2012-2015 AY
Frames
Feb. 12, 2013—by Rebecca Bernard We are filled with bones. We carry them with us, daily. The mind changes. The bones change too. But the change is not quite the same. In aging, some bones become hollow. Does this make us bird-like? As a child, I disliked birds. I preferred dinosaurs. Did the one evolve from the other?...
Flight
Feb. 4, 2013—by Rebecca Bernard I dreamt my mother had lost her hands. I awoke in a California king. Citrus grew outside. Lemons, grapefruit, oranges, clementines. Balloons floated in the pool. Mountains rose on either side. This is a place I hadn’t been to before. It is strange to fly across the United States. The deserts, vast. The...
Revision
Jan. 28, 2013—by Rebecca Bernard There is something about being in a car and not moving. Three hours in one spot on the highway. Parked. The strange sense of false movement when the other lanes begin to creep and you are standing still. Up ahead, is there blood? Is the asphalt a canvas of someone else’s’ loss?...
The Joy of the Sing-Along
Jan. 21, 2013—by Rebecca Bernard Sometimes I listen to music. It is an oftentimes thing. This act, the listening to music, is a thing that many people do. In the past week, on Tuesday, I saw a singer perform. It was a thing that I had been anticipating a good deal. Only, in the days before the show...
Mutability and the Everyday
Jan. 10, 2013—by Rebecca Bernard I have lately taken to modeling small animals out of clay. They form a menagerie on my windowsill. I dream children’s stories. A family of ink who live in a pool in a printing press and one day the youngest son becomes a letter ‘e’ on the 30th page of a copy of...
Doug Aitken Interviews on Creative Process
Jan. 9, 2013—by Elizabeth Long Lingo Interested in hearing Jack White, Beck, James Murphy talk about their creative process? Check out multi-media artist Doug Aitken’s new installation of filmed conversations: Doug Aiken and Friends: What is the Source of Creativity? Hat tip to Curb Scholar, Keith Berquist
2012 Boot Camp–Asking Experts to Translate their Practice
Dec. 28, 2012—by Elizabeth Long Lingo One of the challenges in offering a creative practice boot camp is helping experts translate their everyday practice into teachable hands-on workshops that can engage participants from all backgrounds–faculty, staff, students–and from all parts of the University. In my research, and as I’ve developed my programs at Vanderbilt I regularly ask “experts” to...
Studio CRB’s First Release to iTunes
Dec. 28, 2012—Darker Days (iTunes) Written and Performed by Emma Grager Produced, Mixed and Recorded by Scott Marquart & Branden Sanders at Studio CRB The first of many to come.
Join the Party for Cage this Week
Mar. 26, 2012—Join the party for American composer John Cage as Vanderbilt University and VORTEX continue with a series of Cage-inspired “HAPPENINGS” at the Sarratt Student Center. From noon to 1:00 it will be a collage of turntables, drumming, and dance (and maybe a little spoken word, to boot!). Later in the week: a panel discussion on...