Art In the Open: Xavier Gilmore, Loops Sounds & Songs

Xavier Gilmore’s performance for Confluence Park will pick up where his earlier sound piece AnOriginal Drive left off. As an individual performance, Loops Sounds & Songs will focus on visual and environmental ambience with audio composed of manipulated samples of the AnOrginal Drive performance and other processed audio, and visuals from his Naptime study using his own hair as source imagery, with a generative approach for unpredictability.

Xavier Gilmore is an interdisciplinary artist and producer who works in sound, traditional mediums and collaborative performance. Both personal and communal, his work uses life experience and familial history; drawing from old magazines, records(LPs), personal recordings, songs and books to explore the idea of constant reinvention. By incorporating new media and technology with traditional mediums he creates relationships that reimagine the past and to present alternate futures and realities. He has exhibited regionally and internationally at Artpace, Lawndale Art Center, Museo Soumaya and the McNay among others. Gilmore holds a BFA from UTSA and studied at School of the Art Institute Chicago, and Universidad de Las Américas Puebla, Cholula, México.

Art In the Open is a San Antonio River Foundation initiative and program to support artists and engage the San Antonio River community and our visitors with contemporary art experiences.

Artists are invited to present projects at Confluence Park that align with San Antonio River Foundation’s mission to enhance the river as a vibrant cultural experience and promote and encourage the conservation, stewardship, and enjoyment of the San Antonio River Basin.