23 past events with the performance art tag

That One Film Festival is a new film festival for Muncie dedicated to screening and exhibiting works of moving image that are experimental, weird, obsessive, no/low budget, avant-garde, and fun. That One Film Festival will take place in downtown Muncie, Indiana opening with free activities on Friday, April 6th, followed by a full day of programs and related events on Saturday, April 7th. The program is produced by Muncie Arts and Culture Council in partnership with an immersive learning class through the Ball State University School of Art and sponsored by Cornerstone Center for the Arts and Muncie Indiana Transit System.

SATURDAY, APRIL 7TH
DAY 2

Single Program Pass  |  $5 each
Purchase via FilmFreeway or in person

Festival All Access Pass  |  $20 for all programs
Purchase via FilmFreeway or in person

Lunch + Dinner  |  Fire and Brimstone Pizza will be parked outside PlySpace Gallery
Transportation  |  MITS trolley will provide free rides to various locations throughout downtown

12:00 - 1:00 PM  |  Competitive Program #2
Location  |  Cornerstone Center for the Arts
Undefined Spaces by Michelle Trujillo
way of the gods by Lorenzo Gattorna
One and Many by Jonas Bak
Patriot by Brian Charles Patterson

1:30 - 2:30 PM  |  Competitive Program #3
Location  |  Cornerstone Center for the Arts
PATCHES OF SNOW IN JULY by Lana Caplan
The Night in the Last Branches by Michael Morris
Amarillo Ramp by Bill Brown & Sabine Gruffat
Large Child: Construction by Paul Shortt

3:00 - 4:00 PM  |  Competitive Program #4
Location  |  Cornerstone Center for the Arts
home by Pieter Geenen
Empty Nightclub by Ben Edelberg
Sweet Love by Stephen Crompton
Lunar Unlimited by Jake Marcks

4:30 - 5:30 PM  |  Competitive Program #5
Location  |  Cornerstone Center for the Arts
Driver / Predator by Gerald Habarth
Debris by Giuseppe Boccassini
Maelstroms by Lana Caplan
Circles of Confusion by Jason Britski
Grey Water/Black Water by Josh Drake
In Search of Martin Klein by Joseph Wilcox

5:30 - 7:30 PM  |  Dinner Break
Fire and Brimstone Pizza will be parked at PlySpace
MITS trolley will provide free rides to various locations in throughout downtown

7:30 - 8:30 PM  |  Competitive Program #6
Location  |  Cornerstone Center for the Arts
Please step out of the frame. by Karissa Hahn
Zombie, Pt. 1 by Scott Fitzpatrick
The Garden of Delight by Michael Fleming
Camera Threat by Bernd Lützeler

9:00 - 10:00 PM  |  Competitive Program #7
Location  |  Cornerstone Center for the Arts
Beautiful Eyes by Rani Crowe
Nothing a Little Soap and Water Can't Fix by Jennifer Proctor
Becoming by Ariel Teal
When I Was Four by Hugo Ljungbäck
Top Thrill by Grace Mitchell
Dyke in Sight by Carleen Maur
Otherness Is A Womb by Hope Youngblood
Mammaries by Monica Panzarino

10:00 PM - 12:00 AM  |  CLOSING PARTY!
Location  |  PlySpace Gallery  |  FREE
10:15 PM  |  Live Video Performance of Motherless Mind-Children by Karl Erickson
Festival Awards Announced + Celebration 
Festival DJ Mark Perretta, spinning from his vast collection of movie soundtracks
Beer by The Guardian Brewing Company and light refreshments served

That One Film Festival is committed to supporting emerging and experimental creators, as well as engaging and educating audiences by facilitating film screenings and broadening an understanding of what moving image can be. The festival aims to contribute to the advancement of the art form and to broaden the understanding and appreciation of moving image in our region. More than 170 films were submitted from countries all over the world including Spain, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, India, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, South Africa, Sweden, Cambodia, Finland, France, Greece, China, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, and Australia. That One jurors are visual artist Liz Rodda from Texas, and writer, programmer and filmmaker Jon Dieringer, from Brooklyn. Both Liz and Jon will be presenting programs as part of That One. Filmmakers Kristin Reeves and Maura Jasper oversaw programming and artistic direction of the festival.

That One Film Festival launches in downtown Muncie with its festival headquarters located at PlySpace and all screenings held in the historic E.B Ball Auditorium at Cornerstone Center for the Arts. All opening night events on Friday, April 6th are free, open to the public, and appropriate for the entire family. Festivities begin at 6:30 PM with “Building Community Through Cinema,” a lecture by Screen Slate founder and esteemed artist Jon Dieringer, and continue with the first round of competitive screenings from 8:00 - 9:00 PM. Opening night will conclude with a reception for Social Study, an exhibition of lo-fi video work by festival juror, interdisciplinary artist, and Associate Professor of Expanded Media at Texas State University Liz Rodda, that compiles disparate images and audio encompassing a range of themes from the natural and the artificial to pleasure and danger. The reception takes place at festival headquarters in the PlySpace Gallery from 9:00 – 11:00 PM. Guardian Brewing Company will provide beer and light refreshments will be served. Those planning to attend Friday’s free activities are encouraged to RSVP at Film Freeway. 

Day two of the festival continues Saturday, April 7th with ticketed programs and intermissions from 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Individual program tickets and all-access passes can be purchased in advance through Film Freeway or in-person at PlySpace throughout the festival. Fire and Brimstone Pizza will be parked at PlySpace during lunch and dinner. Festival awards will be announced at the closing party after a live video performance by Muncie-based artist Karl Erickson. This reception is free, open to the public, and will be held at the PlySpace Gallery from 10:00 PM – Midnight. Again, Guardian Brewing Company will provide beer and light refreshments will be served.

Start your festival experience by visiting the headquarters in PlySpace Gallery located at 608 East Main Street in downtown Muncie. That One Film Festival parking is available in the lot behind Cornerstone Center for the Arts and immediately adjacent to PlySpace. The MITS trolley will provide free rides throughout downtown for attending film festival guests. For more information, please visit www.thatonefilmfestival.com or visit us on social media @that1film.

Melissa Joy Livermore, Deconstruction project

Muncie Arts and Culture Council's new artist-in-residence program PlySpace welcomes the Muncie Symphony Orchestra Chamber Concert series to the PlySpace Gallery for a special collaborative performance with resident artist Melissa Joy Livermore. 4 by 4 at 4 features a string quartet performing alongside Livermore's ongoing project, Deconstruction, where guests will engage in the act of taking apart a piece of untreated canvas, thread by thread. Four genres of music, from Baroque to Cole Porter, by four strings musicians will be performed in the PlySpace Gallery. During the concert, PlySpace resident artist Melissa Joy Livermore invites the audience to participate in her community collaborative project, Deconstruction.

Deconstruction is a project that invites groups of people to engage in the task of taking a piece of untreated canvas apart, thread by thread. The process is intuitive and allows the participants to focus their attention on the present moment, engaging with those around them, or in this case, the music. Over the last three years, Melissa has performed Deconstruction with groups in China, France, and the U.S. and is excited to bring this performance to Muncie.

Holding the opposite end of the fabric provides the tension necessary to pull each thread from the whole. In a split second, the tension is released and the thread flutters, dropping into a pile. Each thread serves as documentation of time carved out for introspection, intentional conversation, and listening. The act encourages participants to slow down and observe the beauty of the falling thread and the environment around them.

Tickets for this event are available at the MSO Office (t:765.285.5531) and online here: http://www.munciesymphony.org/calendar-item/chamber-concert-at-plyspace/

Tickets: Youth/Students: $10 in advance; $15 at door.

Adults: $20 in advance; $25 at door.

PlySpace is located at 608 E Main Street in Muncie, IN. Limited parking is available adjacent to the PlySpace building, at the corner of Main and Monroe Streets. Please enter the PlySpace Gallery through the parking lot entrance.

For more information, please visit www.plyspace.org/events

PlySpace is a program of Muncie Arts and Culture Council in partnership with the City of Muncie, Ball State University School of Art, and Sustainable Muncie Corporation. PlySpace is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Melissa Livermore, video still Nick Witten and Danielle Joy Graves

The 2018 Spring Term PlySpace Open Studios invite the public to Madjax for Brink of Summer ArtsWalk in Downtown Muncie! Open Studios offer an opportunity to learn more about our current residents and their personal and collaborative residency projects. Ask questions about their artwork, their creative processes, and upcoming events and activities once they leave PlySpace.

Spring 2018 Residents: Melissa Joy Livermore, Nick Witten, and Danielle Graves

Melissa Joy Livermore has recently returned to Indiana from extended visits abroad where she was reminded of the importance of creating space for others to express themselves as she tried to hold conversations in China and France, constructing sentences word by word. During her time at PlySpace she has been researching linguistics and looking for connections between language learning and interpersonal communication. She will share video work that documents a computer's attempt to provide thought for thought translation of lines from the Tower of Babel in google translate.

Nick Witten and Danielle Joy Graves work collaboratively with themes of character appropriation, branding, and other elements from pop culture and entertainment— arranging, distorting, and perversing these elements to create absurd alternate versions of reality. Their time at PlySpace will result in the exhibition of new work at Kime Contemporary in Indianapolis. Their open studio event will preview the collaborative process for this new body of work.

PlySpace is a program of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council in partnership with the City of Muncie, Ball State University School of Art, and Sustainable Muncie Corporation. PlySpace is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.