Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
56 Broadway, downtown Asheville
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Contact: Alice Sebrell at 828-350-8484
ASHEVILLE, NC – June 18, 2015
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER presents
in the arm of flowers a performance on July 3rd
Friday, July 3, 8:00 p.m.
$8 for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $10 non-members
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville presents in the arm of flowers an interdiscplinary performance by Megan Ransmeier and Julia Rich. Informed by a three-year correspondence, in the arm of flowers, is a performance by two multidisciplinary artists: Asheville-based Megan Ransmeier and New Mexico-based Julia Rich.
To set the stage: Two women inhabit a mythic landscape of sand and ice, inviting inclusive spectrums of connection through voice, body, and object relations.
Shame, cultivated through apprehended mistakes, unearths strange apples, silver and wooden, stored for eons in hidden craters of the planet. Once our gaze meets these fruits, they remind us of our choice. Some magnetic, some porous, temporarily forgotten so that they would remain safe.
These apples belong with the two women.
Biographical Information:
Megan Ransmeier is a performance artist, drawer, singer, writer, filmmaker and sculptor. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. Through performing extemporaneous action held within self made, supportive structures, Megan researches and creates a multiplicity of possible relations through image, sound, movement, object and language. Her motivation for making stems from a dedication to engagement, invitation, and conversation with an inclusive and curious spirit.
Julia Rich is a multidisciplinary artist, songwriter and astrologer. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, and currently lives in Albuquerque, NM where she is learning to facilitate healing touch and vibrational medicines at the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics. Julia enjoys finding synthesis amongst a variety of seeming disparate research and experience. Her work often focuses on relationship paradigms, the insights of “mistakes”, and efforts towards self-awareness. She enjoys incorporating song, small dances, and discreet selections of objects in her performance work, as well as strange and surprising comic efforts. Julia feels full of faith in the creative potential of the planet at this time, and is grateful for performance art as a vehicle to share. She hopes to make orgone and “magic stuffed animals” when she has more time in the coming decades.
In the arm of flowers is presented in conjunction with the exhibition SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY:Ray Johnson, Dick Higgins and the making of THE PAPER SNAKE on view until August 22, 2015.
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) preserves and continues the unique legacy of educational and artistic innovation of Black Mountain College. We achieve our mission through collection, conservation, and educational activities including exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
