Museum Mix!

If you remember July 12, then you probably remember spending at least part of the night at the Georgia Museum of Art, and I don’t mean as part of a gallery tour. We call it Museum Mix, and we’ve got another one on the night of Oct. 24!

The party starts at 8 pm and will finish up at midnight, although we do have another event at 7 if you would like to attend: Interview in the Galleries, where you can join special guests Julie Martin and Robert Whitman for a discussion of Experiment in Art and Technology (E.A.T) and “The New York Collection for Stockholm.”

 Entrance, music and the drinks are free (although we must remind you that we can only serve alcohol to people 21 years of age or older—you’ll need to get a wristband at the registration table to get cleared). The sponsors for the evening are Full Circle Realty, Earth Fare, Terrapin Beer Company, Greg Hall and Company, Fast Signs, United Distribution and Allagash Brewing/Victory Brewing/Innis & Gunn Brewing/Reed’s Ginger Ale. We also have a co-promoting sponsor, Athens Fashion Collective.

The music will be provided by DJ Black Dominoes of Atlanta, so get ready to dance the night away, but if you want to take a break from the dance floor, you’re also free to go upstairs and have a look in the galleries—along with our permanent collection, you can see the Orpheus relief, our exhibition of Belleek porcelain, the documentary on De Wain Valentine’s “Gray Column,” “The Look of Love” and everything else we have on display.

             If you’d like more information, you can follow us on Tumblr or join the event on our Facebook page. We can’t wait to see you there!

Guerrilla Dance

This dance performance, which was presented at the CURO (Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities) Symposium, takes place largely in the museum's volunteer parking area, with a bit in the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, too. Who knew our spaces were so well suited to this kind of thing!

Community Dance Celebration

UGA Dance presents a Community Dance Celebration in conjunction with the DanceATHENS Festival on Sunday, October 17 at the UGA dance building.

Festivities begin at 2 p.m. with classes offered to children and adults in the dance studios. Participants age 12 and up can choose between Beginning Ballroom Dance and International Folk Dance. Children ages 4 to 11 are invited to join the Creative Movement for Children class.

At 3 p.m. there will be a children-oriented performance featuring CORE Concert Dance Company, UGA Ballet Ensemble, Ballroom Performance Group and community guest performances from East Athens Dance Center and the UGA dance students.

An outdoor reception will follow the performance.

This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Tickets should be reserved in advance by calling the Tate Center Box Office at 706/542-8579. Parking will be available in the South Campus Parking Deck, located next to Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel.

Image courtesy of the University of Georgia Dance Department Website.

Clarinda Mac Low at Ciné tonight

You might know Clarinda Mac Low as the daughter of well-known mid-to-late-20th-century poet, composer and playwright Jackson Mac Low. Although her art varies in structure and medium, his influences have generated and fueled her passion for performance art. She started dancing at an early age for her father’s performances and got hooked:

Some of my earliest coherent memories are of performing with Jackson, the adrenaline surge etching the moment into my brain. The performing hasn’t stopped yet, and this is the gift I take with me—a fascination with the immediate and electric connection between me and the audience, the delight in events unfolding in real-time, communally. I mark my life with Jackson in performance intervals

Although her artistic manifestations involve more performance and less poetry than her father's, her art stays within the same philosophical canon. Both Clarinda and Jackson strive to redefine artistic boundaries and find ways to engage in various forms of conversation with the audience, whether it be through the spoken word or physical movements. Clarinda describes her intentions as a performer:

To me, performance is a form of conversation. I aim to make situations where viewer and viewed are mutually affecting and create experiences that wake up body and mind. I do this through reframing our relationship to architectural space and urban public interaction, with interventions into everyday life and infiltrations into unexpected sites in a wide variety of communities

In her latest interactive performance piece, "Cyborg Nation", she wears a costume with a built-in miniature camera, microphone, amplifier, and video projector. The Ciné web site describes the project as an investigation of how “technology both extends and limits our senses by combining remote communication in the form of email and phone messages with one-to-one conversation, providing a twenty-first-century version of the Socratic dialogue." ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration) presents "Cyborg Nation" in Athens at Ciné. The performance will begin at 7 this evening and last till 9. Admission is free.