Houston, Texas
Day for Night 2017
2017-12-15 to 2017-12-17 at PostHTX (former Barbara Jordan Post Office), 401 Franklin Street, Houston. 60 performers are recorded from the sources listed at the foot of this page.
Dates
2017-12-15 – 2017-12-17
Days
3
Venue
PostHTX (former Barbara Jordan Post Office), 401 Franklin Street
Performers recorded
60
Record
What happened
- Expanded to three days at the 1.5-million-square-foot PostHTX site, with four stages and eighteen art installations.
- The Friday opened with a separately ticketed summit of speakers alongside performances.
- Access: the event ran December 15–17, but general-admission tickets covered December 16–17; VIP included the Friday. No 2017 price is stated in the cited announcement (ABC13, September 20, 2017).
- Part of the proceeds were donated to the Greater Houston Community Foundation for Hurricane Harvey relief.
- This was the final edition.
Bill
Lineup
Reproduced as published. Lists are present in the page source whether or not they are expanded.
Top of the bill: Nine Inch Nails, Thom Yorke, Solange, St. Vincent, Justice, Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Music54 listed
- Nine Inch Nails
- Thom Yorke
- Solange
- St. Vincent
- Justice
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Tyler, the Creator
- James Blake
- Jamie xx
- Kaytranada
- Earl Sweatshirt
- Pretty Lights
- Phantogram
- Nina Kraviz
- Cashmere Cat
- Cardi B
- Perfume Genius
- Sky Ferreira
- Jenny Hval
- Boots
- Saul Williams
- GAS
- Lil B
- of Montreal
- Venetian Snares
- Daniel Lanois
- Princess Nokia
- Forest Swords
- Roni Size
- G Jones
- Andy Stott
- Jlin
- Bjarki
- Demdike Stare
- Faten Kanaan
- The Jesus Lizard
- Rezz
- En Vogue
- Kimbra
- Mount Kimbie
- Corbin
- Shlohmo
- The Album Leaf
- DJ Tennis
- Tim Hecker
- Babyfather
- Shabazz Palaces
- Jessy Lanza
- Priests
- Saro
- Rabit
- House of Kenzo
- Marcus Marr
- B L A C K I E
Installation and performance art2 listed
Eighteen installations were programmed; the artists named in coverage are recorded here.
- Ryoji Ikeda
- Matthew Schreiber
Friday summit speakers4 listed
- Chelsea Manning
- Laurie Anderson
- Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot)
- Lauren McCarthy
Reception
How it was covered at the time
Pitchfork
National coverage treated the third edition as a significant booking, noting the summit programme and the scale of the installation roster alongside the music bill. source
People
Documented roles for this edition
Visual archive
12 sourced images, films and galleries from 2017
Grouped by what each item documents. Creator, source archive and year accompany every item; publisher galleries are linked rather than reproduced.
Sound (1)
Sound · gallery
Pitchfork: Pitchfork Radio Day for Night 2017
Light and installation (3)
Light and installation · gallery
Houston Press: The Art Installations of Day For Night 2017
Making-of (1)
Venue (1)
Venue · gallery
Crowd (4)
Crowd · gallery
Houston Press: Fun Times at Day for Night
Crowd · gallery
CultureMap Houston: Our best moments from Day for Night: the sights, the sounds
Crowd · gallery
Vogue: The Best Street Style at Houston's Day For Night Festival
Posters and identity (2)
Historical images and films are reproduced or embedded here for documentary and reference purposes, with the original creator and source archive named on every item. Where a source permits linking rather than copying, its photography is linked and cited instead of reproduced. No image on this page is generated, reconstructed or stock. Where the source archive names no photographer, that is stated rather than a credit inferred.
Provenance
Sources
01 · JamBase · Third-party compilation
Used for: 2017 dates and full announced music lineup
02 · ABC13 (KTRK) · Independent reporting
Day for Night: lineup includes Nine Inch Nails, Solange and Thom Yorke
Used for: 2017 dates, PostHTX venue and floor area, 18 art installations, four stages, Hurricane Harvey relief donation
03 · Pitchfork · Independent reporting
Thom Yorke, St. Vincent, Nine Inch Nails and more playing Day for Night 2017
Used for: 2017 headliners, the Friday summit programme and installation count
04 · Houstonia · 2018-11 · Independent reporting
Day for Night is done (for now, at least)
Used for: November 2018 public foreclosure sale of the entity holding the festival and Free Press Houston
05 · Kiffer Keegan · Organiser-published
Day For Night — design and motion archive
Used for: Festival design, motion work and documentary photography credits
06 · Houston Chronicle · 2017-12-08 · Independent reporting
Day for Night festival springs from the unconventional mind of Omar Afra
Used for: Contemporary account of Omar Afra's founder-producer role, the former Barbara Jordan Post Office setting, and the festival's integration of music and visual art
Cite this reference
- Plain
- Live Index, "Day for Night 2017", Live Index, September 24, 2026, https://liveindex.io/projects/day-for-night/2017
- APA
- Live Index (2026, September 24). Day for Night 2017 [Reference guide]. Live Index. https://liveindex.io/projects/day-for-night/2017
- Chicago
- Live Index. "Day for Night 2017." Live Index, September 24, 2026. https://liveindex.io/projects/day-for-night/2017.
- BibTeX
- @online{projects-day-for-night-2017-2026, author = {{Live Index}}, title = {Day for Night 2017}, organization = {Live Index}, date = {2026-09-24}, url = {https://liveindex.io/projects/day-for-night/2017} }