April 2012
8 posts
"Survey/Surveil" : Jason Reed and Bethany...
“Survey/Surveil” : Jason Reed and Bethany Delahunt Opening Reception: Saturday, June 16th, 2012, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through June 23rd Survey/Surveil explores the visual rhetoric and psychogeography of the U.S./Mexico border through video, interactive sculpture, photography, and appropriated imagery. We have worked independent of each other, except for a few...
"New Nature" : Calder Kamin, June 2nd-9th, 2012
“New Nature” : Calder Kamin Opening Reception: Saturday, June 2nd, 2012, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through June 9th, 2012 Additional programming including an artist talk, neighborhood clean up, urban wildlife tour, build a bird house out of recycled materials workshop T.B.A. I am interested in synanthropes- animals that thrive due to mankind’s impact on biodiversity....
"ROW HOME" : Mark Johnson, May 19th + 20th, 2012
Co-Lab Projects/Nelsen Partners presents “ROW HOME” : Mark Johnson Open hours during the West Austin Studio Tour May 19th and 20th, 11AM-6PM On view by appointment May 21st-July 14th, 2012 N Space at Nelsen Partners 905 Congress Ave. Austin, TX 78701 “In these works I invade the viewers space with fragmented conversations. The lost paragraphs meanings find their way to...
“All_Over” : Ben Brandt, May 19th-26th, 2012
“All_Over” : Ben Brandt Opening Reception: Saturday, May 19th, 2012, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through May 26th, 2012 “All_Over” is a contemporary iteration of an ancient form, the grotto. Ambiguous in its definition owing to various uses, both artificial and manmade grottos are caves that have served as oracle temples and garden decorations. Generally, manmade grottos are created...
"Not Free, Not Dead: The Psychedelic End" :...
Nightmare City Presents “Not Free, Not Dead: The Psychedelic End” a touring program of recent San Francisco Bay Area shorts Outdoor Screening: Saturday, May 5th, 2012, 8:30PM Runs concurrently with “TEENAGE WASTELAND” in the gallery
San Francisco, CA – Nightmare City is pleased to announce the upcoming tour of Not Free, Not Dead: The Psychedelic End, a video program of...
"TEENAGEWASTELAND", May 5th-12th, 2012
“T E E N A G E W A S T E L A N D” Opening Reception: Saturday, May 5th, 2012, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through May 12th, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12th, 2012, 7-11PM All the angst, all the conviction, all the confusion, all the hook-ups and the horror: experience it all again. Teenage Wasteland brings together a collection of work by Austin artists created during...
"Low Lives 4", April 27th + 28th, 2012
Low Lives 4 Networked Performance Festival Global Festival of Online Performance Art Comes to Austin, TX
Featuring “magnus retwined” : Alyssa Taylor Wendt Co-Lab Projects and Fusebox Festival are pleased to announce their participation in Low Lives 4, an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted over the web and projected in real-time at multiple venues around the...
"Famous by Association - the artist and me series"...
“Famous by Association - the artist and me series” : J Haley Performance/Installation: Saturday, April 28th, 2012, 7-11PM One Night Only The Project “Famous by Association - the artist and me series” consists of images picturing J. Haley alongside another artist. These photos began conglomerating in 2003, culminated in 2009 as online social network content, and...
March 2012
4 posts
"magnus retwined" : Alyssa Taylor Wendt, April...
“magnus retwined” : Alyssa Taylor Wendt Performance: Friday, April 27th, 2012, 9-9:30PM At The Fusebox Festival Hub, located at 1100 E. 5th St in the old Tops Used Furniture building. Plenty of free parking is available in adjacent lots and on area streets. As part of the Low Lives showcase presented by Co-Lab Projects and the Fusebox Festival, Alyssa Taylor Wendt has...
"Hirsute Drosscapes and Cenotaphs: (Finem...
“Hirsute Drosscapes and Cenotaphs: (Finem Respice)” : Alyssa Taylor Wendt LIVE hair performance and open hours for installation: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 19th-21st, 2012, 3-6PM Closing Reception with the artist and viewing of both the installation and the finished piece: Saturday, April 21st, 2012, 7-11PM Please join us for any and all of the showtimes and be a part...
"Sacred Land Grab" : Rebecca Jane Rodriguez &...
“Sacred Land Grab” : Rebecca Jane Rodriguez & Dustin Kilgore Super 8, video, and slides of the American West Screening / Two-channel installation: Thursday, April 12th, 2012, 8-10PM “I take a walk in the country. Everything is as it should be: nature at its best. Birds, sun, soft grass, a view through the trees of the mountains, nobody around, no radio, no smell of...
"NO MAS" : Paul McLean, April 7th-14th, 2012
“NO MAS” : Paul McLean Artist Reception: Saturday, April 7th, 2012, 7-11PM Occupational Art School Sessions: Artist available for demonstrations, teach-ins, meet-ups, consultations, clarifications, interviews, or more formal presentations and expositions until Tuesday April 10th. Call for more information 512.300.8217 Since late September, 2011, I have been co-organizer of Occupy...
February 2012
5 posts
“possible and remembered time” : Daniel Kliewer,...
“possible and remembered time” : Daniel Kliewer Reception: March 31st, 2012, 7-11PM One night only. My present work is about expressing the malleable nature of time and how the mind can alter and transfigure events in future and past parts of our lives. When I paint I often remember the steps and methods used and upon looking at the image at a time in the future, I may go backwards and...
"neurological tangle" : Kollin Baker, March...
“neurological tangle” : Kollin Baker
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 17th, 2012, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through March 24th, 2012 I began this project a couple of years ago, first by visualizing the usage of a common and familiar object. The second part has been the contemplation of the overall layout and design of the parts to create a “whole”. What...
"Low Lives: Occupy!", March 3rd, 2012
“Low Lives: Occupy!”
Presenting Partner Screening: March, 3rd, 5-9PM CST, 2012
Low Lives launches new program in partnership with Occupy With Art and The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.
On March 3rd, 2012, Low Lives: Occupy! an international platform designed to enable artists, audiences, and presenters in alliance with the Occupy movement to support the...
"Above Every Plane and Around Every Circle" :...
“Above Every Plane and Around Every Circle” : Shawn Camp Opening Reception: Saturday, March 3rd, 2012, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through March 10th, 2012 Above Every Plane and Around Every Circle uses light, sound, and paint as a meditation on transmutation and recurrence. The gradually changing environment of the space transforms painted surfaces in the work from...
"Waves of Joy – Heat Distortion – The Vague...
“Waves of Joy – Heat Distortion – The Vague Obelisk” : Eric Timothy Carlson
Reception: Saturday, February 25th, 2012, 7-11PM
The mural being produced for Co Lab Space, the second iteration of the loosely titled series “Waves of Joy – Heat Distortion – The Vague Obelisk”, is to be an immersing field set to induce a physical and emotional experience through the use of...
January 2012
2 posts
"Bullshit Detector" : Jamie Panzer, February...
“Bullshit Detector” : Jamie Panzer
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 18th, 2012, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through February 25th The schematic for this ancient apparatus was unearthed one day when I was digging for loose coins in the dirt. I’ve reconstructed a prototype using modern materials as best I could. That such a device existed so long ago, and is...
"A Shifting Thought, A Shifting Sea" : Loring...
“A Shifting Thought, A Shifting Sea” : Loring Baker Opening Reception: Saturday, February 4th, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through February 11th This body of work is an investigation into my mind as a single mother. I use drawing as my main mode of exploration throughout all the facets of the work. The honest, crunchy, tactility of pencil on paper is something that speaks...
December 2011
1 post
"the Development of Actuality" : Robert Jackson...
“the Development of Actuality” : Robert Jackson Harrington Opening Reception: Saturday, January 21st, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through January 28
My work centers on the concept of potential. The possibility of what could be as opposed to what is. This concept works as an exercise of the mind. Our thoughts take given information and imagine or project a new state of...
November 2011
1 post
"I Put You On A Pedestal" : Michael Abelman,...
“I Put You On A Pedestal” : Michael Abelman Opening Reception: Saturday, December 3rd, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through December 9th Closing Reception: Saturday, December 10th, 7-11PM An intimate installation in which the viewer both strolls by and floats over a gathering of ancient and contemporary art forms. Abelman’s pieces are both astral roadmaps and...
September 2011
5 posts
"Reality Is Only A Rorschach Ink-Blot, You Know" :...
“Reality Is Only A Rorschach Ink-Blot, You Know” : Lisa Choinacky Opening Reception: Saturday, November 19th, 7-11PM On view during the EAST Austin Studio Tour Saturday and Sunday, November 19th + 20th, 11AM-6PM and by appointment only through November 26th All of existence can be understood as a relationship. Alan Watts posited that our physical world is a system of...
"Future: Diorama!" : Ink Tank, November 5th-13th,...
“Future: Diorama!” : Ink Tank Opening Reception: Saturday, November 5th, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through November 11th Also on view during the EAST Austin Studio Tour Saturday and Sunday, November 12th + 13th, 11AM-6PM EAST Reception: Saturday, November 12th, 7-11PM Can you occupy two scales at once? Scale acts as a mediator to the viewer, controlling the...
"MARFITA", October 15th-29th, 2011
“MARFITA” LARGE SCALE INSTALLATION RE-MAPS MARFA, TX FOCUSING ON APPARITION OF MARY Opening + Performance: Saturday, October 15, 7-11PM On view by appointment only October 15 – October 28, 2011 Closing Reception: Saturday, October 29, 7-11PM
MARFITA is the Spanish diminution of the name of Marfa, a town in far west TX, population aprox. 2,200. Founded in the late 1800’s, the...
"Bacon Wrapped Urban Folk Suppositories" : Chicken...
Chicken Bones Zupp and Vincent Martinez present “Bacon Wrapped Urban Folk Suppositories” Art BBQ: Saturday, October 8th, 5-9PM Disgusting, articulate, thick, juicy, fall off the bone fun. Functional food sculpture by the master of Folk George Zupp, lascivious loitering by the master of ceremonies Vincent (Emcee Eats) Martinez, collaborative paintings by both. Donations accepted to...
"Chronotope" : Jennifer Caine, October 1st-8th,...
“Chronotope” : Jennifer Caine Opening Reception: Saturday, October 1, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through October 8th Chronotope is a literary term used to describe the link between time and space in language. In my cut-paper installation by the same name, I explore the interconnection between time and space in memory. Chronotope looks to my own memory – to some of the...
August 2011
1 post
"Where the Sidewalk" : Hank Waddell, September...
“Where the Sidewalk” : Hank Waddell Opening Reception: Saturday, September 17th, 7-11PM On view by appointment only through September 23rd Closing Reception: Saturday, September 24th, 7-11PM This installation is an exploration of how curiosity, discovery, reflection and play are necessary elements of our survival in and understanding of the world. Hank Waddell’s work uses...
July 2011
2 posts
"9/11 MEMORIAL INSTALLATION" : Claude van Lingen,...
“9/11 MEMORIAL INSTALLATION” : Claude van Lingen
Installation/Performance: Sunday, September 11, 2011, 7-11PM
Claude van Lingen’s 9/11 Memorial Installation honors those who died on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Pennsylvania tragedies. These are not the only victims of these events and the installation also pays homage to those who died in the ensuing...
"from the tipi project: the river and meditation...
“from the tipi project: the river and meditation experiment” : Christie Blizard Installation: Saturday, September 3rd, 2011, 7-11PM My interest in tipis comes from my childhood growing up in rural, central Indiana. When I was about eight I found an arrowhead in the field behind my parents’ house, and this was a very magical and vivid experience. This field has also become the...
June 2011
9 posts
"Eagle Woman Poems" : Natalie Goodnow, July 30th,...
“Eagle Woman Poems” : Natalie Goodnow Installation/Performance: Saturday, July 30th, 2011 Installation On View 7-11PM, Performance 8PM Eagle Woman lives in a landfill. It is her job to make sense of the mess. This is what women do. It is what words do. These are the poetics of sifting through the filth. But is an eagle capable of such a task? This performance art event will...
"The Untitled" : Performance work by Caitlin G....
“The Untitled” : Performance work by Caitlin G. McCollom Performance: Saturday, July 23rd, 8PM The Untitled is a performance exhibition exploring identity. In this work McCollom will question the separation between herself and her surroundings; ultimately disappearing. www.caitlinmccollom.com
"Geräuschen und Gebäuden [Noises and Buildings]",...
“Geräuschen und Gebäuden [Noises and Buildings]” Performance: Thursday, July 21st, 8PM The performance will last 45 minutes. The performance explores relationships between sounds and images that have been manipulated, deconstructed and reassembled. The visual component displays light-projected building facades captured by Google Maps satellites, cut into pieces, and re-rectified into...
"1/24" : Christina Sukhgian Houle, July 16th +...
“1/24” : Christina Sukhgian Houle Installation/Performance: Saturday July 16th + Sunday July 17th, 8-10PM. Performance starts at 8:30 1/24 is the first part of a series currently in development, 12/24/360, in which I collaborate with 12 individuals and document their actions and conversations for 24 hours and then reverse the process and become the subject of their documentation....
"Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the...
“Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain” : Gary Setzer
Performance: Wednesday, July 13th, 8PM
Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, is a new performance by visual artist, Gary Setzer, currently on tour in the United States. Setzer re-imagines the landscape through a contemporary lens, merging electro nu-wave music and process-oriented performance art...
"The Solo Show", July 8th + 9th, 2011
“The Solo Show”
Performance: Friday, July 8th + Saturday, July 9th, 8PM Sharp
Featuring solo dance works by Lisa Del Rosario, Errin Delperdang, Rosalyn Nasky and Lindsey Taylor
The Solo Show is a collection of dances from four Austin based choreographers, Lisa Del Rosario, Errin Delperdang, Rosalyn Nasky and Lindsey Taylor. Each choreographer approaches the art of solo making from...
Co-Lab’s 3rd Birthday / Independence Day...
Co-Lab’s 3rd Birthday / Independence Day Celebration / LMC Going Away Party Celebration: Sunday, July 3rd, 2011, 7PM-? Co-Lab turns 3 years old America turns 235 years old Leslie Moody Castro betrays America (US) and moves to Mexico Join us for a Mexico themed 4th of July Party, possibly including pinatas, bouncy castle, streamers, BBQ, fresh produce from the Co-Lab garden, liquor, beer, water...
"STORY TENT" : James Willard Pierce, July 2nd,...
“STORY TENT ” : James Willard Pierce Performance: Saturday, July 2, 2011, 7-11PM STORY TENT will be a (mostly) judgement free space where members of the art-going public can participate in a collaborative exchange between themselves and the artist. Each participant will be offered beer to drink and in return will be expected to share a story of their choice with the artist....
"FIND ART Across America", June 18th, 2011
FIND Art Magazine | FIND ART Across America
Traveling Gallery Showcase at Co-Lab: Saturday, June 18th, 7-11PM
In 2010, FIND Art Magazine put a stamp on the Southern California art scene, transforming the region by discovering emerging artists and showcasing them alongside area mainstays of the art world, building a community in the process. Now, the same creative force behind FIND is venturing...
May 2011
6 posts
"PAPERGIRL", June 18th-25th, 2011
“PAPERGIRL” * We are still accepting work this week (leading up to the bike ride), if you did not have a chance last week you can still drop off your work in the blue bin at the back of the building.
Opening Reception/Art Making Party: Saturday, June 18th, 7-11PM Closing Reception/Art Distribution Bike Ride: Saturday, June 25th, Meetup at 5PM Ride out at 6PM Paper Girl is a show, an...
"Cut and Paste" : Aryn Glazier and Philip...
“Cut and Paste” Aryn Glazier and Philip Trussell Two Collage Artists Meet Opening Reception: Saturday, June 4, 7-11PM On View by Appointment Only Through June 11 Closing Reception: Saturday, June 11, 7-11PM Aryn Glazier: Out of the bafflement of the life I was given I developed an interest in magic early. When I was a child, mixing “magic potions” with everyday...
"Pens and Interruptions" : Night Viking, May 28th,...
“Pens and Interruptions” : Night Viking Event: Saturday, May 28, 7-11PM What happens when a band leaves their equipment at home and decides to build a news studio? Nobody knows…yet. Join them and take a journey behind the scenes of reality… …where BREAKING NEWS is born.
"1 > Within Realms > 0", May 14th - 21st, 2011
“1 > Within Realms > 0” Opening Reception: Saturday, May 14, 7-11PM On View By Appointment Only Through May 20 Closing Reception: Saturday, May 21, 7-11PM At both receptions the piece will begin to transform at 7PM Bardo means literally “intermediate state” - also translated as “transitional state” or “in-between state” or “liminal...
"Generic Performance" : Amanda Jones, May 6th &...
“Generic Performance” by THE LOST ART, a.k.a. Amanda Jones Performances: Friday, May 6th and Saturday May 7th, 8PM THE LOST ART has performed 3 shows so far, each separated by many months, each unique. A common thread is the variety format, a piecing-together and layering of music and raw sounds, dance/movement, thoughts, comedy, solemnity, costumes & props. This will be the...
"CAR SHOW: Drive-In/Thru/By/"
“CAR SHOW: Drive-In/Thru/By/” An event by intermediate and advanced performance students.
Performances: Thursday, May 5, 8PM Please bring your own blankets/buddies/beverages. Featuring live performance, video, and installation work by: Arturo Agüero Robert Aiken Aaron Goldman Allie Underwood Abby Ronaldes Chantal Wnuk David Jimenez Elise Sibley Grace Lawrie Irina Azcona Karina...
April 2011
3 posts
"LOW LIVES 3", April 29th & 30th, 2011
“LOW LIVES 3” Worldwide Networked Performance Art Event Event: Friday, April 29, 7-10PM (CST) & Saturday, April 30, 2-5PM (CST) Now entering its third year, Low Lives is an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives examines works that...
Comfort Sessions (pod 2, dress 1, nest 2) :...
Mixed Media and Performance
Overnight Opening: Saturday, April 23, 2011 7PM - 10AM, Sunday, April 24 (Performances begin at 8 and again at 11 PM; guests are invited to wear pajamas and bring sleeping bags)
Bedtime Sessions: Tuesday April 26, 2011 9-11PM + Saturday April 30, 2011 9-11PM Naptime Sessions: Wednesday April 27, 2011 12-2PM + Friday April 29, 2011 12-2PM...
"The thing in Nothing" : Chantelle Rodriguez,...
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 2011 On View By Appointment Only Through April 15 Closing Reception: Saturday, April 16, 2011
The thing in nothing is a show which explores the beautiful contradiction in all there is, has been and never was. Life and death, sorrow and joy, unity and chaos, creation/destruction. This will be Chantelle’s first solo show, with new multi-media collage...
March 2011
1 post
"Palatial Hemorrhages" : Sarah Stevens, March...
Opening Receptions: Saturdays, March 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2011 ALL 7-11PM Comprised of a four week cycle of installation vignettes, Palatial Hemorrhages is an investigation of incidental personal topographies; an earnest grandiosity amassed in the nature of cigarettes and hairspray used up but never thrown out, or Wilt Chamberlain’s Hollywood home after a forty year carpet moth infestation. After...
February 2011
2 posts
"Obituaries 1913", February 19th-26th, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 19, 2011 7-11PM On View By Appointment Only February 20-26, 2011
Obituaries 1913 is a three-man, multi-genre art exhibition commemorating the lives of 22 individuals who died in 1913. The project is the brainchild of New Orleans musician Tom McLaughlin, who enlisted painter Joel Kelly and poet Mark Yakich as collaborators. Each of the 22 artworks in...
"The Free Show" : The Tremendous Family, February...
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 5, 2011 7-11PM On View By Appointment Only February 6-12, 2011 Closing Reception: Saturday, February 12, 2011 7-11PM
The Tremendous Family is happy to announce a collective show highlighting accessibility in the digital age.
The Tremendous Family is a collection of collections; a platform to create a unique dialogue through visual works from...