"Experimental Action"

The Experimental Action performance art festival is back for its second iteration! This year features local, national, and international artists. For more information on the festival, go here.

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.

While 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.

An open mic night for poetry, music, performance, and anything else.

ExA filled a niche that Houston has a long history of but has recently lacked: a strong presentation of young and subversive performance art.

The inaugural Experimental Action festival featuring three days of performance art. The festival will be hosted at multiple Houston venues, including Notsuoh, The Secret Group, and Walter’s Downtown.

Houston’s new Experimental Action performance art festival will reveal its 2017 artist lineup. The program’s schedule is as follows: 8PM: Artist Line-Up presentation and rundown of volunteer opportunities! 8:20PM: Q&A with…

From Ardest Gallery: “Abstraction is a Juried art show to be held at Ardest Gallery in The Woodlands, Texas, just North of Houston between July 10th-August 3rd. Submission Deadline: June 14 We…

William Sarradet writes about recent exhibitions at Ro2 Art and 4DWN in Dallas, and the International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen.

From the Dallas Museum of Art: “Bringing together 91 works from the Dallas Museum of Art’s (DMA) acclaimed collection of contemporary art and important loans from local private collections, Slip…

Tickets for this event are currently sold out. To join the waitlist, email [email protected] “An experimental inter-disciplinary micro-festival running for six nights at Blaffer Art Museum between May 23—June 5,…

A group exhibition surveying abstract painting in the Americas. To register for the December 15 conversation, Curated Conversations: Argentine Artists in the ’60s, go here. From the Museum: “Expanding Abstraction:…

An exhibition of works by UTD Senior Lance Eden. The pieces in the show “utilize the traditional silkscreen medium as an experimental process by printing onto various materials such as wood,…

Küçük Sinemalar formed as an informal group of film and video artists in İstanbul in 2008 to share and encourage non-traditional moving image works. The Küçük Sinemalar screenings provide a…

A special screening of four 16 mm films selected in response to San Antonio-based artist Justin Boyd’s exhibition, Dubforms at the VAC. Featuring: Viking Eggeling, Symphonie Diagonale (1924), B&W, 8…

Interpretations, Translations, Transactions is the international collaborative project devised by Jeremy DePrez, Francis Giampietro and Grant MacManus. Jeremy DePrez along with Aimee Lusty, Pablo Boffelli, Mitchell Cumming, Laurent Impeduglia, and…

From Ivester Contemporary: “Artist Michael Anthony García’s experience as a Chicano in the U.S. allows him to code-switch between Mexican and U.S. identities while understanding his alienness in both worlds.…

From Cluley Projects: “Cluley Projects, the satellite project space of Erin Cluley Gallery, is pleased to announce Three Dollar Bill, a group show featuring the collaborative Dallas based duo Chuck…

"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." 

Participatory Performance, Friendship and the Correspondence of Hannah Arendt, Forgiveness, Loyalty, and Authenticity Searching for 4 Houston area participants willing to workshop and collaborate to create an evening of immersive…