Hear and Now is a drive-thru parking garage art exhibition in the heart of UT Austin’s West Campus. The exhibition, curated by the Center Space Project, features physical works as well as light, video, and sound installations by seventeen students, faculty, and community artists. Hear and Now is a contactless experience where all attendees must stay in their cars at all times.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected a vast amount of people, and the artist community has been among the hardest hit. Hear and Now explores what it means to be a viewer forced to be physically separated from art. It seeks to restore elements of art viewing that have been lost because of the virtual shift, asking the viewer to be self-conscious of how one may feel deactivated or “muted” in our current circumstances.


Hear and Now is a physical manifestation of TEDxUTAustin’s 4th annual conference, Unmute.

 
 

Hear and Now is curated by Center Space Project

ARTISTS

  • Steve Parker - Sonic Meditations of Rome

  • Brian Korgel - tobo [トボ]

  • Nike Project Move - World of Movement

  • Emily Lee - The Right the Side is On

  • Abby Raffle and Caroline Perkison - The Hostess; Like A Spider With Flies

  • Morgan Gage - Survey Coursing Towards Unifying Perspective Variety

  • Jorge Wunch - We are Nature

  • Celine Lassus - is this what U want?

  • Madison Cooper - how about that weather; Riverside Dr

  • Riel Sturchio - skin prints

  • Hannah Spector - rattlesnake (the meaning of the word)

  • CC Calloway - HEAD

  • Abby Evans and TD Simons - Death Farce

  • Jeffrey Gan - Tumpeng Study

Stills by Ethan Tran.


TEDxUTAustin is a student-run initiative, therefore financial support is limited. Fixed honorariums and variable production funds will be provided based on fundraising.

Email: ​partnerships.tedxutaustin@gmail.com