BONNIE WHITING – JOHN CAGE’S 51’15.657″ FOR A SPEAKING PERCUSSIONIST
June 27, 2018 | BMCM+AC {56 Broadway} – Presented in collaboration with the Asheville Percussion Festival, 51’15.657″ for a Speaking Percussionist is Bonnie Whiting’s realization of a solo simultaneous performance of John Cage’s 45′ for a Speaker and 27’10.554″ for a Percussionist. These are vintage pieces: music from the mid-50’s and part of a series of timed works that Cage enjoyed mixing together and referred to in notes and letters as “the ten thousand things.” A culmination of 14 months of work and study, Whiting is the first performer to execute both pieces in their entirety.
MAKE NOISE 10th ANNIVERSARY – RECURSION MECHANISM
June 15 + 16, 2018 – Make Noise 10th Anniversary. “Recursion Mechanism,” an installation by Richard Devine with visuals by Matt Kew. This machine/modular system generates an infinite number of sounds, that evolve, grow and multiply into new organic forms. The piece will utilize a 4 channel quad speaker configuration. Each speaker will represent one audio element that will focus on various captured field recordings, synthesis, and manipulated digital audio fragments to make up an ever-changing music composition.
MARIA CHAVEZ – JOHN CAGE’S 33 1/3
June 6, 2018 | BMCM+AC {56 Broadway} – Conceived in 1969 as an audience participation work, John Cage’s original “score” simply stipulated that the gallery be filled with about a dozen record players and two- to three-hundred vinyl records. Museum visitors were encouraged to act as DJs and create a musical mix by playing records freely and thus performing the work. This realization was performed by María Chávez and an open audience, with 300 records compiled by curator Jade Dellinger, including records chosen by Yoko Ono, Iggy Pop, Graham Nash, David Byrne (Talking Heads), Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music), Jack White (The White Stripes), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Richie Ramone (The Ramones), Jad Fair (Half-Japanese), Alex James (Blur), Meredith Monk, Terry Allen, Irwin Chusid, Arto Lindsay (DNA & Lounge Lizards), Blixa Bargeld (Einsturzende Neubauten), Mike Kelley (Destroy All Monsters), S.A. Martinez (311), David Harrington (Kronos Quartet), Emil Schult (Kraftwerk), Pauline Oliveros, The Residents, Vito Acconci, The Art Guys, Martin Atkins (Public Image Ltd.), John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Christian Marclay Joan LaBarbara, Jim Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha and William Wegman.
OPENING RECEPTION + GALLERY TALK
Shared History Opening Reception: Friday, June 1, 5:30 – 8pm {56 Broadway} Gallery talk by exhibition curator Erin Dickey at 6:30pm {56 Broadway} 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of BMCM+AC. As the last exhibition to be held in our 56 Broadway gallery...Odyssey High School Open Mic Coffee Night
Friday, February 9, 7pm {56 Broadway} Odyssey High School will host an Open Mic Coffee Night at Black Mountain College Museum. Students from Odyssey and other area schools will perform music, poetry, and improv. Wonderful homemade baked goods, coffee, tea, and hot...PERFORMANCE AND WORKSHOP – MARIA CHAVEZ
June 5, 2018 (56 Broadway) – María Chávez, solo turntable performance and workshop. Born in Lima, Peru and based in NYC, María Chávez is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist, and DJ. Her work combines recorded sounds from vinyl records with the electroacoustic sounds of vinyl and needle in various deteriorating phases. Accidents, coincidence, and failures are themes that unite her sound sculptures, installations, and other works with her improvised solo turntable performance practice.
DANCE HEGINBOTHAM – {Re}HAPPENING 7
Dance HeginbothamFeatured performers, {Re}HAPPENING 7Historic Black Mountain College campus at Lake EdenMarch 25, 2017 Dance Heginbotham (DH) is a New York-based contemporary dance company committed to supporting, producing, and sustaining the work of...THE TESLA QUARTET – SELECTIONS BY HUGO KAUDER
February 23, 2018 | BMCM+AC {56 Broadway} – The Tesla Quartet performed selections by composer Hugo Kauder. This special program is presented in collaboration with The Hugo Kauder Society. Kauder was a composer-in-residence at BMC in the summer of 1945. The program included Kauder’s String Quartet 4, a piece performed at BMC in 1945, as well as Bartok’s String Quartet 3 and transcriptions of works by Gesualdo and Ravel by Tesla violinist Ross Snyder. Praised for their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style, or technical demand” (The International Review of Music), the Tesla Quartet brings refinement and prowess to both new and established repertoire. The group was formed at The Juilliard School in 2008 and includes Ross Snyder (violin), Michelle Lie (violin), Edwin Kaplan (viola), and Serafim Smigelskiy (cello).
ARTIST + CURATOR TALK
Saturday, January 20, 2pm {56 Broadway} Conversation between curator Jason Andrew and Jerry van de Wiele. In association with Gerald van de Wiele: VARIATIONS Seven Decades of Painting (1951-2017) (January 19 – May 19, 2018). This historic retrospective captures...BIG EARS LISTENING SESSION: Black Mountain College 1952
Friday, March 23 {Big Ears Festival – Knoxville, TN} Listening Sessions at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC investigate the larger lineage of music and interconnected art disciplines and examine the evolving culture of listening. This...BMC Active Archive Artist Residency
Learn about the BMC Active Archive Artist Residency – a program that invites artists to develop work inspired by Black Mountain College
BMC International Artist Prize
Read more about BMCM+AC’s project to conserve one of Black Mountain College’s most iconic artworks.
Jean Charlot Fresco Conservation
Read more about BMCM+AC’s project to conserve one of Black Mountain College’s most iconic artworks.
Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College
September 28, 2018 – January 12, 2019
Gerald van de Wiele: VARIATIONS – Seven Decades of Painting (1951-2017)
January 19 – May 19, 2018
ARTIST TALK: Supper, People on the Move
October 26, 3:15pm – 5pm {Graham Theater, Walker Arts Center- Asheville School, 360 Asheville School Road} An Artist Talk by Pablo Meninato and Jennifer Baker, at Asheville School, will detail the process by which the performance “Supper, People on the...OPENING RECEPTION + ARTIST TALK: Gerald van de Wiele
Friday, January 19, 5:30 – 8pm {56 Broadway} Gerald van de Wiele: VARIATIONS Seven Decades of Painting (1951-2017) – Curated by Jason Andrew This historic retrospective captures seventy years of art by Gerald van de Wiele in an exhibition that highlights the...LISTENING SESSION: Jonathon Keats
Friday, April 20, 7pm {56 Broadway} Universal Music with Jonathon Keats and UNCA Copernican Orchestra This session will focus on Black Mountain College Legacy Fellow Jonathon Keats’ collaboration with UNCA faculty and students to create universal music, as well...Looking Back at ReVIEWING 9
This year’s ReVIEWING, our 9th annual International Conference on Black Mountain College, marked a pivotal point in BMCM+AC’s history. With two keynote presentations, the contributions of over 60 scholars, curators, and artists from around the world, the Southeast...
