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During my last five years at 848, approximately 10,000 people a year came through the space. With Jess and others, I lived at 848 for 10 years, on and off, but mostly on. Todd moved out within the first year and Jess Curtis moved in. Very early on it became a sex radical space, which organized safe-sex parties and safer-sex education inspired by sex-positive feminism, pagan ritual, and AIDS and queer activism. In a windowless 1100 sq ft studio, with moveable risers that seated fewer than 50 people, we hosted a weekly Contact Improvisation jam and hundreds of performances, concerts, exhibitions, and parties emerging as a vibrant site for cultural experimentation. In Nov 1991, Michael “Med-O” Whitson, Todd Eugene and I adopted the space and its name. That fall, some friends moved out of a funky, second floor, commercial space on Divisadero Street. I met people who were fusing community-based art-making with social justice work, devising original works for the stage across genres, and having a very developed conversation on race that I wasn’t having in San Francisco. Inspired by Tim Miller and Linda Burnham at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, I went to an Alternate ROOTS gathering at the site of the original Black Mountain College in the summer of ‘91. thanks.)Ĩ48 was an artist-run, collective art space and home in San Francisco. (This is a draft of an article for Dance & Theatre Journal (UK).but it is way too long for them so I am also seeking other sites for distribution.your comments and suggestions are very welcome, especially via email.