ICE Announcements 9.23.04
ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration
<http://ice.uga.edu>
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1. The Xerces Society
2. Photographing Domesticity
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1.  "The Xerces Society, Installment VI: Sir Samuel Cropia’s Public Laboratory"
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
September 11-October 10, 2004

Special performance: Wednesday, September 29, 7:00 to 8:30p.m.
Free and open to the public.

We have ongoing performances during regular Museum hours - we have 'lab
personnel' almost every hour the Museum is open. In addition, I would be
happy to give you (and your class) a personal tour!

Best,
Laleh
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This exhibition is a collaborative project led by Laleh Mehran, a professor
in the Digital Media department of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University
of Georgia. Mehran is working with students and faculty from the Lamar Dodd
School of Art, Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), the Georgia Museum of
Natural History, and the Department of Entomology in transforming the
Letitia and Rowland Radford Study Collection Gallery into a laboratory of
art and science.

The Xerces Society, Installment VI: Sir Samuel Cropia’s Public Laboratory, a
contemporary work of performance and installation art, will address the
blurring of the intersections between art, science, and politics. This
installment of The Xerces Society displays the typical workplace of a
lepidopterist, Sir Samuel Cropia, who harbors a fanatical devotion to his
butterflies and beliefs. Sir Cropia is a fictitious, world-renowned
lepidopterist known for an extreme dedication to the preservation and
proliferation of butterflies. Regular performances by various laboratory
players and the presentation of key artifacts will help reveal the
malevolent nature of Sir Cropia’s research and methodologies. In the
laboratory, Sir Cropia’s private goals subtly manifest themselves through
painstaking manipulation of laboratory personnel and the exploitation of
scientific authority. The intention of The Xerces Society, whose title makes
reference to the North American butterfly conservation society and the
ancient king of Persia, intends, as it enters its sixth year, to investigate
the complexities of fanaticism and ideology under the auspices of art and
science.

A special performance will take place on Friday, September 17 from 7:00 to
9:00 p.m. Collaborators, participants, and assistants include Jon Dunn,
Kevin Stamper, members of the Athens community and University of Georgia
students from the Departments of Art, Cellular Biology, and Entomology.

Visit the museum’s website at <http://www.uga.edu/gamuseum> or call 706.542.GMOA
(4662).
Contact: Laleh Mehran, 706.542.1614, <[log in to unmask]>
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2.  RELATIVE : Photographing Domesticity
Curated by Edwyna Arey & Michael Marshall

Friday, September 24th - Sunday, November 7th, 2004

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 25th, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Followed by performance art at Canopy (9:00 - 9:45): Kevin Hoth's "Tips on Running an Orderly
Household: The Big Hole Under My House"
and Julie Rothschild's "Family Heirlooms"Suggested Donation: $3.00 - $6.00


NEW GALLERY HOURS:
Fridays: 3:00 - 9:00 p.m., Saturdays: 1:00 - 6:00 p.m., Sundays 3:00 - 6:00 p.m

ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc.
706.208.1613
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<http://www.athica.org>

Chase Street Warehouses, Unit 3
Entrance on Tracy St. off Barber