CounterCurrent 16 - On a journey toward a single work of art, visitors encounter acts of movement, text, sound, throughout the museum, including walls, doorways, paths, corners and objects. With the audience wearing headphones and led by a docent, this performance takes the form of a unique museum tour: one that provokes audiences into a new way of seeing.Read more
CounterCurrent 16 - A lecture-performance using a satirical Azerbaijani weekly periodical as a springboard for discussion about self-censorship in history and contemporary life.Read more
CounterCurrent 16 - Fictional violence—ubiquitous and mind numbing—can cause society to overlook the very real violence in daily life. Maya Zbib and Omar Abi Azar of Zoukak Theater Company bring the phrase “innocent violence” working with University of Houston students to find out what violence means to them and how it has entered their lives.Read more
CounterCurrent 16 - This unique presentation takes on the two major geopolitical narratives of the twentieth and twenty-first century—Communism and political Islam—through the lens of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Poland’s Solidarnośc (Solidarity) movement in the 1980s.Read more
CounterCurrent 16 - Ten choreographers take on the challenge of creating ten short dances on one very small 4x4 stage, a raised cube in a large white room, with audience surrounding it like a boxing ring.Read more
CounterCurrent 16 - A collaboratively taught course by an acclaimed duo: visual artist, Michael Ray Charles, and writer/graphic novelist, Mat Johnson, the Graphic Novel workshop creates a thorough exploration of this emergent art form. Students in the course, coming from a range of disciplines, create a novel and present it in the form of an experimental exhibition for all to see.Read more
CounterCurrent 16 - Join a group of fifty people swarming out into the city on a guided audio tour that seems to follow you, as much you are following it.Read more
CounterCurrent 16 - A large inflatable bouncy house—like the one popping up on your neighbor’s lawn heralding the arrival of a child’s noisy birthday party—is custom built with walls that become glowing film screens. A camera captures the actions of participants bouncing inside the house, projecting live images on one side of the house.Read more
CounterCurrent 16 - Ghana ThinkTank poses the question What's your Houston diversity problem? to as many Houstonians as it can. During the festival, the collective will travel about with a portable cart to various neighborhoods, displaying the many statements, engaging in conversation and collecting more perspectives..Read more
When the sudden arrival of a former lover threatens her comfortable marriage, a successful romance novelist must examine her life, her choices, and the lines that separate head and heart, passion and apathy, liberation and restraint – and revenge and justice.Read more
