My Filthy Self

A performance about  the fear of becoming impure.

Continuum Live Art Series, Fourth Night
Documented by Julia Wallace
Avant Garden, Houston TX. March 2013

Images courtesy of Hilary Scullane

what makes you feel at ease

What is your best childhood memory?
What would make you the happiest person in the world right now?
Where would you like to go for vacation this summer?
Which was the best day of your life?
Who is your best friend?
What is your favorite love song?
What is the nicest thing someone has done for you?
What is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen?
Which of your dreams have come true?
When were you kissed for the first time?
Who do you love?
Who loves you?
What makes you feel free?
What makes you feel at ease?

Continuum Live Art Series, Third Night
AvantGarden, Houston TX. January 2013
Documented by Julia Wallace

Images Courtesy of Hilary Scullane

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 

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)