TXB09

As the rest of the city prepares for the onslaught of South by Southwest, we’re busy prepping the gallery for the Texas Biennial’s group show DIY: Double Wide, opening at W&TW on March 6. For this exhibition, the TXB09 website promises “spaces, clutter, balloons, spores, planets, nomads, forests, televisions, families, loners, blues, beads, claws, beasts, marquees, tornados, divers, doodads, forests, traffic, squiggles, and a haircut.” Eee!

The artists:
Anila Quayyum Agha
Anne Longo
Barry Stone
Beau Commeaux
Carolyn Zacharias McAdams
Catherine Colangelo.
Celia Eberle
Charlotte Smith
Christie Blizard
Gladys Poorte
Harmony Padgett
James Talbot
Jamie Panzer
John Spriggins
John Swanger
Jules Buck Jones
Justin Parr
Kana Harada
Keith Allyn Spencer
Kim Cadmus Owens
Marc Burckhardt
Mary Stengel
Mona Marshall
Morgan Sorne
Olga Nicalaevna Porter
Peter Leighton
Raychael Stine
Raymond Uhlir
Ryan Lauderdale
Susan Cheal
William Rosshirt

The opening:
Friday, March 6, 6-8pm, FREE
Women & Their Work Gallery
1710 Lavaca Street
Austin, TX 78701

*BONUS – We’re also throwing our own special event the last week of the Biennial! Our current obsession Silky Shoemaker will debut a new video play and then we get to bounce to the avant garage synth of No Mas Bodas! It’s going down April 2nd–stay tuned for more details.

delta dandi = rousing success!

Hope you got your delta dandi ticket early, because we were sold out both nights!!! Thanks for coming out Austin. It makes us all warm and fuzzy inside to know you like what we’re doing. It’s also nice to get a review the week after from the Statesman. Check it out here!

This Weekend: delta dandi

Check out what the Chronicle had to say about Sharon Bridgforth’s new performance piece delta dandi, premiering this weekend at the Long Center and presented by Women & Their Work, allgo and the John L. Warfield Center for African and African-American Studies at UT.
The performance is for two nights only, and it’s Bridgforth’s last in Austin before she heads out for bigger horizons, so don’t sleep on the opportunity to see the work of this ritual jazz theater pioneer. Buy tickets here.

[sharonbridgforth.com]

Summer 4Eva Recap!

Last week we saluted the end of summer with a little fiesta in the gallery featuring a prizewalk, Austin Video Bee footage, a performance by Tummy Toast, and a ton of balloons that kept popping all over the place.

Also we took about one billion pictures so bear with us after the jump, if you wanna.

Summer 4 Ever

As the lingering triple-digit-temperature of summer do their best to make us feel sluggish and clammy, we at Women & Their Work have decided that the only way to beat the heat is to celebrate it—by gathering friends together for our Summer 4 Ever party (in air-conditioning, duh.)

Please come hang with us this at Summer 4 Ever this Thursday, August 28th, as we toast the never-ending summer in Austin. Take a look at Katie Pell’s sculpture exhibition Tiny Acts of Immeasurable Benefit currently on display in the gallery, and then enjoy deluxe entertainment from Austin Video Bee and Tummy Toast.

As the foremost purveyors of video art ephemera in Austin, the multimedia collective Austin Video Bee hardly need an introduction. If you’ve been to one of their events or seen their new DVD Failure, you already know that an AVB reel guarantees the finest in post-millennial multimedia foragings. Closing out the night will be electropop chanteuse Tummy Toast, who fuses impeccably crafted dancefloor-banger beats with enough AutoTune vocals to make T-Pain jealous. Her glam jams are the perfect summer soundtrack!

The party is free, as usual. And of course, we’re going to hit you with some special extra W&TW surprises. Get into this!

http://www.myspace.com/austinvideobee

http://www.myspace.com/tummytoast

Dance Party benefit on Saturday Night!

SATURDAY / AUGUST 16 / 8pm and on…
HOT MAMA’S and Women & Their Work Gallery present:
Remote Assemblies

A DANCE PARTY benefit W/ DJ GAFF
$7 donation

Hot Mamas Espresso Bar
2401 E. 6Th St. @ The Pedernales Lofts

Join us for a special DJ set by Brooklyn-based artist DJ Gaff (a.k.a Angel Nevarez). Come take part in the hybrid sounds of DJ Gaff as he traverses across the Mex-Electro post-border future.

This night will benefit three Austin-based musical acts that have participated in a lyrical and tonal experiment initiated by artists Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere – each band produced an arrangement of music to lyrics written by Nevarez & Tevere. Video-taped excerpts of the live performances will premiere in the upcoming 30th anniversary exhibition “The Activist Impulse” at Women & Their Work curated by Regine Basha October 11 – November 15th.

For more information on the exhibition visit www.womenandtheirwork.org

For more information on Valerie Tevere and Angel Nevarez visit www.neurotransmitter.fm