Low Lives 3 – Day 1 (April 29 in U.S.)
7-11 pm Central Daylight Sayings Time
Rebecca Weiner
Carmen Sober
Frans van Lent
So Percussion
Camille Baker
Lukas Avendaño
Second Front
Caroline Boileau
Jennifer Chan
Zornitsa Stoyanova (Here[begin] Dance)
Ian Warren
Julie Fotheringham + Jarryd Lowder
Tyrone Davies
Gabriela León + Saúl López Velarde + Daniel Weinstock
Katelena Hernandez
Nancy Douthey
Kendall Nordin
Anya Liftig
Black & Jones
Jui Mhatre + Jaee Joshi
Molly O’Connor/Molliver
Channel TWo
Rachelle Beaudoin
Rodell Warner
Heather Warren-Crow
Scapegoat Garden- Deborah Goffe
Nathan Stevens
SaBa
Ajeesh K.B. + Santhosh V.S. + Hemabharathy Palani
Kristin Lucas
Catherine Cabeen and Company

Low Lives 3 – Day 2 (April 30 in U.S.)
2-5pm Central Daylight Sayings Time
La La La Singers
James Mbunju and Company
Marcell Mercado
Alan Sondheim
Rosa Sanchez + Alain Baumann
Julian Palacz & Bernhard Garnicnig
Annie Abrahams
Joseph DeLappe
Eosin (Diana Combo)
Claude van Lingen
dev01ded
Ginna Vélez
Saul Melman
Alfred Dong
Irvin Morazan + Maya Jeffereis
Chloe Bass + Brian Balderston
Marisol Salanova
Julio Cesar Morales + Juan Luna-Avin
Carlos Gonzalez
Tzitzi Barrantes
Jayson Keeling
Jenny Schlief (Approx 4 pm @ Red White Yellow)
Paul Wiersbinski
Shaun El C. Leonardo
Byd Sarret

DiverseWorks is using RED WHITE YELLOW to present two days of live internet broadcasted performances from all over the world.

April 29, 2011 from 7-10pm
April 30, 2011 from 2-5pm

All performances will be recorded and on view through May 21, 2011

(Houston, TX) – DiverseWorks ArtSpace in partnership with Box13 ArtSpace are pleased to announce a special co-presentation of Low Lives 3, an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted over the web and projected in real-time at multiple venues around the world. Low Lives 3 will feature more than fifty live performances over two days, streamed in real-time at venues across the globe, and will include a spotlight on contemporary choreography throughout the exhibition program.

DiverseWorks and Box13 will showcase Houston artist Jenny Schlief as part of Low Lives 3. Schlief will perform The Ugliest Man and Zarathustra: an evaluation by another human in front of a live audience at RED WHITE YELLOW, Box 13’s gallery dedicated to technology-based work. The performance will also be streamed simultaneously online and for public viewing at Box 13. The full stream of the collected works that make up Low Lives 3 will be projected within the gallery on Friday, April 29 from 7-10 pm and Saturday, April 30 from 2-5 pm. Please note the live performance will be recorded and available for viewing until May 21 during gallery hours at Box13 ArtSpace. All presentations are free and open to the public.

About Low Lives:
Founded in 2009 by artist and independent curator Jorge Rojas, the annual Low Lives exhibition highlights works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performative practices. The project celebrates the transmission of ideas beyond geographical and cultural borders, offering global audiences the opportunity to consider live performance in both physical and virtual space.

By organizing performances at numerous venues and then broadcasting them via online networks, Low Lives provides a new model for efficiently presenting, viewing, and archiving live performance-based art. The annual exhibition embraces low-tech aesthetics, such as low pixel images and muddled sound quality, to emphasize the raw, inquisitive quality of the broadcast and reception of the works.

“Low Lives is not simply about the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time,” Rojas explains, “it is also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium.”

About Low Lives 3

Low Lives 3 is co-produced by Chez Bushwick, an artist-run organization based in Brooklyn, New York. Chez Bushwick is dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary art and performance and places a special emphasis on new choreography.

Participating artists include: Annie Abrahams; Lukas Avendaño; Brian Balderston and Chloe Bass; Camille Baker; Tzitzi Barrantes; Rachelle Beaudoin; Black & Jones; Caroline Boileau; Catherine Cabeen and Company; Jennifer Chan; Tyrone Davies; Joseph DeLappe; dev01ded; Alfred Dong; Nancy Douthey; Eosin; Julie Fotheringham and Jarryd Lowder; Second Front; Deborah Goffe; Carlos Gonzalez; Katelena Hernandez; Ajeesh K.B., Santhosh V.S., and Hemabharathy Palani; Jayson Keeling; La La La Singers; Shaun El C. Leonardo; Anya Liftig; Kristin Lucas; James Mbunju and Company; Saul Melman; Marcello Mercado; Jui Mhatre and Jaee Joshi; Julio Morales; Irvin Morazan and Maya Jeffereis; Kendall Nordin; Molly O’Connor/Molliver; So Percussion; SaBa; Marisol Salanova; Rosa Sanchez and Alain Baumann; Byd Sarret; Jenny Schlief; Carmen Sober; Alan Sondheim; Nathan Stevens; Zornitsa Stoyanova; Channel TWo; Frans van Lent; Claude van Lingen; Ginna Vélez; Rodell Warner; Ian Warren; Dr. Heather Warren-Crow; Rebecca Weiner; and Paul Wiersbinski.

Now in its third year, Low Lives has expanded its reach to over twenty presenting partners from all corners of the world. Presenting partners include: Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey; Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore, India; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York; Chez Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York; Co-lab, Austin, Texas; QMAD, Queens Media Art Development in partnership with Crossing Art Gallery, Queens, New York; Diaspora Vibe Gallery in partnership with AE District, Miami, Florida; DiverseWorks ArtSpace in partnership with Box 13, Houston, Texas; Elon University Department of Art & Art History, Elon, North Carolina; Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas; Konic Thtr, Barcelona, Spain; La Periferia, Mérida, Yucatán, México; La Perrera in partneship with MACO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México; Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Mascher Space Co-op, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mindpirates, Berlin, Germany; Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota; On the Boards, Seattle, Washington; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon; Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; Simba Theatre Art International in partnership with Village Museum, Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania; SOMArts, San Francisco, California; the temporary space, Japan; and Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Low Lives 3 is funded in part by The Experimental Television Funds program. The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.

For more information, please visit www.lowlives.net

About Jorge Rojas:
Jorge Rojas is the founder, producer, and curator of Low Lives. A multidisciplinary artist and independent curator, he was born in Morelos, Mexico and studied art at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and at Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Rojas engages in traditional, new, and performative media. His work often investigates communication systems and the effect of technology on artistic production, social structures, and communities. His artwork and curatorial projects have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and India. Rojas has received grants and fellowships including National Performance Network’s VAN Residency, West Chicago City Museum Artist in Residency Program, and Vermont Studio Center.


About Jenny Schlief

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Jenny Schlief is a mixed-media artist who creates work from her personal experiences — home movies of her two kids, a video of her jumping on a hotel room bed in her skivvies and collage-centric drawing projects based on her high-school sketchbook — that usually border on her uncomfortable-to-share feelings. In Low Lives 3, the Houston-based artist will capture a live personal evaluation from a close peer that she has known for 10 years. Since the performance will happen in real time, it will be a performance of real human interaction and event. Thereʼs no way out, and all reactions are real and unrehearsed. Schlief took the title of the performance, The Ugliest Man and Zarathustra: an evaluation by another human, from a passage in a book by Neitzche, where she hopes to assume the character of The Ugliest Man, and her evaluator, Zarathustra. Schlief lives and works in Houston, TX as the co-founder of Supreme Value, a web services and design business, and runs the gallery Red White Yellow located inside Box13 ArtSpace. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Texas (Austin). Visit http://www.jennyschlief.com/ for more on Schlief and her work.

About DiverseWorks ArtSpace:


DiverseWorks is a non-profit art center in Houston, Texas dedicated to presenting new visual, performing, and literary art. DiverseWorks is a place where the process of creating art is valued and where artists can test new ideas in the public arena. By encouraging the investigation of current artistic, cultural and social issues, DiverseWorks builds, educates, and sustains audiences for contemporary art.



About Box13 ArtSpace:


BOX 13 ArtSpace is an artist run nonprofit innovative environment for the creation and advancement of experimental contemporary art in Houston. BOX 13 artists create this environment through the offering of affordable workspaces for emerging and established artists, dedicating five interior spaces to the exhibition of artistic explorations, a window gallery for installations and an outdoor courtyard space. BOX 13 promotes dialogue among artists and the art community on current trends affecting the arts. For more information go to, http://www.box13artspace.com/

About Red White Yellow

Red White Yellow is an artist run gallery located at Box13 ArtSpace in Houston, TX, started in 2010. It draws its inspiration from a multitude of outputs and technologies including video, gaming, internet, youtube, cinema, and fine art.


Box13ArtSpace is located at 6700 Harrisburg Blvd., Houston, TX, 77011

Telephone: 713-533-8692

Website: http://www.box13artspace.com/
Gallery Hours: Saturday, 1-5pm or by Appointment
Admission to the gallery is FREE