ICE Announcements 3.20.19
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Lecture: Brooke White (3/20)
2. Performance: Three Farcical Arts of the Deal (until 3/24)
3. Citizen Rankine Events (3/21-25)
4. Symposium: Medium & Materiality (3/22)
5. Athens Hip Hop Awards (3/24)
6. Made Bayak Events (begins 3/25)
7. Panel Discussion: Craftivism (3/26)
8. Lecture: Lauren Fensterstock (3/27)
9. Rebecca Rutstein Events (3/27-28)
10. Math Plus Music Events (3/29)
11. Performance: Spring Dance Concert (4/4-6)
12. Lake Herrick Eco-Art Festival (4/6)
13. Symposium: Gender, the Body, & Fieldwork (4/19)
14. Call for Proposals: 2019 a2ru National Conference (deadline 4/5)
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1. Lecture: Brooke White
Wednesday, March 20 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S150
"The New South Project: The Evolution of an Idea"
Brooke White's talks will focus on the evolution of the New South Project beginning with her move to the Mississippi Delta in 2004. For over a decade she has lived and photographed throughout the global south investigating how water, oil, expansion, and agriculture, have come to shape people's relationship to place and its effect on identity. This decade long photographic project focuses on making transnational comparisons in regions throughout the Global South to connect local and regional landscapes to international ones, emphasizing the interconnectedness of them. Brooke White is both a practicing artist and educator specializing in photography and video art. She received her MFA from Cornell University and BFA from Alfred University, School of Art & Design. White has exhibited her photographs and videos nationally and internationally including the Hammer Museum, Mississippi Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in India and is a recipient of numerous Mississippi Arts Council Individual artist grants. Her work has been published in Aint Bad Magazine and the Oxford American mand is included in the Do Good Fund collection. mFor two decades White has made work about the landscape. She sees it as a space that reflects much of what is taking place within the world, both on a macro and micro level. The conceptual framework of her projects is consistently driven by the politics of place, memory and time, and the role they play in establishing identity. White resides in Oxford, MS where she is Chair, Professor of Art, Area Head and founder of the Imaging Arts area in the Department of Art & Art History. She also serves as affiliate faculty in the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and Digital Media and Cinema minors at the University of Mississippi.
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2. Three Farcical Arts of the Deal: Peas, Pierre Patelin, and Purgation
Fine Arts Building Cellar Theatre (Room 55)
Wednesday, March 20 at 8 PM
Thursday, March 21 at 8 PM
Friday, March 22 at 8 PM
Saturday, March 23 at 2:30 PM
Saturday, March 23 at 8 PM
Sunday, March 24 at 2:30 PM
An old down-on-his-luck lawyer sets off an endless chain of deceit that backfires on him. A young husband turns a messy accident to his advantage. A foolish man attempts to sell a sack of peas hampered by the worst memory ever. These three farces demonstrate the difficulty of living harmoniously when our needs conflict with others and the dangers of negotiating with those we don't trust. Directed by Marla Carlson. Tickets are $12, $7 for students.
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3. 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.
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M. NourbeSe Philip: "Zong! - Talking Code, Stalking Silence"
Thursday, March 21 at 7 PM
Georgia Museum of Art, Griffith Auditorium
M. Nourbese Philip will perform her extraordinary work and connect it to Claudia Rankine's book Citizen and citizenship in the African diaspora.
M. Noubese Philip is an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright who lives in Toronto. She practised law in Toronto for seven years before becoming a poet and writer. She has published four books of poetry including the seminal She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks, one novel and four collections of essays. Her book-length poem, Zong!, is a conceptually innovative, genre-breaking epic, which explodes the legal archive as it relates to slavery. Her most recent work is BlanK, a collection of essays on racism and culture. Among her awards are numerous Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council grants, including the Chalmers Award, as well as the Pushcart Prize (USA, 1981), the Casa de las Americas Prize (Cuba, 1988), the Lawrence Foundation Prize (USA, 1994), the Arts Foundation of Toronto Writing and Publishing Award (Toronto, 1995), the Dora Award (finalist, drama, 1999), and the Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award (Outstanding mid-career artist. 2015). Her fellowships include Guggenheim (1990), McDowell (1991), and Rockefeller (Bellagio) (2005). She is an awardee of both the YWCA Woman of Distinction (Arts) and the Elizabeth Fry Rebels for a Cause awards. She has been writer-in-residence at several universities and a guest at writers' retreats.
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Staged Reading: "Citizen: An American Lyric"
Friday, March 22 at 7 PM
Saturday, March 23 at 7 PM
Seney-Stovall Chapel
A free, two-night, staged reading of Claudia Rankine's award-winning, multi-genre book Citizen performed by students, faculty, and community actors under the direction of Freda Scott Giles, faculty emerita of theatre and film studies and African-American studies. The staged performance of this book lays bare moments of racism that often surface in everyday encounters. It combines poetry with commentary, visual art, quotations from artists and critics, slogans, and scripts for films. It's "an anatomy of American racism in the new millennium" (Bookforum). Free copies of Citizen will be given to the first 50 groups in attendance. Admission is free and performances are open to the public (ages 16 and older).
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Book Discussion and Writing Response: "Citizen: An American Lyric"
Monday, March 25 at Noon
Aderhold Hall, Room 119
Join the College of Education's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to discuss our reflections on Claudia Rankine's book, Citizen. The book lays bare moments of racism that often surface in everyday encounters. It combines poetry with commentary, visual art, quotations from artists and critics, slogans, and scripts for films. It's "an anatomy of American racism in the new millennium" (Bookforum). Participants will be invited to write their own reflections on past experiences with microaggression and/or micro-validation. We imagine our individual and collective goals for future advocacy and care in our "diverse-city" of Athens, Georgia. Copies of Citizen will be given out (one per household) to event attendees while supplies last.
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Events in the series have been supported by funds from the Willson Center, the Leighton M. Ballew Lecture Series in English, Verse magazine, and Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development through funding from the Georgia General Assembly.
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4. Medium & Materiality: The Symposium on the Book
Friday, March 22 at 2 PM
Special Collections Libraries, Room 277
An examination of artist's books and the hows and whys of the book as an artistic medium.
2 PM: A selection of artist's books will be on display.
2:30 PM: A panel disucssion among four graduate student artists: Catherine Clements, Alec Kaus, Alex McClay and Ciel Rodriguez. Moderated by Eileen Wallace, senior lecturer in printmaking and book arts.
3:30 PM: Keynote address by Ellen Knudson, "In Defense of the Book." Knudson, a book artist and graphic designer, is the founder of Crooked Letter Press. Her work is the synthesis of images and words in the form of letterpress printed handmade books and printed matter.
The Symposium on the Book is a semiannual symposium sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the UGA Libraries and the UGA Department of English. Registration is not required.
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5. 7th Annual Athens Hip Hop Awards
Sunday, March 24 from 6 - 10 PM
The Foundry
http://ugalive.com
Athens Hip Hop Awards places a positive spotlight on North Georgia hip hop music scene, culture, and urban business professionals within Athens, Georgia and surrounding areas. This is an opportunity for hip-hop artists, fans, and the community to celebrate their love for urban music and culture with family, friends, and stand in solidarity. This is a red carpet event so dress to impress and let's celebrate the hip hop culture with style. Tickets are $15 in advance $20 at the door, and VIP table seating available. Hosted by Tya Storyz and Mokah Johnson.
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6. Made Bayak Events
Made Bayak was born in 1980 in Tampaksiring, Gianyar Regency, Bali, Indonesia. He completed his studies at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Denpasar in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia in 2006. His work addresses the human devastation of the Indonesian genocide of 1965-66 and the environmental devastation of the Balinese island's once-pristine environment caused by tourism-driven development and the lack of local awareness of best ecological practices. His methods include activism and social organization, teaching workshops, painting, drawing, sculptural objects, installations, performance art, and music performed with his heavy metal rock band Geeksmile.
Exhibition: New Gods/Old Gods
March 25-April 28
ATHICA, 675 Pulaski Street, Suite 1200
http://athica.org/updates/new-gods-old-gods/
Opening Reception
Monday, March 25 from 5 - 7 PM
ATHICA
Roundtable: Representations of Violence, Radical Storytelling, Art-based Activism, and Imaginative History-making
Wednesday, March 27 at 3 PM
Miller Learning Center, Room 350
Made Bayak musical performance, featuring the artist, Killick, and other local musicians Wednesday, March 27 at 7 PM
ATHICA
Made Bayak artist talk and performance art
"Radical Resilience within Visual Art-making (Art as Activism)"
Sunday, March 31 at 4 PM
ATHICA
Musical performance by Gamelan Chandra Natha Balinese gamelan ensemble
Tuesday, April 2 at 7 PM
ATHICA
Traditional Balinese Painting Workshop
Wednesday, April 3 at 2 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art
Screening: "The Look of Silence"
Wednesday, April 3 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151
Youth Workshop, Art with Recycled Materials/Plasticology
Thursday, April 4 at 5:30 PM
Lyndon House Arts Center
Register: https://www.accgov.com/8670/Art-with-Recycled-Materials
Lake Herrick Eco-Art Festival
Saturday, April 6 Noon- 5 PM
Lake M. Allyn Herrick
Curators' Talk by Peter Brosius, Sarah Hitchner, and Alden DiCamillo
"Old Gods//New Gods: Ethnographic Crossings: Culture and Violence"
Monday, April 8 at 5:30 PM
ATHICA
Sponsors: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) with the support of The James E. and Betty J. Huffer Foundation and Creature Comforts Brewery, the Willson Center for Arts and Humanities, the UGA Department of Anthropology, the UGA Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR), Ideas for Creative Exploration, the UGA Office of Sustainability, Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Lyndon House Arts Center, and the ACC Solid Waste Department.
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7. Craftivism Panel Discussion
Tuesday, March 26 at 3:30 PM
Special Collections Libraries Building
Craftivism (Greer, 2002) is the use of crafts to engage with social and political issues. This panel will discuss the importance of craftivism, the ways in which it engages community and fosters peaceful protest, and examine the various ways to participate in this form of activism. Panelists include Dr. Hilda Kurtz, Dr. Denise Domizi, Xin Xin, and will be moderated by Dr. Chris Cuomo. More panelists to be announced.
This program coincides with the Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of the Rights of Women in History and Law, circa 1550-2050 exhibit "Nevertheless, She Resisted: Documenting the Women's Marches," on display in the Hargrett Library Gallery until May 2019.
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8. Lecture: Lauren Fensterstock
Wednesday, March 27 at 12:20 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
American artist, curator, and writer, Lauren Fensterstock is in residence at the University of Georgia as the 2018-2019 Dodd Chair. Fensterstock is best known for creating elaborate sculptures and installations that explore the evolving history of our relationship to nature. By merging contradictory historic perspectives -- from the Baroque to the Picturesque and Minimalism -- she reveals the cultural roots of our concept of nature. Her intricate artworks are constructed in the material associated to women's crafts, such as quilled paper and shell work, emphasizing the capacity of these media to reflect on the complexities of the world beyond the domestic sphere. While in residence at the Dodd, Fensterstock will research the making of large sculptures in the form of portals. At first appearing like monumental black slabs, these portals juxtapose the stark geometries of Modernism with detailed rococo patterning, while the inclusion of black mirrors will merge real and illusory space.Fensterstock has held appointments at the Rhode Island School of Design and Virginia Commonwealth University, and previously served as Academic Program Director of the Interdisciplinary MFA in Studio Arts at Maine College of Art and as Interim Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. She is a United States Artist Barr Fellow whose work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at MOCA Jacksonville, The John Michael Kohler Art Center, The Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and Drexel University. Other recent and upcoming exhibitions include Rijswijk Museum, Austin Contemporary, Des Moines Art Center, Wichita Art Museum, Gibbes Museum, and the Brandywine Museum. Her work is represented by Claire Oliver Gallery in New York. Lauren holds degrees from the Parsons School of Design (BFA 1997) and SUNY New Paltz (MFA 2000).
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9. Rebecca Rutstein Events
Lecture
Wednesday, March 27 at 4 PM
Creature Comforts Brewing, 271 W Hancock Ave.
This Delta Visiting Chair event is presented in partnership with the Get Artistic initiative of Creature Comforts Brewing Co. in Athens. Rebecca Rutstein, the 2018-2019 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding, will give a public talk about establishing and sustaining a career as a visual artist.
Rutstein's work spans painting, sculpture, installation, and public art and explores abstraction inspired by science, data, and maps. This event is in conjunction with her second visit to UGA this academic year following her keynote discussion at November's national conference of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru). On March 28 Rutstein will again give a public presentation with the widely known oceanographer Samantha Joye, Athletic Association Professor in Arts and Sciences in the department of marine sciences at UGA.
Since Rutstein's November visit, she and Joye have completed an expedition to Mexico's Guaymas Basin in the Sea of Cortez that included a deep sea dive aboard Alvin, a submersible vessel able to withstand the crushing pressure of the extremes of the deep ocean. While scientists explored hydrothermal vents and carbon cycling processes in the basin, Rutstein set up her studio on the ship and created new works inspired by the data collected in real time.
Rutstein's 64-foot-long interactive sculptural installation with laser cut steel and LED lights, and a monumental four-part painting, remain installed at the Georgia Museum of Art through October, 2019. A mural-sized banner is also on display at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The sculpture, with its hexagonal forms and reactive lighting, and the shapes present in the paintings were inspired by the hydrocarbon structures and bioluminescence present in Guaymas Basin.
In the process of creating works inspired by geology, microbiology and marine science, Rutstein has previously collaborated with scientists aboard research vessels sailing from the Galapagos Islands to California, Vietnam to Guam, and in the waters surrounding Tahiti. Prior to her expedition with Joye, she made her first descent in Alvin to the ocean floor off of the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica with a team of scientists from Temple University in October 2018.
Rutstein has exhibited widely in museums, institutions and galleries, and has received numerous awards including the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She has held more than 25 solo exhibitions at venues across the United States.
This is the first Get Artistic community enrichment lecture and Creature Comforts will tap a special keg to celebrate.
Get Artistic is Creature Comforts' community impact program to support the arts in Georgia. The brewery's downtown Athens taproom regularly hosts exhibitions, performances, and various enrichment opportunities for the local arts community. Through specific beer brands, merchandise, exhibited art, and events, the Get Artistic program ultimately raises funds to support artists and arts-focused nonprofits through strategic grants aimed to help artists continue their work and sustain their livelihood.
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In Conversation: Rebecca Rutstein and Samantha Joye
Thursday, March 28 at 6 PM
Georgia Museum of Art, Griffith Auditorium
Rebecca Rutstein, artist and Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding at the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and Samantha Joye, professor of marine sciences at UGA, will speak about their deep-sea expedition to Mexico's Guaymas Basin in the Sea of Cortez. As part of the expedition and artist residency, Rutstein set up her studio on the ship and created new works inspired by the data collected in real time. Two of Rutstein's works, works "Out of the Darkness: Light in the Depths of the Sea of Cortez" and "Progenitor Series," are on view at the Georgia Museum of Art. Presented in collaboration with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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10. Math Plus Music: Marcus Miller and Rob Schneiderman
Friday, March 29
4:30 PM: Colloquium/Conversation/Performance
Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Dancz Center (Room 264)
"Exploring the Creative Dynamics of Mathematics and Music"
8 PM: Jazz Performance
Hendershot's Coffee Bar, 237 Prince Ave.
In live musical performance and open discussion, Marcus Miller and Rob Schneiderman demonstrate/explain analogies between the dynamics of the discovery/creation/learning of both music and mathematics. As a consequence of the abstract natures of music and mathematics these analogies can provide insight into other human disciplines.
Marcus Miller graduated from Harvard University with a degree in mathematics. After a stint working for a hedge fund, he has since been traveling the world playing music, both leading his own groups as well as performing with jazz artists such as Grammy-nominated vocalist Jazzmeia Horn and Late Show musical director/pianist Jon Batiste. Miller has performed at the Obama White House, and has studied music production and engineering under grammy-winning sound engineer "Bassy" Bob Brockman (Notorious B.I.G, Herbie Hancock, D'Angelo). Miller has spoken at the New Jersey Association of Music Educators, and was noted as an Artist of Distinction by the State of New Jersey. He is the creator of theMath+Music Project, and is currently the host/creator of the Quadrivium series at New York's Museum of Mathematics, while he continues to study and teach mathematics.
Rob Schneiderman joined the Lehman College CUNY department of mathematics faculty in 2006 after a busy career as a musician,including performances and recordings with jazz luminaries such has EddieHarris, James Moody, Charles McPherson, JJ Johnson, Jimmy Heath, Clifford Jordan, Art Farmer and Harold Land, as well as 10 recordings as a leader for the Reservoir Music label and a more recent Tone Twister release on the Hollistic MusicWorks label. In 2001 Schneiderman received a PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley under the guidance of topology guru Robion Kirby, and before his current professorship at Lehman, he had postdoc positions at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, NYU's Courant Institute and UPenn. His research is focussed on studying 3-dimensional and 4-dimensional spaces. In addition to many research articles in mathematics journals, Rob's musicomathematical essay "Can One Hear the Sound ofa Theorem?" was published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society and in the collection Best Writing on Mathematics 2012, Princeton University Press.
Supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Jazz Program, Department of Mathematics, and Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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11. Spring Dance Concert
New Dance Theatre, Dance Building
http://dance.uga.edu/events/content/2019/spring-dance-concert
Thursday, April 4 at 8 PM
Friday, April 5 at 8 PM
Saturday, April 6 at 2 PM
Saturday, April 6 at 8 PM
Spring Dance Concert REPERTORY Movement Refracted offers an array of movement and choreographic styles. Based in the essential qualities of human movement and the range of human emotions, this choreographic collage offers a wide variety of dance styles, aesthetics and sensibilities, nurturing students as complete performing artists with moving minds and thinking bodies. Enjoy a uniquely diverse event performed by UGA dance students. Be captivated by explorations of both Classical and contemporary ballet, discover the juxtaposition of postmodern pedestrian movement with contemporary sensibilities, and feel the kinetic energy featured in guest appearances by CORE Contemporary and Aerial Dance. Faculty and guest choreography will be performed by dance students in the UGA Department of Dance.
$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. Lake Herrick Eco-Art Festival
Saturday, April 6 Noon- 5 PM
Lake M. Allyn Herrick
https://lakeherrickart.wordpress.com
Lake Herrick is a 15-acre body of water on the UGA campus, located within the Oconee Forest Park complex. After 16 years of closure due to water quality issues, Lake Herrick was re-opened this past October! Come join us to learn about water quality, wildlife, and ecology through a culmination of artistic activities including showcases of visual art, music, and activities. This is a kid-friendly event organized by UGA students, scientists, and amazing artists in the Athens community!
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13. Symposium: Gender, the Body, & Fieldwork
Friday, April 19 from 9 AM - 5 PM
Miller Learning Center
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.
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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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