February 23, 2010 at 11:20 am · Filed under BLOG, exhibition, opportunity, time-based art
Now in its second year, Low Lives is a one-night exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at numerous venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives 2 will be presented as part of Fusebox Festival in partnership with Co-Lab, Austin, TX; Galeria de La Raza, San Francisco, CA; Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL; and The Temporary Space in Houston, TX. Additional presenting partners T.B.A.
Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting and viewing performances. Low Lives is about not simply the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time but also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium. Low Lives embraces works with a lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a raw, DIY and sometimes voyeuristic quality in the transmission and reception of the work. Submissions are welcome from both established and emerging artists.
Submission Requirements:
- Artists can submit previously created works or new work to be considered through links to artist’s websites or other web destinations. Duration of works must be under 5 minutes to be considered.
- Only live performances will be considered
- Artist statement including how work relates to Low Lives concept
- Artist Bio
- CV
- Email complete submission materials to: keoqui@gmail.com
Important Dates:
March 30th – Submission deadline
April 7th – Artists notified on selection
April 30th – Show opens – 7:30 – 10:30 pm (EST)
Artists selected to participate in this exhibition will transmit their work live through Ustream.tv a platform that allows for anyone with a computer, webcam and internet connection to broadcast live.
Opportunity for Presenting Partners:
Regional, national, and international arts organizations interested in presenting this one-night exhibition contact Curator, Jorge Rojas at: keoqui@gmail.com
To view last year’s exhibition catalog and performance videos visit labotanica -
http://labotanica.org/blog/?page_id=782
Presenting Partners:
Fusebox Festival 2010 - http://www.fuseboxfestival.com/
Galeria de La Raza - http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/
Diaspora Vibe Gallery - http://www.diasporavibe.net/
Co-Lab - http://www.colabspace.org/
The Temporary Space - http://www.thetemporaryspace.com/
Jorge Rojas - http://www.jorgerojasart.com/
More: http://rhizome.org/announce/view/54783
February 2, 2010 at 1:05 pm · Filed under BLOG
APPLY NOW ONLINE FOR THE ARTADIA AWARDS 2010 HOUSTON!
Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue is now accepting applications for the Artadia Awards 2010 Houston from all visual artists living and working in Houston, Harris County, Texas. Individual artists and collaboratives working in all media and at any point in their career are strongly encouraged to apply. Awardees will be selected in the spring of 2010 through Artadia’s two-tiered jury process. This is Artadia’s fifth awards cycle in Houston.
For eligibility requirements, info session dates, and to access the web-based application, please visit:
http://www.artadia.org/forartists.html
Application deadline: March 1, 2010 at 11:59pm (CST)
HELP US SPREAD THE WORD BY FORWARDING THIS MESSAGE.
Artadia’s mission is to encourage innovative practice and meaningful dialogue across the United States by providing visual artists in specific communities with unrestricted awards and a national network of support. Founded in 1997 as the Art Council, Inc., Artadia is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Artadia Awards are determined through a jury process that employs nationally prominent curators, artists, and critics. Since its founding, Artadia has awarded over $2.0 million to more than 200 artists in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Most recently Artadia launched a residency program, which brings Artadia Awardees from each of its program cities to New York for a three-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP).
Visionary support for Artadia in Houston is provided by the Houston Endowment, Inc., and many generous individuals.
January 25, 2010 at 7:16 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Intern at
labotanica
(Houston, Texas)
4 days per month
unpaid
Seeking: Educational/ Programming/ Installation/ Media/ Administrative/ Development Interns
The right person can dedicate at least 4 days a month (Friday or Saturday 1-5), has a DIY attitude and can relate to the mission of labotanica (check out the website, link below). Interns should have a genuine interest in contemporary, community, and experimental art and diverse cultures. The position is flexible since the organization is a new artist-run organization. While the position is unpaid, this is a great opportunity to learn more on arts administration & non-hierarchal models of cultural production. Individuals of diverse backgrounds and disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Potential areas of focus:
Education- contacting school groups for tours of exhibitions & resource room OR launching the online diy “school of latitudes” OR developing the resource room through donations + programs
Development/ Admin- writing grant proposals, and launching a membership program (no experience necessary, but great opp to learn)
Graphic Design intern- designing and printing posters for labotanica events
labotanica is a laboratory using flexible, open-ended formats to frame new dialogues and test out new ideas. labotanica engages diverse communities to explore creative and social transformation through education, collaboration, and experimentation. labotanica is located at: 2316 Elgin (at Dowling), Houston, Texas 77004. labotanica is open to the public Saturdays 1-5 and by appointment.
Send a resume & brief cover letter stating why you are interested in interning at labotanica and in what areas to: la(at)labotanica(dot)org
http://labotanica.org
January 3, 2010 at 9:57 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Thank you for your continued support. More to come in the New Year.
Art Swap exhibition 10/1-10/3/09, Christina Summers exchanges art with Carrie Schneider
Screwed Anthologies performances by David Dove and Lucas Gorham on 11/27/09
Neverland, a multi-media art happening in memory of Michael Jackson 7-17-09
Video still by Kelly Kleinschrodt, part of Low Lives exhibition
January 3, 2010 at 6:45 pm · Filed under BLOG
labotanica seeks proposals for creative classes for its School of Latitudes, to be launched in February 2010.
The School of Latitudes includes classes, lectures, workshops, conversations, and symposia framing creativity as a tool for empowerment and enlightenment. Emphasizing flexible, experiential, and cross-disciplinary approaches to education, classes cover a range of topics on creative and social transformation and respond to the needs of the community. All classes are affordable, free or available through scholarships, and therefore accessible to people of all backgrounds.
To teach a class, email the following by Jan 30th to la(at)labotanica(dot)org: class name, description of class (no more than 1 paragraph), biography (no more than 1 paragraph), approximate cost of class per individual (teacher receives 75% of fees, labotanica receives 25%. Please be realistic).
About labotanica:
labotanica is a laboratory of ideas using flexible, open-ended formats to frame new dialogues. labotanica engages diverse communities to explore creative and social transformation through education, collaboration, and experimentation.
December 29, 2009 at 8:45 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Miya Masaoka — musician, composer, sound artist — has created works for koto and electronics, Laser Koto, field recordings, laptop, video and written scores for ensembles, chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects, as well as the physiological response of plants, the human brain and her own body. Within these varied contexts her performance work investigates the interactive, collaborative aspects of sound, improvisation, nature and society.
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December 29, 2009 at 7:20 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
“A twenty-first-century biennial will utilize calculated uncertainty and conscious incompleteness to produce a catalyst for invigorating change whilst always producing the harvest of the quiet eye.” –Cedric Price
„New biennials should invent new exhibition formats. The current multiplication of biennials means that rather than copying the formats of other biennials, the challenge is to provide new spaces and new temporalities. It is urgent to generate a situation that is receptive to interesting, more complex spaces combining the large and the small, the old and the new, accelerating and deceleration, noise and silence.” –Hans Ulrich Obrist
„..a new start is likely to take place beyond the European continent.“ –Daniel Birnbaum
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December 29, 2009 at 1:57 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Pedro Reyes, Capula, 2002.
Selection from BOMB Magazine Interview Pedro Reyes by Tatiana Cuevas TC In your capulas you create habitable spaces that are at once comfortable yet alien to step into. PR They’re meant to be the antithesis of a standard construction. If a standard room is made of squares, the capula will be spherical. If walls are solid and rigid, the capula will be soft and elastic. If a wall divides interior from exterior, the capula will be permeable. If a room is grounded on its foundations, the capula will be suspended in the air. If walls block natural light, the capula enclosure will conduct light. If a wall produces a stable image, the capula will create an optical interference so it will appear as ever-changing. If there is furniture and furniture is within the architecture, the capula will be something in between and will render that division unnecessary. Humans have created many different exoskeletons, from clothes to architecture; and my idea was to create one that could exist between furniture and architecture, a sort of space in which you could float. This space cannot be defined through a specific narrative or symbolism but must be defined by experience. The idea is to build an experience. more
December 22, 2009 at 2:11 pm · Filed under BLOG, dance, fiber arts, performance
Call for Artists:
dancers, performance artists, fashion & fabric designers, visual & installation artists
Submission deadline: 12/28/09
A Moving Theater of Absolute Uniqueness
(OR the aesthetic pleasure of pioneering creativity) is a presentation of movement-based works which encourages unconventional performance that is influenced by formal dance practices. Organized by Y. E. Torres, A Moving Theater of Absolute Uniqueness is part of a larger project with pioneer performer, Jill Parker of San Francisco’s Foxglove Sweethearts, which will be held at Frenetic Theater in Houston, Texas on Saturday evening, January 30, 2010. Performance time to be announced.
**We are seeking artists via three components:**
1) Experimental Movement – performers whose practice challenges the boundaries and execution of formal dance/movement
2) Bellydance – performers whose work is inspired by a formal bellydance practice
3) Fashion/Fabric Design – experimental designers/artists whose work examines inimitability.
In doing this, A Moving Theater of Absolute Uniqueness will utilize an investigational and performance driven format to intersect unlikely audiences and promote experimentation of the aesthetics of movement.
**Submission Guidelines & Requirements:**
To apply to participate in A Moving Theater of Absolute Uniqueness
please submit via email:
• Contact information including Name, Address, Phone Number, Email Address
• Specify category of submission –
1) Experimental Movement 2) Bellydance 3) Fashion/Fabric Design
• Work samples:
– For all dance & movement submissions:
1) Artist/Company Bio – no more than 2-3 sentences
2) Artist/Company Image(s) – please send 2 images, no more than 2 MB each, JPG format
3) Performance example – please submit ONE performance example via Youtube or other video hosting website, up to 5 minutes. This performance does not have to be what you will be performing, but MUST give an example of the quality of your work. Please include title of piece, year, and music credit.
– For designer/artist submission
1) Artist/Company Bio – no more than 2-3 sentences
2) Design Image(s) – please send 5 images, no more than 2 MB each, JPG format
• All submissions may include up to 3 links to artist’s websites or other web destinations that support their current body of work.
• Artist statement including intention and how work relates to the theme – no more than 5 sentences
• Current CV – one page
• Entry Fee – $20.00 check or money order made out to Y. E. Torres.
Check or money order should be mailed to:
Y. E. Torres
c/o YET: drawing, dance & design
PO Box 231532
Houston, TX 77023
Please note -
A portion of the Call for Entry Fee will provide scholarships for the Public Workshops with Jill Parker.
This show is open to all forms of dance and movement. This show is open to all forms of fashion design, fabric design and fabric manipulation.
Participation in workshops is not required to perform.
Interested artists can submit previously created works or new work to be considered.
Email all submission materials to: YET.Torres@gmail.com
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Important Dates:
December 28, 2009 – Submission deadline
January 4, 2010 – Receipt of Entry Fee by mail deadline
January 8, 2010 – Artists notified on selection
January 30, 2010 – A Moving Theater of Absolute Uniqueness at Frenetic Theater
Please contact YET at YET.Torres@gmail.com for questions regarding vending or volunteering at this event.
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Here is a link to the original newsletter releasing information about this Call for Entry ::
http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=77d012a610959603eb6a8adc1&id=e18ec72986
To stay up to date on this and other related events please sign up for the mailing list here ::
http://myspace.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=77d012a610959603eb6a8adc1&id=99497f3dfd
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About A Moving Theater of Absolute Uniqueness
Drawing inspiration from the traditional aspects of fashion and dance this event seeks to support deliberately discipline-defying, breakthrough projects which challenge conventional ideas about movement, costume, installation and its application in performance. Complemented by inventive fashion and fabric design elements, A Moving Theater of Absolute Uniqueness will serve as an outlet for experimentation by creating an environment for artistic growth and expanding public access to non-traditional dance application in Houston, TX.
This project will be organized by Y. E. Torres, a visual and performance artist based in Houston, TX, whose work presents a festive exhibition of deviance and sweetness against traditional models of visual art and dance.
A Moving Theater of Absolute Uniqueness is part of a larger project with pioneer performer, Jill Parker of San Francisco’s Foxglove Sweethearts.
This project includes 5 days of workshops, a one-night event/performance,
and a Q & A – all accessible and open to the public.
A Moving Theater of Absolute Uniqueness will include new works by Jill Parker and Tessa Myers of Foxglove Sweethearts, Y. E. Torres, Sandy Ewen and artists found via this Call for Entry.
This project will be Parker’s Houston premier and first visit to Texas since 2006.
For information on these upcoming workshops with Jill Parker in Houston, TX, please go here ::
http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=77d012a610959603eb6a8adc1&id=e9fa53b168
A Moving Theater of Absolute Uniqueness will be held at Frenetic Theater on Saturday evening, January 30, 2010. Performance time to be announced.
Frenetic Theater
5102 Navigation
Houston, TX 77011
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Please forward this Call for Artists to all interested parties! THANKS!
Y. E. Torres
Houston, TX
YET: Drawing, Dance & Design
281) 827-3475
Twitter :: http://twitter.com/YE_Torres
Facebook :: http://www.facebook.com/yetorres
Flickr :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yetorres/
Myspace :: http://www.myspace.com/ye_torres
November 19, 2009 at 7:16 pm · Filed under ARCHIVE, hip-hop, music, screw music
An interview with DJ Screw from Rap Pages, november 1995, part of a larger feature on Houston. 
Click on the image to read interview
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