BE A WOMAN

Performed by Jonatan Lopez
Documented by Hilary Scullane

White Noise, The Clean Laundry Project
Soap Suds Coin Laundry, Houston TX Sept 2012
Presented by Southmorehouse

New Wearable Sculptures from "Found Subjects" series, Photographed by David Nguyen

GRTHH, Found Steel, 2012

Photo Courtesy of David Nguyen

Model: Jordan K. Curran

ROBUST, Found Steel, 2012

 Photo Courtesy of David Nguyen

Model: Yossuana Aguilar

(Piece in progress)

Photo courtesy of David Nguyen

Model: Svage Solace JuicyEnt

Vamp Banger

A mischievous performance inside Boheme's restroom.
Performed by Jonatan Lopez and Sway Youngston.
Facilitated by Continuum
Cultured Cocktails with Continuum (AKA Cockroach Cock-tails)
July 2012

Beauty is Useless Fluff

Performed by Jonatan Lopez
Documented by Rowdy Tidwell
Facilitated by Continuum

Unsplit Show
Notsuoh, Houston TX June 2012

Sun Offering Ritual

Conceived by Jonatan Lopez and Sway Youngston
Performed by many sun lovers.
Facilitated by Sonia Parga
Documented by Baltazar Canales

The Light Party
@ The Railyard,
 Houston TX, Summer Solstice 2012

Esque by Continuum

A 30 minute interactive performance event.
Conceived and Performed by Continuum
Facilitated by Countercrawl and Continuum
Documented by Baltazar Canales

Countercrawl IV
notsuoH (upstairs)
Houston TX, April 2012

Sura 4, A Stoning

Streamed live for Low Lives 4
International Festival of Networked Performances
Conceived by Jonatan Lopez
Facilitated by Jorge Rojas

Special thanks to T. McPherson and Mike James

Low Lives 4, International Festival of Live Networked Performances

Openings:

27 April 2012, 8:30–11:30pm EST

28 April 2012, 3:00–6:00pm EST 

A live simulcast of the event will be streamed on April 27 and 28 at www.lowlives.net

See list of Presenting Partners below.

Press Release:

Low Lives is pleased to present Low Lives 4, the fourth installment in a series of annual international art events. Low Lives 4 will feature sixty live performance-based works over two days, each transmitted over the web and projected in real time at twenty-five venues worldwide.

Low Lives 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.

Participating Artists
Austin Adkins | Regina Agu | Lindsey Allgood + Amy Luznicky | Emma Alonze | Mauricio Ancalmo | Angela Bartram + Mary O'Neill | Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte | Ruth Vigueras Bravo | Caryana Castillo | Khalil Charif | Matthew Thomas Cianfrani | Gina Cuntstruct | Elwin Cotman | Dance Troupe Practice + Luciana D'Anunciação | Ian Deleon + Kara Stokowski | Stephanie Diamond | Bados Earthling + The Wild Audio Society | Michelle Ellsworth | Ursula Endlicher | Tim Eriksen | Francesca Fini | Les Filles Föllen | Marcel William Foster + Dunstan Matungwa | Future Death Toll | Lawrence Graham-Brown | Alejandro Guzmán | Matt Hawthorn | Joseph Herring | Kanene Holder | James Holland + Alycia Bright Holland | Linda Hutchins | Rima Najdi | Samantha Jones | Igor Josifov | Nathaniel Katz + Valentina Curandi | Elizabeth Leister | Jonathan Lemieux | Gideonsson/Londré | Jonatan Lopez | Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen | Soukei Matsuo | MoTA - Museum of Transitory Art | Nataliya Petkova | Blatta Orientalis | Alexandre Pombo-Mendes | prOphecy sun | Stefan Riebel | Tara Raye Russo | Nuria Guiu Sagarra | Maximiliano Siñani | Jonathan Sutton | Étienne Tremblay-Tardif | Elinor Thompson | Robert Tyree + Andra Rotaru | Marcus Vinícius | A.G. Viva | Alyssa Taylor Wendt | Amelia Winger-Bearskin | Martin Zet |

Presenting Partners
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art (Newark, New Jersey) | Center for Performance Research (CPR) (Brooklyn, New York) | Chez Bushwick (Brooklyn, New York) | Co-Lab (Austin, Texas) | Diaspora Vibe Gallery (Miami, Florida) | Fusebox Festival (Austin, Texas) | Grace Exhibition Space (Austin, Texas) | Legion Arts (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) | Little Berlin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) | Living Arts (Tulsa, Oklahoma) | Mascher Space Co-op (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) | Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) (Portland, Oregon) | Real Art Ways (Harford, Connecticut) | SOMArts (San Francisco, California) | Space One Eleven (Birmingham, Alabama) | Spread Art (Brooklyn, New York) | Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) (Salt Lake City, Utah) | Alice Yard (Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago) | the temporary space (USA/Japan) | Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Arts (YICA) (Yamaguchi, Japan) | Dimanche Rouge (Paris, France) | La Maison des Artistes (Paris, France) | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá (MAC) (Colombia) | At The Vanishing Point (Sydney, Australia) | Small Projects (Tromsø, Norway) | Ateliers '89, Contemporary Art Institute (Oranjestad, Aruba)

Low Lives Founding Director and Producer, Jorge Rojas, is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator.

Low Lives 4 is Co-Produced by Brooklyn-based arts organizations Chez Bushwick, SPREAD ART, and by Colombian artist, Juan Obando.

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My performance entitled Sura 4 (A Stoning), involving a recital of Koran excerpts modified to address recent political debates in the US will be  broadcasted live around 9:20pm (US Central) in this channel: JONATAN LOPEZ LIVE  and at www.lowlives.net 

Jesús by Mike James (Screening)

This Easter weekend is Jesús' second coming. 

Directed by Mike James.

Starring Jonatan Lopez, Max Xandaux, Patrick D. Green, Melissa Bubela and Steve Henry

Saturday April 7th. 9pm at AvantGarden

BROWN

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up to its creed, that all men and women 
are equally doomed to shit- Jonatan Lopez

Conceived by Jonatan Lopez
Performed by Sway Youngston and Jonatan Lopez
Facilitated by Continuum
Featuring Craig Christie and Raindawg
Video by Jonathan Jindra

Avant Garden/ Lone Star Performance Explosion
Houston International Performance Art Biennale 2012

Photography by Michael E. Johnston

All These White People Need More Chocolate in Their Lives Pt. 1

A preview performance for BROWN, my submission for Lonestar Performance Explosion
Houston International Performance Art Biennale 2012

AvantGarden March 9th 2012, 7-11pm

Featuring Sway Youngston.

Please visit my Indie GOGO Campaign if you wish to contribute to fund this performance:
BROWN ON INDIE GOGO

Viscocity

A performance about relationship drama.
Performed at Kali, A Pre-Valentine's Day Performance Art Adventure at The Orange Show
Facilitated by Continuum.

Ingredients: Crisco, electrical cords, beef intestines, pig blood, head rush, a love song mash-up, a strobe light, melancholy, lust.

Sodom, Uncut

Preached at Explicitly Chingonas, The Art of Sexual Taboos.
Curated by Lizbeth Ortiz.
Documented by Tina McPherson
East End Studio Gallery, Houston 
(For Mature Audiences)

The Gula Fund/Politiqueer

The GULA Fund, a for profit performance project dedicated to better the life
of one specific  Gay Undocumented Latino Artist, all the time, was launched within
 the show POLITIQUEER by Voices Breaking Boundaries on December 11th 2011.
The GULA Fund auctioned a  performance consisting of  an unidentified GULA individual
 coming to your place to mow your backyard naked and a GULA chocolate penis sculpture.

The most valuable aspect of this piece was the dialogue and reactions it sparked among
the attendees; some suggested the GULA individual should come to their home to perform
different shores such as laundry or dish-washing and no one purchased the penis sculpture.
A Gula Mowing Service performance was sold for the sum of 75 dollars.

To folllow future developments of the GULA fund visit THE GULA FUND BLOG

Press 2011

Photo by Robert Boyd

'Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor' by Robert Boyd at 'The Great God Pan Is Dead'

Review of exhibitions at Box 13 ArtSpace/Curation Myth Ministries

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Photo be Ed Schipul

'Continuum searches for transcendence, and performance art heaven, with iPerform' 

Interview with co-facilitator of Continuum Julia Wallace by Chris Becker in Culturemap

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Photo by Hank Hancock

'Friday Night: Continuum's Evening of Amiable Performances'

Review of Continuum's iPerform Opening Night at Spacetaker ARC Gallery

by Hank Hancock in Houston Press Art Attack Blog

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Photo by Hank Hankcock

'Box 13 Brings a Snuggly Temple Fortress, a Stinking Kenmore and a Horror Show'

Review of exhibitions at Box 13 ArtSpace/The Kenmore

by Hank Hancock in Houston Press Art Attack Blog.

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PRESS MANIPULATION:

HOT N' COOL by Anita Latinlova at The Houston Entertainicle

Anita Latinlova, a performance art alter ego, wrote for the frisky Houston newspaper

from January to June of 2011. Through this endeavor, she highlighted her favorite art

events in town and interviewed some of the coolest and hottest artists such as Stephanie Saint Sanchez

Julia Wallace, Aisen Caro Cachin and  Emily Sloan. In her final article, she interviewed  another alter ego 

living inside of her, and things got messy (Special thanks to Keith Reynolds and Ashley Horn).

 Click on above picture to read.