Collaborative Performance Workshop on June 6
05-15-2008
human/nature
created and performed by PhD student Dylan Bolles, Stephen Ratcliffe, Michael Meyers, Keith Evans and Zachary Watkins.
June 6, 4pm, University Club, UC Davis
Open to the Public / Free of Charge
For more information contact dsbolles@ucdavis.edu
human/nature is a simultaneous poetry reading, musical performance workshop, art installation and reception which explores the integration/ interaction of human beings and natural landscape. Food and drink will be served. Audience is encouraged to make themselves at home. The duration of this work is estimated from 8 - 10 hours
Poet and Collaborator Stephen Ratcliffe says, "human/ nature (all 1000 pages of it, written in 1000 consecutive days between 10.19.02 - 7.14.05) works as a kind of essay on the relation between things seen/observed in the world and how such things might be made (transcribed/transformed) as works of written (or visual) art..."
The artists working on this piece have over 10 years experience making art together in various configurations and environments. Their personal and professional achievements range from the mundane to the spectacular and academic. The scale and scope of this new work will drive the artists to solve issues of multidisciplinary collaboration in real-time and in the presence of audience.
Artists:
Stephen Ratcliffe's "REAL," 474 pages written in 474 consecutive days, was published by Avenue B in 2007. Two more recent manuscripts, "CLOUD RIDGE "(also 474 pages) and "HUMAN / NATURE" (1,000 pages), appear in ubu editions, "Publishing the Unpublishable" series (www.ubu.com). Previous books include, "Portraits & Repetition" (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002) and, "SOUND/ (system)" (Green Integer, 2002). "Listening to Reading", his collection of essays on contemporary experimental poetry and poetics, was published by SUNY Press in 2000. He lives in Bolinas, California and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.
Dylan Bolles is a doctoral student in Performance Studies (Practice as Research) at UC Davis and a Graduate Student Researcher for the Davis Humanities Institute. His research focuses on collaboration, storytelling, and embodied knowledge. Dylan makes sound/theatre works for people and environments, many of which involve the design and construction of new musical instruments. His background in performance includes performance-based collaborations, time-based arts, and sound compositions
Keith Evans - projectionist
My work is concerned with the ephemeral and interpretive, the continuums of perception and materiality. I want to draw attention to our connection to the earth. This intention is allied with what is wild, and interrogates the blurred spaces, those cultural zones of participation and translation that are the most determined by language and the most free to query our direct experiences.
Michael Meyers is an Oakland-based artist whose work straddles the disciplines of drawing, sculpture, installation, set design and performance. His work has been seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York where he collaborated with the film performance group silt on their All Pieces of a River Shore for the museum’s 2002 Bienniel. He has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Artist Grant for 2007-2008. www.studiomichaelmeyers.com
Edward Schocker holds an M.A. in composition from Mills College, where he studied with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, and independently with Lou Harrison. At Mills, Edward co-founded The Music For People & Thingamajigs Concert, the only annual event in The Bay Area devoted to music for made/found instruments and alternate tuning systems -now in its tenth year. His works are performed throughout The Bay Area and Tokyo, as well as featured on KZSU’s (Stanford) “Day Of Noise Festival”.
Zachary Watkins has studied composition with Janice Giteck, Jarrad Powell, Robin Holcomb and Jovino Santos Neto at Cornish College. In 2006, Zachary received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he studied with Chris Brown, Fred Frith and Alvin Curran. Zachary has received commissions from clarinetist Beth Fleenor, pianist and composer Tiffany Lin, Cornish College of The Arts, The Microscores Project, The Beam Foundation, Somnubutone Radio Series, the sfSoundGroup and most recently by the Seattle Chamber Players.
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