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We are pleased to have Neil Ellis Orts, Wanda Harding, Abby Koenig, Dean Liscum and John Pluecker share their responses to the Fall 2011 theme:
I WAS LOOKING FOR A JOB, AND THEN I FOUND A JOB, AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW. The artist with the most votes will receive $100.00 cash money. Voting will continue through 11:59 PM CST on January 18, 2012.
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Wanda Harding is a reformed computer programmer and is happy exploring many art forms – photography, painting, poetry and essay writing. She lives inside the loop with her husband, seven-year old daughter and tabby cat. She’s always hoping for the possible. …
click to continue to Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Get with the Program” – Wanda Harding
Abby Koenig recently completed her MA in Mass Communication from the University of Houston. She is a regular contributor to the Houston Press’ Art Attack blog. Additionally, she is a playwright and performance artist with works produced in Houston and New York. She enjoys to complain incessantly about the end of world, which you can find her rambling about on her blog www.thesuccub.us. …
click to continue to Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Uneven Parallel Bars” – Abby Koenig
John Pluecker is a writer, interpreter, educator and translator. His work is informed by experimental poetics, radical aesthetics and cross-border cultural production and has appeared in journals and magazines in the U.S. and Mexico, including the Rio Grande Review, Picnic, Third Text, Animal Shelter, HTMLGiant and Literal. He has published more than five books in translation from the Spanish, including essays by a leading Mexican feminist, short stories from Ciudad Juárez and a police detective novel. There are two chapbooks of his work, Routes into Texas (DIY, 2010) and Undone (Dusie Kollektiv, 2011). …
click to continue to Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Ingrate ” – John Pluecker
Neil Ellis Orts is a writer and performer supporting himself via a series of less than fulfilling day jobs. He’s written a lot of stuff. Some of it has even been published. …
click to continue to Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Always June” – Neil Ellis Orts
Dean Liscum works in the marketing department of a large, multi-national company. When he’s not pimping his metaphors out for pennies, he writes for Robert Boyd’s local arts blog. He’s been published in Arts Houston magazine, The PanHandler, and possibly other now defunct periodicals, zines, websites/webholes that he’s too lazy to look up or too unambitious to fake. …
click to continue to Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Prelude to a Meeting” – Dean Liscum
Ayman Harper with Matmos (theLID Friday & Saturday, January 13 & 14, 2012, 7:30pm (Please note the Friday & Saturday night performance are SOLD OUT! However, we will have a waiting list at the door and will release tickets for late reservations and no shows) * Please arrive at DiverseWorks no later than 7:15pm. Tickets will be released at 7:30pm
Post-performance Reception: Friday, January 13
Part-time Houston-based choreographer and former Forsythe Company member Ayman Harper comes to DiverseWorks with the U.S. premiere of (theLID, a conceptualized dance event. Collaborating with renowned sound artists Matmos, …
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Thursday-Saturday, November 17-19, 2011 8pm
Choreographer, Becky Valls and her sister / sculptor, Babette Beaullieu team up with film maker Deborah Schildt to bring you the third chapter in their memoirs series. Chapter Three: Ave Maria is about “remembering mama” in the context of a large Catholic family in Louisiana. The performance fuses the sisters’ individual art work with childhood ‘sense memories’, a cast of dancers, a singer, film, and an art installation.
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Sponsored by Saint Arnold Brewing Company
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Tara Conley & Tria Wood My Life as a Doll Curator Diane Barber November 11-December 17, 2011 Opening Reception: Fri. Nov. 11, 2011 6-9pm
My Life as a Doll You travel through Tara Conley’s and Tria Wood’s My Life as a Doll as a voyeur might through a stranger’s home, inspecting room after room for what might be occurring inside. At times you do a double take at the wall of mirrors and in the “cock & tail” party room, in the expansive “closet” with its colorful ropey tentaclelike cotton dress and eerily flat …
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flickerlounge: A Sense of Place and Home Short Films and Video Works by Braden King Co-presentation with Aurora Picture Show November 11-December 17, 2011 Opening Reception: Fri., Nov. 11, 6-9pm
Playing off personal narratives, landscape and a sense of place and time, Braden King’s work transforms a nostalgic feeling of home.
Sparklehorse: Morning Hollow (6:25) Music Video. Album: “It’s a Wonderful Life” (Capitol)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: Horses (4:40) Music Video. Album: “Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music” (Drag City / Domino)
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