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The John Cage Trust Co-sponsored by The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, the University of North Carolina at Asheville and The John Cage Trust AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE The john cage trust e October 7-9, 2011 on the UNC Asheville Campus c n Keynote Speaker Lipinsky e LAURA KUHN, PH.D. Karpen Hall u Executive Director of the John Cage Trust (Laurel Forum) l Saturday, October 8 at 5:00-6:00 p.m. f UNC Asheville Highsmith Student Union n I Ms. Kuhn worked with John Cage from f 1986-1992 on projects, including his Europeras 1 & 2 for the Frankfurt Opera. o Projects under her direction include a CD-ROM of sampled piano prepara- tions from Cage’s Sonatas & Interludes SELECTED TOPICS: e (1946–48) and The John Cage Book of Quad l Days, a yearly pocket calendar filled Chance Encounters with important dates, quotations and with Cage c images from the archives of the John CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: John Cage at Black Mountain College, 1948, photograph by Clemens Kalischer. Laura Kuhn, photo- r Cage Trust. She created and directed Fluid Geographies graph by Melissa Madden Gray. John Cage at Black Mountain i James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik College, ca.1948, photograph by Hazel Larsen Archer. Cage and Kaprow Satie: An Alphabet, a theatrical realiza- Highsmith Union Utopia in a VW Microbus C tion of Cage’s radio play (2001). Kuhn The Influence of 4'33" is the John Cage Professor of Perfor- (Alumni Hall, Grotto) mance Arts at Bard College, John Cage as Teacher s Cage Trust headquarters. ’ David Tudor at BMC . Summer 1948. Courtesy of the artist. University Heights e $20 per day $30 for the weekend SELECTED g PERFORMANCES: Free for UNCA students, faculty + staff a The Friday evening performance The Freeman Etudes + Sunday BMC tour are additional ticketed events. The Age of Cage C Music and Ecology Schedule + Advance ASLSP INTERPENETRATED n Tickets at 828.350.8484 or www.blackmountaincollege.org h OTHER HIGHLIGHTS: o Co-Sponsored by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, University of North Carolina Asheville and the John Cage Trust. Special thanks: Green Sage Coffee House & Café, Henco Films Reprographics + Carolina Mountain Bakery. J Mushroom Walk John Cage at Black Mountain College BMC Tour at Lake Eden Black Mountain College BMC Exhibition MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER JOHN CAGE: A CIRCLE OF INFLUENCES Exhibition on view at BMCM+AC through January 14, 2012 Clemens Kalischer, Opening Reception: Friday, October 7, 6:00-8:00 p.m. 828.253.0449 ~ 54 Broadway Asheville, NC www.hencorepro.com October 7-9, 2011 Special thanks to Steven Miller for the loan of a hand-built toy piano. www.stevenmiller.com JOHN CAGE’S CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE WELCOME SUNDAY Welcome to Re-Viewing Black Mountain College 3: John Cage’s Circle of Infl uence. The fi rst two V. Concurrent Session 9:00-10:30 am conferences on Black Mountain College served as a great excuse to lure academics, artists and lovers of local, national as well as international history to the museum and UNC Asheville. I cannot think of a better Highsmith Room 223 reason to have a third conference unless we, in addition, focused on a personality as unique as John Carter Crawford* and Art Rice - American Pragmatism and the Bauhaus: Cage. The people intrigued by Black Mountain College, and John Cage, inevitably share a set of values The Epistemological Crossroads at Black Mountain College that are inspiring. I look forward to all of the excellent presentations and performances happening this Thomas Ockerse - Insight weekend. It will be an honor to meet each one of you. With happenings such as this, the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center continues to provide an invaluable service in keeping the BMC tradition alive Matthew Burtner - Agents Against Agency: and energetic. And the continuing collaboration with UNC Asheville has allowed for even more extensive Environmental Activist Music and the Legacy of John Cage programming as well as greater public access to the museum’s archival material. I am glad you are all here and are part of this valuable ongoing venture. Oftentimes it feels like we are jumping into the unknown when Grotto putting on such a multi-dimensional weekend event. But we have the courageous example of BMC to keep Steve Lansford - An Imaginal Landscape us going and to bring us all together. That is indeed very special. Laurel Forum This conference would be impossible without the amazing organizational and labor skills of Alice Sebrell and Joseph Bathanti - Poems on John Cage Bridget Elmer of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Further, Connie Bostic, Mark Koven, Katie Lee, Gene Felice, Susan Rhew and Sarah Bonner as well as all of the members of the museum board VI. Concurrent Session 10:45 am-12:15 pm put in long hours for this event. From UNC Asheville we are greatly helped by generous support from the Provost Jane Fernandes and Associate Provost Ed Katz. We would also like to thank Gwen Ashburn, Dean of Humanities and the departments of Fine Art, History, Literature and Language, New Media, Music and Highsmith Room 223 Philosophy for their support. Of course the use of Highsmith Union and the support of its excellent staff, David Hopes - John & Merce & Melpomene: The Theatre Looks at John Cage including Silke Crombie and Rick Brophy, is essential. We also appreciate the support of Pat O’Cain of the UNCA Honors Program and Leigh Svenson, manager of Lipinsky Auditorium, and Rick Straub, Associate Grotto Director of SAIL-Programming, the UNCA Student Government Association. We would also like to thank Robbie Land - 16mm Cine-Performance Steven Miller, as well as Diane Ruggiero, Superintendent of Cultural Arts for the City of Asheville. Laurel Forum I look forward to all of this weekend’s events. It is a great privilege to be among so many people interested Robert Falvo - To Present a Happening in Black Mountain College, and to hear and experience their work on or inspired by John Cage. Thank you for making this event so special. VII. Afternoon Events Brian E. Butler Associate Professor and Chair 2:00 pm (carpool caravan leaves at 1:30 pm from Highsmith) Department of Philosophy Tour of BMC Lake Eden Campus UNC Asheville $10 Cage foraging mushrooms. 1958. Board Chair Courtesy of The John Cage Trust. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 3:15 pm Charlotte Caplan & Julie J. Thomson - Mushroom Walk at Lake Eden *Panel Chair SATURDAY THURSDAY IV. Concurrent Session 3:15-4:30 pm 7:33-9:33 pm Walnut Street between Broadway and Lexington in downtown Asheville Highsmith Room 223 Mark Koven with the Mobile Art Lab - Initial Conditions: Architectural Projections and Soundscape David Patterson* - Plenary Panel Discussion - Chance Encounters: Working with/on Cage Ray Kass Jens Barnieck FRIDAY FRIDAY-SUNDAY Alumni Hall 12:00-1:30 pm Ongoing Installation(s) at UNCA Lee Ann Brown (poet), Tony Torn (video), Erin O’Neal (poet) - “Dome Poem” and Electronic Video Multiple Locations in Asheville Duet inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome A MusiCircus Pinnacle Caprice Hamlin-Krout - Quiet Space Grotto 1:30-3:30 pm Nomi Epstein - After 4’33”: The Music of the Wandelweiser Group and Beyond Highsmith Union at UNC Asheville Highsmith Gallery Registration Paul Soulellis - JC273 and Lipinsky Auditorium Selections from the Black Mountain College Matthew Burtner - Performance & Screening of works from Agents Against Agency DVD Plenary Session 3:00 – 5:30 pm Museum + Arts Center Collection Highsmith Room 223 0 4:30-4:50 pm Introduction: Ed Katz (Assistant Provost, UNCA) Highsmith Lobby Book Signing 3:30-4:30 pm by Ray Kass, David Patterson and other authors in attendance Mary Emma Harris - Eden Re-Imagined: John Cage & Black Mountain College, 1948-54 5:00-6:00 pm 4:30-5:30 pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER Beverly Plummer - Choice, Chance and Anarchy: Making Edible Paper with John Cage Alumni Hall (with Susan Hulme) Introduction: Jane Fernandes (Provost, UNCA) Laura Kuhn, Ph.D., Executive Director of the John Cage Trust 6:00-8:00 pm Reception following keynote Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center - 56 Broadway in downtown Asheville Melissa Madden Gray, Laura Kuhn, Executive Director of The John Cage Trust. Courtesy of The John Cage Trust. Reception for John Cage: A Circle of Infl uences 8:00-12:00 pm Lipinsky Auditorium 9:00 pm (doors open) Introduction: Brian Butler (Chair of Philosophy, UNCA, Board and Conference Chair, BMCM+AC) Grey Eagle - 185 Clingman Avenue in the River Arts District Performances by Roedelius w/XAMBUCA Louis Goldstein - ASLSP INTERPENETRATED $10 Jens Barnieck - The Age of Cage *Panel Chair SATURDAY SATURDAY I. Concurrent Sessions 9:00-10:30 am Laurel Forum Ron Coulter - It’s Happpening! A Fluxusconcert Highsmith Room 223 Jason Andrew* - Pollock vs. Cage: The Abstract Expressionists and John Cage Lipinsky Auditorium Lili Corbus - Remembrance of Interviews Past: Cage (and Me) d a n a h b e l l a Dance Works with Colectivo Caliban (Salvador Barajas, Liz Canfi eld and Daniel Haxall - Blue with China Ink: Robert Motherwell’s Unlikely Homage to John Cage John Priestly) - In the Memory of Hope: a generative sound and movement installation Highsmith Room 221 Lunch Break 12:15-1:30 pm Monique Lanoix* - Shifting Space – [DIS]closing Bodies Marian Mazzone - Cage and Information/Systems Theory III. Concurrent Sessions 1:30-3:00 pm Seth McCormick - Cagean Aesthetics 1951-1961: Between the Disciplinary Body and the Emancipated Spectator Highsmith Room 223 John Holzaepfel* - David Tudor at Black Mountain College Grotto Jeffrey Saletnik - Life Lessons: Ann Dunn - Dancing to Cage: Freedom SATURDAY John Cage’s Teaching at Black Mountain College Sandra Neels and Seymour Simmons - Laurel Forum Ongoing at Highsmith The Creative Collaboration of a “Group Soul,” as Epitomized in Jared Steward - Indeterminacy by John Cage Encounters with Cage: Tell Your Story the Work of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg Hazel Larsen Archer, Cage at BMC.
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