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Continuum Live Art Series

Artist Residency at Avant Garden

Continuum Live Art Series (Promo Video) from Continuum PerformanceArt on Vimeo.

Continuum presents a series of wildly adventurous live art events and workshops designed to strengthen and showcase Houston's growing performance art scene.

Press Release:

Dated: October 5, 2012

Houston’s performance art group Continuum happily announces their first Artist Residency granted by Houston’s art and entertainment venue, AvantGarden. The members of Continuum will host a series of site specific performance art events and workshops for a period of six months, from November 2012 to April 2013. The Grand Opening Night of Continuum Live Art Series will be held on Friday, November 30th beginning at 7:30 PM and will include cutting edge performance art from Julia Wallace, Jonatan Lopez, Unna Bettie, Hilary Scullane, Koomah, Evan McCarley, Raindawg, Zubi Puente & Y.E. Torres, Tina McPherson, Black Magic Marker, Militia “Malice” Tiamat, Jessica Mendez, Chus Martinez, Jana Whatley and more.  

In the past couple of years Houston has witnessed extraordinary growth in its performance art scene. Continuum has been an integral part of this nascent growth, having facilitated an engaging series of workshops and performance events at local venues as well as guerrilla style performances around town. With “Continuum Live Art Series”, the group will continue encouraging local emerging performance artists by providing the opportunity to experiment and expand their body of work. AvantGarden, a venue that recently took part in organizing and hosting  “Lone Star Explosion,” Houston’s first International Performance Art Biennial, is the ideal host for this exciting endeavor due to its interest in supporting the medium of performance art.

Continuum Live Art Events will usually occur on the last weekend of each month. Workshops will be held on Sunday evenings at AvantGarden’s upstairs gallery two weeks prior to each Live Art Event. Workshop participants will be able to sharpen their ideas through fun performance exercises and encouraging feedback provided by Continuum members. The Grand Opening will include over ten local performance artists that will inhabit the venue in a unique and provocative way, inviting the audience to become part of the art itself.


Participation is encouraged! If you are interested in performing at the monthly events or attending the workshops, please email Continuum at continuumperformanceart@gmail.com.

• Opening Night. Friday, November 30th, 7:30pm - (No set end time) AvantGarden. 411 Westheimer, 77006
• Performance Art Workshop 1. Sunday, November  18th 5-8pm,  AvantGarden (upstairs)

         All events and workshops are free of charge.  

About Continuum:

Continuum is a social sculpture project formed by a group of artists that came together in a performance art workshop facilitated by Julia Wallace in March and April of 2011 at The Jenner House in Houston, TX.  Through the four week interactive experience the artists discovered ways of creating powerful performances through collaboration, participation, experimentation, documentation, and encouraging feedback. They are connected in the desire to help and encourage each other's self discovery through performance, as well as to give the gift of performative expression to others. Continuum aspires to create an encouraging and safe atmosphere for each other as well as the community to explore and express themselves through the medium of performance art. www.continuumperformanceart.com

About AvantGarden:

What’s most unique about AvantGarden is its genuine commitment to showcasing new and local talent. It has been called an incubator, offering performers their first shot at presenting their work to the public, and a developer of talent, providing the opportunity for artists to cultivate their craft and their careers before moving on to much larger venues. On any given night of the week one can experience Argentine tango, poetry, experimental music or jazz,  an original theater production or a performance art event, a local rock band armed with homemade instruments, fire spinners, carnies and belly dancers in full swing, a life drawing session, a visual art exhibit, a local filmmaker’s showcase; the list is just exhaustive. AvantGarden’s owner, Mariana Lemesoff, started with a vision to nurture the creative core of the city, and in so doing, she has added significantly to the cultural capital of Houston. www.avantgardenhouston.com

Press Release contact:
Jonatan Lopez, Continuum Facilitator
Phone: 512 689 0209
email:continuumperformanceart@gmail.com

Review of Naked Tutu-Tuesday by The Great God Pan is Dead

                                                     Photo by Dean Liscum

We recently became artfully involved with an amazing local art group
 called SOUTHMOREHOUSE, who invited us to participate in their super awesome event
Naked Tutu-Tuesday at upstairs notsuoH. Continuum members Jonatan Lopez
and Sway Youngston facilitated a series of performances that included a
Ballet Sutra lesson and reenactments of performances by
 our highly venerated Marina Abramovic and her former lover Ulay.

Continuum's friend and local blogger Dean Liscum was there to take part of the
action (sporting a beautiful flaming red tutu), and to write a review of the show,
of which we are extremely thankful.

To read Dean Liscum's review click here: NAKED TUTU-TUESDAY

Review of Y.E Torres' show at Fresh Arts by The Great God Pan is Dead

                                                               Photo by Dean Liscum

Our beloved Y.E. Torres had an amazing show with Lisa Chow at Fresh Arts. 
She invited many of us to perform as her bunnies and Unicorns. It was a different
type of performance event, where the audience ( by socializing and indulging in 
succulent pleasures such as eating candy, drinking vodka-tea, petting real and human 
bunnies while enjoying live acoustic music performances) created the performance.

Read the review of the show by Dean Liscum  here: "Once there was, once there wasn't"

Cultured Cocktails with Continuum, Documented (aka Cockroach Cock-tales)

Koomah gives local popular blogger Dean Liscum a cockroach ride         

Cultured Cocktails at Boheme Bar (facilitated by the best artist supporting 
organization in town,the fabulous Fresh Arts) was our first official fundraiser.
Yay, we made some money, we sold some visual art, we performed of course,
but most importantly, we were able to hang out with our friends and fans

and just have a good old time. Below are clips to documentation of the performances. 
Oh, we loosely themed the event around Cockroaches, lol, don't ask us why.

                  

We would like thank so much Fresh Arts and Boheme Wine and Coffee Bar for
hosting our little fundraiser, you guys are the best. And of course, everyone that
came to support us. Continuum loves you. 

More documentation coming soon, such as  a video of The Green Blob and a video
of a roach crawling through a drainage pipe, ooh creepy!!! 

Unna Bettie

Check out the outstanding work of Unna Bettie, Continuum's new convert. She has been 

amazing us with a series of powerful  and inspirational performances 

 in the past months. We are very excited to witness her growth and cherish her positive 

energy as we all experiment and have fun with performance art together. 

Below are some clips of documentation of her latest works witnessed within Countercrawl

and Continuum.

Make sure to check our her Facebook page and like it: UNNA BETTIE

Homeless Woman

Continuum member Tina McPherson surprised the attendees of Countercrawl V
with a beautiful performance for which she disguised herself as a homeless woman,
sharing her possessions such as little gifts and offering food to the crawlers. 
Her performance was a clever response to a recent law enacted in Houston
that absurdly, prohibits us from feeding the homeless in public. Surprisingly,
not one of her friends were able to identify her during her performance. 

Countercrawl V,
 Last Concert Cafe
July 2012
Documented by Jonatan Lopez

Tunnelfukking

In the late spring of 2012, Raindawg went exploring in Houston's Downtown Tunnel System. This is what he saw.


why we tunnelfuk from Continuum PerformanceArt on Vimeo.

Aside from the bleakness of the tunnels, it was clear that this was a beckoning performance space. Thus was born the Tunnelfukking project.

tunnelfukking from Continuum PerformanceArt on Vimeo.


The Downtown Tunnel System is an incredible art and performance space. However, it is practically void of any kind of intentional art, whatsoever. There are a lot of people down there, scurrying around like rats. So we staged an art invasion of the Downtown Tunnel System.

Raindawg led, "The Rich Man's Power," a lament of walls and towers.

The Rich Man's Power from Continuum PerformanceArt on Vimeo.

Sway Youngston performed "Letting It Go Yoga," inviting passersby to give voice to their frustration with their corporate bosses. Leading by example, she gave voice to the existential cry of the millennial worker.

[get video from J. Jindra and Dena]

Raindawg reinacted corporate discipline as fetish in "The Office Gimp."

[get footage from J. Jindra]

Una Bettie performed "The Mystery Dot"