{Re}HAPPENING

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In 2009, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center board member Jolene Mechanic developed a fundraising idea that grew into the {Re}HAPPENING, a dinner and performance event inspired by John Cage’s 1952 Theatre Piece No. 1, considered by many to be the first Happening. For the first six years, the Media Arts Project (MAP), an artist-run non-profit in Asheville, collaborated to organize and produce the event with BMCM+AC. The {Re}HAPPENING is part art event, part fundraiser, and part community instigator, providing a platform for contemporary artists to share their responses to the vital legacy of Black Mountain College by activating the buildings and grounds of the BMC campus with installations, new media, music, and performance projects.

VIDEOS

Revisit past performances and installations through the {Re}HAPPENING video playlist or recaps below

PHOTOS

2024 – PROGRAM | ARTIST PAGE
Play, Life, Illusion 2 Artist: Miles Lamberson Photographer: Neeta Kepchar {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Technogenesis Artists: Eric Mullis, Madeline Badgett, Taylor Railton, and Mikaela Laxton Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Color Theory Guard Artist: Swannatopia’s Experimental Art Club Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Shadows Unveiled Artist: Julie Becton Gillum Located in front of a mural by Jean Charlot from BMC Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Intercession Artists: Caitlyn Schrader, Sean Mulcahy, and Bjorn Bates Photographer: Grace Clark {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Color Theory Guard Artist: Swannatopia’s Experimental Art Club Photographer: Kimmy Tolbert {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
The Abandoned Garden Structures Artists: Drones in the Garden (Lynn Fister, Sophie Hull, Patrick Kukucka), Sally Reeske, and Allie Morris Photographer: Peter Speer {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Longing Limbs Artist: Jen Clay Photographer: Kimmy Tolbert {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Project: Bucky's Specter Artist: Michael Webster Photographer: Neeta Kepchar {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Project: Bicameral Poem Artist: Justin William Evans Photographer: David Gwaltney {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
The Rhizomatic Collective Unconscious Dreamcatcher Artist: Cilla Vee Life ArtS Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
The Rhizomatic Collective Unconscious Dreamcatcher Artist: Cilla Vee Life ArtS Photographer: David Gwaltney {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Wave of Light, Field of Sound Artist: Matt Allison Photographer: David Gwaltney {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Project: Collaborative Bookmaking Artists: LOCAL CLOTH, including Kimber Gada-Steinauer, Joyce Tromba, Lynne Noble, Denise Arcuri, and Kathy English Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
PROJECT: Aria for the Elements ARTISTS: Alisha Erao and Elisa Faires PHOTOGRAPHER: Grace Clark ReHAPPENING 12 (2024)
ELIZABETHS Artists: Nathan Carter and Rachel Allen Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Sound, Performance, and Land Artists: Liz Flood, Mauricio López F., Sam Anthem and Virginia Kennard. Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Project: Child of Grunge Artists pictured: Blue McCall, Kezia Waters Photographer: David Gwaltney {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Project: Sound, Performance, Land Artist pictured: Virginia Kennard. Photographer: Neeta Kepchar {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Destruction is desirable Artists pictured: CJ Miller and Kiran Jandu Photographer: Rachel Goldstein {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Double Double or Nothing Artists: Laura Steenberge and Madison Brookshire Photographer: Kimmy Tolbert {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Threshold Gods Artist: Michelle Yi Martin Photographer: Kimmy Tolbert {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Spiral Garden Artists: Spiral Garden (band): Emmalee Hunnicutt, Graham Thomason, Jonathan Snead, Will Beasley, and Ben Hjertmann Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Music Gardening Artist: Sarah Louise Photographer: Neeta Kepchar {Re}HAPPEING 12 (2024)
names, erased Artist: John Popham Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Klee-tomania Artists: Matt Greenwell and Ron Buffington Photographer: Rachel Goldstein {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
aloud: a participatory emergent moment in memory of Connie Bostic With Amanda Wiles + guest contributors Utah Green, Liz Lang, Ted Pope and Laura Pope Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Netty Simons: Circle of Attitudes Artists: Zach Aliotta and Leah Wilks Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Extrapolations from Otherwhere Artist: Majid Araim Photographer: Rachel Goldstein {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
The Trash Trout Motion Picture Show Artists: Tom Hansell, Trevor McKenzie and Julie Shepherd-Powell Photographer: Kimmy Tolbert {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
The Trash Trout Motion Picture Show Artists: Tom Hansell, Trevor McKenzie and Julie Shepherd-Powell Photographer: Neeta Kepchar {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Radio Infrequencies: Horizons Artist: Chris Hamilton Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Woven Symphony: Weaving Glass's Opening Artist: Qianwen Yu Photographer: Kimmy Tolbert {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
Color Theory Guard Artist: Swannatopia’s Experimental Art Club Photographer: Michael Oppenheim {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
{Re}HAPPENING 12 Porch - Photograph by Michael Oppenheim
{Re}HAPPENING 12 at night - Photograph by Michael Oppenheim
Rattlin' Bog Artist: Victoria Bradbury Photographer: Forest Gamble {Re}HAPPENING 12 (2024)
2023 – PROGRAM | ARTIST PAGE
Appalachian State University students – Crickets and Cockroaches. Created by Adekemi Adekanle, Katie Andrews, Kat Arendt, Francois Desautels, Elliot Froese, Jessica Greenfield, Hailey Jordan, Trinity Luce, Juliana Maurer, Grace Moffitt, Ben Pluska, Jody Servon, Becca Stickler, and Anna Wolly as part of the course Collaboration & Participation in Art. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Swannatopia’s Experimental Art Club – Fountain of You. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Atlanta Improvisers Orchestra. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Leslie Rosenberg, Liz Trader Williams, and Ethan Schultz – HomeSick. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Leslie Rosenberg, Liz Trader Williams, and Ethan Schultz – HomeSick. Notes written by {Re}HAPPENING attendees. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Drew Barker & Maurice Watson – A Distant Marker.
Bug Mall - by Drop of Sun Studios. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
The Shapes of Movement - A collaboration between the Moving Architects, gwen charles, and Crystal Gregory. Photograph by Camilla Calnan.
Madeline Yahr and Daria Raguseo - Málning. Choreographed by Madeline Yahr. Photograph by Eric Baden.
Brett Naucke – Adjacent Rooms Without Time. Photograph by Eric Baden.
Dance to Anything: Lake Eden. Participating artists include: Anna Johnson, Camille Casemier, Chris Reeves, Jesse Malmed, Lauren Sudbrink, Lula Asplund, Maggie Wong, & Tiffany Funk. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Mike Holmes & Landon George – All I Ever Wanted Was A House I Could Scream In. Ensemble including Mike Holmes, Landon George, Edgar Medina, Zoie Reamer, Chad Beattie, Cam Stack, Shane McCord, Michael Powers. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Jonathan Furnell, Rachel Pittman, & Holden Treadway – Lovers Leap. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Turntable Poetry Recitation - Adam McDaniel and Devyn Marzuola. Part of Drop of Sun Studio's "John Cage Room." Photograph by Eric Baden.
Kayla Hammonds – Doom Scroller. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Wildflower Walks (+Trees Too) - Led by Julie J. Thomson and Brian Bockhahn. Photograph by Camilla Calnan.
Hillerbrand+Magsamen– 147 Devices for Integrated Principles. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre – My World Within the Bubble. Photograph by Eric Baden.
David Raymond and Trong Gia Nguyen – The Last Letter Writer. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
gwen charles, Claire Barratt, Elisa Faires, Gary Schneider - Cactus Care. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Mollie Hosmer-Dillard – Multi-Vocal Painting. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Eddie Lohmeyer – 100,000 Suns in a Drop of Dew. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Repeat Until True - Zach Cooper, Adam McDaniel. Part of Drop of Sun Studios' "John Cage Room." Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
The Big Beautiful Crankie Project - Part of Drop of Sun Studio's "John Cage Room." Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Astrid Kaemmerling and Becca J.R. Lachman – What I say to this house. Photograph by Michael Oppenheim.
Adjunct - Performance by DEBORA (Eleanor Hullihan, Jimmy Jolliff, Emma Judkins, and Adam Schatz with costume design by Asli Bulbul). Photograph by Camilla Calnan.
2022 – PROGRAM
Featuring the Philip Glass Ensemble
 
Min Xiao-Fen and River Guerguerian at BMCM+AC's {Re}HAPPENING 10
2019 – PROGRAM
Featuring Arooj Aftab, Anjna Swaminathan & Rafiq Bhatia Trio and Kiranavali Vidyasankar, Sandhya Anand, and Vinod Seetharaman

2018
Featuring Roomful of Teeth

2017
Featuring Third Coast Percussion and Dance Heginbotham
 
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