ICE Announcements 10.27.09
http://ice.uga.edu
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*ICE Collaboration Opportunity: Berlin Wall Anniversary*
1. Lecture: Jani Scandura (10/28)
2. Concert: Opera Ensemble (10/28)
3. ICE-Vision Halloween: Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (10/29)
4. Mandala Literary Journal kick-off (10/29)
5. Fahrenheit record release show (10/30)
6. Lamar Dodd School of Art Exhibitions
7. Course Opportunity: Video Experimentation
8. Lecture: James Casebere (11/3)
9. Call for Submissions: Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (deadline 11/15)
10. Cine Screenings and Events
More listings at: http://iceannouncements.com
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*ICE Collaboration Opportunity: Berlin Wall Anniversary*
ICE and the department of German and Slavic Studies are sponsoring a collaborative art project to
mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The initial call for interest resulted in
a series of brainstorming sessions and the decision to produce an event titled:
Checkpoint! Public Art to Commemorate the Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
A collaborative art project that explores historic and contemporary barriers in a series of
installations throughout the Athens community during the week leading up to November 9. The
project will culminate in a participatory event at Tate Plaza with video projections of art and
archival footage on a scale replica of a section of the Berlin Wall.
Interested participants may contact Mark Callahan, Artistic Director of ICE, at [log in to unmask]
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1. Jani Scandura: Willson Center Department-Invited Lecturer
Wednesday,October 28
Park Hall Room 265
4:00 PM
Jani Scandura is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota and Co-Founder of
the Space and Place Collective, an interdisciplinary forum bridging the methods, concerns,
theories and practices of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences through a focus on space and
place. Scandura is author of Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity and American Depression (Duke
UP, 2008), and editor of the collection Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital (NYU Press, 2001).
She will present a lecture titled "How to Pack a Suitcase: Lists, Loss, Presence," drawn from her
current book, Suitcase: Fragments on Memory and Motion, which situates the ordinary suitcase as
a central object and trope in modernist art, literature, and memorial practices.
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2. Concert: Opera Ensemble
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall - Performing Arts Center
Wednesday, October 28 8:00PM
The UGA Opera Ensemble will perform two one-act operas: Henry Mollicone's Face on the
Barroom Floor and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's The Secret of Suzanne, Two one act gems that present
love triangles and hidden obsessions with historical drama and comical consequences. Sung in
English.
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3. ICE-Vision Halloween: Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (Benjamin Christensen, 1922)
with Live Musical Accompaniment by Geisterkatzen
Thursday, October 29 8PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICEs informal weekly series, selecting a variety of
world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities.
"Swedish and Danish pictures easily hold the palm for morbid realism and in many cases for
brilliant acting and production. Haxan, made by Benjamin Christensen, leaves all the others
beaten. It is in reality a pictorial history of black magic, of witches, of the Inquisition, and the
thousand and one inhumanities of the superstition-ridden Middle Ages. Many of its scenes are
unadulterated horror." -Variety
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4. Mandala Literary Journal kick-off meeting
Thursday, 10/29 from 1:15-2:15
Meet in conference room in the Institute for African American Studies 3rd floor of the
Holmes/Hunter Academic Building
The Mandala Literary Journal isa student-run multicultural journal for "poets, writers, artists, and
thinkers," Published by the Institute for African American Studies
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5. Fahrenheit record release show!
Kenosha Kid with special guests The Trey Wright Trio
Friday, October 30 at 9 PM
The Melting Point
295 East Dougherty Street
Athens, GA
Celebrating the release of their newest recording, indie-jazz ensemble Kenosha Kid performs
Friday October 30th at the Melting Point in Athens, Georgia. Known for their boundary crossing
aesthetics and multi-media adventures, the groups latest product is sci-fi music inspired (in part)
by Ray Bradbury's classic novel "Fahrenheit 451" and takes the listeners on a wild orbit around the
earth... partly composed, partly improvised, highly textured, and wholly entertaining.
Bandleader/composer/guitarist Dan Nettles says, "the seed for Fahrenheit began in the summer of
2007 after being commissioned to compose for a stage production of Fahrenheit 451 in
Brunswick, Georgia. The music on the record began there, but quickly outgrew that setting and
became a regular part of our set."
Nettles worked with Eddie Whelan, a UGA student majoring in Art, to develop the material further
and incorporate live multimedia content. With the support of an ICE Project Grant they staged
performances in Athens and Atlanta in April 2009.
Nettles explains that "immediately after the shows, we headed to the studio the document the
work. The album, which is being released as a digital download and a limited pressing of 500
records is a wild ride that I compare to a forty-minute orbit around the earth. I feel it is truly
music of the future. The record features an amazing six-piece band and covers an amazing
breadth of material that is all thematically related. Sections are dark, fantastic, aggressive, soulful,
and outright hilarious. It is about the struggle to create something organic and spiritual in an
increasingly synthetic world"
For more information visit: http://www.KenoshaKid.com
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6. Lamar Dodd School of Art Exhibitions
First Annual Juried Student Exhibition
October 23 - November 10
Lamar Dodd School of Art
Juror: Julian Cox, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art
New Work: Sculpture Exhibition
October 26 - November 7
William J. Thompson Gallery
South Thomas Street
Sculpture MFA canditites Adam Bodine, Lauren Cunningham, Ernesto R. Gomez and Ben McKee
exhibit work made this Fall.
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7. VIDEO II: Video Experimentation in Diverse Artistic Strategies
Spring 2010 ARST 4830/7980
MWF 1:25- 3:20 with Chris Cogan
This studio will explore advanced concepts and techniques of video and its uses in contemporary
art practice. The studio will investigate video as art form in the current technological environment
and will provide an in-depth approach to to adaptive uses of video . STUDENTS IN ALL DISCIPLINES
ARE WELCOME For Information email: [log in to unmask]
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8. James Casebere
Visiting Artist and Scholar Lectures
Lecture: November 3 at 5:30 PM
S151 Lamar Dodd School of Art
Casebere's pioneering work has established him at the forefront of artists working with
constructed photography. His first exhibitions in New York were at Artists Space, Franklin Furnace
and then Sonnebend Gallery. His work was associated with the Pictures Generation of post-
modern artists who emerged in the 1980s, which included Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, Laurie
Simmons, Richard Prince, Matt Mullican, James Welling, Barbara Kruger, and others. For the last
thirty years Casebere has consistently devised increasingly complex models and photographed
them in his studio. Based solidly on an understanding of architecture as well as art historical and
cinematic sources, Casebere's abandoned spaces are hauntingly evocative. His table-sized
constructions are made of simple materials, pared down to essential forms. Starting with Sonsbeek
86, in Arnhem, Holland and ending around 1991 Casebere also made large scale sculpture
installations.
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9. The second annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition presented by the Georgia Tech
center for Music Technology will award $10,000 to the best novel musical instruments as judged
by a panel of experts. There will be a $5,000 grand prize.
Submissions will be accepted until November 15 and can be made through our online subsmission
system.
For more information and to submit your entry, please visit:
http://gtcmt.coa.gatech.edu/?p=662
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10. This Week @ Cine
http://athenscine.com
THIRST
ECOFOCUS FILM FESTIVAL
- SAVING LUNA
- NO IMPACT MAN
- ADDICTED TO PLASTIC
IT MIGHT GET LOUD
LATE SHOW: THE ROOM
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