Lolly Willowes
After a lifetime of misery, Laura Willowes is done with the world of men. The moon is up, the autumn wind is calling, and a mysterious hunter waits in the forest. It's time to go...Read more
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We Been Did That
Autumn Knight and Robert Pruitt, Texas natives who began their artist careers in Houston, will historicize contemporary art-making practices in Houston by discussing its black and artist-of color communities.Read more
SUSTENTO: from La Performera to La Mujer Maravilla
SUSTENTO: from La Performera to La Mujer Maravilla is a lecture-performance by the transdisciplinary artist, Awilda Rodríguez Lora also known as La Performera. Stories, movements, and songs are strategies used by La Performera to invite the audience to reflect on the concept of sustento (sustenance) as a complex and vital idea for survival in creative and everyday practices.Read more
Perpetu-War
"Make Art, Not War" has become a cliché sentiment, perhaps to the point of losing its meaning. But, artist Ganzeer asks, is there something to it? Is it at all possible that art represents antitheses to a culture of warfare that has dominated humanity since the beginning of our time?Read more
How Does a Composer Compose?
In this lecture-demonstration, Garrop takes the audience through a step-by-step process of how she composes instrumental music, demystifying a process that for many remains challenging to understand. Read more
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
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
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