"Going to Performa had me flying home with a resounding realization that Houston and the art we have happening here is even more important than I thought."
performance art
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Often art either asks the audience to ignore their surroundings or references the site as an afterthought — it really thrills me when a site-specific work utilizes the nature of a site to successfully drive a concept home.
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Performa commissions new works by artists, and also restages seminal works from performance history.
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Disco Kroger — AKA the grocery store near the intersection of Westheimer and Montrose in Houston — has officially closed.
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Decades ago, I accidentally began collecting stories and images of Texans who carried out unusual activities in the past. I came to see the individuals as outsider artists who engaged in performance and conceptual art. Here are some of their stories.
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"Performance Art is an excuse to get naked and roll around in paint."
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In our latest Art Dirt podcast, Brandon Zech and Christina Rees talk about the merits of shock value, the uselessness of labels, and the dread of getting stuck watching a bad performance.
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Day two of Glasstire's on-location podcast from the 2019 Satellite Art Show features talks with Michael Anthony García, Nicole Goodwin and Elizabeth Axtman.
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Held in advance of the museum's upcoming exhibition 'Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today,' which runs from June 20-September 15, 2019, the call will be used as a way to potentially include local and regional artists in the show.
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ExA's strength is that while it brings in national and international artists, the festival's organizers make a apparent effort to look for local talent in their own backyards.
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News
Experimental Action Performance Art Festival Announces Partial Lineup for 2019
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechWhile this year's lineup so far includes national and international acts, the festival also features many emerging local and regional performers, fulfilling the organizers' mission to foster local talent.
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Late last week, Houston native Solange Knowles presented “An Ode To,” a performance art piece at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. Part installation, part dance, and part concert, the event was…
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If you think about it long enough, everything is a sort of performance art, but not everyone knows to call it that. But broadcaster Alex Jones is now a “performance…
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Shia LaBeouf, the actor who stubbornly wants to be known as a performance artist, has been invited to participate in Houston’s Experimental Action, a three-day international performance art festival, via…
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Drive By
Kendall Jenner Copies Iconic Performance Artists to Create Her Own Performance Art
by Glasstireby GlasstireIn a recent video for W Magazine, Kendall Jenner recreates four iconic performance art works: Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece, Yves Klein’s The Anthropometries of the Blue Period, Saburo Murakami’s Passing Through, and Marina Abramović and Ulay’s AAA-AAA.…
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The thing about performance art (among many, many other things) is the cliché of the spewing, therapeutic peanut butter experience. On the other hand, the freedom and the openness of…
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Performance art is definitely in in Houston this week. First of all, performance art night returns to notsuoH tonight, April 26, from 9pm-12am. It will feature performances by Jennifer Free,…
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Leah Meltzer is a young and ambitious performance artist who recently moved to Austin from New Orleans. She attended the Parsons School of Design
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Jean-Ulrick Désert is a Haitian-born American artist living in Germany. His performance project Negerhosen 2ooo is one of the standouts of the soon-to-close Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art…
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“Do something to me that you will regret but you won’t apologize for!” These were instructions delivered by Clifford Owens from a score written by Steffani Jemison as a part of the CAMH’s…