{"72606":{"#nid":"72606","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Brittain Fellow Composes \u0027Verbal Score\u0027 for Artist\u0027s Film at MOCA GA","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Harkey, a Brittain Fellow in Georgia Tech\u0027s Writing and Communication Program, recently collaborated with artist and filmmaker Micah Stansell, whose work \u0022The Water and the Blood\u0022 is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia (MOCA GA).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDrawing equally from his own and from others\u0027 writings, Harkey composed a voice-over script for Stansell\u0027s 20-minute film,\u0026nbsp;an immersive cinematic installation with eight separate, but synchronized projections, each one 10-feet high, that seamlessly surround visitors on three walls. Harkey\u0027s collage of language, read by Michael Adare, is obliquely but deliberately keyed to the work\u0027s specific array of episodes, and thus operates as a kind of \u0022verbal score\u0022 for the kaleidoscopic film\u0026nbsp; - the only audio in the room\u0026nbsp;is a dreamy ambient score.\u0026nbsp; Visitors must put on a pair of wireless headphones to hear Harkey\u0027s voice-over. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStansell\u0027s work has received wide acclaim since it opened in late August, and art critic Jerry Cullum\u0026nbsp;discussed the voice-over\u0027s significance to the piece: \u0022The philosophical analysis that dominates one of the soundtracks eventually becomes a useful guide to the labyrinth of story and re-collection of an intrinsically fragmented narrative. The aphorisms include advice on the cast of mind needed for \u0027undoing a stubborn knot,\u0027 as well as meditations on the limits of understanding. Someday we might indeed understand every moment of everyone\u2019s history, as one solo speech in the soundtrack suggests \u2014 but not in this life of endlessly partial perspectives.\u0022 \u0022The Water and the Blood\u0022 will be on view at MOCA GA through December 3rd, 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMarion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship\u0026nbsp;scholars are innovators in teaching English in\u0026nbsp;the Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;Writing and Communication Program housed within\u0026nbsp;the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Literature, Communication, and Culture.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Harkey, a first-year Brittain Fellow in Georgia Tech\u0027s Writing and Communication Program, recently collaborated with artist and filmmaker Micah Stansell, whose work \u0022The Water and the Blood\u0022 is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia (MOCA GA).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2011-11-10 11:23:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:38","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72653":{"id":"72653","type":"image","title":"John Harkey","body":null,"created":"1449177942","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:25:42","changed":"1475894661","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:21","alt":"John Harkey","file":{"fid":"193696","name":"john_harkey.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/john_harkey_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/john_harkey_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":28722,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/john_harkey_0.png?itok=KzXRjJBc"}}},"media_ids":["72653"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mocaga.org\/WAP-MicahStansell.asp","title":"MOCA GA"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.artscriticatl.com\/2011\/09\/review-micah-stansells-complex-engrossing-the-water-and-the-blood-muses-on-the-vagaries-of-knowledge-at-mocaga\/","title":"Jerry Cullum review in \u0022Arts Critic Atl\u0022"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"15036","name":"John Harkey"},{"id":"15037","name":"MOCA GA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-1720\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}