ICE Announcements 3.5.19
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Citizen Rankine Events (3/5)
2. Workshops: Josefina Baez (3/5)
3. Lecture: Niyi Osundare (3/5)
4. Lecture: Lori Talcott (3/5)
5. Joyce Robinson Events (3/6-7)
6. Reading: Ed Pavlic (3/6)
7. Lecture: Keith Bowers (3/7)
8. Panel Discussion: Ringer (3/10)
9. Exhibition: Plastic Bodies (opens 3/7)
10. Call for Performers: Trash Music
11. Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition (3/9)
12. Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis Competition (deadline 3/18)
13. Opportunity: ATHICA Call for Entries (deadline 3/31)
14. Call for Proposals: 2019 a2ru National Conference (deadline 4/5)
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1. Citizen Rankine Events
https://coe.uga.edu/events/this-is-not-what-i-expected-difference-and-dignity-through-literature-and-the-arts
This is (Not) What I Expected: Difference and Dignity Through Literature and the Arts
A series of events centered around and inspired by "Citizen" by Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine's book "Citizen: An American Lyric," serves as a source of healing, or what UGA College of Education professor Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor refers to as "literary and artistic micro-validation": the ways in which books of fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, film, and visual art can provide small, often intended images and words that nurture feelings of inclusion and validation for diverse experiences and perspectives. This series of events includes numerous events that shift expectations of micro-aggression toward validation through deep attention to the past, present, and possible futures at UGA and in our larger Athens community. Claudia Rankine is a poet illuminating the emotional and psychic tensions that mark the experiences of many living in 21st-century America. Watch a video from Claudia Rankine's 2016 MacArthur Fellow award.
MAR 5: Poetry, Performance, and Indigenous Citizenship Featuring Poet Heid Erdrich
MAR 21: Zong! - Talking Code, Stalking Silence
MAR 22-23: FREE Staged Reading of "Citizen: An American Lyric"
Heid E. Erdrich: Poetry, Performance, and Indigenous Citizenship
Tuesday, March 5 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
This event explores the connections between African-American citizenship, Claudia Rankine's book Citizen: An American Lyric, and the indigenous poet's experiences and reflections. It is presented by Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature LeAnne Howe.
Featured speaker Heid E. Erdrich is the author of five collections of poetry including Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media (2017). Erdich's nonfiction work, Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes from the Upper Midwest, earned a City Pages Best Food Book of 2014 designation. Her writing has won awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Bush Foundation, The Loft Literary Center, and First People's Fund. Her book National Monuments won the 2009 Minnesota Book Award. In 2013 she was named a City Pages Artists of the Year. Erdich's poem films have been screened at festivals and have won Best of Fest and a Best Experimental Short awards. She is an independent scholar and curator, a playwright, and founding publisher of Wiigwaas Press, an Ojibwe-language publisher. She teaches in the MFA in creative writing program of Augsburg College. Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain.
The event will open with a reading by Josina Guess, who writes poetry, essays and reviews that explore intersections of faith, race, family and home rooted in the rural and urban landscapes of her life and memory. Her recent work as appeared in The Christian Century, Crop Stories, Communities, Sojourners, and Geez Magazine. She has two poems in the Anthology Fight Evil with Poetry Volume 1 edited by Micah Bournes and Chris Cambell. Her essay "Putting Our Lives on the Line" is in The Wisdom of Communities Volume 4: Sustainability in Community. She is also a contributor to the forthcoming Rally: Litanies for the Lovers of God and Neighbor (Upper Room Press 2019). She lives in an old farmhouse on four acres in Comer, Georgia, with her husband Michael, and their four children. They lived for six and a half years at Jubilee Partners, an intentional Christian community that works with refugees.
This event has been generously supported by funds from the Leighton M. Ballew Lecture Series in English and the UGA Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts.
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2. Workshops: Josefina Baez
Tuesday, March 5
9:30 AM Gilbert Hall, Room 116
11 AM Journalism Building, Room 510
Performance Autology Workshop: Body and Text
Josefina Baez is a Dominican-American, storyteller, writer, theater director, actor, dancer, performer, and teacher who is now a resident of Athens, Georgia. In 1986, Baez founded Latinarte/Ay Ombe Theatre in New York. The fundamentals of Ay Ombe Theatre's approach are very broad, spanning biomechanics, Eastern and mystical spirituality, Chinese calligraphy, dance, world music, and literature, among many other sources of inspiration and teaching. Baez is one of the pioneers of literature and theater focusing on the immigrant experience of Dominicans in the United States, especially the New York area. She uses storytelling, theater, poetry, and performative texts to explore how Dominicans negotiate living in a transnational setting. She is the author of Dominicanish; Comrade, Bliss ain't playing; Dramaturgia I & II; Como la una/Como uma; Levente no. Yolayorkdominicanyork; De Levente: 4 textos para teatro performance, Canto de Plenitud; Latin In; and Por que mi nombre es Marysol? Her texts have been translated to Portuguese, French, Hindi, and Italian, among other languages.
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3. Lecture: Niyi Osundare
Tuesday, March 5 at 3 PM
Special Collections Libraries Auditorium
The Dire in the Diaspora: African Relocations and the Perils of Displacement
Niyi Osundare, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, visits UGA for the 2019 African Studies Spring Lecture on March 5 and for this special poetry reading event. Widely regarded as one of Africa's most renowned poets, scholars, and public intellectuals, Osundare has authored more than 18 books of poetry, two books of selected poems, poems in over 70 journals and magazines across the world, four plays, two books of essays, and numerous scholarly articles and reviews. Among his many prizes and recognitions are the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Poetry Prize, the ANA/Cadbury Poetry Prize (which he won on two different occasions), the British Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Noma Award (Africa's most prestigious book award), the Tchicaya U Tam'si Award for African Poetry (generally regarded as Africa's highest poetry prize), and the Fonlon/Nichols Award for "excellence in literary creativity combined with significant contributions to Human Rights in Africa."
A leading figure in the vanguard for the performance and popularization of written poetry in Nigeria, he maintains a weekly poetry column in Sunday Nation, a prominent, authoritative Nigerian newspaper, and is a frequent contributor to the media on cultural and social matters. He was also a former guest columnist for Newswatch, a prominent Nigerian news magazine. He has performed his works in many parts of the world, and his poetry has been translated into many languages. He is also a fervent campaigner for Human Rights, social justice, and the environment.
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4. Lecture: Lori Talcott
Tuesday, March 5 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building, room S150
The Ann Orr Morris Memorial Fund presents the Visiting Artist in Jewelry and Metalwork Artist, Lori Talcott. We live in the long shadow of Enlightenment thinking. Primarily thought of as oppositional to all that is modern and rational, the idea of magic is often viewed with skepticism. This presentation will reframe assumptions and biases and examine jewelry's relationship with language and how this potent connection is evidenced in ritual and magic. Drawing on historical context, as well as the artist's own work, Talcott will discuss how jewelry functions as a magical, mnemonic device -- as an archive that gives us access to a body of knowledge and experience.
Lori Talcott is a Seattle-based visual artist, the fourth generation in a family of watchmakers and jewelers. Through the format of jewelry, her work and research engage with contemporary theories on magic, the agency of objects, and the nexus of language and matter. Her performance projects explore the role of jewelry as a rhetorical device, and in this capacity, how it functions as an agent in rituals that negotiate social, temporal, and spiritual boundaries. After her undergraduate work in art history (Lund University, Washington State University) and metal design (University of Washington), she worked as an apprentice to a master silversmith in Norway, and later completed her MFA in Visual Arts (Vermont College of Fine Arts). Talcott is the recipient of two Washington Artist Trust fellowships and an Arts Fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Her work is in numerous private and public collections, including the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Rotassa Foundation. Talcott's work is represented by Sienna Patti Gallery in the USA, and Platina Gallery in Europe. For the past ten years she has been a Guest Lecturer in the graduate program at Rhode Island School of Design.
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5. Joyce Robinson Events
Lecture: Curatorial Entanglements: Lessons from the Field
Wednesday, March 6 at 12:20 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
University art museums are uniquely poised to foster collaborative projects and partnerships across campus. Borrowed from quantum physics, the notion of "entanglement" provides an exciting metaphor for the kinds of interdisciplinary exhibitions that academic institutions can and should cultivate. Art historian and museum professional Joyce Robinson will discuss the rich nexus of scholarship and outreach that can result from "curatorial entanglements," looking in particular at Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials.
Curatorial Roundtable: Diversity and Representation in Curatorial Practice
Thursday, March 7 at 2 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
This informal conversation will address issues of diversity and representation facing art exhibition and museum curatorial practice today. Potential aspects of these curatorial responsibilities to be discussed may include: museum policies and objectives; institutional mission and audience; decision-makers and stakeholders; and current training for and methods used by curators and their colleagues in pursuing acquisitions and conceiving exhibitions. Students, faculty and others are welcome to attend, and the final segment will solicit questions and comments from the audience.
Participants: Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, Georgia Museum of Art; Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, Georgia Museum of Art; Dale Couch, curator of decorative arts, Georgia Museum of Art; Joyce Henri Robinson, visiting scholar and associate director of the Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; and Katie Geha, director of galleries, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Moderator: Annelies Mondi, deputy director, Georgia Museum of Art
Dr. Joyce Robinson is a specialist in modern American and European art and teaches courses primarily on African American art for the department at Penn State. Her scholarly essays have been published in several anthologies, including Acts of Possession: Essays on Collecting in America (Rutgers University Press, 2003); What is Architecture? (Routledge, 2002); and Not at Home: the Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture (Thames and Hudson, 1996). As curator at the Palmer, she organized more than sixty exhibitions, primarily in the fields of contemporary art, twentieth-century American art, and photography, and authored catalogues for a number of exhibitions, including Couples Discourse (2007 co-curated with Micaela Amato, Penn State School of Visual Arts); Wos up man? Selections from the Joseph M. and Janet D. Shein Collection of Self-Taught Art (2005); Fantastic Tales: The Photography of Nan Goldin (2005); Intimate Purlieus: The Diminutive Landscape in Contemporary Art (2004); An Artistic Friendship: Beauford Delaney and Lawrence Calcagno (2001); and, An Interlude in Giverny: The French Chevalier by Frederick MacMonnies (2000).
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6. Reading and Book Launch: Ed Pavlic
Wednesday, March 6 at 7 PM
Fire Hall No. 2, 489 Prince Ave.
The Willson Center presents a reading and book launch for Professor Ed Pavlic's novel Another Kind of Madness. This reception and reading is also sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, and the department of English, and Avid Bookshop.
Another Kind of Madness will be published by Milkweed Editions in March 2019. Widely published as a poet, Pavlic is the author of the collection Visiting Hours at the Color Line, winner of the 2013 National Poetry Series, as well as several others, including Live at the Bitter End: A Trial by Opera, Let's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno, and Let It Be Broke (forthcoming in 2020). His critical work includes 'Who Can Afford to Improvise?': James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners and Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African American Literary Culture. Pavlic is Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia.
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7. Lecture: Keith Bowers
Thursday, March 7 at 5 PM
Jackson Street Building, Room 123
For over three decades, Keith Bowers has been at the forefront of applied ecology, land conservation, and sustainable design. As the founder and president of Biohabitats, Bowers runs a multidisciplinary organization focused on regenerative design, blurring the boundaries between conservation planning, ecological restoration, and sustainable design. Using living-systems as the basis for all of its work, the firm applies a whole-systems approach to all of its projects.
Bowers has applied his expertise to more than 600 projects throughout North America. His work has spanned the scale from site-specific ecosystem restoration projects involving wetland, river, woodland and coastal habitat restoration to regional watershed management and conservation planning, to the development of comprehensive sustainability programs for communities and campuses across the country. He currently serves on the McHarg Center Board at the University of Pennsylvania.
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8. Artists' Panel Discussion for Ringer: Contemporary Portraiture
Sunday, March 10 at 4 PM
ATHICA, 675 Pulaski St. Suite 1200
Join ATHICA for an afternoon panel discussion about contemporary portraiture with participating artists Jackie Dorsey, Noah Saunders, and Rich Panico and curator/moderator John English.
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9. Exhibition: Plastic Bodies: River Tributes by Abigail West
Opening Thursday, March 7 from 6 - 8 PM
Lyndon House Arts Center Lounge Gallery
Abigail West creates work at the intersection of wonder and beauty and waste. In Plastic Bodies, she makes new materials out of hard-to-recycle consumer objects like potato chip bags and plastic film, and uses these in performances in rivers. These objects were made to be single-use, predestined to become either litter or part of the landfill. Through this work, West points out that they have value far beyond their manufactured use. She believes that art and artists can provoke people in intimate ways to think differently about critical social and environmental issues.
Abigail West (BFA in Printmaking & Book Arts, UGA, May 2019) is an interdisciplinary artist and activist based in Athens, Georgia. She has lived and shown work in Bali, Germany, Oklahoma, and Georgia. One of her callings in this life is to find new possibilities for discarded objects, and she applies this in her work as an artist and by managing reclamation projects for the UGA Office of Sustainability.
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10. Call for Performers: Trash Music
How can we make music from trash?
The "Trash Music" project was recently awarded a UGA Office of Sustainability Campus Sustainability Grant to explore the intersections of music, creativity, environmentalism, and sustainability. Musical instruments are often made from new materials and nonrenewable resources. The first phase of this project will consist of building prototype instruments from reused materials. Trash Music is seeking performers who are interested in performing on newly created instruments. Interested performers should have some knowledge of musical notation and should be available to perform on either 4/1 or 4/6. If you are interested, please contact Ciyadh Wells: [log in to unmask]
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11. Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition
Saturday, March 9 at 7 PM
Georgia Tech, Ferst Center, Atlanta
http://guthman.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech's Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition is an annual event aimed at identifying the world's next generation of musical instruments. The competition invites musicians, inventors, and artists to exhibit original instruments. Competitors demonstrate their instruments in front of a panel of judges -- who are experts in the Music Technology field -- and then perform captivating music for a live crowd.
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12. Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis Competition
Deadline: Monday, March 18
http://grad.uga.edu/index.php/current-students/professional-development/3mt/
Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition open to all graduate students, regardless of discipline. It challenges students to present their work in just three minutes, using only one static slide. Competitors are judged on both the content of their presentations and the delivery. Preliminary heats will be held the week of March 25th, and finals will take place at 7:30 pm on April 10th at Cine. Winners receive cash prizes and the chance to represent UGA at the regional competition. Please note: Students must present their own research, and it must be from their current degree program (so, doctoral students must present their dissertation research, not research from a prior master's degree).
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13. ATHICA Call for Entries: Emerges XII
Deadline: March 31
Exhibition Dates: June 15 - July 21, 2019
http://athica.org/call-for-entries
Seeking entries for artwork for the Emerges XII exhibition to take place in June-July 2019. We are looking for innovative contemporary artwork related to substance abuse, addiction, recovery, mental illness, etc. We welcome artists of all backgrounds and working in any media to give insight, commentary, or reflection on this topic. This exhibition seeks to confront these pertinent issues and their subsequent effect on families, friends, and communities. We hope to provide a supportive and inclusive environment that can bring awareness and promote understanding about substance abuse and mental illness within the community. Curated by Kayla King.
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14. Call for Proposals: 2019 a2ru National Conference
Deadline: April 5
https://www.a2ru.org/events/2019-national-conference/
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) invites proposals for the 2019 a2ru national conference, knowledges: artistic practice as method to take place at the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, Kansas, November 7-9, 2019. The 2019 theme is an invitation to explore modes of knowing, especially as arrived through the discovery of artistic practice. This theme is anchored in, but not limited to, the following questions:
- How do artistic practices map onto other methods of knowledge production?
- If contemporary artists are trained from the outset to be critical of their medium(s), how might this critical reflection inform more discrete disciplines, which often treat academic form as neutral vessels for the delivery of content?
- What can researchers across the arts, sciences, and humanities learn from one another's practices and approaches?
The University of Kansas, host of this year's a2ru conference, aims to infuse the arts into its research culture by advancing interdisciplinary projects across the sciences and humanities. This is accomplished through existing structures, such as the Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the Spencer Museum of Art, The Commons, and the Research Excellence Initiative through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The exhibition and dialogue among artists and scholars developed through the IARI colloquium (November 6, 2019) will launch the 2019 a2ru national conference.
a2ru invites proposals for presentations from researchers, artists, field leaders, and other practitioners about arts-integrative research, practice, and curricula that explore the potential of artistic and other practice-led methods for inquiry across disciplines. In an effort to unpack different ways of knowing, proposed sessions will follow a structure that mimics the process of knowledge generation. Proposal formats will include 1) inquiries, 2) lightning talks, and 3) presentations. a2ru encourages proposals that represent diverse backgrounds, pursuits, affiliations, locations, ages, and institutions. This active format invites participants into the collective co-creation of knowledge.
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