cramped gangway leading to the plane, Rosemary reminds us that it’s the Chinese New Year. In Beijing,

17 Mar, 2013

What’s it about?

2016-03-18T22:48:07-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Miriam Wolodarski|Tags: |

It’s about capitalist self-censorship, and whether or not I can feel it in my kidneys. It's about having nothing to say and saying it, as if John Cage needed our poetry, too. About our eternal need for snacks to feed the phantom limbs. About rhetorical silence, felt silence. dead silence. Freedom protection. —That won't sell— Diffidence v. deference. If deference wins, deference v. différance. The show is about the fact that though I know I’ve looked it up on more

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