Convergence Research: Memories of the Subsoil

Date:

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | 6pm-7pm

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum cafe

Format:

November’s Convergence Research will be presented in two unique sessions.

Moores School of Music Doctor of Musical Arts students Eric Estrada Valadez and Eduard Alexandru Gavril will be joined by environmental engineer Matthew Brand to present Memories of the Subsoil, an artistic interpretation of the cycle of rocks. Cycles are inherent to the development of narrative structure within music, poetry, dance, drama, and related disciplines. This collaborative project uses the four movements of the cycle of rocks (magma, igneous rock, sedimentation ad metamorphic rock) to remind us of our own ties to the Earth and its intervals of birth, growth, decay, death and renewal.

In a separate session, Trenton Tabak a University of Houston undergraduate student in the school of Theatre and Dance and Adele Elise Williams, doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing will collaborate in a project inspired by current Blaffer exhibition Tania Candiani: Lifeblood.
Revolving around the abstract elements of light, water, and the human body, as they are portrayed in Candiani’s artwork, this collaboration will explore displacement and industry in the Gulf Coast region and the broader theme of transformation.

Convergence Research is a collaboration with the Blaffer Art Museum and is curated by Graduate Assistant Ji Won Chun.

Free and open to all!

About Convergence Research:

Co-presented with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and curated by the Mitchell Center graduate assistant, the Blaffer Art Museum hosts evenings of ongoing interdisciplinary research, experimentation, improvisation, and performance. Students and faculty from across the disciplines—and beyond the arts—meet to discuss and present projects in a state of becoming. All are welcome to attend, observe, and join the conversation. Apply for Convergence Research.