OUTSIDE AND INSIDE

http://www.sfbg.com/2011/04/12/outside-and-inside

Click the above link to read Robert Avila's in-depth look at the Bay Area's "burgeoning queer performance scene."

In the article, David Szlasa, programming director at Z Space, says:

"It's artists who are being built up on the support of a community," Szlasa notes, "rather than artists looking to institutions to find the support in the community for their work, which is a really different thing. It might be a small community that they're rallying, but it's significant. Maybe it's 200 people and they all see everything everybody does, but, you know, that's a thing. And it appears to be a mindset change also, which I really appreciate. And I think that there's something for us — I say "us" as a representative of Z Space or that sort of institution — to consider and learn from that."

And Jessica Robinson Love, of CounterPULSE, adds:

"These artists are not just interested in getting their own work out there. Most of them are also engaged in curating and producing each other's work, serving as dramaturge, writing about it, and generally working to support the community and not just themselves. That's where the strength comes from."