EXQUISITE BEE!!

The screening of our Fusebox project, "Exquisite Bee", is happening on this weekend at the United States Art Authority! We're very proud of all our participants and had such a grand time coordinating the fun. You can check out our set installation in the gallery windows from now til Sunday & the screening starts Saturday, May 2nd at 730PM!

Afterwards, my favorite austin drag queen and foot fetish funk jams!!?!? YESSSSSS!!!!

ART SCHOOL DRAMA

Soap opera at UT recently involving an informal class instructor, a painting, the "dangerous" color yellow, a confused professor, and too much blogging. A situation so ridiculous even ol' John Kelso felt he had to weigh in.

The painting is currently in the 3rd floor gallery, and today there are people here from all over town looking for it and snapping pics with their iphones.

My favorite quote from this whole mess: "It's embarrassing that this happened at all. It's embarrassing that I'm even commenting on this blog." TOO TRUE, Chris, too true.

WHO KNEW?

bees in the biennial? i had no idea!

it's 5:55pm on opening night and i am just now looking at biennial info.

woooopsz

congrats beelings!
IVAN v v v v v vv v v v v v v v v v v

LEIGH v v v v v v v v v v v v 

JILL      v v v v v v v v v v

From Michael Duncan, a quote which Jill predicted with uncanny accuracy a few days ago:
"Finally, onstage at Fiesta Gardens on March 27, performance artist Jill Pangallo unleashes her inner angels and demons in a raucous spectacle of clashing alter-egos, therapeutic psychodrama, and cathartic release."
DANG CAN'T WAIT

also tons of other people and art and things including angela fox, whose drawings i totally loved in the last 5x7 show but couldn't find out anything else about her despite multiple attempts at internet stalking, and super events listings (including a performance night April 2nd with No Mas Bodas and one of my all time personal performance heroes Silky Shoemaker) !!

TX BIENNIAL Y'ALL

Once In A Kermit

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Video for Your Ears

Come expand your aural and visual horizons with live music performed by the Tosca String Quartet complimented by the video compositions of local artists Lee Webster, Paul Baker, and Tyler Hardy. Compositions by the Golden Hornet Project, Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski, as well as many other local and national musicians.

WHO: Golden Hornet Project presents the Tosca String Quartet
WHAT: Our Tenth Anniversary Season Kick-Off
WHERE: Alamo Ritz, 320 E 6th Street
WHEN: 8pm, this Sunday, March 1st
COMPOSERS: DJ Spooky, Gabriel Prokofiev, Tina Marsh, Emily Marks, Lauren Larson, Josh Robins, Graham Reynolds, and Peter Stopschinski
VIDEO: Lee Webster, Paul Baker, Tyler Hardy and more.
BUY TICKETS: http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=6159

From Golden Hornet Project:
GHP kicks off its Tenth Anniversary Season the way we began a decade ago: with a concert by the wonderful Tosca String Quartet. Begun as part of the Tosca Tango Orchestra, the quartet is an accomplished crossover string ensemble, having performed and/or recorded with David Byrne, The Dixie Chicks, Bob Schneider, Willie Nelson, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, Lambchop and many others. For this concert Tosca will perform pieces by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Peter Stopschinski, Josh Robins, and Graham Reynolds, along with the US premiere of a piece by Gabriel Prokofiev and world premieres by Emily Marks, Tina Marsh and Lauren Larson.

A Carousel Good Time!

Thanks all for coming out to the release of 2! We were so glad to see you there, check out some pictures of you pretty people havin a good time.












Keep your eyes peeled for the debut of our latest release, 2, on our website March 2!

WWW.AUSTINVIDEOBEE.COM

A formal invitation...

Come welcome the new bees!


Not only are we celebrating the release of our second themed video compilation 2 this evening but we are pleased as punch to be welcoming newest members of our growing Bee!
Sally Bergon
Leigh Brodie
Lisa Choinacky
Leah DeVun
& Amanda Joy
We are pretty excited to be working with these amazing Austin artists and hope you'll come out and raise a glass with us! Group photos in front of the elephant!

7:30pm, the Carousel Lounge, 1110 E. 52nd St.

XO, AVB

No National Monument Artist Talk

Artist Talk: 7pm Wednesday, February 18th
Show Dates: February 7th through 21st

The work in this show is an attempt to reconnect and reconfigure a personal cultural and historical heritage. The result is the creation of a visual dialogue that can convey and create specific moments of rediscovery and reclamation. Rather than provide answers, the pieces in the show aim to further complicate the quest to create identities in contemporary American society.

Carlos Rosales-Silva is currently attending the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of Okay Mountain Gallery and has recently had shows at Co-Lab (Austin, TX) and Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, TX) in their Young Latino Artists showcase.

2: Compilation Release Party 2/19!

CHANNELING

GOOD NEWS: AVB, in conjunction with aGLIFF is presenting a screening!
CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits:

CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that summons the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. If we imagine the technologies of film and video as occult mediums rather than technological ones, then perhaps we can make a kind of spiritual contact with the emotional and physical realities that are often invisible (ghostly) in everyday life. In this sense, both the camera and the ghost stories it captures can serve as powerful instruments in the act of queer worldmaking.

The artists in this program use their bodies and stories as conduits that channel the political and historical dramas that haunt the queer experience: the AIDS pandemic (Renwick, DiStefano), the body in transition (Montague), the idealized nuclear family (Pena, Robinson), and the cultural conventions that shape desire and desirability (EMR, Moulton).

CHANNELING is more than communing with the dead: it is a method of accessing the living. The stories we share together in the flickering light are not disembodied records of the past, but rather, bewitching presences that speak to us here, in this very darkened room. In using moving images to propose the phantom as a fundamentally queer body—a liminal manifestation, floating between two worlds—we open the possibility of entering into a spiritual dialogue from which queerness is often excluded. Like the process of filmmaking itself, CHANNELING is a reinterpretation of light and shadow; a new form of alchemy that can guide us through sorrow, pronounce our desires when we lack the language to do so, and conjure utopias that re-vision - and therefore reshape - the political present. The future is bright. Come into the light, Carol Anne!



Join us this coming Satuday, January 24, at 8:30 PM at The Hideout (617 Congress Ave).
Tickets are $5, and there will be a meet and greet with the curators, Ethan A White and Latham Zearfoss before the screening and a Q&A after the screening.
Get more info here and here.



ALSO, there will be a dance party afterward at The Cockpit (113 San Jacinto)!
Ethan and Latham will be DJ'ing some awesome dance (they have already promised some Sylvester, so I'm pleased as punch).