Rented: A screening of experimental videos by Eleanor Antin, Stanya Khan & Harry Dodge and Ryan Trecartin

Department of Fine Arts Building Room 2.204, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, March 7 from 3:00-5:00 pm

Rented is a new program established to bring experimental film and video works to the University of Texas at Austin community.The first program presents the work of four artists who use "personal" narratives to explore the performance of gender and sexuality. The program begins with Eleanor Antin's The Ballerina and the Bum (1974), in which Antin's Ballerina persona travels to New York to become Balanchine's prima ballerina. In Let the Good Times Roll (2004) Stanya Khan & Harry Dodge present a story of a sexual-spiritual "coming out" and in Me & Rubyfruit (1989) Sadie Benning constructs a narrative of teenage lesbian love and sexuality using the work of novelist Rita Mae Brown as an architecture. The program culminates with Ryan Trecartin's A Family Finds Entertainment (2004), a startling and jubilant video work in which gender, sexuality and family are unstable and shifting categories.

South by Southwest Film Festival

Various Locations in Austin

Friday, March 7-Saturday, March 15, 2008

Each year the South by Southwest Film festival offers up the latest in independent film in a variety of genres including documentary, narrative, experimental short and even music videos. For the complete list of films, screening times and venues, please click here.

Gallery Tour of Jess: To and From the Printed Page

Harry Ransom Center

Friday, March 7 at 7:00 pm

Michael Auping, Chief Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, leads a gallery tour of Jess: To and From the Printed Page and discusses the relationship between Jess and the Beats.

Edible Estate Pre-Planting Celebration

Arthouse

Thursday, March 13 from 6-9 pm

To kick off the planting of the Regional Prototype Garden #5 organized in conjucntion with Fritz Haeg: Attack on the Front Lawn exhibition, Arthouse will host a pre-planting party.

Planting of Edible Estates Regional Garden: Prototype #5

201 West St. Elmo Street

Friday, March 14, 2008

Sierra Ridge Apartments, a Foundation Communities property located at 201 West St. Elmo will be home to the edible garden commissioned by Arthouse in conjunction with the exhibition, Fritz Haeg: Attack on the Front Lawn. To volunteer to help with the planting or to donate materials, please contact Arthouse, 512-453-5312 or info@arthousetexas.org.

Digital Showcase 43: Laptop Battle

Club DeVille (900 Red River)

Saturday, March 8 from 9 pm-2 am

For the 3rd year in a row, AMODA presents a Laptop Battle for its March Digital Showcase. In this event, sixteen of Texas's most skilled electronic musicians will use their laptops to musically outperform each other in a series of elimination rounds.

Cult of Color: Call to Color

Austin Ventures Studio Theater

April 3-13, 2008

Ballet Austin presents a world premiere dance work created from a collaboration among Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, new music by composer Graham Reynolds, and original choreography by Ballet Austin Artistic Director/choreographer Stephen Mills. For further information about purchasing tickets, please click here.

Show and Tell: A Digital Slide Jam featuring Robert Boland, Josh Rios, Corkey Sinks and Jade Walker

Women & Their Work

Tuesday, March 18 at 7:00 pm

Come to Women & Their Work to see & hear about the work of four local artists, Robert Boland, Josh Rios, Corkey Sinks, and Jade Walker.

Curator's Tour of Workspace: In Katrina's Wake

Blanton Museum of Art

Thursday, March 20 at 12:30 pm

Katy Siegel and Wade Saunders: Viewpoint Lectures

Art Building, Room 1.102, University of Texas Department of Art History

March 20 and April 17 at 4 pm

Viewpoint 2008 marks the seventeenth year of this annual series of concentrated visits by leading curators, critics and scholars involved in the contemporary art world. Katy Siegel and Wade Saunders are this year’s invitees. Siegel is an associate professor of art history at Hunter College, CUNY and a contributing editor to Artforum. Wade Saunders is a sculptor and critic and teaches at Parsons Paris School of Art & Design and at the Institut des Etudes Politiques; he has written for Art in America since 1978. In addition to the lectures, Siegel and Saunders will also present two seminars on March 21 and April 18 from 3:00-5:00 pm in Art Building, Room 3.206, University of Texas Department of Art History.

Panel Discussion with with Trenton Doyle Hancock, Stephen Mills and Graham Reynolds

Arthouse

Saturday, March 22 from 3:00-5:00 pm

Organinzed in conjunction with Ballet Austin's Cult of Color: Call to Color and the companion exhibition at Arthouse, this panel discussion will feature contemporary artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, choreographer Stephen Mills and composer Graham Reynolds.

2 to Watch: Ya’Ke Smith and Peat Duggins

artpace

Thursday, March 20 from 6:30-8:00 pm

This program pairs a visual artist and a writer in an evening of words and images, gathering literary and visual arts audiences for a critical discussion and examination of crossovers between the genres. In this 2 to Watch, Ya’Ke Smith, a film director whose short Hope's War was screened at Cannes, is paired with artist Peat Duggins, an artist, okay mountain collaborator and animator for projects including the film A Scanner Darkly.

Dawoud Bey in conversation with Valerie Cassel Oliver

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Thursday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m

Organized in conjunction with Perspectives 160: Dawoud Bey, the artist talks to Valerie Cassel Oliver, CAMH's Curator.

Tuesday Evenings at the Modern: Joshua Mosley

The Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth

Tuesday, March 11 at 7:00 pm (Seating begins at 6:30)

Joshua Mosley, who opens this year’s FOCUS exhibitions with his multimedia installation A Vue, 2004, has received much-deserved recognition with awards and exhibitions of note, such as the inclusion of his intriguing installation of film and sculpture titled Dread in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Joshua Mack, in his feature on the artist for Art Review, writes, “Joshua Mosley’s deceptively simple, visually stunning short animations are complex philosophical meditations on values and life in an incurious age.” This special Tuesday Evenings presentation provides insight into Mosley’s own work while setting the stage for the series of animated shorts he organized for the Modern, which begins March 12. For further information about Mosley's animated shorts series, please click here.

Tuesday Evenings at the Modern: Amelia Jones

The Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth

Tuesday, March 25 at 7:00 pm (Seating begins at 6:30)

Amelia Jones, known for her scholarship in the areas of feminism and contemporary art, is Professor and Pilkington Chair in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester as well as an independent curator and writer. Most recently she published the 2006–07 book Self Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject and is co-author/co-editor of WomEnhouse, a Web project reexamining feminism and domesticity in contemporary culture. For Tuesday Evenings, Jones presents the provocative and pertinent Screen Eroticism 1967 vs. 1992: Exploration of Female Desire in the Work of Carolee Schneemann and Pipilotti Rist.

Adventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance and Negativland

Quintero Lab Theatre, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center

Thursday, March 14 at 4:00 pm

Interested in media literacy? Want to know more about humorous anti-corporate art/activism? Interested in challenging the roles of advertising in our lives? Opinionated about the evolution of art, law, and resistance in a media saturated world?  Go check out Adventures in Illegal Art, a film lecture/presentation/conversation with Mark Hosler of Negativland.