ICE Announcements 2.5.13
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Lecture: Coming to Our Senses, Anew (2/5)
2. Lecture: Corin Hewitt (2/5)
3. Performance: "Premiere: Remix" (2/5)
4. Performance: The Fantasticks (2/5-2/10)
5. Performance: Leonard V. Ball, Jr., Adrian Childs, Natalie Williams, Roger Vogel (2/6)
6. New Writers Reading Series: Magdalena Zurawski (2/6)
7. ICE-Vision: Mon Oncle (2/6)
8. Lecture: Lisa Florman (2/7)
9. Lecture: James Anaya (2/7)
10. Lecture: "Human Rights and Culture" (2/7)
11. Lecture: Janet Echelman (2/11)
12. Reading: VOX, Niyi Osundare (2/11)
13. Lecture: Mark Sloan (2/11)
14. Lecture: John Lowe (2/12)
15. Opportunity: Athens Slingshot call for volunteers
16. Opportunity: *eco*art*lab Call for Artists (deadline 3/1)
17. Opportunity: NEA Literature Fellowships in Prose (deadline 2/28)
18. Opportunity: Harpo Foundation Grant Program (deadline 4/5)
19. Cine Screenings and Events
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1. Lecture: Coming to Our Senses, Anew
Tuesday, February 5 at 4 PM
Chapel, 109 Herty Field
Barry C. Smith is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of Philosophy in the School of
Advanced Study, University of London, where he co-directs the Centre for the Study of the Senses.
He has written mostly on the philosophy of mind and language, on the topics of self-knowledge
and our knowledge of language. He co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language
(2006) with Ernest Lepore. Following his 2007 collection,Questions of Taste - the philosophy of
wine (Oxford University Press), he began working with psychologists, neurologists and
neuroscientists on flavor perception and is now the co-organizer of an international research
project on the Nature of Taste, jointly run by the University of London and NYU. He has been a
Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Ecole Normale Superiere,
and was the writer and presenter of the BBC World Service radio series, The Mysteries of the Brain.
Part of The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts' Global Georgia Initiative.
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2. Lecture: Visiting Artist Corin Hewitt
Tuesday, February 5 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151
Processes of image-making, cycles of consumption and regeneration, and the mining of memory
are at the heart of Corin Hewitt's multi-faceted practice in performance, sculpture and
photography. Merging natural and artificial materials, Hewitt's works question distinctions between
the living and inanimate, suggesting that that self-performance is not limited to the living, and
that the fixity of objects is also suspect. Hewitt lives and works in East Corinth, Vermont and
Richmond, Virginia. Hewitt has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum
of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and MOCA
Cleveland in January 2013. His work has recently been included in group exhibitions at P.S.1, New
York; the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; and Galerie
Perrotin, Paris. In 2011 and 2012 Hewitt was the recipient of the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
in Fine Arts and The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painting and Sculpture, and was recently a
resident at the Zabludowicz Collection, Finland.
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3. Performance: "Premiere: Remix"
Tuesday, February 5 at 6 PM
Hodgson School of Music, Dancz Hall
On Tuesday, February 5, guest artists Laurent Estoppey and Steven Stusek will present "Premiere:
Remix," a collection of contemporary works for saxophone, at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music.
Estoppey, a full-time performer, and Stusek, professor at the University of North Carolina-
Greensboro, will hold their performance in the Dancz Center of the Hodgson School at 6 PM. The
event is free and open to the public.
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4. Performance: The Fantasticks
Tuesday, February 5 at 8 PM to Sunday, February 10
Seney-Stovall Chapel
The longest-running musical in history, The Fantasticks tells a classic story of two teenagers in
love with love, who must contend with plotting parents and a melodramatic villan, in a refreshingly
simple style. The inventive, memorable score includes songs such as "Try to Remember." Tickets
are $12, $7 for students.
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5. Performance: Leonard V. Ball, Jr., Adrian Childs, Natalie Williams, Roger Vogel
Wednesday, February 6 at 8 PM
Ramsey Concert Hall
On Wednesday, February 6, the UGA composition faculty will present an evening of original works
for a variety of instruments in Ramsey Concert Hall. The recital, which features Hugh Hodgson
School of Music professors Leonard V. Ball, Adrian Childs, Natalie Williams, and Roger Vogel, takes
place at 8:00 pm and is offered free and open to the public.
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6. New Writers Reading Series Presents Magdalena Zurawski
Wednesday, February 6 at 4:45 PM
Park Hall Auditorium
Magdalena Zurawski's novel The Bruise was published in 2008 by FC2/University of Alabama Press.
It received both the 2008 Lambda Award for "Lesbian Debut Fiction" and the 2007 Ronald
Sukenick-American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize. She is the co-curator of the Minor
American Poetry Reading Series in Durham, NC, where she is also a PhD candidate in the English
Department at Duke University. A manuscript of poetry called Companion Animal is forthcoming
from Litmus Press.
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7. ICE-Vision: Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)
Wednesday, February 6 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
http://www.facebook.com/groups/120740834290/
ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato's weekly selections of eclectic,
idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.
"Jacques Tati's 1958 film is a transitional work between the character-centered comedy of Jour de
Fete and Mr. Hulot's Holiday and the global perspective of his most formally inventive film,
Playtime. Hulot is still here, but he no longer occupies the foreground; set off to one side, as the
eccentric uncle of a desperately modern family, he is more of a visiting sprite, suggesting a human
alternative to the mechanical life forms that occupy the center of the story... a very witty and
suggestive work from the modern cinema's only answer to Chaplin and Keaton." - Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader
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8. Lecture: "Tradition" as Overdetermination: The Case of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Thursday, February 7 at 5:15 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S150
"'Tradition' as Overdetermination: The Case of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Lisa Florman, Ohio
State University. Sponsored by the Association of Graduate Art Students. Florman serves as an
Associate Professor at the Ohio State University. Her primary interests relate to modernism and the
history of art history. In her first book, Myth and Metamorphosis, she examines Picasso's
classicizing prints of the 1930s in the context of surrealism and contemporary ideas of classical
antiquity. Her other publications have addressed Clement Greenberg's essay, "Collage," and Leo
Steinberg's work on Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, "The Philosphical Brothel." This event is sponsored
by the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Franklin College Student Activity Fee Allocation
Committee.
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9. Lecture: James Anaya
Thursday, February 7 at 3 PM
Jackson Street Building, Room 125
285 S. Jackson St., Athens, GA
Speaker: James Anaya, Regents' and James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy,
James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona. An expert in International Human Rights and
Indigenous peoples law, Professor Anaya is the author of the acclaimed book, Indigenous Peoples
in International Law (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996, 2d. ed. 2004), and currently serves as the United
Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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10. Lecture: "Human Rights and Culture"
Thursday, February 7 at 4:30 PM
Hirsch Hall, 2nd floor, Room J
Chairman of the Irish Centre for Human Rights William A. Schabas will present "Human Rights and
Culture." Schabas, who is a professor of international law at Middlesex University London, is an
internationally respected expert on human rights law, genocide and the death penalty and is a
prolific author. He has often been invited to participate in international human rights missions on
behalf of non-governmental organizations such as Amnesty International (International Secretariat)
and the International Federation of Human Rights and served as a member of the Sierra Leone
Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2002 to 2004. The succinct codification that
constitutes the fountainhead of modern human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
of 1948, speaks of "the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community" as well as of
the right "to enjoy the arts." One of the two main treaties to flow from the Declaration is called the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which reaffirms the notion of
"cultural life" but does not repeat the reference to "the arts." There is a tendency to confine the
scope of "cultural rights" to the protection of various attributes of the lives of ethnic minorities.
The long-neglected association between human rights, "culture" and "the arts" is the subject of the
lecture. It will reflect upon the aspirational dimension of the culture and the arts, espoused by
Matthew Arnold in the 19th century, including the concern that this may be an elitist vision ill
suited to the egalitarianism of modern human rights. The lecture is presented in cooperation with
the University of Georgia School of Law's Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy.
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11. Lecture: Visiting Artist Janet Echelman
Monday, February 11 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151
American artist Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental, fluidly moving
sculpture that responds to environmental forces including wind, water, and sunlight. The
permanent and temporary projects draw inspiration from ancient craft and modern technology.
These sculpture environments embody local identity and invite residents to form a personal and
dynamic relationship with the art and place. Each project becomes intimately tied to its
environment through site-specific inspiration and references, thus strengthening neighborhood
connections and promoting a distinctive civic character. Echelman has constructed net sculpture
environments in metropolitan cities around the world including San Francisco (USA), Porto
(Portugal), and Richmond (Canada). She is the recipient of a 2011-2012 Guggenheim Fellowship in
the Arts, a 2009 Loeb Fellowship, has taught at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and currently
serves on the board of directors for the U.S. Fulbright Committee. Echelman sees public art as a
team sport and collaborates with a range of professionals including aeronautical and mechanical
engineers, architects, lighting designers, landscape architects, and fabricators.
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12. Reading: VOX, Niyi Osundare
Monday, February 11 at 8 PM
Cine
VOX, the UGA African Studies Institute, and the UGA Institute for African American Studies present
Niyi Osundare reading at Cine Lab 234 W. Hancock in Athens. Widely regarded as one of Africa's
most renowned poets and scholars, Niyi Osundare earned his B.A. (with Honours) from the
University of Ibadan, Nigeria; M.A. from the University of Leeds, UK, and Ph.D. from York University
in Toronto, Canada. He is a playwright, essayist, and professor of English who has authored 18
books of poetry, two books of selected poems, four plays, two books of essays, and numerous
monographs, scholarly articles and reviews.
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13. Lecture: Mark Sloan, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
Monday, February 11 at 5:30 PM
Georgia Museum of Art, M. Smith Griffith Auditorium
Mark Sloan, director and senior curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston,
S.C., and juror for 38th Juried Exhibition at Lyndon House Arts Center, presents a public lecture,
"Art and Iconoclasm in America's Most Polite City: A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities."
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14. Lecture: The Tropical Sublime in the 19th Century Circum-Caribbean
Tuesday, February 12 at 5:30 PM
Cine
John Lowe, recipient of the MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to
the Field of Ethnic American Literatures, is the Barbara Lester Methvin Distinguished Professor of
English at UGA. He has authored and edited numerous books in Ethnic American and Southern
literature, published dozens of essays, and presented over 80 papers in North America, Europe,
and Asia, including invited lectures at the Sorbonne, the University of Paris VI, Venice, Kiel, Munich,
Dresden, Budapest, and Hyderabad. Part of The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts' Global
Georgia Initiative.
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15. Athens Slingshot
Saturday, March 9
Downtown Athens
http://www.athensslingshot.com
Athens Slingshot, the new showcase for music, innovative art and technology in Athens, GA, takes
over downtown on March 9th, 2013. Spread over three city blocks, Slingshot spotlights local,
national and international acts on stage, and presents boundary-pushing artwork throughout the
urban environment with select tech events during the day. Our goal over time is to create a
nationally recognized event that can highlight the creative culture in Athens, while making it an
national and international hub for creative and tech culture. What if we created an event that
became THE Southeastern event for music, art, tech and more? What would that do for Athens and
the South in general?
We want to make this an event that harmonizes the creative culture in Athens, UGA, and national
and international voices in art and technology. We would love your support through our kickstarter
campaign!: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1464276428/athens-slingshot-music-art-and-
tech-festival-new
Athens Slingshot is also looking for volunteers for our event on March 9th. We're looking for a
variety of volunteers to help document artworks (video/photo), supervise installations, help set up,
and process tickets. We'd love your help to make this year's even go smooth and be memorable.
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16. *eco*art*lab Call for Artists
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Call for Artists
climate change:
from cause to effect to response,
from the local to the planetary,
and everything in-between
Selected artists' work will be on view March 17- April 27, 2013
Submissions accepted: January 28-March 1
eco*art*lab, a pop-up gallery and artspace in downtown Athens, Georgia invites artistic works on
the various aspects, dimensions and understandings of global climate change, to be exhibited
March 17- April 27, 2013. Submissions in all genres and media welcome, including live art and
performance. Email no more than four digital images, video clips, or sound files, and a brief
statement about how the work relates to the theme, to [log in to unmask] Inquiries
welcome. For more information about the gallery and its call for submissions, visit the eco*art*lab
website http://ecoartlab.wordpress.com/
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17. Opportunity: NEA Literature Fellowships in Prose
Deadline: Thursday, February 28
http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/Lit/GrantProgDescription.html
The NEA Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative
nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for
writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed through an
anonymous process in which the only criteria for review are artistic excellence and artistic merit.
To review the applications, the NEA assembles a different advisory panel every year, each diverse
with regard to geography, race and ethnicity, and artistic points of view.
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18. Opportunity: Harpo Foundation Grant Program
Deadline: Friday, April 5
http://www.harpofoundation.org/grant-program-overview/
In its grantmaking, Harpo Foundation prioritizes projects that advance and cross the boundaries of
visual media and artistic disciplines. Proposals are evaluated on the basis of the quality of the
artist's work, the potential to expand aesthetic inquiry, and the strength of its relationship to the
foundation's priority to provide support to visual artists who are under recognized by the field. The
foundation awards between 10-15 grants annually and funding decisions are made by the Board of
Directors. As a general guideline, requests should not exceed $10,000 per year. Allowable use-of-
funds includes direct support to the artist for honoraria, commissioning fees, production costs,
and travel.
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19. Cine Screenings and Events
http://www.athenscine.com
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AMOUR - FEBRUARY
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THE ROOM - MONTHLY LATE SHOW - FRI 1/25
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