SPECIAL EVENTS

Every third Wednesday of the month at the Artist SPEAKeasy, Spacetaker hosts artists from varying disciplines (visual, performing, literary, etc.) to present, in an informal atmosphere, creative dialogs/talks/presentations about their work followed by a question and answer session where the audience can glean further insight into the artist, the artist's aesthetic and creative process.

The evening is designed not only to bring together artists and those who appreciate the arts, but also to introduce local artists to each other to encourage conversation and cross-disciplinary collaboration between artists and their chosen media.

Drinks and nosh are served at 6:30; formal talks are underway at 7:00. Guests are invited to come and go as necessary.

This month's Spacetaker Artist SPEAKeasy features dancer, choreographer and director of Frame Dance Productions Lydia Hance and visual artist Pablo Gimenez Zapiola of the collaborative group BandArt.

About Lydia Hance:
In May 2010, Lydia Polhemus Hance founded Frame Dance Productions to connect Houston’s vibrant art community to the Web 2.0 social networking infrastructure, an emerging, media-rich forum for new creative expression. Frame is dedicated to creating innovative and vulnerable works for the screen and simulcast stage. Presenting repertory that is diverse, Frame commits to new collaborations with artists of other disciplines to broaden the scope of dance and bring it to a global audience through technology. Hance’s choreography promotes the belief that the soul is passionately expressive and the body is intensely symbolic. She stretches the limits of personal space to awaken new sensibilities in her dancers and audiences.

Lydia Hance currently dances with Suchu Dance and Dancepaththeatre. She also teaches in the Several Dancers Core Dynamic X-Change Program, an initiative for healing, and she is also the facilitator for a weekly art workshop for Several Dancers Core called Fieldwork.

About Pablo Gimenez Zapiola:
Pablo Gimenez Zapiola is a visual artist who uses video and photography to capture "meaning in motion." Pablo's work captures projected words and stories onto moving trains at night. In his latest projections, Pablo has started using words by his French great grandfather who was a writer, critic and formerly director of the national library of Argentina for 44 years until his death. Has has also started projecting poems of two Argentinian poets. His idea is to make the project evolve, so in addition to projecting just isolated words as he did during 2009, he is now projecting “stories,” which takes the projects to a new level. Now, not only does the train give the pieces dynamic movement but the changing sentences also contribute to the motion of each piece.

Pictured above: detail of a work by Pablo Gimenez Zapiola.