DWOW

Fig Pudding Performs organized by Regina Agu and Sandy Ewen Fig Pudding will perform a series of original scores written by Regina Agu, Carol Sandin Cooley, Megan Easley, Sandy Ewen, Gabriel Martinez, Rebecca Novak, Rachel Orosco, Carrie Schneider, Ronnie Yates, and Hanna Yoo. Fig Pudding is the current iteration of an evolving music and performance ensemble that performs improvisation, graphic scores, performance pieces, and occasionally more traditional forms of composition. Sandy Ewen founded the all-female group in 2009 as a way to capitalize on the under-utilized resource of creative women in experimental music. The group has changed its name to a different fruit flavor for every performance. Memorable performances include: the Pawpaw Pomelo show atop the Mekong Plaza on July 4, 2010, wherein the band accompanied live fireworks with an amplified vocal performance; the Pina Colada show at NMAS in Austin, Texas wherein the band collaborated  with video artist Rebecca Carlisle-Healy; the Durian Durian show at the Menil Collection, which showcased site-specific performance pieces; and the Gooseberry Marmalade show at 14 Pews in Houston wherein the band performed Scratch Orchestra pieces in collaboration with Keith Rowe. The group has a CDr release, but all the copies have gone missing. The […]

SonicWorks Open House For the final Wednesday evening of the exhibition SonicWorks, join us for a Saint Arnolds beer or a Topo Chico and interact with the exhibition. Play billiards on The Art Guys Pool Music, create noise and image compositions with Jack Massing's Marble Music for Four Story Rain Stick, or film yourself in front Mark Tribe's The Fields green screen.

Koomah and Stephanie Saint Sanchez Present an Evening of Queer Voices 1. Iris and Brennan:  Iris and Brennan are practitioners of Brazilian Jiujitsu with different transmasculine identities. They will present a movement performance executed through grappling to display a vigorous mutual navigation of masculinity with versatility in the choreographed struggle. 2. Momotaro featuring Koomah:  Momotaro collaborates with Koomah to present a performance about race, culture, belief, tradition, and the act of transition. 3. Koomah as Mallé FeMallé:  In the performance Dolls, Mallé FeMallé takes the audience on a sexy, dark adventure - a burlesque unlike any you may have seen before...with a sideshow twist. Ultimately leaving the audience exhilarated, shocked, and guessing which body parts were fake (if any!) and which were real. Dolls has been featured in New Orleans Queerlesque! and the 2012 Houston Fringe Festival's Anything Goes weekend. 4. Leenah Jimenez will be presenting her work with calligraphy and glass engraving. 5. Monica Roberts:  Writer and award-winning activist Monica Roberts will speak about her writing and blogging work as well as share some poetry. 6. define:TraNsition: Photographer Jan Johnson and poet Boston Davis Bostian discuss their new project, define:TraNsition, a collection of black and white portrait photographs blended with poetry to create a […]

Sound Work by Madsen Minax For this DWOW Madsen will perform "light wake (as opposed to heavy wave)" music about leaving and being left. Minax was born and raised in rural Northern Michigan and received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005 and an MFA from Northwestern University in 2012. Currently, Minax is a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX and a member of the DiverseWorks Artist Board. For more information about Minax, visit his web site. Madsen makes media-based works drawing upon notions of be/longing and the politics of dis/identification and desire. He approaches the medium through interests in science fiction, fantasy, dreams, erotics, and social justice to address a series of binaries: the slippage between erotics and violence, consent and violation, youth and adult, male and female, attraction and repulsion, inception and termination.  

Hans Scheirl's Dandy Dust (1998) presented by Artist Board Member Madsen Minax Hans Scheirl produced, wrote and directed this experimental British-Austrian avant-garde science-fiction fantasy about a "split-personality cyborg of fluid gender" -- Dandy Dust (played by Scheirl), who lives in an artificially created environment. Dandy's memory has been wiped out, but s/he still has flashbacks about a childhood of sexual perversion on the Planet of Blood and Swelling. Director Scheirl combines a variety of film techniques and formats -- fast-motion, black-and-white and color, animation (stop-motion, cut-out, clay, digital), Super 8mm, miniatures, tinted images, and frozen frames -- in a final video transfer to 16mm. Running time: 94 mins