Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, October 17, 1997, Page 9A, Image 9

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1997
Emerald
Nexus has The Cure
The band’s keyboardist and
drummer will play remixes and
Cure classics
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Bright Lights
► 7he Ixnie ESD Planetarium bos
a trio of new laser light shows
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Volume 99, Issue 33
■ Robert
Kaiser, whose
photographs
are now being
displayed in the
EMU Art
Gallery, will hold
a reception to
day between 5
and 7 p.m. The
reception offers
students the op
portunity to meet
the photographer
and to view the art
work.
^Today the
School of Music's
annual Homecom
ing concert wel- |
comes alumni,
parents and stu
dents to a program |
that features four
of the school's top |
ensembles in an 8 J
p.m. concert in
Beall Concert Hall, 1
961 E. 18th Ave.
Admission is free
and open to the
public. The four
ensembles are the |
University Sym
phony, the Oregon |
Wind Ensemble, 1
the Oregon Jazz
Ensemble and the |
University Singers. |
■ On Sunday, ex- f
perience “Metal
Madness” asTes- |
tament comes to
WOW Hall. With
them is the Port
land band Village |
Idiots, a 4-mem
ber hard rock
band.
HEkoostik
Hookah, a Mid
west band with
rhythms rooted in g
folk, jazz, blues |
and rock, will bring |
their high-energy
music to the EMU |
Ballroom on Tues- I
day. It is an all
ages show, and
tickets are $9 in
advance and $10
at the door.
Hookah will open
for Calobo, with
doors opening at
7 p.m.
‘Water’ submerges museum
Cultural Forum grinds out bands
The Oregon
Grind is a
free music
festival, filled
this year with
a diverse
group of West
Coast bands
By Alex Hughes
Freelance reporter
Appearing in a new time and place, the
Third Annual Oregon Grind will kick off
Sunday with sounds of funk and good
vibes on the field behind MacArthur Court
at 1 p.m.
For the first time, the yearly event will
take place in the fall instead of its usual
spring scheduling.
“We wanted to give the Grind its own
flavor,” said Jonathan Zwickel, EMU Cul
tural Forum coordinator. "In the past, it’s
always been crammed together with the
Folk Festival.”
The free music festival, filled with a di
verse group of West Coast bands, will close
out the weekend’s list of homecoming
events. This year’s headliner is one of Los
Angeles’ hottest bands, Weapon of Choice,
which features what Zwickel describes as
a “dirty, nasty, funky” style.
Seattle funk band Phat Sidy Smoke
house will bring their large horn section to
Eugene after recently playing a sold-out
show on a tour with Phishbone. Returning
to town are R&B groove-oriented Mumblin’
Jim, who appeared in the Spring 1997
Grind, and Chief Broom, who has played at
the Willamette Valley Folk Festival and is
coming off this summer’s Horde Tour.
Adding to the wide mix are the poetic
lyrics of San Francisco’s Broun Fellinis
and the locally known Jive Talkin’ Robots.
Although this is only the Third Annual
Grind, it is the fifth year of the music festi
val’s existence. Two years ago, the Cultur
al Forum received enough funding to make
the Grind an annual event. When the festi
Turn to GRIND, Page 13A
COURTESY PHOTO
The headliner this year at the Oregon
Grind is Los Angeles' Weapon of Choice.
‘Water: The Renewable Metaphor'
is the subject of the University art
museum’s new exhibit
By Thomas Valinoti
Freelance Reporter
Human beings share an intricate rela
tionship with water, a relationship
that is showcased in the University
Museum of Art’s latest exhibit, “Water: The
Renewable Metaphor." The exhibit, which
opens tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., is an
engaging group of pieces from nine con
temporary photographers.
The primary focus of the exhibit is to
examine the environment human beings
dwell in and, subsequently, what they
have done with it. But more than this,
the art is meant to capture what society
has forgotten about nature. The pieces
are visual representations of a wide
range of human thought and philoso
phy.
The artists featured are Dieter Ap
pelt, Bernd and llilla Beeher, Peter
Coin, Angela Grauerholtz, Gary Hill,
Mark Ruwedel, Erasmus Schroter and
Bill Viola. Together, their pieces form
an examination of “cultural identity,
self-doubt, spiritual survival, human
ity’s relationship to nature, geology
vs. human time, industrialization
and the element as beautiful object.”
Many of the pieces seem to be
metaphorical representations of
that which humans leave in their
wake.
One striking piece, "Boy Fishing
Behind Rye Patch Dam,” by Coin,
shows a boy who is simply fishing
on a pond. However, this pond is
so polluted the dead fish have all
washed up on shore a few yards
away from him. It wasn’t neces
Turn to ART, Page 13A
PHOTO
This provocative Dieter
Appelt photograph is titled
‘Der Augentrum'
‘Water’
Art
Program
TODAY
GERLINGER
LOUNGE
9-10:30 a.m.:
Water Mythol
ogy and Im
agery
10:45-12:15: j
The Rhine and
the Amazon
2-3:30:
Keynote Ad- f
dress
7-8:30: River
Ecology
SATURDAY
GERLINGER
LOUNGE
9-10:30 a.m.:
Rivers and
Agriculture
10:45-12:45:
Bathing
2-3:30:
Sprites
3:45-5:15:
Water in the
West
5:15: Closing
Remarks
SUNDAY
morning: op
tional river
outing