Public info: RAW hotline Reporters only: Nadine Fiedler January 21, 2003 The 14th annual Reed Arts Week (RAW), featuring installations, lectures, and
performances exploring the theme "Manufacture," will be held from Wednesday,
February 19, to Sunday, February 23, on the Reed College campus. Portland
dance troupe Oslund + Company, performance artists the Typing Explosion and the
Yes Men, poet and activist Sonia Sanchez, photographers Patrick Nagatani and
Leigh Anne Langwell, sculptor Pete Beeman, and Portland filmmaker Andrew Dickson
all challenge ideas about the creative process and what distinguishes the
production of art from production at large. All events listed here are free and open to the public, with the exception of
Oslund + Company’s Sunday evening performance (details below). Maps showing the
location and times of professional and student exhibitions will be available on
campus. More information is available at http://web.reed.edu/raw or from the RAW
hotline, 503/777-7708. A full schedule follows. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19
503/777-7708
News & Publications
503/777-7590,
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
REED ARTS WEEK FEATURES FILM,
ART, POETRY, AND DANCE
Student art tour
4 p.m. to 5 p.m., student
union
Tour of artworks around the
campus that have been created by Reed students.
Sonia Sanchez reading
8 p.m., Kaul
Auditorium
Poet and activist Sonia Sanchez is the
author of over 16 books including Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People, and
Homegirls and Handgrenades. Her honors include a National Endowment for the
Arts grant and an American Book Award. A founding member of the "Broadside
Quartet," Sanchez is also known for her involvement in the civil rights movement
and later in the black arts movement. Sponsored by Reed's Multicultural
Enrichment Committee with support from Reed Arts Week, Reed's division of
literature and languages, and the Reed visiting writers
series.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20
The Yes Men lecture: We Are the Yes Men
7
p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Political activists
and corporate gadflies, the Yes Men use
consumer culture as their base material, parodying status quo ideologies by
twisting them into the troupe’s own brand of performance art. These activist
artists are constantly struggling against the manufacture of consent with their
theatrical protests, which throw monkey wrenches into the cogs of the big social
machine that keeps capital in power.
Andrew Dickson lecture, performance, and films: An Evening with Andrew
Dickson
8 p.m., psychology auditorium
Portland based filmmaker,
actor, and writer Andrew Dickson will screen a series of short films
including Autographhss.com, a primer for dot.com startup failure;
Hunter Dawson, a mock application video for reality TV shows; and a
segment from the fantasy role-playing game adventure Good Grief. His films have
screened at film festivals, independent theaters, and punk house basements
across the country. Dickson and fellow artist Bradlee Simmons will introduce the
films and speak about the creative process and making films outside
Hollywood.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21
The Typing Explosion interactive literary
production
11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., commons
Part spectacle, part poetry, the Typing Explosion is a trio of
Seattle performance poets who crank out assembly-line poetry while you wait. The
typists, each carefully coifed and dressed in 1950s style secretarial attire,
communicate through bells and whistles, and the occasional "Dear Diane" memo.
Each poet contributes a line or two to the custom-crafted verse before passing
it to the next woman. The Typing Explosion has become a national phenomenon with
a loyal Seattle fan base, which helped make the Typing Explosion’s first theatre
piece, Dear
Diane, a success.
Patrick Nagatani photography exhibition and lecture: Nuclear
Enchantment
4 p.m., Vollum lounge
An associate chair and professor
of art at the University of New Mexico, and the recipient of many grants and
awards, Patrick Nagatani has exhibited his photographs internationally. The
images in Nuclear
Enchantment are a commentary on America’s fascination with nuclear
power. Nagatani uses ironic humor in his post-apocalyptic scenarios, emphasizing
our inability to realistically grasp the tremendous threat of nuclear fallout.
Leigh Anne Langwell photography exhibition and lecture:
Photograms
5 p.m., Vollum lounge
Leigh Anne
Langwell’s award winning "photograms" reflect the New Mexico artist’s
background in biological and medical imaging. Langwell creates her photograms in
the darkroom without a camera or negative, laying her own latex sculptures on
photographic paper and exposing it to light pulses. The resulting shadowy images
appear to offer a microscopic peek into the inner workings of the human body.
Langwell has worked as a college lecturer, graphic artist, and a technical
writer, and has been exhibiting her photography nationally since 1993.
Blown glass group exhibition and reception
6 p.m., Hauser Library
lobby
This collection of work by Sue Moir, Beverly Toledo, Diane Arndt,
and William Ray, Jr. demonstrates why the Pacific Northwest is known as the
glass Mecca of the West. Each handcrafted piece is a unique blend of
imagination, technique, and chemistry. These pieces remind the viewer that the
production of utilitarian objects can be an inspired, creative
act.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22
Mary Oslund master class workshop
9 a.m. to noon,
gym II
Participation limited to 15, $10 fee
per person. Call 503/788-6692 for reservations.
Mary Oslund, artistic
director of Oslund + Company/ Dance, will be offering a dance class for
intermediate to advanced level dancers.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Oslund + Company/Dance performance: Fold,
The Eleanor Trios, Kinder Weather, Fifty
Infants
8 p.m., sports center, gym II
Tickets available at the door beginning at 7 p.m. Prices are
$10 for students and working artists or $15 general admission. Seating will be
limited.
Mary Oslund, artistic director of Oslund + Company/ Dance,
creates work that is marked by rigorous and expressive physicality, movement
invention, intricate group work, and unusual partnering. Oslund has served on
the faculties of the University of Oregon, Lewis & Clark College, and Reed
College, and is the recipient of many awards for her choreography, including a
National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship, an Oregon Arts
Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in Dance, and a New York Foundation for
Contemporary Performance Arts award.
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Sculpture: Pete Beeman’s Portrait of the Artist as
a Schoolboy, Vollum lounge
Photography: Patrick Nagatani and Leigh
Anne Langwell, Vollum lounge
Blown glass: Sue Moir, Beverly
Toledo, Diane Arndt, and William Ray, Jr., library
Shows will be free and open to the public from Wednesday, February 19, through Sunday, February 23. Maps are available in the Reed student activities office in Gray Center 104. The Vollum lounge gallery will be open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday; and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, is an undergraduate institution of the liberal arts and sciences dedicated to sustaining the highest intellectual standards in the country. With an enrollment of about 1,360 students, Reed ranks third in the undergraduate origins of Ph.D.s in the United States and second in the number of Rhodes scholars from a liberal arts college (31 since 1915).
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