Senseless Acts of Beauty

[With thanks to GC in Carson City for the tip:]

Senseless Acts of Beauty

[graphic from Web site. Caption: "San Francisco".]

You Are Here

Aurora Picture Show
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts

Friday November 30 & Saturday December 1
You Are Here

The map is a device of multiple powers. What happens when this device is purposely redirected by artists?

You Are Here is a symposium featuring leading contemporary artists and researchers exploring the interplay between art and geography, activism and cultural studies. Can investigations of mapping, tracking and tactical media yield new forms of tourism, overwrite official boundaries with local ecologies, expose governmental secrets, and generate new ways of experiencing and understanding our physical environment?

Offered by the University of Houston Mitchell Center for the Arts in collaboration with Aurora Picture Show. Curated by Bree Edwards.

LOCATION: Aurora Picture Show
800 Aurora Street
Houston, TX
Information: 713.743.5548
$6 on Friday; Free admission on Saturday

SCHEDULE:
Friday 9:00 pm
Matt McCormick - Kick off performance by this award winning filmmaker and musician!

Saturday 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Presentations:
Nato Thompson, Curator, Creative Time - "Experimental Geography"
Institute for Applied Autonomy, artist collective - "Terminal Air"
Matthew Coolidge, Founder/Director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation - "Points of Disinterest in the Gulf Coast Region"


[image: screen grab from Aurora Web site.]

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Soft Turns

Neutral Ground
#203 - 1856 Scarth Street
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
S4P 2G3


November 10 - December 8, 2007
Soft Turns
Sarah Jane Gorlitz & Wojciech Olejnik

"This installation is comprised of two videos by Olejnik and Gorlitz: /mm and just add water. The videos were shot in time-lapse and feature a meticulously detailed model of a subway station constructed by the artists from candy and household objects. /mm takes the viewer slowly through the station, while just add water depicts the model slowly filling with water and then draining, peacefully and gently, leaving destruction in its wake.

Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik are an artist duo formerly from Ontario and now based in Berlin whose work addresses, complicates and in some cases contradicts the traditional understanding of the relationship between time and space."

[image from Neutral Ground Web site.]

Grounded?

Southern Exposure
Intersection for the Arts

Grounded? — The Grounded? Public Art/Urban Interventions Day

Saturday, December 1, 11am – 5pm

Admission: FREE
Location: Area around Southern Exposure and Intersection for the Arts

Stacy Asher
The Counter Narrative Society
James Goode
Genine Lentine
Sabina Nieto & Melinda Stone
Kari Orvik
Nancy Popp
Sidney Russell
Markuz Wernil Saito
Joshua Short

"Situate yourself in the public realm for this day of urban interventions and public art projects. The Grounded? Public Art/Urban Interventions Day presents work by artists using the city as a platform for creativity and expression. Pick up a map and schedule locating the selected projects at Southern Exposure or Intersection for the Arts or on our websites and start exploring!"

Projects selected by Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) Program Developer Erik Knutzen.]

[graphic from Southern Exposure Web site.]

[disclosure: The Data Stream editor serves on the advisory board of Southern Exposure.]

Jazz Fest April 25-27 + May 1-4, 2008

Save the dates: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival!

"Mahalia Jackson, often called the greatest gospel singer, returned to her hometown to appear at the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in April of 1970. While attending the Louisiana Heritage Fair in Congo Square (then known as Beauregard Square), she and Duke Ellington, who also appeared at the event, came upon the Eureka Brass Band leading a crowd of second-line revelers through the Festival grounds. George Wein, producer of the Festival, handed Ms. Jackson a microphone, she sang along with the band and joined the parade…and the spirit of Jazz Fest was born."

more | ticket information

[Screen grab and text from the Jazz Fest web site. The 2008 line-up will include the return of New Orleans' native sons, The Neville Brothers, in their tradtional, honored spot as the closing act of the festival.

The 'Stream' will publish the complete schedule, once it is finalized.]

I-10 Witness

I-10 Witness

The I-10 Witness continues to interview New Orleans residents about their storm related experiences. In conjunction with Xavier University's Department of Communications, we recently completed several rounds of interviews at St. Dominic's Church in Lakeview, Mary Queen of Vietnam Church in New Orleans East and the Uptown Shepard's Center. This week we will also continue to collect stories in Gert Town. Last month, we we're proud to collaborate with Mourning Line Productions and the 78th Street Theater in Manhattan, NY for our first public installation of these narratives. The show was seen by several New Yorkers who continue to visit our website. It is our hope that these types of events can keep this story alive in the hearts and minds of people throughout this country. As always, if you or anyone you know is interested in recording their story or helping to gather stories please contact us through the site as we would be happy to meet with you at your convenience.

[graphic: screen grab detail of I-10 Witness web site. Pictured: Verna Thompson; Age: 56; Home: Harvey, LA; Occupation: Custodian. Listen]