Residency Dates: October 12, 2015 - November 01, 2015
Application Deadline: May 31, 2015
Permaculturist, Poet, Performer, Visual Artist, Julie Ezelle Patton is the author of Using Blue To Get Black, Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake, and A Garden Per Verse (or What Else do You Expect from Dirt?), The Building by the SIde of the Road, and Teething on Type. Julie’s work has appeared in((eco (lang)(uage(reader)), Critiphoria, I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual writing by Women (Les Figues), About Place Journal: Rust Belt Tales, and other noted publications. “B”, her much anticipated collection of “phonemenological” explorations, is forthcoming from Tender Buttons Press in the Spring of 2015. “Room for Opal,” an art installation Julie created as a Green Horizons Fellow at Bates College, is lovingly explored in Jonathan Skinner’s “Listening with Patton” (ON: Contemporary Practice, 2008). Julie’s performance work, featured at the Stone, Jazz Standard, and other noted international venues, emphasizes improvisation, collaboration, and other worldy chora-graphs. She has shape-shifted into a cat-witch for Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn’s Sop Doll: A Jack Tale Noh, Desdemona in Uri Caine’s 2009 Grammy nominated, and a ring-tone for Ravi Coltrane’s At Night). “Let It Bee” Green Space & Arc Hive is a D-I-Y eco-arts artist-housing project foregrounding creative utilitarian projects, field-literacy, ritual maintenance work, neighborhood love-economies, and food for the soul in Cleveland, Ohio’s renowned University Circle cultural district. This “home-ek” project, based on “making do” with seasonal cast-offs and other found materials, is exhibited litter-ally and artifactually, in the ark’s Salon des Refusés. Visiting Creatives of all genres and disciplines, are free to pursue their own work, collaborate with in-house residents and young Green Scouts, help restore native habitat (Poet Tree Project), garden, share meals (Old School Kitchen), watch or create films in the converted coal-room (Flying Theater), Julie is a recipient of a Doan Brook Association 2012 Watershed Hero Award, Acadia Arts Foundation Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, New York City Arts-in-Education Roundtable Award for Sustained Achievement, Houston Museum of Fine Arts Core Residency Fellowship. Julie has taught at New York University, Naropa University, Schule fur Dichtung (Vienna, Austria). She lives in the “East Pillage” (New York City).
Residency Statement
I improvise site-specific performances and installations using materials (language, sounds, images, emotions, found objects) at hand. I wish to understand my surroundings, uncover new and unexpected spaces of silence, sound, language, and images—how the world “speaks” (or doesn’t), and to play with mis-takes, discover “where we at” and dance wildly on the page and off. This practice underscores interconnectedness, applied poetics, attention to the fleeting, ephemeral nature of things, indeterminancy, risk. It’s a Walk On the Wild Side so we will generate, write, score, and map found SOUND materials for new and old projects by spending time outdoors, “going on explores” (as child writer Opal Whiteley calls it), listening, tracking, and translating sounds in the lush soundscapes of the Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach) and adjacent areas, such as Doris Leeper Spruce Creek Preserve. This sense expanding workshop will help open our ears and heart to the relationship between language, what we call “music,” nature and non-human beings. Improvising, collaborating, and “drawriting” will help us get in the flow and recompose ourselves, and new meanings.
Application Requirements
1. A willingness to be humble, open up and play, be adventurous, flexible, rename things, use or invent other languages and sounds, suspend judgment (be silly), “read” what the birds, wind, insects have to say, reconsider beauty, comfort, progress, and “aesthetically pleasing” while imagining what Henry David Thoreau meant when he suggested “In wildness lies the preservation of the world.”
2. Read the Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley (Benjamin Hoff). Skip the foreword by Hoff, go straight to Opal’s diary and submit a brief written response or impression to this book. 1 to 1 and ½) page(s) should be sufficient. (.doc, .docx, .pdf)
3. A few written lines concerning the following (.doc, .docx, .pdf)
—your motivation for participating in this residency
—what you desire or expect to accomplish during this residency
—the names of 5 musicians that you listen to
— the names of 5 writers that you read
—the names of 5 visual artists that you appreciate
—8 to 10 things you do to cease pollution
—instruments you play
4. Brief Bio (optional) (.doc, .docx, .pdf)
Residency Fee: $900
Includes a $100 administration fee, weekday meals and housing; does not include artist materials, transportation, or weekend meals.
Scholarships / Financial Assistance
Only accepted Associate Artists may apply for financial assistance. For details, please visithttps://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/master-artist-residence-program-details-0
Application fee: $25