Festival Closing Celebration
Drop- n to Axelrad, Houston’s favorite neighborhood beer garden, and celebrate the closing of CounterCurrent19 with happy hour cocktails, light bites, and live music.Read more
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Current Conversations
Houston artist Carrie Schneider organizes a series of public conversations across disciplines and along parallel lines of inquiry. CounterCurrent festival artists and University of Houston faculty experts engage in lively discussion about themes and concepts connected to this year’s festival programming.Read more
The Watch, Reprise, 2016
Long String Instrument composer and performer, Ellen Fullman, explores the acoustics of large resonant spaces with her compositions and collaborative improvisations. Fullman will literally “play” the iconic atrium of the Philip Johnson-designed Hines College of Architecture and Design building at the University of Houston, an action first performed in 1994. Read more
Ten Tiny Dances®: Nightlife
Ten Tiny Dances®: Nightlife brings together artists, dancers, and club scene icons from Houston and beyond for a night of performances that reflect on the ways in which the cultural knowledge unique to individual club cultures is transmitted and archived through dance, gesture, fashion, and musicRead more
Sitting on a Man's Head
Artists-in-residence through the Performing the Neighborhood initiative of the Mitchell Center and Project Row Houses over the past three years, Okpokwasili and Born have created a “public song” that engages the Project Row Houses campus, local artists, and the Houston community. Their installation in a row house will be activated during CounterCurrent as an immersive live experience.Read more
Salt Water Sweet Water (2019)
Taking place at “Houston's birthplace,” Allen's Landing on Buffalo Bayou, Gardner's Salt Water Sweet Water is a site-specific response to Houston's own history of commerce and construction. Visitors will interact with these histories through a presentation of projected image, sound, and performance.Read more
Opening Night Celebration
Celebrate the opening of CounterCurrent19 with dancing, drinks, and DJs at Rich’s nightclub, following the conclusion of Ten Tiny Dances®: Nightlife.Read more
LA QUEERADORA
Jennif(f)er Tamayo's LA QUEERADORA installation sits at the intersection of digital cultural production and embodied cultural performance. It asks: How do material bodies, whose lives hold an archive of cultural knowledge and experience, compete with a manufactured and digitally porous production of identity?Read more
"The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand" by Geoff Dyer
Houston Center for Photography
"The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand" by Geoff Dyer
Lecture and Book Signing as part of the ongoing series, Words & Pictures
Houston Center for Photography is pleased to present a lecture from world-renowned author and critic, Geoff Dyer, on The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand. In this book, Dyer takes the viewer on a journey through the iconic photographer’s life and work by presenting a carefully curated selection of one hundred photographs from the Winogrand archive at the Center for Creative Photography. Read more
Mind The Gap
Dance Source Houston, in collaboration with MATCH, presents the tenth installment of Mind The Gap performance, featuring works by local choreographers Shanon Adame, Padmini Chari, Jaime Fruge Walne and Maggie Lasher. Read more
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