The first in our lecture series features artist Kathleen Shafer, who will speak about her current work, which concerns airfields, airspace, Marfa's military history, the repurposing of spaces, and an examination of what constitutes the concepts of place and space within the fields of geography and art.
For the second year, Ballroom Marfa will present its popular week-long DJ Camp from July 18 - July 22, 2011 with instructor Faith Gay.
On August 8, 2011, Austin three-piece eets Feats will be stopping through town for one night only and blessing us with their awesome rock sounds. Show at 8:30 pm outside the Thunderbird Lounge.
Ballroom Marfa will continue its collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, London, and nine other international art spaces for the third installment of the film and video program, Art in the Auditorium.
Explosions In the Sky play some of the most passionate, powerful instrumental music you will ever hear. Equal parts romance and tragedy, their beautiful melodies have the tendency to ignite into head-spinning walls of noise. Twin Sister opens. Doors at 7 pm.
In celebration of the opening of our fall 2011 visual arts exhibition, AutoBody, Texas' finest all-female mariachi, Mariachi Las Alteñas, will play at the Capri, 30 September, 9:30 pm.
In the fall of 2011, Ballroom Marfa will mount the exhibition AutoBody, which showcases a single new work and installation, North of South, West of East, by emerging film and video artist Meredith Danluck, alongside the sculptural works of Liz Cohen, Matthew Day Jackson and Jonathan Schipper, organized by curator Neville Wakefield.
Join the High Line and Ballroom Marfa for Atom Fables, a new collaborative work by artist Laleh Khorramian and musician Shahzad Ismaily. Atom Fables features Khorramian's one-minute films of transformations, which will be rearranged in real-time to a musical composition performed live by Ismaily and an accompanying ensemble.
Ballroom Marfa collaborated with Chalk the Block –- a downtown El Paso public arts initiative -– to install our recently commissioned video work by Teresa Margolles, Irrigación.
Ballroom Marfa is honored to present an evening with Tinariwen, renowned band of poet-guitarists, on Thursday, 3 November 2011, at the Capri in Marfa, Texas. Sophie Hunger opens the show. Doors at 7 pm.
Please join us for our AutoBody Film Program, showcasing films related to car culture, throughout the winter of 2011 and 2012.
For our third annual New Year’s film program, we present Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, followed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid's short film, Meshes of the Afternoon, with live scores by multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily. Show at 7 pm, December 30, at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas.
As part of Marfa New Year's Eve: The Progressive Party Adventure, Ballroom Marfa hosted a cocktail hour on 31 December 2011 with light spirits, records on the turntable, and 3-minute sketches by local artists Joe Cashiola, Erin Kimmel, and Hilary duPont.
Ballroom Marfa was pleased to have Data Deluge artist Jennifer Dalton visit with art students at Marfa Senior High School as part of our Making Art Work program.
As part of the opening celebration for Data Deluge, the conceptual new media artist, programmer and performer R. Luke DuBois and multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer Bora Yoon, both based in New York, will perform an experimental work at the Capri on 2 March 2012.
Our 2012 spring visual arts exhibition, Data Deluge, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Reynard Loki, celebrates the beauty of information through sculpture, furniture, painting, photography, video and sound. Opening reception is 2 March 2012.
Ballroom Marfa welcomes singer-songwriter Eleanor Friedberger for a weeklong residency and recording session, culminating in a special performance on March 24, 2012 at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas. Josh Wise of the French Kicks opens.
Ballroom Marfa and Marfa Book Company are proud is present a lecture by Jens Hoffmann, Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, at 2 pm on 24 March 2012 at Marfa Book Company.
Ballroom Marfa and Transmission Events are proud to present At the Drive-In on Thursday, 12 April 2012 at the Capri in Marfa, Texas. Doors at 7 pm. Show at 8 pm.
