May 1

New Works Project: Luke Savisky

Luke Savisky
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,...

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: Cloud Eye Control

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...

Walks

Sodalitas
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Walks project is inspired by a dérive or flâneur, both terms loosely refer to a drifting or strolling through an environment to experience the sociological, anthropological, historical and geographical relationships between the individual and their city. The Walks project is at its core an...

Under Polaris

Cloud Eye Control
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Presented by Women & Their Work & Fusebox

“a transcendently spectacular piece of theater" – Los Angeles Times

"Fusing palpably transcendent video art with live performances of jaw-dropping complexity, multimedia collective Cloud Eye Control's seductive productions are...

The Exquisite Bee

Austin Video Bee
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Bee a part of collective video-making history! Austin Video Bee has developed a method for a city-wide round of "exquisite corpse" on video and we want you to craft this masterpiece.  We provide the camera, sets, props and costumes, you mold the story.  You can sign-up on your own or with a...

When the Shoes Sing Their Finest Song

Heloise Gold & Travis Weller
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm

WHEN THE SHOES SING THEIR FINEST SONGS
a sonic and kinetic apéritif

A duet with Travis Weller (viola) and Heloise Gold (dance). A collaboratively composed suite of miniatures with origins in spontaneous improvisation. Moments of sound, movement and...

So Much to Go Crazy (The Show Might Go On)

Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson with Ilan Bachrach
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Love and Death, Objects vs. Products: a conglomeration, in song and video.
Findings on marriage and academia are distorted/clarified by treatments of language used to convey them.

Another Kempsonian/Ivesonian assault is waged against the innocent citizens of Austin, TX in a return...

Bodytronix

Bodytronix
11:00 pm

Electronic duo Bodytronix return to Austin from a date at NYC's Bent Festival with huge tracts of bare circuit boards and enough handmade, unidentifyable bling-bling analog gizmos to rock the house all night with Creme / Bunker influenced party beats.  Bodytronix recently unveiled a third...