7:00 p.m. Friday, September 10th
Admission: $3 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $5 all others
56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, USPOCO BOOKS and us poetry company are proud to present Chris Pappas—poet, publisher, editor, university lecturer and former electronics technician—performing poetry from his dramatic epic poem, The Legend of Eros in Eleven Episodes, at 7:00p.m. on Friday, September 10 at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville. 

Chris Pappas is the editor and creator of Mêlée Live, a print magazine of poetry, politics and art which will also have a substantial online presence. Mêlée Live is the direct descendant of Mêlée Magazine, which quickly got the attention of the international poetry community in 2007 with its emphasis on “poetry with depth and weight” and the importance of poetry performances, which should be, Pappas argues, “more than a solitary person reading from a white page to a sleeping audience who must be told when to applaud.” Mêlée’s poetry shows and guerilla readings became legendary and are still viewed regularly on YouTube and other sites.  

In the preface to the Final Edition of First Book: The First Three (Documentary) Pappas writes that The Legend of Eros “is composed to be sung. Just as musical compositions are written to be performed and plays are written to be staged, poetry is written to be spoken or sung with its one unique instrument, the human voice.” Pappas states that this epic, which is given to the poet by the people, may “be seen as a bridge between the stereotype of Slam Poetry (a primarily oral poetry culture) and the stereotype of Academic Poetry (a primarily written poetry culture).” 

Pappas has been traveling the country for over a year with us poetry company, the improvisational teaching and performing troupe he founded with his wife Rebecca, a visual artist and RN, in April of 2009. Come enjoy a poetry show like no other which may leave you excited about the possibility of poetry once more. 

Related blogs:

uspoetrycompany.onsugar.com <http://uspoetrycompany.onsugar.com>
meleelive.onsugar.com <http://meleelive.onsugar.com>

June 25 - October 23, 2010

Opening reception: Friday, June 25, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Free for BMCM+AC members and students w/ID / $3 non-members

Kenneth Snelson was an art student at Black Mountain College in the summers of 1948 and 1949, where he studied with Buckminster Fuller and Josef Albers. He describes his work as a study of physical forces in three-dimensional space. Snelson made the original discovery of the tension/compression principle, “tensegrity” which defines his structural sculptures. Another of his works is a fifty year study, a multimedia piece describing the artist’s invented architecture for the atom. This exhibition will include small sculptures, panoramic photographs, digital pictures and patent drawings.

PERFORMANCE

On Time and Place

Friday, July 23, 8:00 p.m.

Jason Scott Furr & Vincent Wrenn

This collaborative performance will be based and constructed on the time and location of the performance itself, utilizing emerging data streams as well as live (temporal) composition and sonic cinema. With Scott Furr (modulation of audio and video data streams) and Vincent Wrenn (auditory variations on time and location.)

$7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID

WORKSHOP

The Albers Color Course

Sat., August 7, 10:00 - 4:00 & Sun., August 8, 10:00 - 1:00

Fred Horowitz, a former student of Josef Albers and Black Mountain College student Sewell Sillman, will present a two-day workshop on the Albers color course. Initiated at Black Mountain College, Albers’s course was a revolutionary method that investigated how color behaves in context with other colors. Through hands-on activities, participants will experience something of the magic and delight of color as experienced in Albers’s course. Co-sponsored by UNC Asheville.

Pre-registration required. Some materials provided.

$95 / $85 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID

PRESENTATION
Towards a Poetics of Race, Space & Place: The Harlem Skyrise Project
Thursday, August 19, 7:00 p.m.
New York-based author, poet and professor Cheryl Fish will consider poet and African-American rights activist June Jordan's collaboration with architects in the 1960s and how her challenge to "slum clearance" was an early example of environmental justice and the importance of connecting dwelling space to the psychic and social well being of a community. What do these findings mean for rethinking private and public spaces now?
Presented in collaboration with the French Broad Institute (FBI).
$7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID

CONFERENCE

October 8 – 10 at the University of North Carolina Asheville

2nd Annual Re-Viewing Black Mountain College - The legacy of Black Mountain College continues to influence contemporary culture in multiple realms. This conference aims to investigate its history as well as the multiple paths of influence, actual and possible, identifiable in the contemporary world and beyond.

Keynote Speaker: Kenneth Snelson

Kenneth Snelson is an American artist with work in major museum and public art collections all over the world. Known primarily for his gravity defying sculptures, Snelson is also an accomplished photographer with a particular interest in panoramic photographs. The recent publication Kenneth Snelson: Forces Made Visible traces this important artist's five-decade career.

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and University of North Carolina Asheville's Ramsey Library Special Collections are collaborating to digitize and make available for study materials from the BMCM+AC archives and permanent collection. This is an ongoing process that will continue to develop and grow over time. It is also an invaluable learning experience for students at UNC Asheville. Please click on the link below to see our progress.

http://tinyurl.com/y6bv3fs

Black Whole from Black Mountain College Museum on Vimeo.