CONVERSATIONS ON THE ARTISTIC PROCESS / FEB. 15
Conversations on the Artistic Process 2011-12
FREE ADMISSION. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE SEATING. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Claire Trevor School of the Arts @ UC Irvine:
Conversations on the Artistic Process
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Free admission. First come, first serve seating. Open to the public.
Presentation: 5:00-6:15 p.m. in the Colloquium Room (third floor of the
Contemporary Arts Center)
Reception: 6:15 p.m. in Conference Room (first floor of the Contemporary
Arts Center)
The general public and members of the UCI community are cordially invited to attend this lively research roundup, which will offer a uniquely close-up look at faculty and graduate student research across all the four departments in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts.
The series of informal presentations will offer a uniquely close-up look at faculty and graduate student research across all four departments in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. The focus will be on the process that leads to the creation of original work, giving a rare view inside the research practice of artists at UCI. Each talk will showcase the recent projects of 2 faculty members and 1 graduate student from various departments, and presentations will be kept short to allow for ample discussion and conversation with the audience.
Members of the UCI community as well as the general general public are cordially invited to attend these lively research roundups.
Part II features:
Antoinette LaFarge
Professor of Studio Art, Digital Media
Rummaging the Archives
Antoinette LaFarge creates performance and installation projects that begin with research into a wide range of original and secondary sources. She blends the fruits of these researches with materials of her own creation to produce historically inflected meditations on contemporary society and culture. For this talk she will focus on the research process for her upcoming Galileo in America performance project, which draws on sources ranging from the personal journals of German playwright Bertolt Brecht to1940s FBI records released through the Freedom of Information Act. She will discuss how this process is key to one form of what is called "devised theater," in which the final shape of the work stems less from a single writer than from a collaborative and exploratory process.
Bio
Antoinette LaFarge investigates the terrain where deception, actuality, and enactment fruitfully conflict with notions of authenticity and authority. Her areas of activity include mixed-reality performance, programmed installations, computer role-playing games, net-based social environments, avatarism, impersonation, textual improvisation, and fictive art. Recent performance and installation projects include WISP (World-Integrated Social Proxy) (2009-10), Hangmen Also Die (2010), World of World (2009), Chronovacuum (2009), Playing the Rapture (2008-09), Demotic (2004/2006), The Roman Forum Project (2003), and Reading Frankenstein (2003). Recent exhibitions and festivals include OSCENE 10 at the Laguna Museum of Art, “Mediated” at the California Museum of Photography, and the 080808 UpStage Festival, hosted in New Zealand.
Annie Loui
Professor of Drama
Jane Eyre
Annie Loui creates performance that intersects somewhere between theater and movement. In this talk she will focus on her recent devised theater production of Jane Eyre, a script adapted by her from Charlotte Bronte's 600-page classic novel. Devised theater, by definition, is a creative construction: actors play furniture, architecture and animals, as well as characters. Rehearsals demand the active creative participation of the cast and designers.
Bio
Annie Loui works as a director/choreographer, a creator of inter-media theater works and an educator. She trained with dancer Carolyn Carlson (at the Paris Opera), and studied in France with Etienne Decroux, Ella Jarosivitcz and Jerzy Grotowski. Original physical theater pieces have been seen in France, Monaco, West Germany, and in the United States at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, among other venues. She has choreographed for the American Repertory Theater, Trinity Repertory Theater, and off-Broadway for the Signature Theater. A longtime member of the Brandeis Theater Arts Department, she also taught extensively for the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard before coming to the University of California, Irvine, where she runs the Movement Program for the MFA Actor Training. Her book The Physical Actor was published by Routledge Press in 2009.
Kevin Zhang
MFA Student in ICIT, Music Department
The Chairs: A Chamber Opera
Kevin Zhang writes music for instruments, voices, and electronic media, and for all of these combined in his current work-in-progress: an electroacoustic chamber opera based on Eugene Ionesco's play The Chairs. His talk will be about how he deals in this project with the process of setting a text to music, and he will explain his approach to representing in this composition the themes of disintegration, disembodiment, inanimacy, and ambiguity through a deconstructive treatment of musical material and through the effects of real time electronic signal processing.
Bio
Kevin Zhang is a composer, conductor, and reedist. His music has been performed throughout North America and Europe by ensembles such as the Contemporary Consort, the NEC Saxophone Quartet, the Ossian Ensemble, and members of the London Sinfonietta. He studied with Alison Kay at the Royal College of Music in London, and with Michael Gandolfi at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he was a winner of the conservatory's honors competition. Currently at UC Irvine, he studies with Chris Dobrian in the MFA program in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT).
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