Post-Theater

Post-Theater: a series of performances on postcards

When the pandemic hit and we had to cancel all programming and projects, we were thinking a lot about live performance/ theater. What is it about the liveness of theater that cannot be replaced? What could we do in the interim? What opportunities were opening up that forced us to think of different possibilities?

Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit published in 1968, mail art from the 60’s and 70’s, and our own beginnings when we mailed ideas, drawings, and songs, to friends and fellow artists, Post-Theater was another opportunity to re-think what a performance could be.

Post-Theater Artists:

(Read short interviews with the artists HERE)

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Jessica Yoshiko Rasmussen

A multi-disciplinary artist who works primarily with salvaged materials and their ghosts.

jessicayoshikorasmussen.com

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Barry Morgan

In tin foil I wrap

an ordinary beer tray -

to hurl at my foes.

Carol Ciavonne

Carol Ciavonne’s poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Interim, New American Writing, among other journals. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Rain Taxi, Pleiades, Colorado Review and Entropy. She is the author of Birdhouse Dialogues (LaFi 2013) (with artist Susana Amundaraín) and a collection of poetry, Azimuth (Jaded Ibis Press 2014). She is an associate editor for Posit, an online journal of literature and art. She is a "deep state” fan of the Imaginists and is always delighted to collaborate with them in art conspiracies.

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Alejandro Salazar

Alejandro Salazar was born and raised in Colima, Mexico. He is currently living and painting in Northern California. It is his intent to leave his mark in the world with an honest exploration of emotions translated into paintings, drawing, mixed media and prints.

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Amy Pinto

Amy is a writer, performer, and co-founder of the Imaginists.

Todd Barricklow

Todd Barrricklow was born in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in June of 1969. He is the eldest son of two. His parents were marionette making school teachers and long time vendors at the renaissance fair. Encouraged in the arts from an early age, he attended a humanities magnet high school where he started working in ceramics and drawing. He continued his education at Sonoma State University where he graduated with distinction in 1992. He was an Artist in Residence in the Arts/Industry Program at the Kohler Company in Wisconsin in 1999. He shows regularly and works from his studio and home in Santa Rosa, where he works in Ceramics, Printmaking and Metal.

Madeline Behrens-Brigham

Madeline Behrens-Brigham, color whisperer and pattern enthusiast, is in her natural habitat when surrounded by unidentified paper scraps, cardboard boxes, glues and good tools. Spending her early years with her paternal grandmother on the family farm in Illinois, she learned to make use of what was available; buttons, rags, and ephemera and continues this tradition in her seventh decade. Over the years, thirty in Hayes Valley of San Francisco, the art included mail art, “The Dada Daily”, xerox art, performance, print making, rubber stamp, silk painting, ceramics, with the most prominent being dioramas in cardboard boxes. Her business card reads “artist, neighborhood activist, mender.” and the sole tattoo on the edge of her palm is “simply be.”

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theater in the woods

postcard is the key to the pod world

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Worm Moon

postcard version linking to film version of our window performances/installations

Brent Lindsay

Penny Fellbrich

Penny Fellbrich is a San Francisco–based expressive arts therapist and collage and conceptual art maker who can't resist participating in a mail art project or art collaboration by post. In the past few months she has participated with The Bruton Correspondence School (UK), Artificio Postal (Mexico), Colectivo Uruguay Collagistas (Uruguay), and The Art That Reconnects (USA). She is delighted to be playing with her dear neighbors to the north in The Imaginists’ Post Theater network of epistolary performances. Her craftivism project, StreetHearts, sought to inspire San Francisco residents to take action to help end child homelessness in San Francisco.

C.K.Itamura

C.K.Itamura has taught herself to do a bunch of stuff with a bunch of stuff. The stuff that she does and the stuff that she makes is usually about the stuff that bugs her, and stuff like that, and she gets other people to: pay attention to stuff; ponder stuff; connect stuff; question stuff; and do stuff. All the stuff she's created, creates or doesn’t create is connected by invisible stuff: time. She charts courses to and observes stuff and (sometimes) invites others along for the ride.

Peach Farm Studio

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Sonja Roberts

Sonja Roberts has always been attracted to creative pursuits. She is a costume designer and a dressmaker, an artist, a gardener, a mother and grandmother, and a dreamer. She has worked in costume shops from the Boston Ballet to the Santa Fe Opera - and for the Imaginists in Santa Rosa. She currently resides in Sacramento where she shares her love of history and costume with visitors at Sutter's Fort State Park, and dreams of retiring to the sanctuary of the forest.