Incubate artists, change the world
Combustible is a lab for intersecting art practices from dance and technology. Artists are given real, raw Space and Time, to collaborate on the creation of innovative live performance projects using state-of-the-art lighting, sound tools, and emerging technologies. Throughout a residency period artists share their research through designed public experiences and events. Combustible carves a place to be deeply inquisitive and experiment on the edge of what is known.
CounterPulse offers a rotation of supported artist residencies each year spanning different ways of making. Each residency concludes with a fully produced work on stage at CounterPulse.
Interest in participating in one of our residencies? Check out our current Open Calls >>
Cover Photo: TecTonic Shifts by dævron & Raissa Simpson’s PUSH Dance Company as part of Combustible Residency 2018; photo by Robby Sweeny
The Combustible Residency was launched with seed funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, as part of ARC which is made possible by support the Ken Hempel Fund for the Arts, Facebook, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Emmet R. Quady Foundation, and CounterPulse members.
Artists
Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr (he/they) is a trans conceptual artist and Drag performer based in the Bay Area. Through
Driven Arts Collective is a Bay Area based team of makers, dancers, visual artists, musicians, engineers, and thinkers. We
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StratoFyzika (Berlin/Lisbon) is an intermedia performance collective founded on the meeting of three personalities, three fields (sound, animated images, dance),
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Nicholas Navarro is a multimedia performance artist based in San Francisco, performing under the stage name Pseuda. Using queer nightlife
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h0t club is a psychedelic consumer-driven company of artist technologists and music makers performing the internet and beyond. The collective features Kate Bergstrom,
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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
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Mabel Valdiviezo Artistic Director and dancer Mabel is a 21st-century techno-shaman who employs the arts as a means of
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Mugwumpin creates live art that ignites radical collaboration, empathy, and curiosity. Situated at the intersection of dance, theater, multimedia and
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About this project Kinetech Arts reflects on the human spirit in the face of great difficulty through dance and data
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About this Project The MÆ - Motion Aftereffect project intends to reveal how virtual reality (VR) technology can animate
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A multi-media dance company, Deborah Slater Dance Theater does visually gorgeous, acrobatic, talking dance, dedicated to the creation of full-length
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dævron is a visual artist, hardware hacker and digital media developer. A graduate of the Gray Area Creative Coding Program and art
