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Emily Sloan (Houston, TX, USA)
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First Person: The Human Tour 2013 (Houston, TX, USA)

  The Human Tour 2013, a walking project recreating and expanding upon “Art Guy” Michael Galbreth’s 1987 project The Human Tour: An Anthropomorphic Route Through The City of Houston, has been undertaken by…

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In Performance: Spring 2013 Performance Series, Orange Show, Center for Visionary Art (Houston, TX)

Tyagaraja, courtesy of Orange Show, Center for Visionary Art The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Houston’s pre-eminent folk art organization, has announced its lineup for their Spring 2013 Performance Series taking place…

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In Performance: Liz Magic Laser, Tell Me What You Want to Hear, Diverseworks Art Space (Houston, TX, USA)

Liz Magic Laser’s Tell Me What You Want To Hear will be on view at Diverseworks Art Space from April 6 – May 25, 2013. An opening reception will be held on Friday,…

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In Performance: Houston Fringe Festival is accepting applications (Houston, TX, USA)

The Houston Fringe Festival is now accepting applications for 2013! The Houston Fringe Festival is a five-day event in which performers and companies from any city or country present original artistic work at…

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First Person: Elia Arce, First Woman on the Moon (Houston, TX, USA)

First Woman on the Moon by Elia Arce, was presented by DiverseWorks at Frenetic Theater on November 30 and December 1, 2012. This remounting of Arce’s seminal performance was timed with a 25…

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In Performance: La Pocha Nostra’s Live Art Laboratory (Tucson, AZ, USA)

La Pocha Nostra’s Live Art Laboratory will be held in Tucson, Arizona from January 31 through February 11, 2013. Gómez-Peña and the members of La Pocha Nostra will host their legendary winter performance…

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First Person: Stacks at Art League Houston (Houston, TX, USA)

Stacks is on view at Art League Houston from November 16 through January 4, 2013. The exhibition was kicked off with collecting objects the artists defined as “negatively antiquated Black memorabilia and paraphernalia”…

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First Person: Jill Bernard’s “Drum Machine” (Houston, TX, USA)

Drum Machine was performed by Jill Bernard, special guest of Station Theater, at Avant Garden on November 25, 2012. Station Theater is a comedy and arts conservatory in Houston, Texas. Bernard began the…

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In Performance: Continuum Live Art Series, AvantGarden (Houston, TX, USA) NSFW

Continuum Live Art Series will take place at AvantGarden from November 2012 to April 2013. The series will include evenings of performance events and evenings of workshops. The first workshop will be Sunday,…

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First Person: Karen Cytter, Show Real Drama, DiverseWorks (Houston, TX, USA)

Keren Cytter’s Show Real Drama was performed at DiverseWorks Art Space October 10 through October 13, 2012. This performance is in conjunction with Cytter’s exhibition Video Art Manual about the history and development…

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In Performance: City Council Meeting, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, DiverseWorks (Houston, TX, USA)

City Council Meeting is a participatory theater event taking place at three different venues in Houston, Texas from November 1-3, 2013. The November 1 event will take place at Palm Center, 2nd floor…

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First Person: Deborah Hay, Richmond Hall (Houston, TX, USA)

Deborah Hay, a member of the Judson Dance Theater and a founder of postmodern dance, performed at Richmond Hall on October 13 at noon and again at 3pm. Her site specific work called Richmond…

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