Nov 19 2016
Center Space Project presents It Might Get Better by The Highest Closet

Center Space Project presents It Might Get Better by The Highest Closet

Presented by UT Visual Arts Center at UT Visual Arts Center

Highest Closet members Creighton Baxter and Hayley Morgenstern will activate their Queer Terrortories installation and perform It Might Get Better, an ongoing collaborative project that engages repetition, documentation, and detritus.

Presented in collaboration with the exhibition Queer Terrortories, on view November 18 – December 10

Queer Terrortories is organized by Center Space Project, the student arts organization of the VAC. Center Space Project, which oversees Center Space, an exhibition space within the VAC that showcases the artistic and curatorial work of undergraduate and graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin. Generous support for Center Space Project comes from Robin and Trey Hancock.

About the Artist

The Highest Closet (HC) is an art collection and collaborative project involving artists Creighton Baxter, Jessica Borusky, Bug Davidson, Sarah Hill, and Hayley Morgenstern. Since 2011, Highest Closet has generated performance-based artworks and refined transdisciplinary execution of queer narratives and aesthetics. We are a queer family. We drive half way across the country to document each other’s performances. Currently, Highest Closet members live in Austin, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; and San Francisco, California. As collaborators and a collective, Highest Closet has shown at the Hillyer Art Space, Washington D.C.; Lumen Festival, New York; SUPERNOVA Performance Art Festival, 2013; The Anthony Greaeny Gallery, Boston Massachusettes; Blue/Orange Gallery, Texas; Montserrat College of Art and Design, Beverly Massachusetts; Paragraph Gallery and La Esquina Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri.

Admission Info

FREE

Phone: 512-232-2348

Dates & Times

2016/11/19 - 2016/11/19

Location Info

UT Visual Arts Center

UT Campus, Art Building, Austin, TX 78712