VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

DiverseWorks ArtSpace in partnership with Box13 ArtSpace are pleased to announce a special co-presentation of Low Lives 3, an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted over the web and projected in real-time at multiple venues around the world. Low Lives 3 will feature more than fifty live performances over two days, streamed in real-time at venues across the globe, and will include a spotlight on contemporary choreography throughout the exhibition program.

DiverseWorks and Box13 will showcase Houston artist Jenny Schlief as part of Low Lives 3. Schlief will perform The Ugliest Man and Zarathustra: an evaluation by another human in front of a live audience at RED WHITE YELLOW, Box13’s gallery dedicated to technology-based work. The performance will also be streamed simultaneously online and for public viewing at Box13. The full stream of the collected works that make up Low Lives 3 will be projected within the gallery on Friday, April 29 from 7-10 pm and Saturday, April 30 from 2-5 pm. Please note the live performance will be recorded and available for viewing until May 21 during gallery hours at Box13 ArtSpace. All presentations are free and open to the public.

About Low Lives - Founded in 2009 by artist and independent curator Jorge Rojas, the annual Low Lives exhibition highlights works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performative practices. The project celebrates the transmission of ideas beyond geographical and cultural borders, offering global audiences the opportunity to consider live performance in both physical and virtual space.

By organizing performances at numerous venues and then broadcasting them via online networks, Low Lives provides a new model for efficiently presenting, viewing, and archiving live performance-based art. The annual exhibition embraces low-tech aesthetics, such as low pixel images and muddled sound quality, to emphasize the raw, inquisitive quality of the broadcast and reception of the works.

“Low Lives is not simply about the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time,” Rojas explains, “it is also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium.”

About Low Lives 3 - Low Lives 3 is co-produced by Chez Bushwick, an artist-run organization based in Brooklyn, New York. Chez Bushwick is dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary art and performance and places a special emphasis on new choreography.

Participating artists include: Annie Abrahams; Lukas Avendaño; Brian Balderston and Chloe Bass; Camille Baker; Tzitzi Barrantes; Rachelle Beaudoin; Black & Jones; Caroline Boileau; Catherine Cabeen and Company; Jennifer Chan; Tyrone Davies; Joseph DeLappe; dev01ded; Alfred Dong; Nancy Douthey; Eosin; Julie Fotheringham and Jarryd Lowder; Second Front; Deborah Goffe; Carlos Gonzalez; Katelena Hernandez; Ajeesh K.B., Santhosh V.S., and Hemabharathy Palani; Jayson Keeling; La La La Singers; Shaun El C. Leonardo; Anya Liftig; Kristin Lucas; James Mbunju and Company; Saul Melman; Marcello Mercado; Jui Mhatre and Jaee Joshi; Julio Morales; Irvin Morazan and Maya Jeffereis; Kendall Nordin; Molly O'Connor/Molliver; So Percussion; SaBa; Marisol Salanova; Rosa Sanchez and Alain Baumann; Byd Sarret; Jenny Schlief; Carmen Sober; Alan Sondheim; Nathan Stevens; Zornitsa Stoyanova; Channel TWo; Frans van Lent; Claude van Lingen; Ginna Vélez; Rodell Warner; Ian Warren; Dr. Heather Warren-Crow; Rebecca Weiner; and Paul Wiersbinski.

Now in its third year, Low Lives has expanded its reach to over twenty presenting partners from all corners of the world. Presenting partners include: Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey; Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore, India; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York; Chez Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York; Co-lab, Austin, Texas; QMAD, Queens Media Art Development in partnership with Crossing Art Gallery, Queens, New York; Diaspora Vibe Gallery in partnership with AE District, Miami, Florida; DiverseWorks ArtSpace in partnership with Box13 ArtSpace, Houston, Texas; Elon University Department of Art & Art History, Elon, North Carolina; Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas; Konic Thtr, Barcelona, Spain; La Periferia, Mérida, Yucatán, México; La Perrera in partneship with MACO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México; Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Mascher Space Co-op, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mindpirates, Berlin, Germany; Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota; On the Boards, Seattle, Washington; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon; Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; Simba Theatre Art International in partnership with Village Museum, Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania; SOMArts, San Francisco, California; the temporary space, Japan; and Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Low Lives 3 is funded in part by The Experimental Television Funds program. The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.

For more information, please visit www.lowlives.net.

Pictured above:  Jenny Schlief, a mixed-media artist who creates work from her personal experiences.