figure it out (a temporary commune)
Oct 18 - Nov 30
@ Space 124
401 Alabama Street, Yelamu / San Francisco
figure it out (a temporary commune) is a community performing artist residency.
figure it out (a temporary commune) is two-months of 24/7 access to a one of a kind warehouse/gallery/studio made freely available to a diverse community of experimental artists who need space to improvise, experiment, fail, and thrive.
figure it out (a temporary commune) is experimental performance research generating dance workshops and aerial labs, public conversations, queered holiday gatherings, and performances.
figure it out (a temporary commune) is togetherness-in-difference, collaborating in an intergenerational, multiracial, cross-class, inter-disciplinary, and equitable creative process.
figure it out (a temporary commune) includes culminating experimental performances guided by Keith Hennessy, created in collaboration during the residency.
SCHEDULE IN-PROCESS
LET’S BEGIN:
✣ Oct 20-21 ✣ Setting up the space (wanna volunteer to design and create?)
✣ Oct 23 ✣ Open the Portal
CURATED PERFORMANCES:
✣ Oct 24-25 ✣ Lime Rickey International
✣ Nov 5 ✣ Larry Arrington + Brontez Purnell
✣ Nov 8 ✣ Joel St. Julien
✣ Nov 15 ✣ The No Money Show
CULMINATING PERFORMANCES:
✣ Nov 21-22 & 29-30 ✣ The project culminates in two weekends of shows guided by Keith with a stellar team of dancers, aerialists, sound and performance artists including B Dean, Clarissa Dyas, Emily Leap, Kevin Lo, Miriam Wolodarski, Quinn Dior, Snowflake Calvert…
MORE TO COME:
✣ Circo Zero will curate four workshops and three talks, members of our temporary commune will also create and present their own DIY happenings. To stay up to date, check this website, sign up to our newsletter (at the bottom of this page), or follow us on Instagram @CircoZero
HAVE IDEAS?
As part of this project, we are making the space free to use for folks in our community. Want to rehearse or put on a show or teach something or ____________?? Write us a brief summary of your ideas and dates to info [at] circozero [dot] org
ABOUT SPACE 124
Space 124 is part of Project Artaud, a historic artist live-work cooperative created in the 70’s in a former canning factory.
A few tech specs:
❈ 1,368 square feet of raw industrial space
❈ Basic sound and lights, 38’ x 36’
❈ Column free open floor plan with a 27’ ceiling
Additionally, Keith is designing the space to be a playful installation with 3 primary features:
❈ Carpeted cozy area inside a large tent for 10-15 people
❈ DIY flooring collage made of cardboard and padding
❈ Massive aerial sculpture that can support 5-10 people made in collaboration with sculptor/rigger and original Artaud resident Benjy Young
Click here for more photos and info about Space 124
CONTEXT
In the past few weeks we have been in conversations about dancers in both Ukraine and Palestine who can no longer prioritize dancing, who could not make a public invitation to dance while so many of their people are suffering, mourning, and struggling to survive. This isn’t the time for dancing, some say.
Simultaneously, there are artists from both nations, including friends and colleagues, who are absolutely prioritizing dancing. They are responding to genocide, brutality, and tyranny by making music and art, gathering in studios, streets, internets, and theaters, using dance to support trauma-informed healing, activism, political organizing, and radical kinship.
figure it out lives in the borderlands of this contradiction. When the stench of brutality and fascism is all around, our ancestors remind us that culture can be resistance… especially if rooted in love, struggle, beauty, pleasure, and a deep connection to the invisible worlds.
If this offering can be helpful, restorative, inspiring, fun, or affirming of you and your concerns, please come by, to engage or escape, to struggle and to heal.
FUNDING
figure it out (a temporary commune) is supported by The San Francisco Arts Commission, The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and The Zellerbach Family Foundation.