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AES+F,
Action Half Life, Episode 2, #12, 2003
Courtesy of Multimedia Complex for Actual Art, Moscow, and Ruzicska
Gallery
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FOTOFEST'S GRAND 2006 OPENING
FRIDAY,
March 10, 2006
EXHIBITIONS
AT VINE STREET STUDIOS AND DIVERSEWORKS ARTSPACE - 6-9pm
PARTY AND
LIVE BAND PERFORMANCES AT WAREHOUSE LIVE - 9pm-1am
NINE OTHER EXHIBIT
OPENINGS CITYWIDE
FotoFest
kicks off its citywide citywide photography and photo-related
art Biennial with exhibitions and public parties in downtown Houston.
This citywide event celebrates 20 years of FotoFest, as well as
this year’s themes THE EARTH and ARTISTS RESPONDING TO VIOLENCE.
In
conjunction with the opening exhibitions and FotoFest's 2006 themes
- THE EARTH and ARTISTS RESPONDING TO VIOLENCE all attendees will
be invited to nominate four organizations for special awards:
their favorite local and their favorite national/international
organizations that champion the cause of environmental protection,
and their favorite local/national organizations that work for
social justice and human rights. FotoFest will donate $1,000 to
the four organizations that receive the most votes.
FOTOFEST
AND DIVERSEWORKS
DIVERSEWORKS ARTSPACE
1117 East Freeway, Houston, 77002 (I-10 at North Main)
6 p.m.-8 p.m.
FotoFest’s installation of a new work by Alfredo Jaar’s
Sound of Silence, a centerpiece of FotoFest 2006, will
be at DiverseWorks. This penetrating and haunting work confronts
the question of the role of the media in relation to social tragedy
and human suffering.
Also
on view is David Brown's Urban Cathedral and Erika Haarsch's
Eros-Thanatos
FOTOFEST HEADQUARTERS AT VINE STREET
STUDIOS
Artists
Responding to Violence
1113 Vine Street, Houston, 77002
7 p.m.-9 p.m.
FotoFest headquarters gallery will feature Artists Responding
to Violence, 14 international artists confronting violence.
Sponsored by Grey Goose and Bombay Sapphire, the reception will
feature live music by Two Star Symphony.
AES+F —
Action Half Life and Last Riot
Sergey Bratkov –
Soldiers and Army Girls
Juan Manuel Echavarría
– Bocas de Ceniza (Mouths of Ash)
Joakim Eneroth —
Reactive
Yves Gellie —
Distincts Perceptions
Claudio Hils —
Red Land Blue Land
Nathalie Latham —
Closed City Nº65
Lisdebertus aka Luis Delgado
— Unfathomable Humanity
Paula Luttringer —
El Lamento de las Muros (The Wailing of the Walls)
Elizabeth Mellott-Carreon
— Diary of an Enlistment and One
Day
Liza Nguyen —
Surface and Postcards
WAREHOUSE LIVE
Nic Armstrong and the Thieves
Sonnier Brothers
DJ Ceeplus and the House of Bad Knives
813 St. Emmanuel, Houston, 77003
9 p.m.-1 a.m.
The opening night continues with a big Grand Opening Party at
Warehouse Live, the recently renovated 1920s-era warehouse turned
concert and event venue in downtown Houston's burgeoning Warehouse
District. Attendees will enjoy music from Indie alternative rock
band Nic Armstrong & The Thieves, dancing, projections and
live video projections. A live video and projection feedback at
Warehouse Live will ask attendees - " What would you do to
make the world a better place?". Awards for human rights
and environmental organizations will be announced.
For
more information, please contact FotoFest at 713.223.5522 or visit
www.fotofest.org. |
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Yves
Gellie, Raqqa, Syrie, 2001: la guerre de l’eau,
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Paula Luttringer,
#2 from El Lamento de los Muros, 2000/2005
“I
went down about twenty or thirty steps and I heard big iron
doors being shut. I imagined that the place was underground,
that it was big, because you could hear people’s voices
echoing and the airplanes taxiing overhead or nearby. The noise
drove you mad. One of the men said to me: so you’re a
psychologist? Well bitch, like all the psychologists, here you’re
really going to find out what’s good. And he began to
punch me in the stomach.”
Marta Candeloro was abducted in Neuquen. She was then taken
to the Secret Detention Center “La Cueva.”
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Also
Opening Friday, March 10:
THE
WHITE SWAN STUDIO
The Space Between – Jerome Crowder, David
Vaughan, and Rodney Waters
HERITAGE SOCIETY MUSEUM
Houston From Behind the Lens - Bob Bailey
THE CLOISTER GALLERY AT CHRIST CHURCH
CATHEDRAL
Healing Qualities of Spirit - Amy Bradford Ufer
On the Brink - Michael H. McKann
ARTHUR MEYERSON STUDIO/GALLERY
Lost Highway, Roadscapes From the West - Arthur
Meyerson
M² GALLERY
Despejo - Cris Rosas, Sergio Santos, Matt Adams,
and other artists
DIG101 GALLERY
Ending Time - Robert Berlin, Leigh Dehaney, Bryan
Kuntz, Birgit Langhammer and Angilee Wilkerson
POISSANT GALLERY
Genie: Blood Work Series - Jawshing Arthur Liou
Your Scars Can Make You Look Better - George Hixson
ARTCAR MUSEUM
Terra Incognita - Michael Fry, Ramon Perales, Kim
Enloe, Jake Toler, and Nurdan Petrossov
SEASIDE GALLERY
Into the Water - Ruth Burke |
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