Opening Reception—”Intimate confession is a project”

Friday, October 27, 2023
6:00pm—8:00pm
Artist & Curator Remarks: 6:30pm

Location:
Blaffer Art Museum
FREE and open to the public

Intimate confession is a project is a group exhibition that considers transmission, intergenerational life, and cultural inheritance through the prism of intimacy and infrastructure. Through the work of eleven multifaceted artists spanning generations and geographies, the exhibition thinks through infrastructure as an intimate holding cell, capable of affective and affirmative power.

Intimate confession is a project, is on view at Blaffer Art Museum October 27—March 10, 2024. The exhibition is curated by Jennifer Teets.

Learn more about the exhibition

Images: Josie Ann Teets, The Oil King Buggie, 1975. Pen on paper, 8 x 10 inches, 2 pages framed.
Image courtesy of Artpace, San Antonio, from the exhibition Carbonate of Copper curated by Jennifer Teets, 2022. Photos by Beth Devillier.

Performances

Performances are funded by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts

Opening Intimate confession is a project 6pm-8pm Blaffer Art Museum

Houston based bookstore Basket Books & Art presents a selection of books and editions available for sale to the public

Live performance by B L A C K I E in collaboration with Ciarán Finlayson at The Blaffer, 7pm

B L A C K I E (official name) is an international experimental noise artist from Houston, Texas. They make raw stage performances with high volume sounds that often escalate into spiritual realms. They are a pioneer of Noise-Rap and considered to be highly influential in the wider American underground music scene.

Ciarán Finlayson is a Houston born writer and editor based in Brooklyn. He is the managing editor at Blank Forms and his writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum, Archives of American Art Journal, and N+1 and in exhibition catalogs for institutions including the Studio Museum Harlem, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Finlayson’s book Perpetual Slavery was published by Floating Opera Press in 2023.