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Karyn Olivier Inbound: Houston

Discipline
Visual Arts
Medium
Public Arts
Subject

Environment
State
New York
Year
2005
Status
Completed

Description

Inbound: Houston is a temporary public art installation on interstate billboards surrounding Houston, TX. In October and November 2009, Olivier converted 13 billboard advertisements on Houston’s freeways to photographic representations of the landscape that exists directly behind the billboard structures. In addition, Olivier collaborated with two composers who created musical scores to accompany the billboards and made the soundtrack available on Houston’s NPR station. She premiered two videos made to accompany a live performance of these compositions on November 17, 2009 at Moores Opera House at the University of Houston.

Karyn Olivier

Karyn Olivier, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, received her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BA at Dartmouth College. Olivier has exhibited …
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Project Updates

2010: Oliver premieres videos made to accompany a live performance of the Inbound: Houston musical soundtrack at Moores Opera House, University of Houston
2009: Inbound:Houston launches throughout Houston’s major freeways in October, with a launch party hosted by DiverseWorks
2007: An iteration of Inbound: Houston is displayed on Highway 59 South in Houston