ICE Announcements 11.1.11
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Film Festival Panel Discussion / Call for Submissions (11/1)
2. Franklin String Quartet (11/1)
3. University Chorus: Passages (11/1)
4. Reading: Kirsten Kaschock and Jenn Blair (11/2)
5. Anne Waldman Events (11/3-7)
6. Idea Lab Events (11/3)
7. Visual Culture Colloquium (11/3)
8. Performance: All My Sons (begins 11/3)
9. Colloquium: Paula Massood (11/4)
10. ARCO Chamber Orchestra (11/6)
11. Mystery Selections Closing Day (11/6)
12. Cine Screenings and Events
13. Georgia Arts Council Regroups (news from gpb.org)
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1. Film Festival Panel Discussion
Tuesday, November 1 at 7 PM
Cine, downtown Athens
Are you a filmmaker or just love independent films and film festivals? Get the inside scoop on how
festivals work from the insiders. The panel will be moderated by Dave Marr, Flagpole columnist
and city editor, and a member of Cine's programming committee. This event is free and open to
the public. Thanks to 6X6, we'll have a door prize!
Panel discussion participants include:
Sara Beresford Director/Programmer, EcoFocus Film Festival, Athens GA
Charles Judson, Programmer & Industry Outreach, Atlanta Film Festival
Pam Kohn Director, Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival, Athens GA
Harry Musselwhite, Executive Director, Rome International Film Festival
Terrell Sandfur, Festival Organizer, Macon Film Festival
Ken Sherman, President, Athens Jewish Film Festival
This event is co-presented by:
EcoFocus Film Festival (http://www.ecofocusfilmfest.org)
UGA Filmmaking Union (http://ugafilmmaking.wordpress.com/)
Cine (http://athenscine.com)
Film Athens (http://www.filmathens.net)
6X6 (http://hexadic.blogspot.com/)
Cinematic Showdown: Call for Film Submissions
Deadline: Wednesday, November 2 at 5 PM
Submit your short films to compete for prizes and have your film screened for all of UGA at Tate
Theater. Selected submission will be screened at the student film festival on November 9 at 8 PM at
Tate Theater.
Download a submission form and find out more at:
http://ugafilmmaking.wordpress.com/cinematic-showdown
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2. Franklin String Quartet
Tuesday, November 1 at 6 PM
Ramsey Concert Hall
The Franklin String Quartet, Michael Heald, Kristin Jutras, Maggie Snyder, and David Starkweather,
will play a balanced program of works from three distinctly different periods in music history.
Haydn is referred to as the father of the string quartet, writing 84 of them, and the quartet will
present Op.64, No. 4 in G Major. Bela Bartok wrote six wonderful string quartets, full of
imagination, color, special effects, and all deeply felt, highly emotional, and philosophical. The
second String Quartet of Bartok is on the menu this time. Finally Beethoven, Op.95, the last of his
"Middle Period" quartets. This is full of drama, song, a march-like scherzo, and a wandering final
movement that ends with a flourish.
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3. University Chorus Fall Concert: Passages
Tuesday, November 1 at 8 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 185 East Hancock Avenue
The UGA University Chorus, conducted by Mitos Andaya, presents their Fall Concert on the theme
of "Passages" featuring choral music from the Renaissance to contemporary styles, and culminating
in French composer, Maurice Durufle's masterwork, "Requiem" with faculty organist, David Burton-
Brown. Other works include music by Francisco Guerrero, Johannes Brahms, as well as the UGA
Collegium Musicum who will join in the concert with music by Henry Purcell and David Lang.
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4. Reading: Kirsten Kaschock and Jenn Blair
Wednesday, November 2 at 7 PM
Avid Bookshop, 493 Prince Ave
Join us for a reading from novelist and poet Kirsten Kaschock's newly released novel Sleight (Coffee
House Press). Kirsten Kaschock has earned degrees from Yale University, the University of Iowa,
Syracuse University, and the University of Georgia. The author of two collections of poetry,
Unfathoms and A Beautiful Name for a Girl, she resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she is
currently a doctoral fellow in dance at Temple University. Jenn Blair will open for Kaschock, so be
sure to arrive on time so as not to miss this stellar night. Jenn Blair's Six Directions (Anaphora
Press) follows a group of American and English visitors to Israel. Last year her novel The True and
Full Account of Charlotte Monroe was a finalist for the Doris Bakwin Prize (Carolina Wren Press).
She has published in Copper Nickel, New South, Southloop Review, Cold Mountain Review,
Montreal Review, and Tulane Review among others. She is from Yakima, WA.
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5. Anne Waldman Events
Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
Anne Waldman, poet, performer, professor, cultural activist is the celebrated author of over 40
books of poetry, most recently the hybrid ecological poemManatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets,
2009) and the thousand page anti-war epicThe Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of
Concealment (Coffee House Press, 2011). Her other books include Fast Speaking Woman (City
Lights, S.F.), Marriage: A Sentence (Penguin) and, In the Room of Never Grieve: Selected Poems
(Coffee House Press). She is the winner of the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award,
and has recently been appointed a Chancellor to the Academy of American Poets. She is the co-
founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Buddhist
inspired Naropa University Boulder, Colorado where she is a Distinguished Professor and Artistic
Director of the Summer Writing Program. She is the co-editor of Civil Disobediences: Poetics and
Politics in Action, and Beats at Naropa, collections of essays from the Kerouac School Archive. Her
play Red Noir was produced by the Living Theatre in New York in 2010, and she has collaborated
with numerous artists, writers and composers, including work with her son composer Ambrose Bye
on the CDs "Matching Half" and "The Milk of Universal Kindness". She has recently presented work
at festivals and conferences in China, India, Paris, Nicaragua and Montreal.
Poetry Reading
Thursday, November 3 at 7 PM
Cine
Waldman will present a range of her own poetry in performance. She draws on ideas of 'modal
structure' and Sprechstimme (speak-singing) in performance. The Teacher-Poets Collective will
Open with one poem for Waldman. The collective includes Yuri Almetev, Alyssa Hesselroth, Niki
Tulk, Linary Kingdon, Cindy Blaire, Jessica Gabriel, Jim Woglom.
Performance: Socratic Rap
Friday, November 4 at 8 PM
ATHICA
Renowned Beat-era feminist poet & performance artist will read works that resulted from
collaborations with visual artists such as Red Grooms, Elizabeth Murray, Kiki Smith, Pat Steir &
Richard Tuttle. Celebrated GRANARY BOOKS produced editions with Carolee Schneeman, Susan
Rothenberg & Donna Dennis. Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment & Screen Screen Text - two
short videos made in collaboration with spouse Ed Bowe, will also be shown.
Lecture: Outrider: The Role of the Poet as Activist
Monday, November 7 at 4 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
A talk or 'feminafesto' about the role of the poet, drawing on Waldman's investigative studies, her
performative poetry and creative work in 'public space'. And her poetics of empathy in the
Manatee/Humanity project and her anti-war Iovis epic. She proposes notions of 'gift exchange' for
artistic cultures and the practice of 'sousvelliance'. The Teacher-Poets Collective will Open with one
poem for Waldman. The collective includes Runqing Diao, Kexin Shen, Blaire Creamer, Brian
O'Shea, Menquiao Tang, Jean Choe, Susan Bleyle, Kuo Zhang, Melissa Howell.
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6. Idea Lab Events
http://idealab.uga.edu
Idea Lab Meeting
Thursday, November 3 at 5 PM
ICE, Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S160
Idea Lab student organization meets the first and third Thursday of each month and everyone is
invited. The meetings are a semi-informal mixture of business, event planning, discussion of
artistic and intellectual topics, and critique / show-and-tell.
Digital Exhibition Call for Entries
Deadline: November 16
Idea Lab is hosting an exhibition featuring digital art with the theme "emergence." The show will
take over a computer lab on December 1 and will be displayed online. Guidelines available at
http://idealab.uga.edu.
Mission: The purpose of the Idea Lab shall be to create a network of undergraduate and graduate
students interested in interdisciplinary arts collaboration. Members will plan events and create
projects. The Idea Lab is a student network within Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE).
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7. Visual Culture Colloquium
Thursday, November 3 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
Laura Lake Smith, PhD Student, Art History
Reconsidering Religion and Art in the 21st Century: The Confessional Art of Tracey Emin
The often tenuous relationship of religion, spirituality, and art seems much more popular in the
new millennium. Not that previous years represented a paucity of material on the matter, but a
new investigation of this subject certainly resurged in the first decade of the 21stcentury. For
example, 2004 saw the emergence of two pivotal manifestations of such pursuits: James Elkins' On
the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Artand the exhibition by Meg Cranston and John
Baldessari, 100 Artists See God. The year 2007 yielded Elkins' and David Morgan's seminar and
subsequent text, Re-Enchantment, and in 2008, Dan Siedell published his God in the Gallery. Also
throughout this decade, controversial artists have created site-specific works for Christian
churches while other contemporary artists have directly referenced notions of religion and/or
spirituality in their work for secular spaces But do we have contemporary "religious" art and
artists? In light of what has surfaced in the art world since 2000, what role does faith, conviction,
and transcendence play in the work of contemporary artists? In this paper, I propose a re-
examination and re-framing of confessional art, specifically through a theoretical Christian lens, to
further aid in understanding the overlooked implications of the confessional style and why it
matters to us as an audience. I will focus on the art of Tracey Emin in order to fully demonstrate
that confessional art is inextricably linked with religious practice and, moreover, that this tendency
can be viewed as emblematic of a larger trend in 21st century confessional art.
Kathryn Hall, Master's Candidate, Art History
Re-born Her Way: From The Fame to Immortal Fame in Lady Gaga's Performance Art
As a self-proclaimed master of the art of fame, Lady Gaga attributes her success to the sociology
of fame. Embedded in her music, performances, and videos is an eclectic mix of art historical
references and samplings from pop and artistic icons such as Walter Gropius, Andy Warhol,
Michael Jackson, and Madonna that provoke negative criticism. And yet, the act of sampling is an
inherent component of pop music. In support of borrowing, French philosopher Rene Girard's
theory of triangular desire explains the necessity for artistic mimesis as a step towards the
achievement of artistic fame. While drawing from the music video for the debut track of her third
album, "Born This Way," I will argue that Lady Gaga deliberately borrows material from art history
as well as from pop music in order to obtain and surpass the fame of her predecessors.
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8. Performance: All My Sons
Thursday, November 3 and Friday, November 5 at 8 PM
Tuesday, November 8 to Friday, November 11 at 8 PM
Sunday, November 6 and Sunday, November 13 at 2:30 PM
Fine Arts Theater, Fine Arts Building
University Theatre will present All My Sons, Arthur Miller's searing examination of the American
Dream, social responsibility, and relationships between fathers and sons. All My Sons tells the
story of Joe Keller, who is haunted by charges of war profiteering and the loss of one of his sons
during World War II. A captain of industry during the war who was charged with knowingly selling
faulty airplane parts that led to the deaths of American soldiers, Keller lives under a cloud of
suspicion for years, despite having been cleared of the charges. Arthur Miller's first major play, All
My Sons helped usher in a new era of American drama. "The play powerfully affected audiences
with fresh memories of World War II, and it continues to resonate with modern desires for success
in opposition to greater societal needs," said director Ray Paolino, an associate professor in UGA's
department of theatre and film studies. "Miller's most expertly crafted play represents not only a
model family of the mid-twentieth century American middle class, but a family enfolded by a
timeless tragic structure that evokes a royal dynasty, a classical Greek division of power or an
Elizabethan revenge tragedy."
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9. Theater Department Colloquium: Paula Massood
Friday, November 4, at 12:20 PM
Room 53, Fine Arts Building
Dr. Paula J. Massood, Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center,
will present a paper entitled "Imagining and Re-imagining a Promised Land: The Gangster Genre
and Harlem's Mythic Past, Present and Future."
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10. ARCO Chamber Orchestra
Sunday, November 6 at 3 PM
Ramsey Concert Hall
ARCO Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Levon Ambartsumian, presents a send-off
concert for its performance in Venice on November 13. This concert is a fundraiser in support of
the trip, tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for UGA students.
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11. The Mystery Selections Closing Day at ATHICA
Sunday, November 6 from 1-6 PM
Athica
ATHICA will present a variety of events for the Closing Day of the Mystery Selections exhibit, which
features interactive peep-show-music-box-dioramas and puppets, an installation using
projection, two site-specific wall paintings and many other fascinating wall works. The schedule is
as follows:
1-3 PM: Secrets & Mysteries: Children's Art Appreciation Activities. ATHICA Education Coordinator
Sage Rogers will lead children though activities focusing on notions of mystery and secrets,
inspired by the current exhibit. Art materials are included) A more complete description as well as
Ms. Roger's biography can be found below.
4-5 PM: Recognition of Julie Phillips and Panel Discussion As is a longstanding tradition, the artists
will present their thoughts on their process and work in an artists' panel moderated by curator and
ATHICA Director Lizzie Zucker Saltz, as well as field questions from ATHICA Interns and the
audience.
5-6 PM: Performance and Reception The afternoon will conclude with a performance by Deejay and
exhibiting artist-designer Darcy Reenis, know as D:RC. Mr. Reenis' biography is below. A reception
with the afternoon presenters and refreshments donated by the ever-generous White Tiger
Gourmet will follow the performance.
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12. Cine Screenings and Events
http://www.athenscine.com
m o v i e s
RESTLESS - OCT 28 - NOV 3
CINE CLASSIC: PSYCHO - THRU NOV 3
DRIVE - THRU NOV 3
e v e n t s
PANEL DISCUSSION: THE INSIDE SCOOP ON FILM FESTIVALS - TUE NOV 1
GA REVIEW POETRY READING - THU NOV 3
c o m i n g - s o o n
CINE CLASSIC: AMERICAN GRAFFITI
w/ RECEPTION + MEMBERSHIP DRIVE - NOV 4
DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT SERIES:
2046 - WONG KAR WAI - NOV 8
MELANCHOLIA - LARS VON TRIER - DEC 6
TAKE SHELTER - NOVEMBER 11-17
THE SKIN I LIVE IN - NOVEMBER 25-30
CINEKIDS: THE IRON GIANT - NOVEMBER
THE ROOM - MONTHLY LATE SHOW
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13. Arts Council Regroups
By Jeanne Bonner
http://www.gpb.org/news/2011/10/31/arts-council-regroups
The Georgia Council for the Arts launched a nine-month strategic planning process Monday. The
council is adjusting to a smaller budget and a new home.
The strategic planning effort began with the first of seven art forums to be held around the state.
Atlanta arts professionals brainstormed about the council's priorities and how to execute them
with less money.
Earlier this year, Gov. Nathan Deal signed a law moving the council into the state Department of
Economic Development. And speaking at the forum, he said the arts are becoming a tool in
recruiting companies to Georgia.
"More and more, what we're hearing is, 'What is the quality life in the community where we are
going to be located?' And the arts are an important ingredient in that quality of life," he told the
group.
Deal says communities that recognize this will have an edge in luring development.
The council received about a half-million dollars from the state this year. That's down nearly 90
percent from a decade ago. Deal said it's unlikely its budget will expand much next year.
The council's director, Karen Paty, says it was time to create a new vision for Georgia arts. But she
says the council's smaller budget and new home within the state's economic development
department gave the agency greater impetus to map the future.
"It was even more important for us to do it because of the new placement within the department of
economic development," she said in an interview. "It was time because the budget is what is right
now. It was time because we need to start thinking about partnerships."
The council will also hold forums in Macon, Columbus and Savannah.
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