Text of Light

Co-presented with Nameless Sound

Curated by Aurora Picture Show and Nameless Sound

Saturday, September 22, 7:30PM

Location: Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex, 2201 Preston Street

Aurora and Nameless Sound Members $10, Non-members $15

Aurora Picture Show presents the 9th annual Media Archeology Festival from Thursday, September 20 to Saturday, September 22, 2012 in Houston. Presented by Aurora Picture Show in collaboration with both the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston and Nameless Sound, the multi-media festival showcases artists who use, manipulate, recycle and reinvent electronic media to create live multidisciplinary performances. Media Archeology: Real Time will present artists whose work is a hybridization of moving images and acoustics to explore the relationships and open the definitions of film, music, art and performance. From innovative new technologies to traditional analogue methodologies these artists fuse genres to create a contemporary interdisciplinary experience grown out of sound and light.  

Nameless Sound and Aurora present a unique night of Text of Light. Text of Light does not perform soundtracks to the films of Stan Brakhage. Rather, it uses the film as a further element for improvisation, almost as a fifth (or sixth) performer. While Brakhage intended for these films to be screened silently as films , when framed in and of themselves in a movie theatre, in Text of Light presentations they are being juxtaposed with the music, in a kind of real-time performance, mixed-media collage. The Brakhage films included will be Mammals of Victoria, Beautiful Funerals, and Aftermath.

Performers for the Media Archeology event will be Tim Barnes, Ulrich Krieger, Alan Licht, and Lee Ranaldo.