E/x
With Luke Savisky
Saturday, September 18, 8PM
Location: Buffalo Bayou East End Silo Site, 490 N. Live Oak (see map below)
FREE Admission
Aurora Picture Show and the University of Houston Mitchell Center for the Arts present a media archeological dig right from the heartland of Texas featuring artists including Luke Savisky, Potter Belmar Labs and Graffiti Research Labs. As part of our annual Media Archeology multimedia festival, these artists will host site-specific media events that explore the past and the present through tools that have been manipulated and repurposed such as film, light, sound, and live performance. The final night of the festival will feature Luke Savisky of Austin.
Along the bayou on the darkest edge of downtown Houston, the enormous, looming cylindrical shapes of four abandoned grain silos will be brought alive by “E/x,” Luke Savisky's site-specific multi-projection performance installation at the Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s East End site. His recent large-scale interactive work, “Eye of Texas” (see photograph) was projected onto the 85ft tall Green treatment plant water tower and awestruck audiences in downtown Austin for the First Night festival.
For “E/x,” projected faces and bodies of performance participants will move through and interact with the shapes of the silos within pulsing layers of color and motion imagery created for the project by Savisky. Live imagery, original film footage and found elements from his 16mm, 35mm and digital archive will combine to evoke themes of defense, confinement, emergence and transformation. Accompanied by a soundscape composed by ambient masters, Stars of the Lid, the resulting experience will be sure to create a haunting, otherworldly scene against the glimmering urban skyline of Houston. This project made possible in part by The Creative Capital Foundation.
The three-night festival not only includes this closing program with interactive live projection on the side of the enormous abandoned grain silos in Houston's East End with artist Luke Savisky, but will kick-off with a laser light show projected on the side of the Menil Collection with Graffiti Research Labs-Houston and also includes a night with a remix of the famous controversial film "I am Curious Yellow" with Potter Belmar Labs in Heights Theater (infamously set on fire during a screening of the film in 1969).
Refreshments available from Fusion Tacos or Frosted Betty Mobile Bake Shop.
Very special thanks to the Buffalo Bayou Partnership for their support of this program.
With additional support provided by Art Lies Contemporary Quarterly, Fuze Beverages, KUHF 88.7 FM, Saint Arnold Brewery, 29-95.com.
Artist gift bag sponsors include: Whole Foods Market, Bryd Market & Cafe, Katz Coffee, GHCVB, Treebeards Restaurant, Fresh Arts Coalition, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, among others.
Luke Savisky is an Austin-based multi-media artist. His performances transform and respond to the natural and architectural environments through the use of analogue film media projection with 16mm and 35mm film. For his project, I/Tx (The I/Eye of Texas), an interactive projection of viewer's eyes glows on an 85ft water tower in downtown Austin, TX. Savisky was chosen as official media artist for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including: Creative Capital, The Texas Filmmakers Production Fund, the Austin Film Society's 1st D. Montgomery Award, and the 2007 Austin Table of Critics Award for Best Individual Project.