Andrea Grover is Director of a micro cinema. This micro cinema is called Aurora Picture Show.
Aurora Picture Show (Aurora) is a Houston, Texas-based non-profit cinema. Aurora supports non-commercial film, video and new media artists, through promotion, exhibition opportunities, and artist fees. Housed in a converted church building, Aurora is the only venue of its kind in the Southwest. Aurora’s human scale promotes a meaningful and community-oriented exchange between artists and audiences.
What Aurora Does:
Aurora presents 50 or more screening programs per year in Houston at Aurora Picture Show and in Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and around the country. Aurora frequently commissions original screenings curated by artists, writers and critics that consist of short films and videos grouped by subject. Over 20 visiting artists come to Aurora each year.
Andrea Grover is also lecturer at the university in Houston in the school of Art.
This year she gives a course with the name: Participation Art: From Social Sculpture to Distributed Creativity
What was it about the social climate of the 1960s that gave way to group-participation, happenings and actions? And can today's networked communication give the crowd even greater creative agency? This course looks at the history of participation art from the 1960s to present, and examines the social and technological trends that have ignited a new genre of democratic art-making--incorporating ten to ten-thousand participants in the creative process. Students will become familiar with seminal participatory art works of the last 40 years, read critical texts on Social Sculpture, Distributed Creativity, Gift Economies, and Relational Aesthetics, and finally, collectively create a new "crowdsourced" work of art.
Conversation
In her cinema we saw several short films in which amateur filmmakers with simple material shoot films in which they expressed for exampe: silence, transformation, growth, time etc. We have had a conversation about non narative films in which the viewer is the meaning maker or narrator and not the film. The film brings the viewer in the world beyond. Adrea Grover is willing to give us some examples.
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