EVENING AT THE COLONY presents:
Saturday May 4 at 7 PM
7 PM Mollie Goldstrom, Sarah Smith and Jaime Knight
PIZZA SPEAKEASY – free but donations requested (good to share)
Pizza Speakeasy, begun in 2011, has turned into an Iowa City institution. Providing fresh, hand made gourmet pizza for an affordable price, Speakeasy is a (transient) place to gather, create community and enjoy great food. Speakeasy is intent on using the funds generated to support our artistic community through the establishment in Spring 2013 of the Speakeasy Micro Grant, granting up to $250.00 to an individual artist or collective.
Two varieties of pizza will be available the night of the performance. The pizza (normally $8, good to share) will be available at no charge tonight but donations are welcome.
8 PM Kuldeep Singh and David Dunlap
"Another Ziggurat"
Performed on a hand woven rug and involving a gong, singing along, fire lamps “and tons more”, the performances addresses issues of rebirth, condensation and accumulation.
8.45 PM Jan Philipp Sexauer
Über allen Gipfeln ist ruh
A task performed by some members of the audience
9 PM Hans Breder Foundation presents
Nancy Spero (1985)
with
Barbara Welch Breder
World Premiere of an Interview with Nancy Spero from 1985
10 PM Jaime Knight
"This Might Be Just The Place"
Prompted by the similarities in activism concerning the overarching dread of nuclear holocaust and the AIDS crisis of the late seventies and early eighties, This Might Be Just The Place attempts to reify this historical period in which the connective potential of the dance floor became reinvented in the anti-identitarian politics of social action of groups like ACTUP.
Using sculpture, drawing, performance, music and video Jaime Knight has created an installation that asks the viewer to question their relationship to the freedom felt in the relational field of the dance floor, where bodies collide and inhibitions are lost, and perform an act of ecstatic vulnerability through a choice of radical isolation.
Evening at the Colony is an initiative by Hartmut Austen. www.eveningathecolony.weebly.com
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EVENING AT THE COLONY presents:
February 9, 2013 at 7 PM
Culture Workers from the US and Europe were asked to send their instructions for an object or task that the host or guests of the evening in Iowa City were creating or performing on their behalf.
The idea was inspired by process and participatory approaches to art making developed by the Fluxus artists George Maciunas and Yoko Ono. Franz Erhard Walther, a German artist who came to prominence in the sixties, would ask participants to fold, cut, lay, pack, staple etc. materials such as felt, canvas and wood. These “Handlungsanweisungen” where part of the process structure that also defined time as material of pieces that he called "Werksätze”.
My conversations with the artist Hans Breder over the last few months in Iowa City also gave an important impetus. Hans Breder founded the first Intermedia program of any North-American university at the University of Iowa in 1968. Breder defined Intermedia as a collision of concepts and disciplines as opposed to the interdisciplinary fusion of fields into one. My thanks to the artists and all who contributed.
Evening at the Colony is an initiative by Hartmut Austen. www.eveningathecolony.weebly.com
My conversations with the artist Hans Breder over the last few months in Iowa City also gave an important impetus. Hans Breder founded the first Intermedia program of any North-American university at the University of Iowa in 1968. Breder defined Intermedia as a collision of concepts and disciplines as opposed to the interdisciplinary fusion of fields into one. My thanks to the artists and all who contributed.
Evening at the Colony is an initiative by Hartmut Austen. www.eveningathecolony.weebly.com