Diverseworks Art Space » Fall 2007

Becky Beaullieu Valls & Babette Beaullieu Wattigny: Memoirs of the Sistahood

admin — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:01:20 +0000

Fridays & Saturdays, December 7, 8, 14, 15, 2007
8pm

A true multi-media collaboration, Memoirs of the Sistahood would launch the first or a series of collaborative works between the Houston–based performer/choreographer Becky Beaullieu Valls and New Orleans-based sculptor Babette Beaullieu Wattigny. This first installment of the multi-media performance series focuses on female archetypes and the six Beaullieu sisters: Beth, Becky, Babette, Bonnie, Bitsy, and Barbara. Originating from shared family and sensory memories, the work includes dance, music, spoken text, and projected media all framed by Babette’s life-sized

Jean-Baptiste André: comme en plein jour

admin — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:54:29 +0000

CELEBRATE AND DISCUSS

Friday and Saturday , November 16 & 17, 2007, 8pm

Jean-Baptiste André continues to research the body, the topic of identity, and the notion of metamorphosis in his new work, comme en plein jour (as in full day). Jean-Baptiste is fascinated by the metamorphosis figure and how the body, in a wide and clear space, can create shapes and form; This diptych to 2004’sInterieur Nuit is powered by an electronic score, where circus, dance, and video art meet in a world of uncertain identity, shifting colour, startling landscapes, and skewed perspective.

Jean-Baptiste has recently been working as the artist-in-residence at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media in Japan. He has been working with musician Aoki Takamasa and videographer Noriko Matsumoto to investigate the connections between dance, camera, music and technology. Andre has also been working with noted multi-media installation artist Robin Rhode on a work on video titled “The Storyteller.”

CELEBRATE AND DISCUSS
	Friday Night, the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts and its presenting partners Global Quality Imports, Inc and Andre’s Pastry Shop and Café will be hosting a post-performance reception.		Saturday Night, DiverseWorks and Arts Houston will host a post-performance celebration of Jean-Baptiste’s cover on this month’s edition of ArtsHouston .

Claude Wampler: PERFORMANCE (career ender)

admin — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:51:57 +0000

Friday, November 9, 2007
8 & 10pm

New York-based visual and performance artist Claude Wampler returns to DiverseWorks with her latest work titled PERFORMANCE (career ender), a piece marking the completion of Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience. Presenting this work in a theater setting, Wampler demonstrates her fascination with how the formality and playfulness that are present in a theatrical context regulate an audience’s behavior and expectations that, when either dashed or met, complete the work and act as the essential final touch. In an effort to relieve viewers of their typical media-specific responses, Wampler cancels out the distinction between object and performance to allow for a new beginning or a clean ending.

Devendra Banhart – Some Drawings

admin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:26:08 +0000

Opening reception: Friday, November 9, 2007, 6-8pm
November 9, 2007 – December 15, 2007

Known mostly for his catalogue of folk music songs that some have described as “psychedelic,” Devendra Banhart is a San Francisco-based artist and musician whose small, fine-line ink drawings combine strange and sometimes beastly human and animal figures, ornamental framing devices, abstract symbols and bits of language to create oddly charming works that defy definition. Intimate and hypnotic, Banhart’s works on paper share affinities to Tantric diagrams and Indian narratives, giving rise to fantastic private worlds.

Claude Wampler – PERFORMANCE (career ender)

admin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:02:40 +0000

Opening reception: Friday, November 9, 2007, 6-8pm

November 9, 2007 – December 15, 2007

New York-based visual and performance artist Claude Wampler returns to DiverseWorks with her latest work titled PERFORMANCE (career ender), a piece marking the completion of Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience. Presenting this work in a theater setting, Wampler demonstrates her fascination with how the formality and playfulness that are present in a theatrical context regulate an audience’s behavior and expectations that, when either dashed or met, complete the work and act as the essential final touch. In an effort to relieve viewers of their typical media-specific responses, Wampler cancels out the distinction between object and performance to allow for a new beginning or a clean ending.

DiverseWorks & Aerosol Warfare Present: This Old House

admin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:51:06 +0000

Over the past few months, Aerosol Warfare has been transforming DiverseWorks’ satellite space into a fantastical pop landmark in midtown as part of our latest public art project, This Old House. The 2 story Victorian home, given to DiverseWorks to use by the Brackman Family, was intended for storing DiverseWorks’s archives and to house touring artists but instead has become a project in itself. Through the addition of bright playful colors to each side of the house and large graffiti murals, Aerosol Warfare brightens up a corner of Houston that was once covered with Sesame Street characters.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 5 to 7pm

1625 Alabama, Houston, TX, 77004 (at Almeda)

W.H.E.W

admin — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:12:03 +0000

Women Healing Empowering Women hosts their first annual conference/ workshop/ fundraiser at DiverseWorks this weekend. Conference is from 9am – 3PM; workshops from 3-5pm; and fundraisers until 10pm.

6pm – 10pm, Oct 27: FELA KUTI Party: Featuring music by Fela and Femi Kuti all night

6pm – 10pm, Oct 28: House/Real Hip Hop/ Funk Soul/ Neosoul Party.

Evening Events are $15.

for more information, please call: Busi Peters-Maughan (713.874.0525 or 713.208.4376).

Claude Wampler: Rehearsed Reverse

admin — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:13:06 +0000

Thursday & Friday, October 25 & 26, 2007, 7:30pm

In this not-to-be-missed private performance, Claude Wampler blows the lid off the notion of traditional dinner theater. Using the format of an intimate four-course dinner party as the context for the evening’s events, Rehearsed Reverse serves up a multi-media, highly choreographed, interactive experience of ritual, theatrics, Bollywood drama and carefully considered cuisine.

Tickets are $100 (includes dinner) and seats are extremely limited.

special thanks to Catering by Culinaire.

UNUSUAL ANIMALS: HOUSTON OUR EARS DEPEND ON YOU

admin — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:10:32 +0000

Saturday, October 20, 2007, 3pm

DiverseWorks is excited to team up with Rice University ‘s Radio Station, KTRU (91.7FM) and Asthmatic Kitty Record Label for Unusual Animals: Houston, Our Ears Depend On You. This live event developed, from Asthmatic Kitty’s Unusual Animals Series, highlights local artists, our local community, and the variety of activities that make up the cultural being that is the city of Houston. Performances will feature Asthmatic Kitty’s Cryptacize & Future Rapper along with local bands – Moth Fight, Space City Gamelan, Hearts of Animals and The Wiggins. Sponsored by Sound Exchange, Poison Girl, Tito’s Vodka, Microcinema, St. Arnold’s Brewery, Signal To Noise

Eleanor Sandresky: A Sleeper's Notebook

admin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:50:19 +0000

Foundation for Modern Music
Thursday, October 18, 2007
7:30pm

DiverseWorks partners with the Foundation for Modern Music to present composer, pianist, and lecturer Eleanor Sandresky in the Houston premiere of her groundbreaking solo piano ballet A Sleeper’s Notebook for “choreographic piano.” In the evening-length work, Sandresky translates the human dream state through sound and movement, crafting an ethereal, one-woman display of pianistic virtuosity and unique choreography that Philip Glass has called “a highly personal and lucid musical world.”