February 4th, 2005 8:00 pm
Associated Program:
Monument Recall
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Microcinema International has curated a special screening of international short films and videos from selections submitted from nine countries, featuring a unique and diverse selection of works which interpret and present the notion of "Monument" in public spaces. Artists include: Wolfgang Bittner, Amy Harrison, Ellen Lake, Rudy Lemcke, David Fenster, Sandro Del Rosario, Irina Botea, Roderick Hietbrink, Karen Vanderburght, Niharika Hariharan, Amy Youngs and Roger Beebe.
Monuments both remind and warn. They speak to the future and the past, publicly marking what a culture needs to be reminded of. This project seeks to open dialogue about this play between the past and the future, offering alternative and augmented views of what society chooses to remember and forget, and what underlying values and ideologies are embedded in markers of "public memory." Monument Recall challenges the conventional definition of monuments, presenting work by a range of contemporary international artists, designers, architects and writers that expand the breadth, voice, appearance or materiality of what we are accustomed to seeing in public monuments or memorials, offering new imagery and concepts of what a monument can be.
Some contributors question what the public values by presenting unconventional content that represents collective memory within the framework of conventional monuments, as defined by our culture. Others address the impact of changing politics upon the public topography of cultural or historical memory. Contemporary political events have weighed heavily upon the demands for, and responsibilities of monuments to form a bridge between individual lives and larger institutional values. At the heart of the all these works presented in this exhibition, is a broader discussion around the practice and expectations of public commemoratives. |
Axiom Theatre
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Organization Type: Microcinema |
Seating Capacity: 100 |
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Contact: Patrick Kwiatkowski |
Position: Founder |
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Description:
Infernal Bridegroom Productions was founded in 1993, in order to develop new audiences for the arts through the production of plays unlike any others being produced in Houston, Texas. Over the course of its ten year, forty-one production history, the company has been recognized for excellence in various local and national publications, including American Theatre, Stage Directions, Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle and The Houston Press, which, in their annual “Best of Houston” editions, has issued the company awards including Best Theater Company, Production, Original Show, New Play, Actress, Actor, Director, Set Design, Light Design, Costume Design, Curtain Speech and Christmas Show. IBP has introduced Houston audiences to the works of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, Brian Jucha, Sarah Kane, Richard Foreman, Wallace Shawn, Mac Wellman, Heiner Müller and Bernard-Marie Koltès, and has mounted eleven original plays and twenty regional premieres. The original music the company has created receives regular radio play on various college radio stations around the country. And in its recent residency at The Axiom, IBP has returned the legendary warehouse district nightclub to its roots as a mecca for the most vital, exciting live music in town.
Five years ago, IBP was an all-volunteer, homeless company. The company now boasts its own theater with a full time staff of five and a resident company of eighteen and pays fees to all its artists. It’s Outreach and Education programs have reached hundreds of area high school and college students. And, though blessed with a loyal following among traditional arts patrons, fully half of IBP’s audience does not regularly attend cultural arts events of any description. IBP has received substantial financial and in-kind support from various foundations, corporations, arts organizations and private donors.
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