Short Americans + Christine Burke Ensemble
an experimental music show:::
Short Americans (Mpls)
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Christine Burke Ensemble
(playing music by Christine Burke & Justin Comer)
presented by iHearIC
please donate to supporting the touring group
Ben Zucker with Christine Burke and Justin K Comer
an experimental music show:::
Ben Zucker (vibraphone/brass/electronics)
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Christine Burke (organ)
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Justin K. Comer (sax/electronics)
suggested donation of $10 to supporting the touring artist — no one turned away!
no below editions showcase
with Edward Breitweiser, Swim Ignorant Fire, birdlabs, and Haunter
ICVZ pilot episode premiere
Join us for the live premiere of the pilot episode of ICVZ (Iowa City Video Zine), a collaborative video show made for the public by the public! Find out how you can get involved in upcoming episodes!
Doors at 7pm — screening at 7:30pm — run time ~ 45 min.
Evelyn Gray / Desert Liminal / Two Canes / Death Kill Overdrive
Desert Liminal: https://desertliminal.bandcamp.com/
Evelyn Gray: https://evelyngray.bandcamp.com/
Death Kill Overdrive: https://bloatedkatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/death-kill-overdrive
Two Canes: https://linktr.ee/twocanes
„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.
Advance Base / Claire Cronin / Dan Wriggins
https://advancebasemusic.com/
http://www.clairecronin.com/
https://danwriggins.bandcamp.com/
Fluid Spaces: A sonic experience by Guillermo Galindo, Post-Mexican composer/artist
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/
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/
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.
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.
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).
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)
MOSH Fundraiser for Striking Ingredion Workers
EP release for Thought Wrong, joined by Prevention, Jack and the Slammers, and Chain of Command
Angeleyes Web Series Launch Party
a locally-produced surrealist mystery/drama web series
Hist & friends reading
ft. Prince Bush, Matthew Klane, India Johnson, and Danika Stegeman LeMay