Unsettled/Soiled Group is a group of East, Southeast, and South Asian diasporic movers, makers, and settlers on Ramaytush and Chochenyo Ohlone land. Unsettled/Soiled Group is led by June Yuen Ting, one of CounterPulse’s 2022 ARC Performing Diaspora artists and will debut Dwelling for Unsettling alongside VERA!’s Try, Hye!, Thursday through Saturday, December 8-10 & 15-17, 2022
VERA! (they/them) is a queer Armenian American drag king, dancer, and community activist. They are one of CounterPulse’s 2022 ARC Performing Diaspora artists and will debut Try, Hye! alongside Unsettled/Soiled Group’s Dwelling for Unsettling, Thursday through Saturday, December 8-10 & 15-17, 2022
Inspired by ancestral, community-centered, and spiritual relationships to land and plants, [and then we must be] by Audrey Johnson is a research and ritual project honoring Black American practices with land and plants through the modes of food, farming, rootwork, and magic. The work honors the practices that get passed down through recipe, spell, and story, as well as the memories active and activated in the body, plants, the land (soil, clay, mycelium, strata), and in spirit.
“Traditionally, in Igbo cultures, we have had death as part of the conversation. We understand that life doesn’t end when you die. Ancestors are part of our life connection and day-to-day practice.”
Adam and I are thinking about change over time – how one experiences change as one ages, how one’s relationship to time changes. We’re thinking about how the environment around us changes – how the tectonic plates shift and the earth quakes, how the tides rise and fall, how some nights the stars appear in […]
From the Rehearsal Room… the CONTACT project process is deepening, and we find ourselves moved…to tears, to anger, to hysterical laughter….to formation, to renovation, to solidarity, to push-ups….pushing up against the fight, the flight, the meeting, the holding of…one another. the pressing into flesh and bone…contact…the memories, the histories, the shared pain and sorrow of […]
The CONTACT project directed by Krista DeNio www.kristadenio.com IN RESIDENCE @ CounterPULSE www.counterpulse.org OPEN CALL: COME TAKE A WORKSHOP (FREE), and learn more about the CONTACT project! CALLING: Veterans (of war and military service), Non-veterans, Artists (Actors, dancers, musicians, visual artists, designers) and Non-artists WHAT: Workshop(s) Two workshops investigating the project content (bridging the divide […]
The CONTACT project, directed by Krista DeNio is currently looking for artists and non-artists for upcoming performances. Open Call: Come take a FREE workshop and learn more about the CONTACT project! Calling: Civilians, Veterans (of war and military service), Artists (actors, dancers, musicians, visual artists, designers) and non-artists. What: Workshop(s) – Two workshops investigating the project content […]
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 […]