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8 Aug, 2012

Gentle Ben

2016-04-07T01:32:18-07:00By |Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|

The first time I came to California I told my best friend where I was going and he said “careful Stenhouse, it’s a different country”. I’d always thought of America as a lie I had been told as a child that I’d since disbelieved. Like Santa Claus. As a kid I loved the TV Show Gentle Ben. I also loved those strange 70’s and 80’s movies where cars and/or trucks and/or motorbikes drive fast and run each other off the

5 Aug, 2012

Rehearsal Free Writes

2012-08-05T20:56:29-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Summer Special 2012|Tags: , , , |

For next week's performances of "Sunk in Sleep," cast members were asked to write freely (for at least 15-30 minutes) using subject matter and phrase material as impetus. The following are two examples of what bubbled up.   Roche Janken: “oceans. you—adrift for days on these oceans, waiting for help, waiting for the sight of a mast or a flag or a tree or a sail or even a cheap petticoat strung up on a pole—some sort of scarecrow offering to

3 Aug, 2012

Stuck With You

2016-03-18T21:28:51-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Xandra Ibarra|

Nada me han enseñado los años, siempre caigo en los mismos errores otra vez a brindar con extraños y a llorar por los mismos dolores. -Jose Alfredo Jimenez Ten years in burlesque has provided me with an intimate knowledge of the political and emotional consequences of performing with/against the fictions structuring Mexican/Chicana female subjectivity.  Burlesque is touted as a primarily carnal art form associated with pleasure, sexual liberation and erotic agency.  However I have found that the same representational power that prompts

30 Jul, 2012

Thoughts on Strangerhood: with help from Bruce, Bacon and Baudrillard

2016-04-07T01:32:25-07:00By |Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Reading Gemma's post about a European's impression of the US, I immediately thought of Jean Baudrillard’s book “America." Here are some gems from my well-underlined, college copy: “This (The United States) is the only country which gives you the opportunity to be so brutally naïve: things, faces, skies, and deserts are expected to be simply what they are. This is the land of the ‘just as it is’.” “America is neither dream nor reality. It is a hyperreality. It is

30 Jul, 2012

GROUND SERIES : AUGUST

2012-07-30T10:24:40-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

Hello again from past CounterPULSE interns and life long  CounterPULSE fans, Sarah Ashkin and Brittany Delany. We are the curators of GROUND SERIES – a meeting place for artists to share, research and connect.  August events happen each 1st and 2nd Thursday night at the Temescal Arts Center.  To learn more about what we have been up to this summer, check out our first blog post and second blog post  on the CounterPULSE website We would be honored to have the CounterPULSE community come

25 Jul, 2012

Stranger in a Strange Land

2016-04-07T01:32:33-07:00By |Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , |

When James was 9 he wrote a song about his 57 Chevy, cruisin’ down the freeway. I’m not sure exactly how this is relevant to our upcoming workshop residency at CounterPULSE, but somehow it gets right to the heart of it. A child, living in England and never having travelled outside of the UK, decides to write a song. What comes out is a first person description of an experience that is alien to the culture that he lives in,

24 Jul, 2012

Two amazing Homo File shoots last weekend

2016-04-07T01:17:56-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Seth Eisen|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

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 moved here in 1967--(the year I was born). On Saturday Ned had an amazing image of Mercury put on by Zeph Fish at her studio

13 Jul, 2012

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

2016-04-07T01:18:06-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Seth Eisen|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

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 tattoos Time will be given with confirmation. (DO NOT JUST SHOW UP. THANKS -- SEE BELOW) WHO AND WHAT: We are looking for male or

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