Choose your own adventure

New digital project offers explorers the opportunity to create their own story

By Joel Luks

04.13.14 | 11:30 am

If you choose to go down this tunnel and into the dark alley, will you discover something extraordinary or will you encounter an assassin who's on a paid mission to erase your existence from hi ...

Are you listening?

When the earth talks: Ground-breaking Hermann Park project brings the sounds of the planet to the surface

By Joel Luks

04.12.14 | 10:32 am

What if you could hear the temperature of the air? What if you could perceive what may be happening below the soil underneath your feet? What if the environment could talk? Writer, architect an ...

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival Installations: Piano Concerto-Houston by Byron Au Yong and Susie J. Lee and Uncanny Sensing (Texas Prototype) by Steve Rowell

04.08.14

Commissioned by the Mitchell Center, Piano Concerto-Houston draws together a diverse group of 11 local pianists whose performances have been recorded, creating the audio and visual experience of an

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival: Antena

Blaffer Art Museum

04.12.14 - 04.13.14

Antena is a language justice and language experimentation collaborative founded in 2010 by Jen Hofer and John Pluecker, both of whom are writers, artists, literary translators, bookmakers and activ

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival: Miwa Matreyek presents This World Made Itself and Myth and Infrastructure

Aurora Picture Show

04.09.14 - 04.09.14

This World Made Itself is a multimedia live performance work combining projected animation and the artist's own shadow silhouette as she interacts with the fantastical world of the video, mergi

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival: Abinadi Meza presents Vein of Sky

Hermann Park

04.09.14

Vein of Sky is a multichannel sound art installation based on environmental data such as air temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, light and other dynamic features of the local climate. These

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival: Suzanne Bocanegra presents Rerememberer

El Dorado Ballroom

04.11.14

A performance/installation created by renowned visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra, Rerememberer is performed by an orchestra of 50 individuals playing the violin who have never played the violin

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival: Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol presents El Rumor del Incendio

04.12.14 - 04.13.14

Since 2003, Mexico City-based performance collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol has created intensely personal multimedia works of theater exploring the members of the collective's personal and

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival: Lacy Johnson and Josh Okun present [the invisible city]

04.09.14

[the invisible city] is an interactive multimedia project that explores Houston's many social, economic and material wards and raises questions about the nature of community and place. A modern

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts CounterCurrent Festival: Jonah Bokaer and Anthony McCall present Eclipse

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts

04.10.14 - 04.11.14

A collaborative work developed by choreographer Jonah Bokaer with visual artist Anthony McCall, Eclipse is a multidisciplinary performance that integrates choreography, light, visual design and an