ICE Announcements 10.8.07
http://ice.uga.edu
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*Save the dates and reserve tickets*
Elliott Earls Residency at UGA
1. Elliott Earls Workshop (student opportunity)
2. Adrienne Rich Reading (Thurs. 10/11)
3. Robert Woodruff Lecture (Thurs. 10/11)
4. ICE-Vision: Head (Thurs. 10/11)
5. ATHICA Benefit Concert (Fri. 10/12)
6. War of the Worlds (Sat. 10/13)
7. Art in the SLC (deadline 10/15)
8. Cine Screenings
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*Elliott Earls Residency at UGA*
Renowned designer, performance artist, and filmmaker Elliott Earls will spend the week of Oct.
15-19 at the University of Georgia. His Athens residency will include a lecture, performance,
student workshop, and an exhibition at the Lamar Dodd School of Art Main Gallery.
Earls first gained international recognition as a designer of digital typography in the 1990s and
expanded his practice to include one-person performances utilizing interactive technology of his
own design, earning a prestigious Emerging Artist Grant from The Wooster Group in New York. In
1995, Earls formed the Apollo Program, a studio devoted to experimentation with nonlinear digital
video, spoken word poetry, music composition and design. Earls’ work has been shown in
exhibitions and festivals around the world, and is featured in the permanent collection of the
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
In 2001, Earls was appointed designer-in-residence and head of the 2-D Design Department at
Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. While at Cranbrook his artistic practice has
continued to broaden by using film production as a method to generate digital photography,
sculpture, paintings, and the music of his band, The Venomous Sons of Jonah.
Earls will deliver a public lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 5:30 p.m. in room 102 of the Student
Learning Center. Using his own work as a springboard for discussion, Earls will highlight the
critical and timely relevance of the work of the avant-garde German artist John Heartfield, and his
own approach to integrating performance, music, objects, and graphics into a unified and
cohesive body of work.
On the evening of Thursday, Oct. 18, Earls will perform at Cine in downtown Athens. He will
perform live in two sets at 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.and screen his digital films throughout the
evening. The week-long residency will conclude with an opening reception for his exhibition in the
Main Gallery of the Lamar Dodd School of Art on Friday, Oct. 19 from 6 – 8 p.m. The exhibition
will remain on view until Dec. 17.
The Elliott Earls Residency is supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Lamar
Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries,
Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), and Cine. All campus
events are free and open to the public. Tickets for the Oct. 18 performances are $5 (or $2 with
student ID) and the film screenings are free. Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Cine box
office or by calling 706/353-3343. For more information about Earls, visit
<http://www.theapolloprogram.com.>
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1. Elliott Earls Workshop
Call for Participants
Students from all disciplines are invited to participate in a workshop with Elliott Earls during the
week of October 15-19. For more information or to reserve a space in the workshop contact Mark
Callahan, <[log in to unmask]>.
Over the course of the past two years designer and artist Elliott Earls has been working on a
feature length digital film tentatively entitled "The Saranay Motel". The film utilizes desktop
technologies including HD video and still photography, to combine motion graphics, stop-motion
animation, pop songs and film clips into an experimental film. As of July 2007, over 750 gigabytes
of material, including over 2000 photographs, has been produced for use within the film. The
material ranges from high definition 720p footage, to stop motion sequences shot with a Nikon
D-200 in raw format. The crew has shot on five distinct occasions for total of 24 days.
Earls says “in December 2005 in preparation for a looming performance at Music Hall Detroit, I
shot an eight minute long digital film in a flea-bag motel on Woodward Avenue in Detroit. Over
the course of the past eighteen months in collaboration with my band The Venomous Sons of
Jonah and a loose collection of artists, I've taken that short and built upon it.”
To view a trailer for "The Sarany Motel", visit
<http://www.theapolloprogram.com/SaranayTrailerClipF.html>
Earls explains “the 'Saranay Motel' trailer is cut to an original song entitled ‘Can't Nobody Flow,’
which I wrote in collaboration with super-producer Timothy Day and actor Jerome Evans. Tim took
the claw hammer joint ‘Cluck Old Hen’ recorded with The Venomous Sons of Jonah, mixed it with
some old-skool hip hop beats and 80s production techniques. Jerome Evans and I then
contributed our verses.”
Workshop Brief
Earls will screen scenes from the film and discuss the project with students. After discussion,
willing interdisciplinary participants will be broken into small teams to collaborate on creating a
scene for the film. The scene potentially will include original music, motion graphics, acting, props
and set design. We will assess the skill sets of the workshop participants, discuss the goals and
work in an intense fashion in an attempt to produce a viable scene for possible inclusion in the
film.
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2. Adrienne Rich Poetry Reading
Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m
Griffith Auditorium of the Georgia Museum of Art
Adrienne Rich is one of the major American poets of the last half of the Twentieth Century.
Publishing more than 16 volumes of poetry and four books of nonfiction, she has been the
recipient of nearly every major literary award including: the National Book Award, the Tanning
Award for Mastery in the Art of Poetry, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly
Poetry Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and the MacArthur Fellowship.
Adrienne Rich was born in 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended Radcliffe College, graduating
in 1951. At age 21, she was selected by W.H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for
her collection, A Change of World. Two years later, she published a second volume of poetry, The
Diamond Cutters (1955). Throughout the 1960s, Rich wrote several collections, including
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963) and Leaflets (1969). During this time, the content of her
work became increasingly confrontational as she explored themes of women’s role in society,
racism, and the Vietnam War. The style of her poetry also revealed a shift from careful metric
patterns to free verse. In 1973, in the midst of the feminist and civil rights movements, Vietnam
War, and her own personal distress, Rich wrote Driving in the Wreck (1973) for which she received
the National Book Award in 1974. Rich accepted this award on behalf of all women and shared it
with her fellow nominees, Alice Walker and Audre Lorde.
In 2006, Adrienne Rich was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
by the National Book Foundation, with judges noting “her incomparable influence and achievement
as a poet and non-fiction writer. For more than fifty years, her eloquent and visionary writings
have shaped the world of poetry as well as feminist political thought.” Rich’s recent works include
an essay on “Poetry and Commitment” published by Norton in spring of 2007, and a new book of
poems entitled Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth, appearing in October, 2007. Over the years,
Rich has taught at Swarthmore, Columbia, Brandeis, Rutgers, Cornell, San Jose State, and Stanford
University.
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3. Robert Woodruff: Classics in Contemporary Performance
When: Thu, Oct 11 @ 4:30 pm
Where: SLC 101
During his 10-day residency at UGA, Robert Woodruff is directing MFA acting students in Suzan-
Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays, which will be performed in a workshop production Oct. 19 and 21
in the Cellar Theater of the Fine Arts Building. Woodruff has directed more than 50 stage
productions and has received numerous awards and grants including Pew Trust and National
Endowment for the Arts. He recently served as Artistic Director of the American Repertory
Company at Harvard, and opened Appomattox, a new opera by Philip Glass at the San Francisco.
Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Department of Theatre & Film
Studies, and the Leighton M. Ballew Lecture Series.
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4. ICE-Vision: Head
Thursday, October 11
7:00 PM Tanner Building Room 101
ICE-Vision is a series of informal screenings on Thursday nights in the ICE Studio, Tanner Building
room 101. Javier Morales, a recent UGA graduate and contributor to AUX, selects pop-oddities and
treasures from his VHS collection to share with us throughout the semester. This week's selection
is:
Head (1968, 85 minutes)
Released after their TV show's cancellation, The Monkees one and only feature film is a surrealist
exercise in late-1960s pop art. It's all about the adventures of Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Michael
Nesmith and Mickey Dolenz in Hollywood. Director Bob Rafelson, veteran of the series, also co-
wrote and co-produced Head with Jack Nicholson. Watch for Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Teri Garr,
Frank Zappa and many others in cameos.
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5. ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc. purrsents:
The Animal Instincts Benefit Concert
Friday, October 12, 2007
8:00 – 11:00 p.m.
A Night of Athens Music by: Blue Stockings, Heather Heyn of Dark Meat & Megan Baer & friends at
the Little Kings Shuffle Club (corner of Hancock and Hull, downtown Athens) to benefit the Athens
Area Humane Society, Athens Canine Rescue ATHICA & PAWS.
This event is affiliated with ‘Animal Instincts: Allegory & Anthropomorphism,’ an exhibition
curated by Melissa Link and Assistantcurator Mark Watkins, which runs through November 11th,
2007. Theexhibit--which features provocative animal-themed artwork by 19 artists, half of whom
are Athenians--addresses a variety of animal-related issues.
Suggested Donation $6.00
More information on the exhibit and future affiliated events can be found on the ATHICA website,
www.athica.org.
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6. WAR OF THE WORLDS, adapted by John Kundert-Gibbs from the novel by H. G. Wells
When: Sat, Oct 13 @ 7:30 pm
Where: Classic Center
Just in time for Halloween, UGA will present a brand-new adaptation, for stage and radio, of this
tale of Martian invasion that terrified the nation seventy years ago in Orson Welles’ legendary
broadcast. This performance will be broadcast live on WUGA. Seating at the Classic Center will be
at 7:30 pm (with no late seating) for the 8:00 pm broadcast.
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7. Call for proposals: Art in the SLC
You know the SLC - the spacious halls and grand stairwells, the abundant light, and the buzz of
energy from morning 'til night ... now take this space you know and do something new!
This call is for proposals from current UGA students for site-specific work to be featured this fall
semester in the busiest building on campus. If you want your work seen by thousands each day,
presented in the building named by many as the "Crown Jewel" of campus, send us your specs for
site-specific work that makes use of one of the many interesting features of this building.
Please contact Caroline Barratt ([log in to unmask]) with any questions or concerns. Sponsored by
the University of Georgia Libraries and the Lamar Dodd School of Art
Proposals due - October 15, 2007
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8. SCREENING EVENTS @ CINE
SHOWTIMES + MORE INFO: http://www.athenscine.com/
EXILED
THE WILD BUNCH
PIERROT LE FOU
A CRUDE AWAKENING
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ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts
at the University of Georgia.
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