MICHAEL MAZUREK -

OPENING OCT 5

7-9PM

The work for Beefhaus will interrogate the notion of belongingness. It will not be a specific representation of anything, but rather, it will attempt to deeply embed itself into its situation to the point that it disengages with the act of its production (a hyperrealism designed not as a transport to somewhere else, but intended to unsettle simulation all together). Strategies will include investigations of: replica/display; the in-between; immersion and complicity. 

Michael Mazurek
for Beefhaus
Oct. 2013
michaelmazurek.com

RICK LOWE " NASHER EXCHANGE" PROJECT PREVIEW

Vickery Meadow’s ‘Trans.lation Market” Installation PoPUp! 

A Rick Lowe ‘Nasher Xchange’ project preview 

1-5pm ‘open house’ Sept. 14, 15 and Sept. 21, 22. 

833 EXPOSITION AVE DALLAS TX
(next to the ‘Amsterdam Bar)

Find out what is going on, who is involved, how it works, and how YOU can become involved (as a volunteer, participant, contributor, observer) in this bold experiment to effect change in the cultural dynamics of Dallas.

Houston-based artist Rick Lowe is internationally respected for one of the most successful community art projects in the world, Project Row Houses, located in Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood. For his Nasher XChange commission, Lowe is working with an eclectic group of artists, community organizers, designers, and residents to highlight and translate the cultural diversity of Vickery Meadow as an asset. Through a series of workshops and gatherings with residents, Lowe and the Trans.lation team are identifying residents’ creative strengths and connecting them with local artists for collaboration and mentorship to ultimately engender opportunity and entrepreneurship. Trans.lation will facilitate a new vision of what public space and interaction could look like in Vickery Meadow

Lowe has visited Dallas multiple times to hold community meetings with residents and property owners, who have shared an overwhelming desire to feel more connected to each other and to the city of Dallas, outside of Vickery Meadow. Lowe considers the research process by which he connects with and learns about a community to be an integral part of his art.

As many as 27 languages are spoken by almost 30,000 people in this small but diverse neighborhood. Refugees from around the world, including several Asian and African countries, are settled in the area by organizations such as the International Rescue Committee, Refugee Services of Texas and the resettlement services of the Catholic Charities of Dallas.

Contacts:
Sara Mokuria 214-454-3980 sara.mokuria@utdallas.edu
Greg Metz 214-364-8435 glmetz23@utdallas.edu 

B E E F H A U S

AUGUST 2013

Artbeef has temporarily appropriated a storefront on Exposition avenue in the Fair Park area of Dallas Texas. This new location will serve as a project space for guest artists and curators as well as a place for Artbeef to stage a variety of collaborative propositions. For their inaugural event Artbeef has split the group into smaller factions that will work independently of one another while retaining a thematic approach that will unify their otherwise disparate artistic practices. This event will focus our efforts on addressing the newly acquired space in terms of it's physicality. Through a series of installations, the area will be transformed in ways that respond to the structure of the building itself.