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Apr
9
7:30 PM19:30
Music, Live

„Is this thing on?“: an evening of concert pieces, etudes and improvisation with MalletKat

MalletKat – Lee Ferguson w/ special guest – David Hurlin

Lee Ferguson is a percussionist based in Freiburg, Germany (U of Iowa BM96) who has begun commissioning 'Etudes' for midi-mallet instruments. This project is focused towards young players (high school or early college) who are interested in learning more about how to use electronics whilst still playing with mallets in their hands. The etudes are sometimes short, utilize electronics and are fun to play/listen to. Lee will perform and talk about a selection of works from the UK, Germany, Korea, USA and Zimbabwe that have been written for this project.

He will be joined by Iowa City resident, David Hurlin for this evening of written and improvised music that spans across genres of music and spoken word.

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Apr
1
7:00 PM19:00
Live, Music

Fluid Spaces: A sonic experience by Guillermo Galindo, Post-Mexican composer/artist

photo by Zen Cohen

about Guillermo Galindo

The extent of the work of experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist and visual media artist Guillermo Galindo, redefines the conventional limits between music, the art of music composition and the intersections between art disciplines, politics, humanitarian issues, spirituality and social awareness.

Galindo’s artistic practice emerges from the crossroads between sound, sight and performance. His acoustic work includes two commissioned orchestral compositions by the OFUNAM (Mexico University Orchestra) and the Oakland Symphony Orchestra and Choir, solo instrumental works, two operas, sonic sculptures, visual arts, computer interaction works, electro-acoustic music, film, instrument building, three-dimensional immersive installations and live improvisation.

Galindo’s graphic scores and three-dimensional sculptural cyber-totemic sonic objects have been shown at major museums and art biennials in America, Europe and Asia including (amongst others) documenta14 (2017), Pacific Standard Time (2017), FIAC (2018) and Art Basel (2018-19) art fairs.

His work has been featured on: BBC Outlook (London), NHK World (Japan),Vice Magazine (London), HFFDK (Germany), RTS (Switzerland), NPR (U.S.), CBC (Canada), Art in America (U.S), Reforma Newspaper (Mexico), CNN, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times (U.S.). Galindo has performed at the CTM Festival (Berlin), San Francisco Jazz Festival, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (U.S.), Schrin Kunsthalle (Frankfurt) among many other venues.

Galindo’s collaborations includes artists, performers and writers such as Anne Carson, Guillermo Gomez Peña, Michael McClure, the Paul Dresher Ensemble and the Kronos Quartet. In 2011 Galindo embarked on a unique collaboration with lauded American photographer Richard Misrach which became a traveling exhibit and an award-winning book published by Aperture Foundation. Border Cantos features Misrach’s photographs of the U.S./ Mexico border and Galindo’s sonic devices and graphic musical scores created from detritus left behind by immigrants and the border patrol apparatus.

Selected venues that have exhibited Border Cantos include: The Cantor Museum, Stanford, California (2021), The High Line, New York, (2021), Westmorland Museum, PA (2021), The Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston (2019), Cornell FIne Are Museum, Florida (2019), Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas (2017), Pace Gallery, New York (2017) and the San Jose Museum of Art (2016).

After the Border Cantos series, Galindo continues his solo work as an artist, performer and composer. In 2017 Galindo was invited to participate in the documenta14 art biennale showing the Echo Exodus series. This body of work, which has been exhibited in both Athens, Greece and in Kassel, Germany, consists of sonic devices and graphic scores made from belongings left behind by African and Middle Eastern migrants and refugees.The version displayed at documenta14, entitled Fluchtzieleuropaschiffbruchschallkörper, included two immigrant boats found abandoned on the island of Lesbos in 2016. Following migration routes, the wreckage of these boats traveled from Greece to Germany and became sonic devices for compositions that Galindo specifically wrote and performed at documenta.

Images of these boats became iconic during the European refugee crisis and were published around the world. This work, as well as Galindo’s commissioned piece by the Kronos Quartet Fifty for the Future project, allowed him to continue to explore his interest in the intersection of art and social consciousness. His interactive string quartet Remote Control, which comments on the dehumanization of violence and virtual reality premiered in 2018 in San Francisco, California.

In 2017 the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time biennale included Galindo’s solo exhibit Sonic Botany, an installation commenting on genetics and colonization and the environment in a post- apocalyptic world, was shown at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California.

Guillermo Galindo presently teaches at the California College of Arts in San Francisco and has also been invited as a Mohr Visiting Artist at Stanford University (2018) and as a resident artist at Vanderbilt University and a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar 2019 at the Rollins Cornell Arts Museum. He has also been a recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Grant.

a transgression of time and space boundaries

at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert)

$15 admission / $10 for PS1 members

 

Learn more about the artist: https://www.galindog.com/


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Mar
31
8:30 PM20:30
Music, Live

POSTPONED: Dolliver / Vicious Fishes / Minivan

POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER — STAY TUNED FOR RESCHEDULE!

VICIOUS FISHES

Founded in 2018, Vicious Fishes are a four-piece outfit whose "swamp rock" sound easily treads the murky waters between contemporary alternative rock and post-punk blues. Vicious Fishes guide their audiences through the fog of wandering ballads, surfacing only to wade through thrashing chords before falling into the mosh pit. Their 2021 album Saturnalia Sweats is available now to stream; in March 2023, their fourth studio release, an EP, is set to debut.

 https://www.vicious-fishes.com/ |  https://open.spotify.com/album/ |  https://www.instagram.com/_viciousfishes/

MINIVAN

An instrumental post-prog band from Chicago. https://minivanminivan.bandcamp.com/

DOLLIVER
https://www.instagram.com/dolliverboys/

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Mar
24
7:00 PM19:00
Live, Screening

mythicPotentialities [plus q&a with artist Lawrence Andrews]

mythicPotentialities (2021), is an hour-long imageless film created by Lawrence Andrews. Focused on the murder of Emmett Till and the trial that followed, this sound-based artwork examines the way events are filtered through Civil Rights documentaries like Eyes on the Prize and The Murder of Emmett Till. The piece questions the nature of historical time in the face of racial injustice. Lawrence Andrews is a two-time recipient of the NEA Individual Artist Grant and his work has shown in the Whitney Biennial and the Museum of Modern Art. Presented by Vertical Cinema and PS1.

The screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A with artist Lawrence Andrews.

 Lawrence Andrews is an artist, and currently an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media Arts University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. His work has shown extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally in museums, galleries, and major festivals including the Whitney Biennial, The New York Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archive, and the American Film Institute, as well as on cable television.

 

 

more about the work: Set in the Tallahatchie County Second District Courtroom in Sumner, Mississippi, mythicPotentialities is an exploration of the event said to have galvanized the civil rights movement in America, the murder of Emmett Till, the trial that followed, and the way these event have been mediated through documentary text like Eye’s on the Prize, The Murder of Emmet Till, and numerous other books, play’s, poems and articles. The work uses as its entry point how these text, both documentary and fiction have constructed Till’s Uncle, Moses Wright, from a limited list of predicates, and as a result fall far short of capturing the complexity of his being. The project then moves on to draws a connections between this documentary predication of Wright, and Giorgio Agamben’s resistance to predication as expressed in his notion of “whatever being”. The essay also explores, what happens when we destabilize our notion of what constitutes blackness with the absence of predication, and reconstitute it as an open space of creativity, play and invention, a place of pure potentiality, rather than a stable category of existence. Sonically the work also draws relationships between this absence of predication, and how sound space can be heard without the language we use to describe it, asking the listener to embrace the sensuous aspects of pure sound.



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Mar
23
7:00 PM19:00
Live, Performance

Iowa Poetry Association Poetry Slam - Iowa City Qualifiers

Welcome to the first ever Iowa Poetry Association (IPA) poetry slam! IPA is hosting a series of poetry slams across the state in the search for our Iowa champion. There are 3 qualifying slams around the state, and the top 4 poets from each qualifier will be invited to compete on the final stage at Poetry Palooza this April.

The winning poet from our final stage will go on to represent Iowa and compete for a $2,000 prize at the NFSPS Blackberry Peach National Poetry Slam, which is being held in Des Moines this June 2023!

This qualifying slam, hosted in partnership with Iowa City Poetry, will be on Thursday, March 23, 2023 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Public Space One Close House in Iowa City.

Want to join in the fun and potentially earn your spot as our Iowa rep? Register to compete by sending an email to ipa@iowapoetry.com with “Slam Entry” in the subject line by Friday, March 17.

Competing poets must be 18+ as of this coming June 2023.
Poets who competed in another qualifying slam are not eligible to compete in this qualifying slam.

See our slam structure and rules posted within this event.
If you have any questions, please contact the IPA at ipa@iowapoetry.com or the IPA Poetry Slam Co-Chairs, Kelsey Bigelow and Laura Johnson.

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Mar
23
3:30 PM15:30
Artist talk, Live

artist talk with Kayla Hamilton

Join us for an artist talk with Kayla Hamilton, presented by the University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and Department of Dance.

[Image Description: This is a headshot of Kayla Hamilton, who is a dark brown-skinned Black woman. She is posing in front of a blurred brick wall. She is wearing a long sleeve black & white striped shirt. She has light makeup and her gaze is towards us. Her black & golden highlighted dreads are down.] Photo by Travis Magee

[Image Description: This is a black & white dance image of Kayla Hamilton, who is a dark brown-skinned Black woman. She is throwing her head back as her dreads flow with her as she pushes her arms outward. Her legs are wide and slightly bent. She is wearing jeans and a knee length cardigan that wraps around her thighs. Behind her are storefronts and cars parked on the street.] Photo by: Travis Magee

BIO

Kayla Hamilton is a Texas born, Bronx based performance maker, dancer, educator, cultural consultant, and the artistic director of K. Hamilton Projects.

Kayla is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Her past performance work has been presented at the Whitney Museum, Gibney, Performance Space New York, New York Live Arts, Abrons Arts Center, and the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD).  

Kayla has developed ‘Crip Movement Lab’- a pedagogical framework centering cross-Disability accessible movement practices that are open to every-body. She has taught dance at Sarah Lawrence College, Amherst College, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Utah, and Texas Improv Festival. 

As a consultant,  Kayla has developed and implemented access strategies for the Mellon Foundation, ArtSpeak, Dance USA, Movement Research and The Shed. 

As a dancer, Kayla was part of the Bessie award winning Skeleton Architecture, she has also danced for Maria Bauman,  Sydnie L. Mosley and Gesel Mason.

Kayla is currently in the process of creating a future organization centering the work of BIPOC Disabled creatives, while co-leading the 10th anniversary season of Angela’s Pulse/Dancing While Black, and developing a new evening length performance set to premier in NY in 2024 (TBA).

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Mar
17
7:00 PM19:00
Music, Live

Jeremy Young | Sketches for 42 Magnetic Tape Loops [with Haunter]

a listening session for noise oriented navigators

Jeremy Young (Montreal) presents Sketches for 42 Magnetic Tape Loops
Young is composer and improviser of concrete electronic tape music from Montreal, Canada. A member of the Montreal-based experimental poetry_sound unit Cloud Circuit as well as a part of the electroacoustic modern classical trio Sontag Shogun, Young's work uses a sine and square wave oscillator system, 1/4" tape loops, captured and filtered radio and EMF signals and sound treatments from amplified surfaces and objects.

opening set by Iowa City’s own experimental-drone-ambient: Haunter (Kyle Miller)

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