March 10, 2021 | Streaming – A solo performance by William Parker accompanies a conversation on “Universal Tonality” (Duke University Press, 2021), a new publication by Cisco Bradley on Parker’s life and music.
March 3, 2021 | Streaming – A Faith in Arts conversation with Norman Fischer, poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest, teaching and practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He is a Dharma heir of Sojun Mel Weitsman, from whom he received Dharma transmission in 1988.
February 24, 2021 | Streaming – A Faith in Arts conversation with Molly Silverstein, poet, graduate student, and former BMCM+AC staff member. Silverstein currently studies at Harvard Divinity School, where her work focuses on spiritual care and counseling and the psychology of religion.
February 18 + 19, 2021 | Citizen Vinyl Session Cafe and Bar – In this two-day Citizen Spins Session from the team at BMCM+AC, listen in to recordings from Black Mountain College icons like John Cage, David Tudor, and Lou Harrison as well as the influential figures that inspired them and those who are keeping that legacy alive.
February 10, 2021 | Streaming – A Faith in Arts conversation with Andre Daughtry, interdisciplinary artist, writer, and Community Minister of the Arts at Judson Memorial Church, NYC.
Ongoing | Streaming – BMCM+AC and UNC Asheville host conversations and interviews with a diverse group of artists, curators, faith leaders, and scholars to explore the role of arts in spiritual practice and religious life and the role of spiritual practice and religious life in the arts.
January 17 – 24, 2021 | Streaming – Revisit the 2020 Fringe Arts Festival interactive performance New Day hosted by BMCM+AC where Derr casts the viewers as painters in a playful investigation of Kenneth Noland’s painting New Day, 1967.
December 9, 2020 | Streaming – Experimental composer and vocalist Sofia Jernberg presents two solo performances at Gränslandet that avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson calls “extraordinary” and “transcendent.” Sofia Jernberg is a Swedish experimental singer, composer, improviser, and performer. She grew up in Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Sweden. Since 2011, she lives in Oslo, Norway.
December 2, 2020 | Streaming – For this performance, from a rooftop in historic Cairo, Asher Gamedze and Another Time Ensemble meditate and speculate on the possibility and necessity of another time. The performance will be followed by a discussion with Asher Gamedze.
November 18, 2020 | Streaming – A conversation with Atelier Éditions’ collaborative team and Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, about the newly published “John Cage: A Mycological Foray”
November 11, 2020 | Streaming – Tune in for a look at TAYO, a new installation from Grace Villamil, in collaboration with IONE and Lisa Kelley of the Ministry of Maåt. A new film about the October 24th activation of TAYO from cinematographer Sam Falconi and filmmaker Marina Katz will be followed by a discussion with Villamil.
October 22, 2020 | Streaming – In the summer of 1944, a brave young woman from Athens, Georgia became the first African-American student to attend an all-white college in the Jim Crow South. Professors Russell Williams Jr., son of BMC alumna Alma Stone Williams, and Joseph Bathanti will discuss her extraordinary life and her place in the history of our country’s struggle for civil rights.
October 14, 2020 | Streaming – Experimental trumpeter/composer Steph Richards and drummer/producer Andrew Munsey perform “homeostasis,” a new piece for sonic conversations with difficult objects.
October 8, 2020 | Streaming – Electronic composer Kimathi Moore performs “Oliver’s Tail [We The Fish]” a new piece that attempts to illustrate a town underwater inspired by the Polish surrealist painter Jacek Yerka.
September 23, 2020 | Zoom – Jason Vartiker asks, “How are Ruth Asawa’s hanging wire sculptures a form of activism for racial justice?”
September 10th, 2020 | Streaming – Turning Jewels Into Water exclusively premiere songs from their newly released album, Our Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars, including ‘Flower In Flames,’ ‘Our Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars’ and ‘Crushed Petals.’ Presented in partnership with Asheville Rhythm.
September 8 – 15, 2020 | Limited time Vimeo screening – Don’t Know We’ll See: The Work of Karen Karnes (directed by Lucy Massie Phenix) | Featuring an introduction by artist and curator Anna Helgeson
August 27, 2020 | Zoom – Join David McConville and Glenn English for an in-depth conversation on the life and work of R. Buckminster Fuller.
August 12, 2020 | Streaming – Artists Steve Locke and Ben Hall will discuss Locke’s current work, Homage to the Auction Block, a series informed by Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square.
July 15, 2020 | Streaming – Brooklyn Rider performs “borderlands…” by Matana Roberts. Healing Modes is Brooklyn Rider’s latest recording that explores the interconnection of music and healthfulness. The recording is available on In a Circle Records and includes Beethoven’s A Minor, Op. 132 along with five commissions. Brooklyn Rider performed Healing Modes at BMCM+AC in 2018. One of the new commissions on Healing Modes is “borderlands…” by composer Matana Roberts.
