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Events on Friday, April 1, 2022

Friday, April 1, 2022

Friday, April 1

6:00 PM

exhibition & knowledge-building research lab

Overlapping Territories is an interdisciplinary, experimental space for six artists to engage, discover, and reimagine what it means to be in relationship to the land. Curated by Ashley DeHoyos, this ongoing project begins with a Houston-centered approach as a way of understanding what conversations around land already exist within the city. Artists Liyen Chong , Catherine Davila-Martinez , Angel Lartigue , Matt Manalo , Jenah Maravilla , and Monica Villarreal will create multidisciplinary projects that reflect the breadth of the investigations and interrogations into land-centered politics and the issues attached to particular geographies and histories.Read more

Friday, April 1 at 7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Electrifying American ensemble works Featuring guest composer & guitar virtuoso D.J. Sparr Works by Mazzoli, Snider, Lanman, Pärt, & Sparr

STILL LIFE WITH AVALANCHE
Electrifying American ensemble works with guest composer & electric guitar virtuoso D.J. Sparr.
Works by Mazzoli, Snider, Lanman, Pärt, & Sparr.

The spirit of punk rock, heavy metal, and classical chamber music combine to explosive effect on Aperio’s next program, Still Life With Avalanche , featuring recent works by American composers D.J. Sparr, Missy Mazzoli, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Anthony Joseph Lanman.Read more

Friday, April 1 at 8:00 PM

8:00 PM

By Suzan-Lori Parks

Grace is a waitress who lives in a small border town in south Texas with her husband Vet, a border patrol agent. She encourages Vet’s troubled son Buddy to return home and reunite with his father in time for a celebration honoring Vet’s service. What ensues is a battle for power, revenge, and release from past traumas. In The Book of Grace , Pulitzer-prize winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks, explodes the American family portrait to expose the borders and fences destroying the American home and by extension, the country.Read more