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LOU RIZZOLO PRESENTS-- FEAR/FUN: MULTI-MEDIA WORKS 2002
NATIONAL: Partially funded by The Richard Florsheim Art Fund, "Fun/Fear: Multi-Media Works 2002" a multimedia production/installation/performance using digital electronic images, digital slide projections, paintings, kinetic sculptures, video projection, contemporary dance and original musical scores; a collaborative work with Georgetown University, Washington D.C., Augusta State University, Georgia, Mississippi Humanities Council (partial funding), Western Michigan University Art Department Faculty Development Grant (partial funding) and New Castle University, Australia, January 2002, Western Michigan University's Multimedia Room #1000, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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W.M.U. Professor of Art Lou Rizzolo is presenting collaborative art, music, and dance events entitled, Fear/Fun: Multi-Media Works 2002, in the Dalton Center Multi-Media Room from January 14 to 18. Daily activities include viewing the installation from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and presentations from11:00 a.m. to 12 noon and from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. There is an opening reception on Monday, January 14, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. with a live performance from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. On Friday, January 18, there will be a closing reception, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. followed by a live performance from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Professor Rizzolo says, "Fear/Fun," Multi-Media Works 2002 is an original multi-media collaboration which explores human conditions related to our roots: fear and fun. Utilizing a wealth of human talent in the arts and technology, Fear/Fun juxtaposes vignettes, which reflect our life patterns through live evening performances and the installation. The installation consists of continuous interactive installed artworks and digitized music. Presentation indicates that slide/digital vignettes will be presented with digitized music and the installed art works. The performances will include live musical and dance performance, poetry, slide/digital vignettes, video works and art performance."
Artist collaborators are: Roberto Bocci, Professor of Multi-Media Electronic Art and Digital Photography, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; Kristin Casaletto, Professor of Art, Augusta State University, Georgia; Greg Gantner, filmmaker/documentation, Chicago, Illinois; Clifton Hyde, musician/composer, Chicago, Illinois; Simone Paterson, Professor of Multi-Media Installation, University of Newcastle, Australia; Lou Rizzolo, Professor of Art, facilitator, Western Michigan University; Kylie Schultz, Candidate for B.F.A. Degree in Painting and Lee Honors College student, W.M.U.; Jamie Wilson, musician, Chicago, Illinois; Kevin Garcia, percussion, Boston; Paul Hartsaw, reeds, Chicago; Joseph Wollard, reeds, New York; Mark Ziegler, bass, Kalamazoo; Martin Burch, graphic design, Kalamazoo; and Marc Rizzolo, operations, Kalamazoo. Peter Middleton, Kalamazoo, and Ryan Flesher, Paw Paw, are providing technical support. Dancers are Marsha Lucas, Kalamazoo Ballet Company, Sabrina Merrill and Revathi Murugappan, W.M.U. Dance Department and Diana Wilson, Art Department. This project has been made possible through partial funding from the Richard Florsheim Art Fund, Lee Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant and a Mississippi Humanities Council Grant.
