Opening Event - AirStation1, An Installation by Dion Laurent. 16 October ยท 19:00 - 22:00 Location 3709 LA BRANCH ST (Adjacent to the Station Museum of Contemporary Art) HOUSTON, TX 77004
http://www.airplane1.info/ AirStation 1 is a site-specific installation created by Dion Laurent in a 1930's Art Deco Gas Station directly across the road from the Station Museum in Houston,Texas. AirStation 1 is a self-contained, self-sustaining bio-environment - a one-room emergency AirStation supplied air as a greenhouse, a plant based oxygen biosphere garden created over the past few months within the built out 1930's Deco gas station building. The Ins...tallation includes one of this years Art Car Parade 1st place winners, AirPlane1, a full-scale wood and metal sculptural work, a home-built electric vehicle based on a 1956 Cessna 170. It is a reflection to a world of ever increasing air pollution, ozone action days, water shortages, droughts and oil spills. EarthMan 2 is a performance piece which allows the viewer to consider our global biosphere on a human scale by appearing in public places wearing a fully-functioning, self-sustaining suit conceptually capable of maintaining a human in otherwise unlivable environments on earth or even in outer space. All 3 elements of this performance and installation blend art and science and relate to NASA's research of Advanced Life Support Systems (ALSS) and Bio-regenerative Life Support, self contained and self-sustaining life support systems. AirStation 1 is an ongoing project that will develop through December 2010. Same night, same time: The Station Museum of Contemporary Art wishes to announce the opening of the major solo-exhibition A Thousand Tongues Burn and Sing by James Drake. The exhibition will open Saturday, October 16, 2010, from 7-10 pm, with refreshments and music. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
