CounterPulse

CounterPULSE provides support and resources for low-income and emerging artists, serving as an incubator space to create socially relevant, diverse, grassroots art and activism.

CounterPULSE is the new name for 848 Community Space, which has played a unique and significant role in the SF performance community since the early 90's. No other single space has supported a comparable breadth of performance, queer art, improvised dance, cutting edge lit and word, and contemporary ritual. 848 hosted the first performances or premieres of many of SF’s most exciting and successful dancers and choreographers (from Potrzebie to Pearl Ubungen, new works from Robert Henry Johnson to Krissy Keefer, and full company concerts from Scott Wells to Jess Curtis/Gravity). 848 hosted San Francisco’s longest-running Contact Improvisation Jam, and has been a key site in the global network of improvised dance and somatic experimentation. With a special focus on women visual artists, 848 nurtured emerging and risk-taking art for over a decade, and has been a pioneering venue for experiments in sexual liberation, hosting a diverse crowd of artists, performances, rituals, workshops, and parties. Responding to an increasingly alienated society, 848 was a home to all manner of soulful and participatory celebrations from weekly early morning meditations to raucous pagan festivals to intimate healing circles. CounterPULSE retains 848’s classic slogan: “we have done and will continue to do almost anything.”