Lights! Camera! Pedestrian!
This month Luke Savisky and Arthouse give a little nod to Austin history with a cinematic installation that involves showing film in and on Arthouse's home space at 700 Congress
By Robert Faires, Fri., March 12, 2004
It's been decades since movies were shown regularly on the west side of the Avenue, but this month Luke Savisky and Arthouse give a little nod to history with a cinematic installation that involves showing film in and on Arthouse's home space at 700 Congress. T/x, as longtime Austin artist Savisky is calling it, will involve a box mounted in front of the building into which passersby will be able to look. Inside will be a collage of projected images reflected there by an arrangement of mirrors that will also reflect the viewer's face. And a camera aimed at the viewer will also enable that person's face to be projected on the second floor exterior of the building. It's a far cry from what you'd see there when that space was Hegman's Queen Theater, but it does bring cinema back to this location, rather ingeniously paying tribute to what was and what is: the old movie house and new Arthouse, lost Austin and SXSW.
T/x will be presented March 11-28 at Arthouse at the Jones Center, 700 Congress. For more information, call 453-5312.
