On Wednesday, October 9th at 1:00 PM Gu Xiong will visit ICE for an informal roundtable discussion. ICE is located in Room 101 in the lower level of the Tanner Building. All are welcome.

Gu Xiong is a multi-media artist originally from Chongquing, Sichuan, peoples Republic of China who taught traditional woodcut printmaking at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute before moving to Canada. In 1986 he participated in an exchange program at the Banff Centre for the Arts and in 1989 when he was forced to flee China (as a result of his participation in the China/Avant Garde show in Beijing and the Tianamen Square demonstration) he returned there. In 1990 Gu Xiong moved to Vancouver and he is currently teaching in the Fine Arts Department at U.B.C.

Gu Xiong will be giving a public lecture at the Georgia Museum of Art on Tuesday, October 8th at 5:30 PM as part of the Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artists/Scholar Program.

On Monday, September 9th at 12:00 PM Jennifer Steinkamp will visit ICE for an informal roundtable discussion. ICE is located in Room 101 in the lower level of the Tanner Building. All are welcome.

Jennifer Steinkamp works with new media and video in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, interactivity and phenomenological perception. Her artwork utilizes computer animation and sound to craft immersive interactive projection installations. Moving images and sound are used to transform architecture while the art, in turn, is transformed by the architecture, thus creating the experience of a space in between the real and the imaginary. She is currently on the faculty of the department of design/media arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jennifer Steinkamp will be giving a public lecture at the Georgia Museum of Art on Tuesday, September 10th at 5:30 PM as part of the Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artists/Scholar Program.

Miranda July is a filmmaker, performing artist and writer. She grew up in Berkeley, California where she began her career by writing plays and staging them at an all-agesclub. July’s videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in the 2002 and 2004 Whitney Biennials. Her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, was published in 2007 and won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her fiction has been printed in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker.

She wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. July debuted new performance in 2007 at The Kitchen (NY), and is currently working on her second movie. She lives in Los Angeles.

Circo Zero is a fusion of popular and experimental, contemporary and ancient performance forms. Directed by Keith Hennessy, a diverse team of circus and music artists create a hybrid spectacle for the urban environment. Circo Zero intends to evolve performance language and build community through collaboration while crossing lines of artistic discipline, personal and cultural identity, and social expectations. The work is intended to be both intimate and spectacular. Performance elements integrate traditional circus arts (aerial fabric, cloud swing, acrobatics, contortion, aerial hoop, juggling) and contemporary performance within a musical landscape of American roots/folk songs supported by contemporary rhythms (hip hop, breakbeat, ambient groove). The goal is to reflect and honor the global with the local.

A series of performances, exhibitions, and workshops featuring visiting artists Miranda July and Circo Zero.

ICE Collab 2 took place at various locations in Athens in May, 2002. Over three hundred people attended the events, organized by Tara Rebele (independent artist) and Brian Henry (Head, Creative Writing).

Miranda July, a multi-media performer and video artist, presented new material from her work in progress, How I Learned to Draw, a performance involving text, music and improvisation. July’s videos (The Amateurist, Nest of Tens, Getting Stronger Every Day) have screened internationally at sites such as MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Nest of Tens was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, in addition to a sound installation commissioned for the show. She has toured internationally with The Swan Tool, a multi-media performance commissioned by the Rotterdamse Schouwburg, the I.F.F.R., and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. July’s previous multi-media performance, Love Diamond, was commissioned by P.I.C.A., and has been performed at sites around the country, closing at The Kitchen in New York.

July has recorded several performance albums, available on the Kill Rock Stars and K record labels. During breaks from her own work, July has directed a video for the all-girl rock band Sleater Kinney, made her feature film acting debut in Alison Maclean’s Jesus’ Son, and provided consultation for Wayne Wang’s feature film, The Center of the World. In 1995 she founded Joanie 4 Jackie (formerly Big Miss Moviola), a movie distribution network for independent women movie makers. This project has allowed women of all ages and backgrounds to exchange their movies and give each other support.

Circo Zero is a fusion of popular and experimental, contemporary and ancient performance forms. Directed by Keith Hennessy, a diverse team of circus and music artists create a hybrid spectacle for the urban environment. Circo Zero intends to evolve performance language and build community through collaboration while crossing lines of artistic discipline, personal and cultural identity, and social expectations. The work is intended to be both intimate and spectacular. Performance elements integrate traditional circus arts (aerial fabric, cloud swing, acrobatics, contortion, aerial hoop, juggling) and contemporary performance within a musical landscape of American roots/folk songs supported by contemporary rhythms (hip hop, breakbeat, ambient groove).

In the 1970s a phenomenon of circus renewal, both nostalgic and progressive, was witnessed in several countries. Circus Oz in Australia, Big Apple and Pickle Family in the US, Cirque du Soleil in Canada, Cirque Plume and others in France inspired a movement that is now recognized as Nouveau Cirque. After many years as both a solo performer and primary collaborator in the local dance/performance companies Contraband and Core, Keith relocated to France to be initiated into the world of nouveau cirque, co-creating the French-American company Cahin-Caha, cirque batard, which sold out four weeks at Yerba Buena Center in November 2000, and has toured extensively throughout Europe since 1999. CIRCO ZERO is Hennessy’s return home to collaborate with an emerging community of Bay Area circus artists.

ICE Collab performance directed by Keith Hennessy and created in collaboration with Amanda Starr, Benn Mendoza, and Susan Voyticky (aerial arts), Tyler Downing (tumbling and trampoline), Jade-blue Eclipse (hand balance and contortion), Gabriel Todd and Loren Olds (vocals, bagpipe).

CORE Concert Dance Company, performed Tensile Involvement (1953), choreographed by Alwin Nikolais.

ICE Collab 2 began with open performances. Students, faculty, and local writers and artists shared poetry, spoken words, fiction, drama, comedy, performance art and music. As an integral part of the two-day event, Tara Rebele, a performance artist living in Athens, led a full day of on-site collaborations. The exhibition, Digigraphical, showcased artists working in video and digital media. Curated by local artists Samantha Barnum and Kathryn Refi, this show featured large-scale projections and interactive web-based projects by Kevin Hoth, Kathryn Jill Johnson, Michael Oliveri, Bill Paul, Ryan Roth, John Rudel, and Susan Watson.