Media Archeology: I Am Curious Remix

I Am Curious Remix
With Potter-Belmar Labs
Friday, September 17, 7PM
Location: Heights Theater, 339 W. 19th Street
FREE Admission

Aurora Picture Show and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts present a media archeological dig right from the heartland of Texas featuring artists including Luke Savisky, Potter Belmar Labs and Graffiti Research Labs. As part of our annual Media Archeology multimedia festival, these artists will host site-specific media events that explore the past and the present through tools that have been manipulated and repurposed such as film, light, sound, and live performance. The second night of the festival will feature Potter Belmar Labs of San Antonio.

In June of 1969, arsonists set fire to Houston's Heights Theater during a run of the controversial film "I am Curious (Yellow)," by Swedish writer/director, Vilgot Sjöman. Live cinema artists Potter-Belmar Labs will investigate this history within the context of late-60s Houston, taking into account the broader censorship movement of the age as well as the phenomenon of reactionary violence in our own time. Potter-Belmar's live cinema performance will center on a remix of Sjoman’s film, exploiting the kaleidoscope shape of the film in their performance.

Special thanks to Sharon & Gus Kopriva and Gallery M Squared for their support of this program

Potter-Belmar Labs is Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens, collaborating artists since 1999, with internationally exhibited, prize-winning work, in live cinema performance, single-channel video, and installation art. Potter-Belmar Labs specializes in audience-participatory, multimedia spectacles and curiosities. Their work offers means of interaction, like unique switches, sounds and peepholes, and their live cinema performances often involve direct audience participation. For live cinema performance, PBL has appeared at such venues as the Ann Arbor Film festival, Bearded Child Film Festival (Minneapolis, MN). Anitmatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC), Chicago Filmmakers, Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema, and the San Antonio Museum of Art, ans has taken their act on the road for Midwest and West Coast Tours.

Still from "I am Curious (Yellow)"