ARTERY PERFORMANCES

Vivalda Dula

Photo be Mark Lacy

Huehuetl image 3

Los Pistoleros

Los Pistoleros, photo by Mark Lacy

Alash Ensemble

Umbrella Man concert

stage during recording

Huehuetl image 1

Photo be Mark Lacy

Harry Sheppard

Harry Sheppard with Bob Chadwick and David Craig

Peekaboo Theory

Photo be Mark Lacy

Bert Lams and Tom Griesgrabor concert

Vivalda Dula concert

Craig Kinsey with band

indoor wedding

indoor wedding (because of rain)

Vivalda Dula on congos

Photo be Mark Lacy

poets, indoor stage

poet slam

Brad Walker Quartet

Photo be Mark Lacy

Huehuetl image 2

Gypsy Dance Theatre image 2

Gypsy Dance Theatre, photo by Mark Lacy

Gypsy Dance Theatre image 3

Gypsy Dance Theatre, photo by Mark Lacy

Space City Gamelon

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D.R.U.M

D.R.U.M, photo by Mark Lacy

MONUMENT - DEFINITION

Dictionary definitions of the word 'monument' indicate two roots, which together signify: 'memory, fixed.' For emergent cities of the 21st Century, the fixing of collective memory has evolved beyond the semantic limits of traditional statuary to rely on ephemeral public rituals of rediscovery and reenactment. Although many of these activities largely dispense with architecture per se, such as certain annual parades and festivals, others are sited in permanent locations especially designed to sponsor spontaneous but self-conscious performances reprising group values. Attendance at such places, attention to their calendars of events, and direct participation in their activities comprise a range of engagements that embed these values in the repetitions by which social recollection is produced. As specialized contexts - among which in turn-of-the-century Houston there numbered the Artery, Notsuoh, the Orange Show, Project Row Houses and TemplO (since demolished), and others - they have become acknowledged agents in the reproduction of local memory. Together with their ephemeral cousins, they have appropriated the city's fluid potential for mass performance to a self-directed theater of common purpose, remembered. Their calendars mark cycles of rededication, setting the past and present in a monumental landscape unbounded by the normative visions of traditional urbanity. - Cameron Armstrong, Architect, Sculpture Magazine 2004

ARTERY PERFORMANCES

Vivalda Dula

Huehuetl image 3

Los Pistoleros

Alash Ensemble

Umbrella Man concert

stage during recording

Huehuetl image 1

Harry Sheppard

Peekaboo Theory

Bert Lams and Tom Griesgrabor concert

Vivalda Dula concert

Craig Kinsey with band

indoor wedding

Vivalda Dula on congos

poets, indoor stage

Brad Walker Quartet

Huehuetl image 2

Gypsy Dance Theatre image 2

Gypsy Dance Theatre image 3

Space City Gamelon

Free Radicals

el Rectorado

D.R.U.M

Dedicated to the spirit that drives artists, travelers, and seers, designed for the interchange of ideas and expression – with reverence toward nature

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MONUMENT - DEFINITION

ARTERY PERFORMANCES

Vivalda Dula

Huehuetl image 3

Los Pistoleros

Alash Ensemble

Umbrella Man concert

stage during recording

Huehuetl image 1

Harry Sheppard

Peekaboo Theory

Bert Lams and Tom Griesgrabor concert

Vivalda Dula concert

Craig Kinsey with band

indoor wedding

Vivalda Dula on congos

poets, indoor stage

Brad Walker Quartet

Huehuetl image 2

Gypsy Dance Theatre image 2

Gypsy Dance Theatre image 3

Space City Gamelon

Free Radicals

el Rectorado

D.R.U.M

Dedicated to the spirit that drives artists, travelers, and seers, designed for the interchange of ideas and expression – with reverence toward nature

SITE-SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL ARTSPACE -- DEFINITION

MONUMENT - DEFINITION