DWOW

The Third Coast Dance Film Festival, curated by Rosie Trump, Lydia Hance, Ashley Horn, and Rebecca Salazar, celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image with a screening series of short dance films. The 2014 festival will screen nineteen film shorts, including thirteen international films from Canada, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Norway, South Korea, Spain, and the UK. The program includes three world, six USA, and ten Texas premieres.  Opening night is at DiverseWorks, as part of DiverseWorks on Wednesdays. The Third Coast Dance Film Festival was founded in 2010 by Rosie Trump, and the 2011 and 2012 Festival toured to the Kaleidoscope Arts Festival, outside of Pittsburgh, PA. Rosie Trump is a dance choreographer, filmmaker, educator and Artistic Director of Rosie Trump | With or Without Dance, a pick up company with a hybrid practice of dance and video media.  Trump's choreography and films have been shown throughout California, Texas, and the northeastern United States, as well as internationally in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Recently, her work was presented at the Prague Fring Festival, Dance New Amerstdam's Frameworks (New York City), the Toothache Duets (London) and Your Move Dance Festival (New Jersey). Trump holds a MFA in Experimental […]

DIVERSEWORKS ON WEDNESDAYS DiverseWorks Associate Curator Rachel Cook will give a gallery talk and lead a discussion about the current exhibition, Chelsea Knight &  Mark Tribe: Posse Comitatus.

DIVERSEWORKS ON WEDNESDAYS Five University of Houston graphic design graduate students - Jim DeVega, Laura Hill, Seth Lapeyrouse, Allen Van Luu, and Jason Wheeler - were tasked with conceptually responding to exhibition artists Chelsea Knight and Mark Tribe's work through personal investigations that converge cultural, social, historical, methodological, and/or technological contemporary issues within a graphic design context. This graduate-level graphic design seminar offered through the University of Houston School of Art encourages students to pursue advanced research in graphic design and critical theory. The students worked together with Professor of Art Sibylle Hagmann and DiverseWorks Associate Curator Rachel Cook to push the boundaries of design thinking and visual expression. Each student will give a presentation about their project and process, and each project will be on view in the DWOW gallery space.

Oliver Herring (b. 1964, Heidelberg, Germany) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, England and an MFA from Hunter College, New York. In 2002 Herring created the improvisatory art event TASK, an ongoing series of events, workshops and parties in which participants of all ages and demographics collectively dream up instructions and carry them out with the materials provided. Increasingly, TASK is becoming a tool in classrooms and communities to access contemporary art in a way that is experimental, open-ended, and accessible to anyone. Herring’s work has been exhibited widely. In the United States, his work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of Art, NY; Performa 09, NY; the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; and the Denver Art Museum, CO. Elsewhere, he has exhibited at the Camden Art Center, London, England; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; The Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan; the Xth Lyon Biennale, […]