ICE Announcements 10.21.08
http://ice.uga.edu
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* ICE Grants Info Sessions *
* Georgia (10/24) *
* Quench!: On Art, Politics, and the Election (10/29) *
1. Mark Dion Lecture (10/21)
2. Bernadette Mayer Poetry Events (10/21-22)
3. Judith Ortiz Cofer Reading and Talk (10/21)
4. EcoFocus Film Festival (10/23-26)
5. Evolution/Revolution: Science Changing Life (10/23-24, Atlanta)
6. ATHICA: Mako Sica Performance (10/28)
7. Cine Screenings and Events
More event and opportunity listings available at:
http://ice.uga.edu/announcements
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*ICE Grants Info Sessions*
Tuesday, October 21 at 11 AM
Wednesday, October 22 at 4 PM
Monday, October 27 at 2 PM
Location: ICE Studio
Lamar Dodd School of Art (adjacent to the Georgia Museum of Art)
Room S160 (First floor, central area)
Informal information sessions with Mark Callahan to learn about the current ICE Grants call for
proposals. Feel free to drop in and ask questions.
ICE Grants Call for Proposals Deadline November 14, 2008
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) seeks proposals for grants to be initiated during the 2008-
2009 academic year. ICE encourages collaborative proposals that include faculty and students
from more than one discipline or academic department and/or professionals from outside the
University of Georgia. Proposals will be considered in two categories: Project Grants ($500-
$5,000) for research in the arts and Proposal Development Awards (up to $2,500) to assist faculty
in creating competitive external grant applications.
Proposal forms and instructions are available online at http://ice.uga.edu.
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* GEORGIA *
Friday, October 24
6:00 PM
Jittery Joes Roastery (780 Broad Street)
A multimedia collaboration among
Seth Hendershot: music
Jocelyn Negron: fashion design
Denise Posnak: dance
Andrew Zawacki: poetry
Georgia is a collaboration of Creative Writing Professor Andrew Zawacki, visiting Dance faculty
member Denise Posnak, acclaimed percussionist Seth Hendershot and Digital Media BFA candidate
Jocelyn Negron. The quartet will conduct a formal exploration of the parallels and interferences
between ear and eye, proceeding from the short lyric poem Georgia by Surrealist writer Philippe
Soupault and culminating in a series of short performances in locations throughout the state.
Supported in part by an ICE Project Grant.
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* Mark your calendar for Quench! *
Quench!: On Art, Politics, and the Election
Wednesday October 29, 4:30 PM
Miller Learning Center (formerly SLC), Room 150
Quench! is a series of discussions sponsored by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an
interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia.
Presenters:
Mayor Heidi Davison: Mayor of Athens; prominent supporter of the University of Georgia and the
arts.
John English: freelance author, journalist, and arts supporter; Professor Emeritus in the Grady
College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Ryan Lewis & Jeff Griggs: members of local bands who designed ObamaRad t-shirts
(obamarad.com)
Richard Zimbars: professor of piano performance in the Hughes Hodgson School of Music; pianist,
scholar, and lecturer.
This event is free and open to the public.
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1. Mark Dion
ADVENTURES IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Tuesday, October 21, 5:30 pm
Room S151, LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART
Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. He received a BFA (1986) and an
honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford School of Art, Connecticut.
Dion's work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our
understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Appropriating archaeological and
other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that
question the distinctions between objective (rational) scientific methods and subjective (irrational)
influences. The artists spectacular and often fantastical curiosity cabinets, modeled on
Wunderkabinetts of the 16th Century, exalt atypical orderings of objects and specimens. By
locating the roots of environmental politics and public policy in the construction of knowledge
about nature, Mark Dion questions the authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary
society.
He has received numerous awards, including the ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award
(2001). He has had major exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum (2006); Museum of Modern Art,
New York (2004); Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2003); and Tate
Gallery, London (1999). Neukom Vivarium (2006), a permanent outdoor installation and learning
lab for the Olympic Sculpture Park, was commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum. Dion lives and
works in Pennsylvania.
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2. Poet BERNADETTE MAYER to read
Bernadette Mayer will read from her poetry on Tuesday, October 21, at 7:30 p.m. at Cin (234 W.
Hancock in downtown Athens). Called "a consummate poet" by Robert Creeley and "magnificent"
by John Ashbery, BERNADETTE MAYER is one of America's foremost experimental poets. She has
published over two dozen books of poetry, fiction, and collaborations, including Midwinter Day
(1982), A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992), Two Haloed Mourners (2000), and Scarlet Tanager
(2005). Her latest volume, Poetry State Forest, is due this fall from New Directions. An editor and
former director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, Mayer has received grants and awards from the
PEN American Center, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, the NEA, The Academy
of American Poets, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Sponsored by the Creative
Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of Georgia, the event is free and
open to the public.
Midwinter Day: Bernadette Mayer book discussion
Poet Bernadette Mayer will discuss her cult classic MIDWINTER DAY on Wednesday, October 22,
from 11 a.m. to noon in the Park Hall library. First published in 1982 by Turtle Island Foundation
and reissued a decade ago by New Directions, the 120-page mix of poetry and prose was written
on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street in Lenox, Massachusetts. Alice Notley has described
the book as "an epic poem about a daily routine." Free and open to the public.
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3. Judith Ortiz Cofer Reading and Talk
Date: Tuesday October 21, 2008, 6:00 pm
Location: University of Georgia Student Learning Center, room 150
Judith Ortiz Cofer is the author of A Love Story Beginning in Spanish: Poems (2005); Call Me Maria
(2006), a young adult novel; The Meaning of Consuelo (2003), a novel; Woman in Front of the
Sun: On Becoming a Writer (2000), a collection of essays; An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio
(1995), a collection of short stories; The Line of the Sun (1989), a novel; Silent Dancing (1990), a
collection of essays and poetry; two books of poetry, Terms of Survival (1987) and Reaching for
the Mainland (1987); and The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry (1993).
She will give a reading from her works, and a talk: What is Minority Literature and What Will It Be
Called When Everyone is a Minority?
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4. EcoFocus Film Festival. Sponsored by Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology. A new environmental
film festival featuring several environmental films and winners of the EcoFocus Short Film
Competition along with related discussions, speakers and events. Our mission is to screen a
diversity of high-quality environmental films that promote discussion and inspire our audiences
into awareness and action. See www.ecofocusfilmfest.org for more details. Thursday Oct. 23 -
Sunday, October 26, 2008. Cin Arthouse Theater, 234 W. Hancock Avenue.
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5. Emory University is pleased to present Evolution/Revolution: Science Changing Life, a
symposium from Oct. 23-24, and Evolving Arts: New Works Festival in February 2009. Emory
faculty and commissioned performing, visual, and literary artists have been selected to participate
in the symposium side by side with scientists and respond to the themes of the conference with
their creative work in February 2009.
In the event that the artistic exploration of themes relating to evolution is already of interest to
members of your faculty, or if this thematic idea has sparked an interest, we would like to hear
from you and see how we can include mentions of your work in our February festival materials and
web sites. Please contact the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts by email to Candy Tate at
[log in to unmask] if you would like to share news of your work or anticipated work related to
this theme.
http://www.emory.edu/evolution
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6. ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc. presents:
Mako Sica's Dethrone CD Release Tour
An experimental/ambient three-piece from Chicago:
Przmyslaw Krys Drazek, Michael Kendrick & Brent Fuscaldo
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
7:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Early Weekday Show!
$6.00 9.00 Suggested donation (but no one turned away for lack of funds.)
ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to welcome Mako Sica -- a new
experimental/ambient three-piece from Chicagowho will stop by Athens as part of their tour to
promote Dethrone, their self-released debut CD (to be released by Holidays For Quince in 2009.)
If you like Ali Farka Tour, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Alice and John Coltrane or Slowdive, this special
weekday evening is for you. The group took its name, a Native American term meaning "bad land,"
from a signpost they saw in Painted Desert, AZ. Przemyslaw Krzysztof Drazek plays pharoah
guitar, trumpet and coronet. Brent Fuscaldo does vocals and plays shoreline guitar. Mike Kendrick
plays drums, trapset and various percussion instruments.
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7. THIS WEEK @ CINE
SHOWTIMES + MORE INFO: athenscine.com
ELEGY
BURN AFTER READING
ECOFOCUS FILM FESTIVAL
PURPLE RAIN DANCE PARTY
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
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