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

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.

Telepathy at Menil Park

Through a guided meditation, participants attempted to exchange positive concepts about existence, 
visualizing the strings as channels of communication.

Conceived by Jonatan Lopez

Facilitated by Continuum

Performed during BYOP III at Menil Park, November 2011

    Photo by Brian Scott, merged with the universe

Given To Fly

A series of flying exercises within Beach Fuck It Bingo, 
 performance art retreat in Galveston Island

Conceived by Jonatan Lopez,

Facilitated and performed by Continuum

Gifts for Jupiter

Invocation to Jupiter at Continuum's Beach Fuck It Bingo

Performance Art Retreat in Galveston

Conceived by Jonatan Lopez

Facilitated and performed by Continuum

00:11:11:00.B

                                  Performed at iPerform Closing Party by Continuum

                                  Spacetaker's ARC Gallery

                                  September 2011, Houston Tx

Images by Hilary Scullane

Run Me Out

Anita Latinlova performs a song by her favorite singer Zola Jesus at 

Continuum's iPerform Kick Off Party at Notsuoh.

Images courtesy of Rico Svaughn
Video documentation by Hilary Sculane

Static

Preached within Continuum's  iPerform at Spacetaker's ARC Gallery

 (adapted from lyrics of a song by Godspeed You! Black Emperor)

Documented by Rebecca Burwell

A preview of Static was given 3 days prior at iPerform Kick Off  Party at Notsuoh. 

For this piece I read the Koran to myself inside a window display for a lengthy time, 

gave away pages from the book, and preached to the audience about death, God, 
and the hereafter.

Photo by Hillary Scullane

                                                                Photo by Rico Svaughn

Photo by Rico Svaughn

Photo by Rico Svaughn

Cat falls bored asleep after reading a Koran page.

Photo by Hillary Scullane

Absolutions

Many humans had the opportunity to chug their sins away during the opening night for iPerform at Spacetaker's ARC Gallery. Brother F and Sister G from The Alphas assisted the sinners in their search for redemption by exchanging their sins for alcoholic beverages.

Performed by the public, Rebecca Burwell and Rowdy Tidwell

Facilitated by Continuum and Spacetaker
Conceived by Jonatan Lopez
Sponsored by Bud Light Lime

                                                           Sinners gone wild , photo by Hilary Scullane  
                                                           
                                       

                                                                        Sister G, Photo by Julia Wallace

    Photo by "me"

Death Star: The Conference (Review)

Death Star: The Conference examined new apocalyptic theories such as the imminent arrival of a hypothetical dwarf star in our solar system called Nibiru, its disastrous effects in our planet and a government conspiracy plan called Depopulation, while proposing the idea that everything we are, see and do is a virtual manifestation of our deepest emotions, Love and Fear.

In a series of videos, Eric Anthony Crew explained the philosophy behind Sacred Geometry, exposed his research pertaining to the concepts of reality and consciousnesses, and shared his views on the upcoming ascension of humanity into a higher state of consciousness, linked to the end of the Mayan calendar.

DEATH STAR MEDITATION (play audio)

Julia Wallace prepared us to deal with the dark content of the program by painting a third eye in our foreheads and guiding us through a meditation session, aided by a recording of her voice enhanced with futuristic sound effects.

Sway Youngston and Raindawg impersonated two members of a new cosmic religion called “The Alphas.” They studied with us two newspaper articles from the future containing information about a group of artists that exposed classified NASA files in the year 2011 through a project called Death Star, the rise of their own religion, the theories of Nibiru and Depopulation , and the imprisonment of conceptual artist Jonatan Lopez.

Alex Tu improvised a sound performance that invited the audience to close their eyes and travel into outer space through abstract vibrational frequencies.

Keith Brimmer and Jonathan Richie showed us how to infuse a joint with love. Keith played a guitar cover of ‘Love Song’ by The Cure to Jonathan rolling two fat joints that were smoked in the patio during Death Star’s private after party.

Raindawg played an audio recording by FBI agent Roland Skinner, explaining how he infiltrated the cult-like performance art group Continuum and became aware of the declassification of NASA files through the art project called Death Star.

Stephanie Saint Sanchez shared with us her film “This One Time in Texas,” featuring colorful characters preparing for an imminent apocalypse.

James Ciosek constructed Sun Hunter v2. a solar power bicycle made to withstand an apocalypse, equipped with hunting gear, solar power grids, and many other useful features. Sunhunter was on display on the front lawn of Skydive.

Continuum performed ‘Shiva Renaissance,” a poem that artist Levi Rosen composed for the occasion.

I, Jonatan Lopez, impersonated a blind priest, recited the lyrics of Built Then Burnt, a song by ‘A Silver Mount Zion’ and guided the audience through a final affirmation, encouraging them to conquer their apocalyptic fears with Love. I also invited our guests to participate in future Death Star endeavors, including a series of media based art projects to be released prior to October 28th 2011 (Planetary alignment date).

“The artist that does not want to be named” provided refreshments for the after party, during which we played more songs, engaged in interesting dialogue and thanked the universe for the new friendships and bonds we encountered.

Death Star is inspired by the final messages of Daniel Crew (a former NASA pilot) and dedicated to honor his legacy.

Special thanks to Eric Anthony Crew, Sarrita Hunn, Ryan Thayer, Ana Guzman, Carrie Schneider, Jason Jeffrey, Skydive and ‘the artist that does not want to be named.’

Images courtesy of Carrie Schneider, Jason Jeffrey, Ana Guzman and Tonya CatLady.

Conceived by Jonatan Lopez

Invocations to the Rain

Through our Inner Selves

Through Raindawg

These invocations were performed as an attempt to change the weather once upon a drought in Texas. They happened during Meghan Carey's "Let It Begin With Me," and evening of meditaion and rain dance at Herman Park, Houston on July 2nd of 2011. Four  days later, it started raining.

Facilitated by Continuum

Roscoe Gets Arrested

 

For accidental indecent exposure

( wardrobe malfunction exposing a testicle to be more specific).

Facilitated by Continuum for DiverseWorks Luck of The Draw X: Revolution!

Featuring Koomah and Roscoe Lopez

Captured on video by ms. YET

 

MEDITATION LOUNGE by Continuum

 

Blessing the Water (Detail) by Julia Wallace, Photo Courtesy of Hilary Scullane

For Immediate RELEASE:

With the desire for creating an oasis for the students of HCC Northeast Campus and for the general public to escape the daily routine, Continuum, a new performance art group in Houston, has developed a series of interactive installations called "Meditation Stations" to be on view and functioning at the campus gallery, which is situated in the first floor, dead center in the middle of the building. Some of the stations feature written and audible instructions, allowing the participants to immerse themselves into a state of deep relaxation and self awareness.

The Meditation Lounge will be open to the public Monday through Thursday 8am to 8pm, from June 20th to July 14th 2011. There will not be an opening reception because such an event would defeat the purpose of this exhibition. However, Continuum will hold a BYOP (Bring Your Own Performance) event in the Lounge, in which they will hold initiation rituals for their new members. If you are interested in witnessing these special occurrences, or performing at the event, please email juliaintherye@aol.com.

Location HCC Northline Gallery, 8001 Fulton, 77009

Gallery Hours: Monday through Thursday, 8am-8pm June 20th-July14th
Curated by Jonatan Lopez
Facilitated by Continuum
Special thanks to Tina Kotrla
Above Image: Blessing the Water (Detail) by Julia Wallace, Photo Courtesy of Hilary Scullane

Continuum's participating members:

Meghan Carey, Koomah, Jonatan Lopez, Raindawg, Hilary Scullane, Julia Wallace, Sway Youngston.

In “A Cleansing Ritual,” Julia Wallace shares a personal practice that she uses before she enters meditation. At the entrance to the Meditation Lounge, Julia offers special water that has been infused with powerful, positive energy through a group performance. Guests are given suggested directions for using the water ritualistically to prepare themselves to meditate.

"In-TENSE-ity" by Sway Youngston aims to completely relax the subject by tensing each muscle group in the body, recognizing the tension that already exists there, and completely releasing it. The subject will then be guided through mental tension liberation wherein negative emotions are acknowledged and released. “In-TENSE-ity” is a guided meditation delivered via audio recording. Subjects will lie on the cushions provided, put on headphones, and drift away.

Zen of Childhood, by Koomah, is a guided meditation that invites people to see the world through the eyes of a child. Video images include playing in a sandbox, bubbles, and washing hands. Accompanying music guides performers into a meditative relationship with the child-self.

 In Tea Bliss, Raindawg employs a collection of teacups, stones, wind, and chimes to invite you on a trip to inner space. When you place a stone in a teacup, the sound of wind and chimes will carry you to a place to which there is no road.

 

 Sink Into Flowers, Julia Wallace and Jonatan Lopez

MENditation

 

 Meditation Lounge

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