SATURDAY (10/3) IS OFF THE CHAIN! WiP 4-8 @ ICPL AND PUBLIC SPACE ONE

ALL EVENTS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC !

WiP 4-6 AT ICPL, MEETING ROOM A (LOCATION IS 123 S. LINN STREET) !

WiP 4: “Special Presentation of Geographically Specific Poetry followed by Shape Note Singing Workshop” 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Featuring:

To Lake Erie From Lake Erie, or, I Wish You Were Here, by Lake Erie, Melanie Noel, Adam Roberts, Rob Schlegel, Lisa Schumaier, Brandon Shimoda, and Allison Titus. (“The images and sounds you hear are being brought to you live from the shores of Lake Erie. The project considers the consequences of departure, arrival, integration and reintegration, as well as explorations of the limited and limiting definitions of ‘audience’ and ‘reader.’”)

An Iowa City Sacred Harp Singing, led by Callie Garnett with singers Bryan Davis, Gaile Gallatin, the Hunnicutt Family, Eric Mitchell-Siegel, and others. (“The Sacred Harp, a musical tradition that grew out of the 18th-century New England “singing-school,” is written in “shape” rather than traditional notation, and is marked by unbridled belting, unusual harmonies, and universal participation. Sacred Harp recordings released by Harry Smith, Alan Lomax, and others have awed both musicians and Americana enthusiasts for generations. We’ll listen to some of these, breeze through a basic shape note tutorial, and then make noise together!”)

WiP 5: “Routines of Emancipation” 1:00 - 2:30 PM

Collectively Moderated by WiP Moderators in Residence MICHAEL GITLIN, LUKE FISCHBECK, and ORLANDO WHITE !

Featuring:

Anthropoid, by Luther Bangert. (“Anthropoid is Bangert’s first attempt at a planned juggling routine, an attempt to fuse all of the learned and created juggling techniques together into a cohesive sequence that flows naturally, incorporating as much of the body as possible, and allowing for creative movement.”)

The Female Form, by Lindsey Beal. (“Delving into the world of papermaking and sculpture by creating female figures out of paper,
Beal seeks suggestions about the work’s implications, references and content.”)

Still Waiting in Siberia, by Leah Leone. (“Leah needs to translate 100 pages of ¡Espérame en Siberia, vida mía! (Wait for me in Siberia, my love!) for her MFA thesis. But what to do with the entire novel? Should it become a subversive feminist parody? A picture book? A film script? Other possibilities?”)

The Second Story, by Rob Cooney, Marisha Johnson, Steven Gary, Johanna Kirk, Ana Cortes, Analia Alegre-Femenias, and Ali Ordman. (“The Second Story” hopes to eventually be an eclectic, evening-length dance created on a cast of movers of varying ages, backgrounds, and training.”)

WiP 6: “Getting Intermediary” 3:00 - 4:30 PM

Co-Moderated by WiP Moderators in Residence LUKE FISCHBECK and ORLANDO WHITE !

Featuring:

The Miller’s Toll, by Devon Wootten, Nicole Pietrantoni, and Johnathan Railey. (“I have come to see “The Miller’s Toll” as a dialogue between a “poetic” voice and a voice that seemed more critical and self-aware. A narrator and a chorus were added, and I began to think of it as a piece to be “performed” as a play rather than “read” as a poem.”)

How Catherine D____ Got Her Expression, by Lisa Leaverton. (“A celebrity is interviewed about the origin of her mysterious “expression” as an adoring yet volatile crowd looks on. A meditation on the compressed spaces of violence and intimacy.”)

Hughes In a Dream, by Keely Shaffer-Glenn, Reiko Cunningham, Anthony Gabriel, Briana Byrd, Tyler Nemmers, and Rob Cooney. (“The movement in this work seeks physically to digest Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem”. This dance is meant to be performed in locations other than the theater/studio.”)

“Language Collage”, by Sara Gilmore. (“A project involving translation techniques that hybridize the original text/language with the translation text/language, creating “language collage” from the poems of Blanca Andreu’s De una niña de provincias que se vino a vivir en un Chagall.”)

WiP 7 & 8 AT PUBLIC SPACE ONE (LOCATION IS 129 E. WASHINGTON STREET) !

WiP 7: “Documentation-in-Progress” 5 - 6:30 PM

Moderated by WiP Filmmaker-Moderator in Residence MICHAEL GITLIN !

Featuring:

Boomstick, by Josh Eklow. (“Exploring the gun fetishization displayed by suburban American males born during the 1980’s, Josh will attempt to purchase a gun and become a member of the armed society.”)

People I Work With, by D. Jesse Damazo. (“A two-minute ‘snapshot’ documentary movie about the current economic crisis, as told by my coworkers at my former office job.”)

Dreamland, by Andre Perry. (“Dreamland chronicles Andre’s experience as a participant and observer in the independent music scene in San Francisco in the early 2000s. The book tries to understand the lives of independent musicians, and works as a lyric essay to the cultural geography of San Francisco.”)

Wind Farm, by Chad Vollrath, A.C. Hawley, and Kyle Stine. (“An experimental, performance-based sound project involving 24 cassette tape machines arranged into three towers and used to mix prerecorded sound samples from extant audio archives. For the WiP performance, sound samples are limited to material from the year 1918.”)

WiP 8: “Bounty and Limitless Potential: A Night of Charismatic Leadership” 7:30-11pm

Moderated by WiP Co-Directors ANDREW PETERSON and RICHARD WIEBE !

Featuring:

Gathering Pixels: The Ceibas Cycle and the Appreciation of a Migratory Archive, by Evan Meaney. (“Glitching represents an attempt to understand the computational liminality of translation and interpretation though a methodical alteration of electronic files. Like scientists smashing atoms, we break apart our medium to find out how and why its heart beats.”)

Bounty and Limitless Potential: A Panel Exploring Charismatic Leadership, a special-presentation WiP mini-event moderated by Katie G. McGowan, and featuring:

1. Iowa Women’s Spear Hunting Collective, by Katy Hoffer

An overview of the Ladies Hunting Society (LHS) — a model of a charismatic group dynamic centered on mutual survival in an atomized society — and a chance for the general public to see the atlatl and dart in action, and perhaps to catch a glimpse of a wild boar or two.

2. SUDDEN Brick Works in Association with FREE ART SCHOOL presents

The Three Rs: Rebuild Rename Remember

Eric Asboe is Charlton Heston, David Dunlap is Mudwoman, John Engelbrecht is Strawman

Do you have what it takes to invest in us? Let me throw out a razzle-dazzle number: $15,000.

3. Brain Respiration, or How to Make Massive Strides Toward Enlightenment for Just $5k, by Chris Mortenson and Katie Grace McGowan

A self-improvement program designed to help people regain their original perfection, both physically and mentally by repairing the brain energy circuits.

THEN FINALLY:

WiP Artist-Moderator in Residence LUKE FISCHBECK performs as lucky dragons for the first time ever in Iowa City, IA! Fischbeck will lead a collective performance of an electronic musical work.

YOUR MIND WILL MELT !

THEN IT’S OVER

IT’S HAPPENING! WiP 1-3 @ PUBLIC SPACE ONE TONIGHT ! (10/2)

ALL EVENTS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC !

PUBLIC SPACE ONE LOCATION IS 129 E. WASHINGTON STREET !

WiP 1: “The Substance of Storytelling” 3 - 4:30 PM

Moderated by WiP Poet-Moderator in Residence ORLANDO WHITE !

Featuring:

Monster / Unbecoming: An Experiment in Writing and Drawing, by Blake Bronson-Bartlett and Melanie Noel. (“This brief presentation is an experiment in collaboration that explores the intersections between writing and drawing.”)

(the keep arts collective), by Katie Parry. (“As a collective we re-imagine donated and recycled materials for the purpose of addressing the practical or emotional needs of a group or individual.”)

Dream Works, or, How to Become the artist You Are, by Eric Asboe. (“Toward the multiplicity of dreams and a collaborate art education through the recreations of the creative acts within those dreams, including: Words. Books. More words. Performance. Film. More. More.”)

Feasibility Study: Storytelling and the Visual Arts, by Erica Damman. (“The Institute of Storytelling opened its doors in January 2009. Twenty-five Artists in Residence participated in the first leg of creative development for the Project, Process or a State of Being [Present].”)

WiP 2: “Projects Possible and Impossible” 5 - 6:30 PM

Moderated by WiP Artist-Moderator in Residence LUKE FISCHBECK !

Featuring:

The Fate of Peer Review Journals: NANO to the Rescue, by Sean Scanlan. (“NANO is an interdisciplinary online humanities-based academic magazine with a tech edge. By focusing on brevity and fast turn-around, NANO may accelerate academic ideas parallel to, but just to the side of, traditional print academic journals.”)

PSOne Presents: .PDF, by Caleb Engstrom, John Engelbrecht, and Eric Asboe. (“30 artists/artist groups were invited to produce a file on their own work as well as 10 files on artists or subjects they think are related to ideas surrounding public and socially engaged art work. The .pdf files were printed and filed into a cabinet at PSone.”)

Art as Social Vector, by Hanpo. (“Art as Social Vector → An Enduring Regional Exhibition → camiño/galerie de hazel uses 40+ naïve paintings meditating on grief, caregiving, and health to explain the concept of ERE.”)

They Had Horses, by Laura Cechanowicz. (“The Iowa flood forced all of the occupants of a trailer park out of their homes, and black mold covered everything. The location is beautiful - next to the river, surrounded by trees.”)

WiP 3: “A Model of the World” 7:30 - 10:30 PM

Moderated by WiP Co-Directors ANDREW PETERSON and RICHARD WIEBE !

Featuring:

Ornithology, by Jacob Blecher and Hannah Frank. (““Ornithology” is a documentary-in-progress, a video-essay-in-progress, a nature-film-in-progress, an animated-cartoon-in-progress, a symmetrical-ball-of-fur-in-progress. There will be video screened and photography displayed and text read aloud.”)

The Earth Is Young, by WiP Filmmaker-Moderator in Residence MICHAEL GITLIN. Gitlin will be screening portions of his latest work, The Earth Is Young, a documentary film essay about the nature of science and the tools with which one builds a model of the world.

Fishing with Fish, by Joan Lin, Anna C. Maris, Colleen M. Ward, and Samantha J. Cremer. (“The idea is subtracted from ‘fishing’: Scraps of humorous sketches of pedestrian behavior, daily scenes, and possible assumptions from the human ideology.”)

i - j, by WiP Poet-Moderator in Residence ORLANDO WHITE. White will be reading portions of his current manuscript-in-progress, and, perhaps, selections from his recently published first book of poems, Bone Light .

IT’S STILL HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!

TONIGHT! WiP 0: MEET-AND-GREET!

Thursday (10/1) 7-9:30pm @ IC Senior Center

Come mix and mingle with local and visiting artists on the opening night of the Works-in-Progress Festival, Thursday, October 1st, from 7-9:30pm. The program offers a chance to meet the students and professional artists who will participate in the festival, plus two special presentations of collaborative works-in-progress: a work for four dancers aged 12 to 14 by choreographer Karen Burns featuring double bass player Mark Bernat, and a performance of poetry, dance and jazz by the Reading Aloud poetry group, Travelers Dance and the Insiders Quartet. An installation inspired by Florina Titz and Craig Webster’s collaborative “Daidaiiro No Hako” project will also be on display, along with art by Corbin Bailey. Gourmet vegan appetizers will be served, and the event is free and open to the public.

Old Post Office Gallery (1st floor), IC Senior Center

28 S. Linn St., 7-9:30pm, FREE !

About the artists:

I: Breaking Away, II: Coming Together, III: Cooperation

Choreographer: Karen Burns; Double Bass: Mark Bernat;

City Ballet of Iowa Students: Cami Hippee, Miriam Miller,

Senéad Short, Kate Van Fosson

Set to several selections from suites by Johann Sebastian Bach, this work uses the mathematical and overlapping phrases of the music to explore human needs to be oneself, to control or follow others, and to be part of a whole.

Daidaiiro No Hako

Florina Titz and Craig Webster

Imagine living your life as if you forgot everything you knew about the world every morning. YUU—a character in the web series “Daidaiiro”—experiences that every day. At the Works-in-Progress opening party, YUU will be in a wooden box on display, and the public will be encouraged to interact with him in person. This is an experiment, and we want to observe what happens instead of pursuing some goal in advance.