Saturday, October 19, 2024 (7pm)
KATHERINE BAUER: TRANSMISSIONS IN SILVER
Artist Katherine Bauer in attendance
Arts & Culture Lab - 5301 Polk St., Building 18a, Houston, TX 77023
Free Admission

Aurora in collaboration with Arts & Culture Lab presents an expanded cinema performance by artist Katherine Bauer involving multiple 16mm film projections and live photographic exposures. Bauer’s work invokes folklore told through obsolete technologies. In her mythologized landscapes of tungsten mines and extraterrestrial terrain, everything is in flux. Herds of cattle traverse borderlands, electric sheep cross barbwire, plant roots and amoebae migrate, mycelial lines travel along factory pipes underground. Found and original films that are hand-processed, re-printed, solarized, and soaked are accompanied by Bauer’s live performance. Using a developer made from local opportunistic plants and directly applying it on the silver screen, the artist slowly exposes objects salvaged around Houston and its industries. Through the performance, Bauer’s birth city of Houston–with its ties to space exploration, mining the land as well as both human and animal migrations–comes in dialogue with the artist’s folklore. The performance will be followed by an artist talk.

Directions:

Arts & Culture Lab is located in a brick building within an industrial park in Eastwood at 5301 Polk St. 77023. Please note that while GPS does a fine job of getting you to the general area, once you’re on Polk Street you should ignore the GPS directions and turn on this unmarked street to get to Building 18A. Look for our yellow arrow signs posted at the turn and along the way and Aurora sign at the entrance. See map below…