April 24

Quest for the West

Kirk Lynn & Thomas Graves of the Rude Mechs
10:00 am - 1:00 pm

QUEST FOR THE WEST!

A Scavenger Hunt and Safari of Western Experience brought to you by the Rude Mechs’ Thomas Graves and Kirk Lynn.

The West is within us all. Every human...

New Works Project: Luke Savisky

Luke Savisky @ AMOA
10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Luke Savisky, who works in both traditional and non-traditional art spaces, creates multi-media installations that transform natural and architectural settings. Exploring the spectrum of the human experience through film and art, he stretches the limits of visual media using found film montage,...

Your Secrets Aren't Safe With Us

Rubber Repertory
11:00 am - 7:00 pm

Calling all self-aware sensualists! Calling all erudite explorers of their own existence! Calling all those who submit to solipsism! Rubber Repertory wants to give you an extraordinary experience: the chance to have an entire show based on YOUR LIFE. On April 23rd-25th, the gentlemen of...

One Swallow Doesn't Make a Summer

Cook and Ruud
11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Art Alliance Austin has commissioned curators Rachel Cook and Claire Ruud to produce a series of installations in public spaces throughout downtown Austin’s 2ND Street District including Republic Square Park.

“One swallow doesn’t make a summer” takes its title from a speech...

Slurb

Marina Zurkow
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Slurb, 2009, single channel video, duration: 17'42" loop, color, animation and stereo sound, music by Lem Jay Ignacio & additional animation: Jen Kelly

Marina Zurkow makes psychological narratives about humans and their relationship to animals, plants and the...

Fusebox Talks: Action Hero

Fusebox Talks
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Join us throughout the festival beginning Sat April 24, for a series of conversations with various participating Fusebox artists. It’s a casual/fun way to get to know the artists and the thinking behind their work. In conjunction with Culturebot.org (NYC), the conversations will last under...

A Western

Action Hero
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

A Western is a performance for a bar. Within the space we locate our valley, our saloon, our empty street. We find our audience and together we make A Western. The audience cheat at cards, beg our hero to love them and shoot him down. We apply the ketchup blood. We wear the cowboy...

one hundred black women, one hundred actions

Wura-Natasha Ogunji
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

one hundred black women, one hundred actions is a performance of critical actions, gestures and movements by one hundred black women from around the world to be performed by one hundred black women in East Austin. This live performance will be simultaneously projected as a live video feed in a...

Butter and Popcorn Go Together Like Kangaroos and Boxing

Mike Parsons & Andy Rihn
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Mike Parsons and Andy Rihn

Butter and Popcorn Go Together Like Kangaroos and Boxing is a presentation of individual and collaborative artwork by Mike Parsons and Andy Rihn. The show explores the relationships between butter, popcorn, kangaroos and boxing. These 4 items used as icons...

Triva Travesty!

Rebecca Havemeyer & Silky Shoemaker
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Hot off the rug burn of their two year vacation in Rome!....Rebecca Havemeyer & Silky Shoemaker blow the exotic horn of Entertainment once again! It's the return of the most fascinating piece of hot garbage ever to hit the game circuit of Austin! Winner of the Milk Jugg Jingle Award!