All events are free and open to the Public.
Parking: For
the evening performances, parking is available anywhere on campus after
7 pm. Evening performances will be held in the Performing Arts Center Arena
Theater. For daytime events, parking is available in Lots K and M on the
St. Cloud State University campus. Free shuttle buses will be provided
from K Lot to within one short block of the festival venue. Day events
will be held in the Atwood Little Theater.
See the St. Cloud State University Campus Map
Performances, April 5th and 7th
April 5th, 2005
Zeitgeist
Shape Shifting: Shades of Transformation
Performing Arts Center Arena Theater, 7:30pm; pre-performance demonstration, 6:30pm
Established in 1977, this St. Paul, MN based contemporary music ensemble has commissioned and performed music by emerging as well as some of the finest established composers of our time including John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, Terry Riley, Eric Stokes, Harold Budd, La Monte Young, Annie Gosfield, Martin Bresnick, Jerome Kitzke, Mark Applebaum, Arthur Kreiger, Eleanor Hovda, Brent Michael Davids, Paul Dresher, Mary Ellen Childs, and Janika Vandervelde. “Shape Shifting: Shades of Transformation”, created with the aid of the Jerome Composers Commissioning Program, is performed in collaboration with composer Scott Miller, poet Philippe Costaglioli, and videographer Ron Gregg.
Underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation. Made possible with support from the Zeitgeist Commissioning Collective.
April 7th, 2005
Chris Mann
"dunno how to get there but wouldn
start from here"
(American Premier)
Performing Arts Center Arena Theater, 7:30pm
Australian born, New York based poet, writer, performer and improviser, Chris Mann explores the textures and gestures of Australian speech with its rhythms and qualities of color, pitch, intonation and emphasis. His solo performances include Paris Autumn, Ars Electronica, and Berliner Festspiele. His commissions include works for National Public Radio, BBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, John Cage, Composers Forum, Paris Autumn Festival, Australian Biennale, Radio France, Ars Electronica, Radio Telefis Eirann, and Astra Choir among others. He has been deconstructed and interpreted by the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Larry Polansky, Herbert Brun, David Dunn, Gary Hill, Johnny Klimek, and Annea Lockwood. This performance marks the American premiere of a work commissioned for the 2005 Berliner Festspiele.
Presentations, April 7th, 2005
Shakespeare Incarnate: Meaning in Flux (cancelled)
Atwood Memorial Center Little Theater, 11am-12pm
Dr. Steven Cirrone, head of the GLBT organization at St. Cloud State University, will present a performance workshop utilizing methods espoused by the Stratford-based Royal Shakespeare Company. The workshop allows attendees to shape the meaning of a play’s text by physically manifesting key terms found in a well-known Tempest soliloquy. The primary goal is to show that “concrete” language exists as a paradox; that words, especially those framed within a specific dramatic context, necessitate a spectrum of interpretation that undermines the presumption of a fixed meaning.
Let's Talk Again: Communication Program for Stroke Survivors
Atwood Memorial Center Little Theater, 1-2:30pm
St. Cloud State University Department of Communication Disorders Professors, Dr. G.N. Rangamani, CCCSLP and Cynthia Lofton, CCCSLP conduct a panel on aphasia, the loss of or deficiency in the power to use or understand language as a result of brain injury or disease, with stroke survivors and their significant others.
Harry Partch: A Possible Detour Around the Sonata Blockade
Atwood Memorial Center Little Theater, 3-4:30pm
Dr. Philip Blackburn, noted scholar, composer, environmental sound artist, and artistic head of Innova Records, a division of the American Composers Forum, will give a multimedia presentation on the iconoclastic composer and linguist, Harry Partch. Noted for his speech music, Partch's compositions utilized texts drawn from the vernacular of Depression-era hobos and were performed on home-made instruments tuned to ancient Greek scales.
Ethnic Group Words
Atwood Memorial Center Little Theater, 5-6pm
St. Cloud State University Professor of Philosophy, Dr. Susana Nuccetelli explores the importance of the use of ethnic group names to our understanding of prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping.
Presentations, April 8th, 2005
Alternatives to Voicing; Signing and Deaf Culture
Atwood Memorial Center Little Theater, 9 – 10:30am
The program will begin by viewing the 20-minute documentary, "Katie Goes to Pre-School" produced in 2003-2004 by Marjorie Fish, Department of Mass Communications, St. Cloud State University. The documentary follows events in the life of Katie, a 3-year-old child with multiple disabilities in the year before entering pre-school at Cold Spring Elementary School in Cold Spring, MN. A panel discussion will follow with Katie's parents, Brian and Jan Hiltner, Deaf Mentor and Sign Instructor, Sherri Rademacher, St. Cloud Technical College, and the videographer. The discussion will address deaf culture and communicating in sign language from the perspective of how circumstances in all our lives can suddenly change our perceptions of what it means to have language, voice, and communication skills.
On Hearing Thunder:
Harmonic Resonance, Lapis Jazz
Atwood Memorial Center Little Theater, 11am-12pm
Poet/painter Terry Hauptman rhapsodically chants her spells accompanying her mixed media painted songline scrolls. Jazz musician Al Asmus will sound his thunder on sax, flute and percussion.“Underlying is her knowledge of spells…Burns, seethes, gives birth in heat/heart… to create a city of flames.” —Joy Harjo
Suicide and the Meaning of Terrorism
Atwood Memorial Center Little Theater, 1-2:30 pm
Dr. Hamdy el Sawaf, Director of the Islamic Center of Minnesota, Rev. Joel Gibson, Director of the Abraham Lincoln School Of Minneapolis, Dr. Joseph Edelheit, Director of Jewish Studies, St. Cloud State University, Miriam Pew, MSW, Adlerian Psychotherapist, Jill Marks, MSW, Psychotherapist, board member of SAVE, and suicide survivor, and Dr. William Huntzicker, Journalism Professor, Department of Mass Communications, St. Cloud State University look at the impact of the term "suicide bomber" from their diverse perspectives.
Mental health professionals have worked for decades to increase sensitivity in reporting about suicide as an outcome of the illness of depression. Researchers have connected the reporting of the suicides of celebrities with increased numbers of suicides after the distribution of the news reports. With the widespread reporting of "suicide bombings", panel organizers Edelheit and Huntzicker question whether the choice of words both undermines the progress made in increasing public sensitivity of suicide and aids in recruiting others willing to use their bodies as weapons.
Weird Soundings: The Canny Uncanny in Wilde, Warhol, and Wainwright
Atwood Memorial Center Little Theater, 3-4pm
Dr. Samuel Gladden, Associate Professor of English, University of Northern Iowa, focuses on selections from Oscar Wilde, Andy Warhol, and Rufus Wainwright to consider the power of weird sounding - "odd combinations, eccentric mixings" - to trigger the uncanny and thus to signal, ironically, language in its most canny forms. Wilde, Warhol, and Wainwright all investigate the ability of language to work against itself, mining the double-bind myriad modes of expression confront when they admit their inability to say anything other than exactly what they don't mean. Through such intensely self-conscious performances, these artists unleash the uncanny, that moment of knowing unknowingness when language turns against itself to reveal meaninglessness, when sound cedes to silence. Exploring the tropes of masking, gaps, silence, authenticity, atonality, Orientalism, and Occidentalism, this paper considers the profound knowledge to be drawn from weird soundings, and in so doing it conjures eccentricities, "other" sides of meaning, musicalities of dissonance.
All events are free and open to the Public.
Parking: For
the evening performances, parking is available anywhere on campus after
7 pm. Evening performances will be held in the Performing Arts Center Arena
Theater. For daytime events, parking is available in Lots K and M on the
St. Cloud State University campus. Free shuttle buses will be provided
from K Lot to within one short block of the festival venue. Day events
will be held in the Atwood Little Theater.
See the St. Cloud State University Campus Map
