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6 Jun, 2017

The American Health Care Paradox

2017-06-13T23:27:01-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

The American Health Care Paradox The American Health Care Paradox - Why Spending More is Getting Less - is a great book for those trying to understand the gaps on the USA health care system. According to the authors, not enough money is invested in social services. They say " They continue to pay top dollar for hospitals, physicians, medications, and diagnostic testing yet skimp in broad areas that are central to health, such as housing, clean water,

9 Jun, 2017

Block Fest: Shattering Assumptions and Building Community

2017-07-07T19:46:25-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

It’s not immodest of me to say that CounterPulse is one of the best things that could have happened to the Tenderloin, because it’s true. Although we have been in operation at 80 Turk since March 2016, we are still the new kids on the block. The mission of CounterPulse is deeply rooted in social justice, and it is through this lens that CounterPulse engages the world. Block Fest has been a ten month laboratory for public art on the

12 Jul, 2017

A Malfunctioning Body: An Explication of Kinetech Art’s MESH

2017-08-22T23:34:08-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

As technology complexifies with increasing vigor, it’s easy to overlook perhaps the most complex (and intimate) technological system: the human body. At the intersection of dance and creative technology, projectors illuminate dancers; beneath the canvas/dermis exists a intricate network of blood vessels channeling through bones that protect our organs that keep us alive. The projector and body respond to one another in an infinite debate of free will versus determinism. Chicken or egg. Does artificial technology dictate our organic movement?

1 Aug, 2017

CounterPulse Fall 2017 Season Announcement

2017-08-29T00:32:45-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

CounterPulse is launching into an electrifying fall season with a series of performances that seek virtual bodies, radical bodies, quantified bodies and missing bodies through movement. We face extinction and environmental toxicity while finding resilience in community, pleasure, and corporeality. We'll kick things off with new works from Combustible, CounterPulse's newest residency program that synthesizes body-based art and creative technology. Residents Freya Olafson and Yagiz Mungan, and Kinetech Arts (Weidong Yang and Daiane Lopes da Silva), have created bold new

12 Aug, 2017

Collaboration in the age of multimedia art

2017-08-23T20:53:47-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, Uncategorized|

Hey everyone, This time I wanted to talk about my views on collaboration and how it applies to our residency with Freya at CounterPulse. So let's start by dumping some ideas. Collaboration to me... is about communicating is about the work/project not individuals is also the individuals enjoying is the process of getting multiple people involved in a way to create something that is not possible individually. is about knowing when to stay silent is not about going further but slower

25 Aug, 2017

Groundwater and Grassroots: The Curious Tale of Justin Ebrahemi

2017-08-25T01:58:25-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

My Path: My career trajectory seems foreign to my family. “You’ve been studying water for 2 years and now you’re at a dance organization?” Well, not quite. You see, I got my Masters in a social science research program entitled Environment & Community, where I interrogated the disparate cultural themes surrounding water management in search of policy solutions. Thesis Defense at Humboldt State University In school I advocated for equitable water rights for disadvantaged communities. At CounterPulse I

28 Aug, 2017

Block Fest Activator: How to Make a Coloring Book (Like Us)

2017-08-31T23:24:35-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

This is how my co-artists and I started and completed our first coloring book. To begin, we asked the larger questions then focused on the technicalities and details. Large questions are, for example, what is your message or general theme for the book? What do you want to say or share with your audience? We wanted to engage the Tenderloin community specifically on Turk Street. We decided that site specific imagery would do the trick. Then we wanted to present it

11 Sep, 2017

Membership Musings from the Development Director

2017-09-11T22:43:20-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Development Director Jeanne Pfeffer Big changes happening to the membership program at CounterPulse, people. Big changes. I thought, what is a membership program for Counterpulse? For eight years I’ve been pondering the question, actually. What is membership for a community based, performing arts center? It is in the words community and arts. Members are our community. Anyone one who touches CounterPulse should have the chance to be a member with us. To be considered, addressed, and staked in

17 Sep, 2017

Combustible: an early retrospect

2017-09-18T20:17:30-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

So here we are, just before the last performance. It has been 5 exciting performances so far. With all of them going 'perfect'... And of course nothing is never the perfect but those imperfections and the performers response to them make each night unique and different. This is the nature of things. Now let's look at from another perspective. The Combustible program aims to bring the community of performative arts and technology arts together. Where the foci are on dance

18 Sep, 2017

Judith Butler on Performativity and Performance

2017-10-26T19:17:29-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Julie Phelps Interviewing Judith Butler Original Interview conducted on July 18, 2013 On Friday, November 3, 2017, renowned gender theorist Judith Butler will be conversing with Monique Jenkinson, the artist behind the cis-female drag persona Fauxnique in an evening entitled “Ordinary Practices of the Radical Body” at CounterPulse. Let’s take a look back to 2013 at CounterPulse’s 16th Dance Discourse Project, a conversation between Judith and Julie Phelps. The two respond to contemporary Bay Area body-based performance as it resonates

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