Performance | “Jacolby Satterwhite: A Metta Prayer” Thursday, August 29, 2024 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Billion Tekleab
Viktor le. Givens
Jacolby Satterwhite, A Metta Prayer, 2023, site-specific, 4-channel multimedia installation: sound, theatrical lighting, high-definition color video, and 3D animation in Autodesk Maya and Unreal Engine, courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. © Jacolby Satterwhite
August 29, 2024
In celebration of his exhibition Jacolby Satterwhite: A Metta Prayer, local artists to create an immersive sound experience in response to the exhibition. Billion will incorporate live musicians in a conceptual performance. Viktor will perform a choreopoem based on healing and memory reconciliation.
Step into a kaleidoscopic universe of multimedia magic, as these local artists blend sonic elements, video, and music—creating a vibrant ode to love and resilience.
This exhibition celebrates humanity in all its glory through computer-generated scenes of life and love. There are occasional instances of adult language and imagery.
Plan Your Visit
- The performance is free with Museum admission.
- The performance takes place in Cullinan Hall in the Law Building with standing room only, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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About the Performers
Billion Tekleab (b. 2000, Houston, Texas) is an Eritrean-American interdisciplinary artist. Tekleab’s practice is generated from contrasting personal narratives from Eritrea with histories existing in various Black Gulf-coastal communities. Across hemispheres, Tekleab marries art with communal relationships rooted in the intersectionality of shared Black diasporic experiences. Tekleab holds a B.S. in Integrated Studies of Art, Design and African American History. Her works have been presented with Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Project Row Houses, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Nameless Sound, and The Anderson Center For The Arts.
Viktor le. Givens is a found object installation performance artist whose practice centers around the gathering and arrangement of ancestral objects to activate spaces for site specific public rituals. By connecting the material culture of his ancestors with pre and postmodern spiritual theologies, le. Givens hopes to extend and re-imagine the folk customs of his family. His material archive is comprised of the forgotten and discarded household items found during excavations of East Texas, Louisiana, Havana Cuba and Mexico City. Through the accumulation of these rich cultural artifacts, le. Givens. seeks to create spaces that inspire the activation of cultural and spiritual (re) memory. Currently Viktor’s practice is exploring the creative potential in reinterpreting the archive to produce interdisciplinary new works.
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"Jacolby Satterwhite: A Metta Prayer" was commissioned in 2023 for the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Learning and Interpretation programs receive generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Samuel H. Kress Foundation; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; Houston Junior Woman's Club; Sharon G. Dies; Sterling-Turner Foundation; Susan Vaughan Foundation; and additional generous donors.