Performances
Ore Line
Performers:
Araan Schmidt, Colorado Mesa University
The Harder Barter Market is back and better than ever! Lifetime Guarantee invites conference attendees to trade their goods in a fun, festive arena mediated by performance and sculpture collaborators Jenny Hillenbrand and Kristen Tordella-Williams. Participants will enter the Market arena with all goods in hand and barter to their heart’s content until the hour is up. The rules are simple: 1. No currency 2. No re-entry 3. Entrance only to those bartering 4. IOU Services must be rendered by agreed upon date 5. Handshake seals the deal. Come one, come all, come barter!
Bathtub Train
Performers:
Tobias Flores, Fort Hays State University
Libby Flores, E.L. Achieve
Chris Meyer, University of South Dakota
David Lobdell, New Mexico Highlands University
Tom Fox, San Diego State University
Noah Kirby, Webster University
It's time to go, and you need to get to your truck. It's time tobreak some iron or maybe you need to get over to the next panel discussion. The Bathtub Train will be driving around Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark picking up and dropping off conference participants. The free ride to your next destination of choice will be available, but it can also be a welcome break from the laborious task of pouring iron. The ride can simply be fun. The bathtub train provides conference participants time to alugh, talk, and enjoy the Sloss site from the comfort of a cast iron bathtub on wheels.
Harder Barter Market
Performers:
Lifetime Guarantee (Jenny Hillenbrand & Kristen Tordella-Williams)
The Harder Barter Market is back and better than ever! Lifetime Guarantee invites conference attendees to trade their goods in a fun, festive arena mediated by performance and sculpture collaborators Jenny Hillenbrand and Kristen Tordella-Williams. Participants will enter the Market arena with all goods in hand and barter to their heart’s content until the hour is up. The rules are simple: 1. No currency 2. No re-entry 3. Entrance only to those bartering 4. IOU Services must be rendered by agreed upon date 5. Handshake seals the deal. Come one, come all, come barter!
Winds of Change and Other Reactions
Performers:
Christopher Meyer, University of South Dakota
Much of my performance work has been created as a means of protest. Weather commenting on environmental change or socio/political distress. More recently I have begun integrating various organ pipes in order to produce sound or noise wit hthe exhaust gases generated from the molds. I see my pipe organ pieces as affecting a rallying cry as opposed to a mourning song, and they are intended to stimulate the audience visually and metaphorically to "hear" waht is going on around them. It seems that we live in a society that will blissfully ignore the many warnings going on al laround us; politically, socially, environmentally, etc.
Radio Sloss (RSLS)
Performers:
Jonny Farrow, Troy University
Radio Sloss is a very low-powered temporary FM radio station running during the 2023 NCCCIAP conference. RSLS will broadcast interviews from the Sloss audio archive, interviews with attendees and organizers, various musics related to iron, labor, and other content. The FM broadcast will also be simultaneously available on the web. Further schedule and access information will be published on nccciap.com. So, dust off your old FM receiver and tune in, won’t you?
MESH Collective Art Presents: BURNING HAM
Performers:
Heather Spencer Holmes, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Forrest Millsap, Millsap Studios
Garret Millsap, Millsap Studios
Joe McCreary, Birmingham Sculpture
John Stewart Jackson, Birmingham Sculpture
Adam Bodine, Bodine Studios
We all love the trebuchet! MESH Collective has built and designed a new trebuchet for the 2023 conference. This collective, which includes many Birmingham art studios, has created a new sleek design with a better aim! The collaborative group with make some “HAM” related wooden sculptures to ignite with the trebuchet.
Coming to the Table (and so they come)
Performers:
Vinny Verburg (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Coming To The Table is the first public performance of emerging artist Vinny Verburg, centered strongly around community and its connections. Employing imagery of the dinner table as a gathering space for the consumption of everything from nutrition to knowledge, this short performance displays the mad dash for those diminishing resources facing young people, artist or not, today. This performance serves as a window into that world of needs and desperation that the artist finds himself in today.
The Wheel
Performers:
Asha Cabaca, West Virginia University
This performance will turn a found hollow long filled with molten iron into a smoking, possibly flaming, wheel rolling down a ramp. The momentum of the log will coat the surface of the hollow center with a layer of iron and the drips and runs will show the kinetic movement of the piece. This will conjure up metaphors for the wheel which is ever circling, going forward and sometimes backward, and always shifting toa new time and place.
Dear Blackness: The Ecstasy of a Furnace
Performers:
Desmond Lewis, Yale University
Dominique Duroseau, Yale University
Black labor within the context of iron casting/metalworking is often associated with the strain and drain on the body. But what if the iron furnace and the Black bodies that interact with it celebrate the beautiful/erotic bond that this process inherently creates? The intent of this performance is to demonstrate the investigation of Black eroticism and orgasm through our metaphorical relationship to iron casting.