ICE Announcements 2.19.19
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Ad-Verse Fest (3/1-3/2)
2. Idea Lab Conversation: Adaptive Change in the Arts (2/25)
3. Call for Participation: Trash Music
4. Opportunity: Refocus Reality
5. Performance: In the Blood (2/19-24)
6. Citizen Rankine Events (begins 2/20)
7. Reading: Rosa Lane (2/20)
8. Performance: Congeal (2/22)
9. Performance: Listening in the Gallery Series (2/23)
10. Lecture: Aaron T Stephan (2/26)
11. Performance: CORE Contemporary and Aerial Dance (2/28-3/2)
12. Opportunity: Elsewhere Internships (deadline 2/22)
13. Opportunity: 3MT Info Session (2/25)
14. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards (deadline 2/28)
15. Call for Participation: Gender, the Body, & Fieldwork
16. Call for Proposals: 2019 a2ru National Conference (deadline 4/5)
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1. Ad-Verse Fest
Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2 at 7 PM
Downtown Athens, GA
https://www.adversefest.space
Ad-Verse Fest is a two-day festival showcasing solo and duo performers who blur the line between the musical, visual, and performative arts. Audience members will see electronic artists, quasi-pop stars, hip hop artists, drag performers, DJs and experimental composers.
Featured performers: Jennifer Vanilla, Superbody, Ripparachie, Diaspoura, Karen Meat, Taylor ALXNDR, RaFiA, and GRLwood.
Venues: Caledonia Lounge, Flicker Theatre & Bar, and Go Bar
Advanced tickets now available online $12 for both days
Day of show tickets $15 for both days or $10 for single day
Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration, Athens Area Arts Council, Flagpole Magazine, and Scorpion Beach.
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2. Idea Lab Conversation: Adaptive Change in the Arts
Monday, February 25 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Ideas for Creative Exploration Graduate Research Assistants lead a public conversation about the EmcArts report "Somewhere Becoming Rain: Adaptive Change is the Future of the Arts." The report is available to read and download at: emcarts.org/case_studies/somewhere-becoming-rain.
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3. Call for Participation: 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. We are seeking participation in the following areas: instrument designers / builders, website design, and collaborators interested in creating related initiatives and projects. If you are interested, please contact Ciyadh Wells:
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4. Opportunity: Refocus Reality
Explore the Oculus Rift VR system with Ideas for Creative Exploration. Possible areas of exploration could include but are not limited to audience interaction, data visualization and research productivity. Lab times are available by appointment for the following days:
Mondays 8-11 AM, 7-10 PM
Wednesdays 8-10 AM, 7-10 PM
Fridays 8-10 AM, 2-5 PM
Located in the Lamar Dodd building room S160. To schedule, please contact [log in to unmask]
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5. Performance: In the Blood
University Theatre MainStage
http://www.drama.uga.edu/events/content/2018/blood
Suzan-Lori Parks' contemporary drama offers a modern take on The Scarlet Letter through the lens of a homeless family living in the inner city. Centering around a matriarch of five, named Hester, In the Blood details her struggles to improve both herself and the lives of her children in the face of impossible choices and seemingly insurmountable obstacles.Tickets are $16, $12 for students.
Tuesday, February 19 at 8 PM
Wednesday, February 20 at 8 PM
Thursday, February 21 at 8 PM
Friday, February 22 at 8 PM
Saturday, February 23 at 8 PM
Sunday, February 24 at 2:30 PM
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6. 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.
FEB 20: Gina's Story: The Life of William Grimes as Art and Testimony
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'
Gina's Story: The Life of William Grimes as Art and Testimony
Wednesday, February 20 from 4:30 to 7 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 148
Author, speaker, and storyteller Regina E. Mason will present "Gina's Story: The Life of William Grimes as Art and Testimony. Mason is the great-great-great granddaughter of William Grimes, the author of the first published U.S. American slave narrative. Grimes was held in bondage in many states, including Georgia.
Regina E. Mason Mason will discuss her journey as a researcher to recover the story of her ancestor in relation to themes of belonging and citizenship. After an introductory discussion, she will screen her 80-minute documentary, Gina's Journey: The Search for William Grimes (2016), which tells both Grimes' story and the 15-year process she spent to authenticate his extraordinary narrative of flight from bondage to liberty. With the literary critic and expert, Professor William L. Andrews, Mason also co-edited the authoritative 2008 Oxford University Press edition of The Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. She has shared her amazing work with national and international campus and university communities, including Mansfield College of Oxford, England. SUNY-Buffalo, Yale University, and the University of California-Berkeley.
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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7. Reading: Rosa Lane
Wednesday, February 20 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
The Creative Writing Program and the University of Georgia Press present a reading by the Georgia Poetry Prize winner Rosa Lane.
Lane's collection, Chouteau's Chalk, was chosen by English Department and Creative Writing Program professor Magdalena Zurawski. According to Zurawaski, "The lush sounds of the poems in Rosa Lane's Chouteau's Chalk make even the silent reader's ears prick up. Her words wind us feverishly through landscapes of initiation, those early erotic encounters so impressed upon our being that we can only look back and say 'hello, me.' The spaces here are sometimes wounding, 'outlined in neon, a noble gas, atomic, orange,' or 'a blur, a fallen entity / inside the house,' but like all freedom songs, they map the road taken. Here that road is queerly, wildly, sweetly taken, 'zipping us all the way down the beck."
Lane is the author of Tiller North and Roots and Reckonings. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Cutthroat, Folio, New South, Nimrod, Ploughshares, RHINO Poetry, the Tishman Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. As a poet and architect, she splits her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her wife.
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8. Congeal Performance Night
Friday, February 22 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Galleries
Join us for evening of experimental performancs in conjunction with the exhibition Congeal. Through the works on display, created by a community of queer artists, Congeal explores the comfort and discomfort of living in a body. The thirteen artists in this exhibition abstract the corporeal, manipulating normative notions of what constitutes embodiment. Secretions, body dysmorphia, and various body fluids act as potent symbols of the blurring of outlines. While appropriating Dada and Surrealists techniques, the artists reject the misogyny and homophobia that is so often associated with these movements. It is in this rejection that the works of art in this exhibition expand and pervert these histories, articulating a space that is grotesque, gooey, and queer with no apology.
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9. Performance: Listening in the Gallery Series
Saturday, February 23 at 7 PM
ATHICA
675 Pulaski Street
https://www.facebook.com/events/343571236193630/
ATHICA is delighted to announce the upcoming interdisciplinary concert series "Listening in the Gallery," coordinated by and featuring the musicianship of ATHICA intern Sahada Buckley. Buckley's series emphasizes the interplay of light and sound through the manipulation of lighting and video projections in conjunction with experimental music from local musicians performing original and canonical works. Expect to see with your ears during these original and inventive performances.
Featuring a reading by Turner Buckley, the premiere of a work for solo violin composed by Badie Khaleghian and performed by Sahada Buckley, and the improvisatory duo Flora (Brad Bassler on piano and Sahada Buckley on violin).
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10. Lecture: Aaron T Stephan
Tuesday, February 26 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building, Room S150
Aaron T Stephan is an artist living and working in Portland, Maine. His work presents a wry look at the world around him -- focusing on a complex web of information carried by everyday materials and objects. His work has taken form as a twenty-foot high table and chairs, a shelter made entirely of books, and a series of drawings reproducing iconic artworks ad infinitum. Stephan's work has been featured at venues across the U.S. including DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Samson Projects, The Portland Museum of Art, John Michael Kohler Art Center, California Center for the Arts, Farnsworth Art Museum, Weitz Center at Carlton College, Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, DUMBO Center for the Arts, Troy Arts Center, University of Maine Museum of Art, Quint Contemporary, and Albany Airport Gallery.
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11. Performance: CORE Contemporary and Aerial Dance
Thursday, February 28 at 8 PM
Friday, March 1 at 8 PM
Saturday, March 2 at 8 PM
New Dance Theatre, Dance Building
https://www.corecontemporaryandaerialdance.com
CORE Contemporary & Aerial Dance presents Mutual Resonance, aerial and dance vignettes that portray a variety of relationships and interactions reflecting associations found in personal, social and environmental situations. Enhanced by visual projections, the dancers will perform visually stunning movements on silks, lyra, trapeze, and bungee.
Joining UGA student artists, the Staibdance company and guest artists will share the evening program performing excerpts from 2016's critically acclaimed work moat. Artistic Director George Staib reflects on his memories of immigrating from Iran to a small Pennsylvania town during the Iran Hostage Crisis. Fueled by heightened anti-Middle Eastern sentiment in the United States, some locals reacted with hostility, throwing tear gas into the family's yard and bullying the kids at school. The work raises questions of self-protection.
"Mutual Resonance" runs in the New Dance Theatre from Thursday February 28 - Saturday March 2 at 8:00 p.m. $12 students/$16 general admission, $5 students groups of 8 or more. Tickets are available at the UGA PAC website, Tate Student Center, and at the door. Advance purchase is highly recommended.
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12. Opportunity: Elsewhere Internships
Deadline: February 22
http://www.goelsewhere.org/internships/
Elsewhere is a museum set within a former thrift store that re-invents old things to build collaborative futures. Since opening in 2003, Elsewhere has supported creative projects, learning initiatives, and public works with global artists and local neighbors that enliven and inspire downtown Greensboro and beyond.
Elsewhere is seeking Interns for Summer and Fall 2019! Each intern is paired with a supervisor of a core department (Programs, Operations, Communications, House) to assist with museum events, design, marketing, community outreach, admin, services, and maintenance. Our internship is great for recent-post-undergraduate-age applicants dedicated to creative culture, social engagement and arts administration. Onsite housing is offered to select applicants. Ideal candidates are visionaries and challenge seekers dedicated to seeing experimental organizations thrive. Interns leave with an understanding of the inner-workings of an internationally recognized non-profit and skills required to leverage a life in the arts.
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13. Three Minute Thesis Information Session
Monday, February 25 at 12:15 PM
Geography/Geology Building Room 200 C
RSVP: http://bit.ly/UGA3MT2019
UGA's Three Minute Thesis competition challenges graduate students to explain their research to non-specialist audiences in only three minutes. 3MT provides an opportunity to hone your communication skills, get feedback on your presentation style, and win cash prizes! Pizza will be provided at the information session! Please register by February 22 to provide an accurate count. All Master's and Doctoral students welcome. Students do not have to attend the info session to compete, but it is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the competition and to speak with past winners.
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14. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards
Deadline: February 28 at 2 PM ET
https://creative-capital.org/2019/02/01/the-creative-capital-award-application-is-open-through-february-28/
Artists working in all disciplines can apply for funding of up to $50,000 for innovative project ideas, plus receive career development and advisory services valued at an additional $50,000, for a total value of $100,000 per award.
Artists who receive the 2020 Creative Capital Award will have access to up to $50,000 in funding to develop their project, plus advisory services valued at $50,000, for a total value of $100,000. We are interested in projects that push the boundaries, as well as artists who are ready to take full advantage of our non-monetary services. Generally, that means that the projects will premiere at least a year and a half after the announcement of the Creative Capital Awards. Read more about the Creative Capital Award.
After the open application period closes at the end of February 2019, we will invite evaluators from all over the country to review the applications we received. We ask evaluators to review projects based on the originality of the proposed idea, the artist's capacity to make the work, the timeliness of the project, and the artist's readiness to make use of Creative Capital's career development services.
In the final stage of the application, we administer an in-person panel review of projects that made it to the third round. We asked some of the panelists that just completed that process for the 2019 Creative Capital Award cycle for some tips about what makes a great application.
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15. Call for Participation: Gender, the Body, & Fieldwork
Symposium April 19
University of Geogia
https://genderandfieldwork.wordpress.com/
Gender, the Body, & Fieldwork delves into non-binary definitions and narratives of gender and the body within fieldwork through community dialogue storytelling and creative expressions. This event will be a full day of opening up discussion on what is "fieldwork," constructing narratives of body within fieldwork, a plenary lunchtime speaker, mentoring, and collaborative media engagements between artists and researchers. Students are encouraged to lend their knowledge of media and performance to the creative expressions session of the symposium as well as participate in the other sections throughout the day. To get involved please follow this survey link:
http://bit.ly/genderandfieldwork
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16. 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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