Category: Performance Making
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Laura Cohen asked me to participate in an absurdist symposium called Group Therapy. I was assigned a time and a room. In the past, I’ve done these photobooths with the overhead projector. Some people have interacted with that and interacted a similar way at this event. I specifically took a less active role in the…
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Klanghaus event, Forever Seminar was a hit. The art collective I’m in, Klanghaus, had a retreat to Detroit (that I couldn’t attend due to financial reasons), created a show collectively and polished it up for a reprise in Oakland at Teddy’s house. I enjoyed collaborating with Ben Unger on a rave room using blacklight! I also…
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I curated my first Klanghaus event (with a lot of help from the team). Teddy Hulsker, program director of Klanghaus saw my psychobotany show at SF Fringe last year and has been wanting to present it at a Klanghaus event. It was a joy to have some of my favorite artists contributing work to Planthaus…
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Juancy Matos was our guest artist, rallying the attendees into a beautiful freeform noise making ritual/meditation that defies further explanation. I performed Dance Therapy/Dance Playback. I also talked about Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening. As a group we drew graphic scores and a couple of them were performed on the spot! The open mic included…
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I was the only one at the housewarming party to perform, though I encouraged it, I didn’t promote it that way. People weren’t mentally prepared. It’s my party and I’ll dance if I want to. It was also Cassidy and I’s joint birthday party/housewarming. Very fun. Not much to say, this is me in one…
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The first hour of keep begin detach 2: yoko ono, before it cuts out… I should have put my phone into a charger before starting the live facebook event stream. Anyways, super successful event. One of the attendees brought friends and family to celebrate art and his birthday as he read poems (audio recording to…
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From the top clockwise: Michael Dooley played an electroacoustic live looping piece, Andrew Rose (read a poem I wrote) and myself on scatch, I had to include a still from the Rugrats Movie clip I started the show with (apparently Laurie Anderson is a voice for one of the babies. I couldn’t figure which tho.);…
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“Katarina Countiss, multimedia artist and Klanghaus team member, will present ‘bathory’ a live painting experience featuring a bucket of liquid latex, a body, a white wall and clip lights (the essential ingredients to any act of human mastery)! Think action painting with abstract/poetic dance/movement elements.” (Above) The write-up for the piece. I got a tub…
