Mon, Oct 02, 2006
October 2, 2006
Gubernatorial Debate Cancelled
The Nebraska gubernatorial debate scheduled for broadcast this evening on NET-TV and NET Radio has been cancelled due to an illness by one of the participants. NET Nebraska will announce re-scheduling information if and when all parties are able to participate.
NET NEBRASKA
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
Lied Hosts "Crimethink: A 1984 Symposium"
During the week of October 2-6, the Lied Center will be hosting a CRIMETHINK symposium to celebrate our freedom and right to question, discuss, and disagree. Guest speakers, student presentations, and artwork displays will enrich the symposium, covering topics inculding civil liberties, human rights, war, and media. All events will lead to the Actor’s Gang's performance of Orwell's novel, 1984, on Friday, October 6. All symposium events are free for students and open to the public.
Monday events include a lunch book discussion at the Chestnut Tree Cafe in Lied Center's Steinhart Room at 12:15 p.m. and a presentation from nationally-syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington at 7:30 p.m. In the evening, a new installation art piece entitled "Surveillance" from Ann Gradwohl will open in the Lied Center lobbies and will be displayed all week.
For more information about the weeks events, visit the Crimethink Symposium web site.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Who Killed The Electric Car?, Drawing Restraint 9 Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Who Killed The Electric Car? and Drawing Restraint 9. Both films will be showing through October 12.
It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert? Who Killed The Electric Car? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business.
Matthew Barney teams up with Bjork for Drawing Restraint 9. In this highly experimental film in the style of Barney's CREMASTER cycle, Bjork also provides the soundtrack, making it essential viewing for fans of her more esoteric ventures. Matthew Barney's stately, ritualistic film takes place mostly on the Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling ship afloat in Nagasaki Bay. A good part of the film follows Mr. Barney and Bjork, who are welcomed aboard the ship as Occidental guests and undergo elaborate preparations for a traditional Shinto wedding ceremony. Their union, however ecstatic, quickly leads to a solemn, stylized Liebestod that embodies the film's depiction of life as a series of passages in a relentless cycle of creation and destruction. Like Mr. Barney's Cremaster Cycle, Drawing Restraint 9 is a cinematic component of a larger exhibition that will embrace videos, sculptures, drawings and photographs. The complexities of such a multimedia work will perhaps be best scrutinized by art critics and historians. Working as a mostly nonverbal series of interconnected images with a soundtrack composed by Bjork, the film represents a significant advance from Cremaster Cycle. - Stephen Holden, The New York Times
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? | DRAWING RESTRAINT 9
