Thursday
Projections on the BB&T building
Mobile Art Lab
Friday
12:00-1:30 A MusiCircus
Registration 1:30 – 3:30 (Highsmith Union at UNC Asheville)
Plenary Session
Highsmith Room 223 – 3 – 5:30
Mary Emma Harris: 3:30-4:30 – Eden Re-imagined: John Cage & Black Mountain College, 1948-54
Beverly Plummer: 4:30-5:30 – Choice, Chance and Anarchy: Making Edible Paper with John Cage (with Susan Hulme)
Event
Reception at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center for John Cage: A Circle of Influences 6:00 – 8:00pm
Event
Roedelius w/XAMBUCA
Grey Eagle
Doors open 9pm $10
Saturday
I. Concurrent Sessions 9 – 10:30
Highsmith Room 223
Jason Andrew – Pollock vs. Cage: The Abstract Expressionists and John Cage
Lili Corbus – Remembrance of Interviews Past: Cage: Siskind, and Me
Daniel Haxall – Blue with China Ink: Robert Motherwell’s Unlikely Homage to John Cage
Highsmith Room 221
Monique Lanoix – Shifting Space – [DIS]closing Bodies
Marian Mazzone – Cage and Information/Systems Theory
Seth McCormick – Cage and Interactive Artwork
Grotto
Film Screening
Laurel Forum:
Jared Steward – Indeterminacy by John Cage
II. Concurrent Sessions 10:45 – 12:15
Highsmith Room 223
Stephen Lane – Inconsistency of Art & Teaching: Cage as a Pedagogical Referent
John Baldacchino – (Panel Discussion)
Jeremy Giggle
Roberto Salinas
Highsmith Room 221
Seamus McNerny – An American in Warsaw: Cage’s Aleatorism and the Music of Witold Lutoslawski
Tomas Murphy – Design of the Cyborg’s Amber Lenses in Edward Dorn’s Slinger
Terryl Lawrence – Beatrice Wood: Ceramic Artist
Grotto
Damian Catara – EOH v.5 Multimedia Performance
Laurel Forum
Ron Coulter – It’s Happpening! A Fluxusconcert
Lipinsky Auditorium
Danabella danceworks with Colectivo Caliban In the Memory of Hope: a generative sound and movement installation
Lunch Break 12:15 – 1:30
III. Concurrent Sessions 1:30 – 3:00
Highsmith Room 223
John Holzaepfel – David Tudor at Black Mountain College
Jeffrey Saletnik – Life Lessons: John Cage’s Teaching at Black Mountain College
Sandra Neels and Seymour Simmons – The Creative Collaboration of a “Group Soul,” as Epitomized in the Work of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg
Highsmith Room 221
John Held – Utopia in a VW Microbus
Helen Wykle – John Cage & Allan Kaprow, Variations on Indeterminacy of Form
Julie Jean Thomson – John Cage’s Experimental Composition Class and Participatory Aesthetics in the 1950s and 1960s
Grotto
Douglas Drewek – Ecliptic Saxophone Ensemble
Laurel Forum
Elite Kedan/Gustavo Matamoros – Fluid Geographies
Lipinsky Auditorium
Nomi Epstein – After 4’33”: The Music of the Wandelweiser Group and Beyond
IV. Concurrent Session 3:15 – 4:30
Highsmith Room 223
David Patterson – Plenary Panel Discussion – Chance Encounters: Working with/on Cage
Brian Brandt
Ray Kass
Laurel Forum
Lee Ann Brown – Electronic Duet
Grotto
Andrew Walters – The Radio as an Indeterminate Compositional Element in Music of John Cage: A Lecture/Composition Performance
Lipinsky Auditorium
Matthew Burtner – Performance & Screening of works from Agents Against Agency DVD
Book Signing 4:30-4:50
Highsmith Lobby
by Ray Kass and other authors in attendance
Keynote Speaker: 5:00-6:00 pm (Alumni Hall)
Laura Kuhn,Ph.D., Executive Director of the John Cage Trust
Reception following keynote
Performances: 8:00-12:00
Lipinsky Auditorium
Louis Goldstein – ASLSP INTERPENETRATED
Jens Barnieck – The Age of Cage
Janos Negyesy – The Freeman Etudes
Sunday
V. Concurrent Session 9:00-10:30
Highsmith Room 223
Carter Crawford and Art Rice – American Pragmatism and the Bauhaus: The Epistemological Crossroads at Black Mountain College
Thomas Ockerse – Insight
Matthew Burtner – Agents Against Agency: Environmental Activist Music and the Legacy of John Cage
Grotto
Steve Lansford – An Imaginal Landscape
Laurel Forum
Joseph Bathanti – Poems on John Cage
VI. Concurrent Session 10:45-12:15
Highsmith Room 223
David Hopes – John & Merce & Melpomene: The Theatre Looks at John Cage
Grotto
Robbie Land – 16mm Cine-Performance
Laurel Forum
Robert Falvo – To Present a Happening
VII. Afternoon Events
2:00 (depart UNCA at 1:30) – Tour of BMC Lake Eden Campus $10
TBD – Charlotte Caplan & Julie Jean Thompson – Mushroom Walk at Lake Eden
Ongoing Installation(s) Friday-Sunday at UNCA
Caprice Hamlin-Krout Quiet Space (Pinnacle)
Paul Soulellis JC273 (Highsmith Gallery)
Selections from the BMC Museum + Arts Center Collection (Highsmith Gallery)
