Hillerbrand+Magsamen-A Device to be Heard

Performance: Hillerbrand + Magsamen: 147 Devices for Integrated Principles

Saturday, October 1 | 7PM

The Silos at Sawyer Yards

1502 Sawyer St, Houston, TX 77007

FotoFest is pleased to present a lecture-performance by Houston-based artists Hillerbrand+Magsamen as part of the presentation of their work, 147 Devices for Integrated Principles, held in conjunction with the exhibition Ten by Ten: Ten Reviewers Select Ten Portfolios from the Meeting Place 2020–21.

For their performance, the artists will teach audience members how to create and interact with the fictional tools that they have created from commonplace objects so that they can cope and manage with the extreme challenges that everyday life presents.

To learn more about Hillerbrand and Magsamen’s 147 Devices for Integrated Principles follow this link. You can see a selection of the artist’s devices at the Silos at Sawyer Yards in the exhibition, Ten by Ten, which is on view between September 24–November 6.

This performance is free and open to the public. The performance of 147 Devices for Integrated Principles is supported in part by Heidi Vaughn Fine Art.

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About the artists

Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s practice utilizes collaboration, process and media experimentation through video, photography, installation, sculpture and interdisciplinary performance. They explore their relationships to each other and society with an uncanny sensibility that merges the real and unreal, blurring boundaries between life and art and often includes their two children, Maddie and Emmett.

Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s work has been presented at festivals including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX), CounterCurrent Festival (Houston, TX) and Diffusion Photography Festival (Wales, UK). Exhibitions include the Grand Rapids Art Museum (Grand Rapids, MI), Everson Museum (Syracuse, NY), and Center for Photography Woodstock (Woodstock, NY). They have received grants from Sustainable Arts Foundation, Austin Film Society, Houston Arts Alliance and Experimental Television Center and participated in residency programs: Wassaic Projects (Wassaic, NY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), I-Park (East Haddam, CT), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York, NY), Experimental Television Center (Owego, NY), Elsewhere (Greensboro, NC), Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX) and Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM). Stephan Hillerbrand is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston. Mary Magsamen is the Curator at Aurora Picture Show.

www.hillerbrandmagsamen.com

Image: Hillerbrand+Magsamen, A Device to be Heard, 2019. From the series 147 Devices for Integrated Principles, 2019–. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of Heidi Vaughan Fine Arts and the artist.