19 Artists and Art Groups Light Up Houston’s Day for Night Festival
Faculty members Casey Reas, Lauren McCarthy, and Chandler McWilliams are among 19 artists and art gr
Day for Night is a music and art festival featuring contemporary music and visual artists. Among the 19 participating artsts are Design Media Arts Assistant Professor Lauren McCarthy and a collaborative project between Professor Casey Reas’s Processing Foundation and the UCLA Arts Conditional Studio, directed by Chandler Williams.
"Want to hear Solange sing a set and maybe do a performance of “Soul Cleansing” with Saint Heron — like the one they did in LA last year? Then head to the annual Day for Night festival at Houston’s historic Barbara Jordan Post Office this weekend, where you can hear a variety of bands, including Nine Inch Nails, Thom Yorke, St. Vincent, Of Montreal, Priests, and even En Vogue.
While the music always takes center stage (or stages, to be exact, since there are four of them), this year a unique lineup of events on Friday will feature “Soul Cleansing,” as well as a Summit — emceed by Hyperallergic Editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian — that will include leading figures exploring art, tech, and politics like Laurie Anderson, Lauren McCarthy, Saul Williams, Chelsea Manning, and Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova.
Every year, Day For Night also invites numerous visual artists, an ongoing effort to integrate visual art into the music festival experience. The artists provide unique, interactive, site-specific light installations interspersed throughout the festival grounds. This year, visual art curator Alex Czetwertynski has chosen 19 artists and groups from all over the world. Here we highlight just six of them, giving you an idea of what kinds of projects you can expect to walk through, in, and around at the festival this weekend."— Elena Goukassian, Dec. 18, 2017
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