Hear Our Houston on Living Art, 90.1 KPFT Houston: Click Here to listen to a live radio mixtape of Hear Our Houston tours featuring Robert Hodge, Raj Mankad, Keith Reynolds, Alex Luster and Daniel Anguilu, Yuna Booyoung, and Lara Appleby.
Carrie Schneider Awarded 2012 Idea Fund Grant
to bring 20 new Hear Our Houston tours to life
Here's what we've been reading and researching lately:
The Situationists and the City: A Reader
edited by Tom McDonough
"From being the site of alienated labor and passive consumption, the city was reformulated as the locus of a potential reciprocity and community, the crucial spacial stake of any project of radical transformation."
You can read an excerpt from Internationale Situationniste #4, published in 1960 here.
The Sole of Houston
by John Nova Lomax
A Houston Press series chronicling John Nova Lomax and David Beebe's long ass treks across our concrete prairies.
Richmond Avenue, Houston's Street of Dreamz
Richmond Avenue, Houston's Street of Dreamz
Francis Alÿs Postcards
Francis Alÿs is one of my favorite artists whose deep obcservation of pedestrians leads to inspiring tricskter acts.
Rebecca Solnit's Wanderlust: A History of Walking
"Walking...is how the body measures itself against the earth...an activity essentially unimproved since the dawn of time...If there is a history of walking, then it too has come to a place where the road falls off, a place where there is no public space and the lanscape is being paved over, where leisure is shrinking and being crushed under the anxiety to produce, where bodies are not in the world but only indoors in cars and buildings..In this context, walking is asubversive detour, the scenic route through a half-abandoned landscape of ideas and experiences."
Cite Magazine: the architecture and design review of Houston is a quarterly
publication that, since 1982, has mixed an appreciation of high design with a shot of
down and dirty civic engagement. Also check out the Rice Design Alliance's OffCite blog.
As part of Carrie Schneider's residency at Project Row Houses, new Hear Our Houston tours will focus on the Third Ward including walks by boxing champ Reverend Ray Martin of Progressive Amateur Boxing Association and his biographer Paris Eley, Deloyd Parker of S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, Brother Kenya, photographer and educator Ray Carrington, and artists Bert Samples, Robert Hodge and Phillip Pyle II.
Culture Map Houston's Joel Luks covers Hear Our Houston:
"Hear Our Houston: Eccentric, 'radical' walking tours look to redefine a car-dependent city"
Hear Our Houston's Creator Carrie Schneider speaks at the Contemporary Arts Museum this Thursday.
Project Row House's Round 35 Opening, photograph by Billie Simone
Project Row Houses Round 35 Artists and Community Talk
Project Row Houses Communigraph Walking Tour by Ray Carrington at Alabama Gardens, photograph by Ray Carrington
Project Row Houses Communograph Bus Tour by Stephen Fox and Dr. Alvia Wardlaw, photograph by Ray Carrington
TEDx attendee Karen Koch has been helping Hear Our Houston spread the word through FOX TV shows Hola Houston and The Black Voice, as well as on this blog post, Listen Up: Free Audio Tours Coming to Houston.
Welcome everyone! Thanks for visiting the online hub of Hear Our Houston. We hope you will also join us by taking tours, creating tours, and coming to see us at our upcoming public events.
On the Calendar:
Project Row Houses Round 35 Opening October 15
Celebrate Houston's 175th Birthday with a special selection of Diverseworks co-curated tours by local artists, coming in October.
Artist talk by Hear Our Houston creator Carrie Schneider at the Contemporary Museum of Art, Houston September 22
Public How To: Thinking of making a tour? Want some specific instruction? Need to borrow a recorder? Come to Hear Our Houston's physical hub at Project Row Houses October 22 at 3 pm for snacks, inspiration, and to get started on your own tour.
