{Re}HAPPENING 12 Schedule

The {Re}HAPPENING is open to visitors from 3pm-10pm. Food & Drink will be available on-site all day. You can find the detailed schedule for the {Re}HAPPENING 12 projects and performances below. (MAP LOCATION refers to the event map which will be included in the printed program when you enter the event).

ONGOING INSTALLATIONS

Radio Infrequencies: Horizons
Artist: Chris Hamilton
LOCATION: ARCHERY RANGE (MAP #1)
(Ongoing)
Radio Infrequencies: Horizons employs mundane alarm clock radios to immerse the audience in an ocean of sound. A maximalist project inspired by John Cage’s Radio Music, the installation envelopes the audience in noise, space, light, and movement.

Wave of Light, Field of Sound
Artist: Matt Allison
LOCATION: GREEN LAWN (MAP #5)
(Ongoing)
A circular installation of solar powered AM/ FM radios tuned to local frequencies which create an immersive, site specific sound collage. After the event, the radios will be donated to the local Asheville grassroots organization BeLoved who have enthusiastically agreed to distribute them to local unhoused people.

Bucky’s Specter
Artist: Michael Webster
LOCATION: BEACH (MAP #13)
(Ongoing)
Learn to build lightweight geodesic structures using dowels and zip ties. The inventive possibilities are numerous and the forms can grow organically, allowing for more variation than the classic Buckminster Fuller geodesic domes. Participants can range from ages 8+ and do not need any prior experience. 

Collaborative Bookmaking
Artists: Kimber Gada-Steinauer, Joyce Tromba, Lynne Noble, Denise Arcuri, and Kathy English
LOCATION: DINING HALL COVERED DECK (MAP #8)
(Ongoing with instructional periods at 4pm, 5pm, and 7:30pm)
In this ongoing workshop, participants can learn simple book-making techniques with artists from Local Cloth. There will be several 30-minute instructional periods throughout the event, and an opportunity to add to a large community book that will be collectively created. Books will be made with provided recycled materials, and participants are welcome to bring additional materials from home. Appropriate for any experience level.

Color Theory Guard
Artist: Swannatopia’s Experimental Art Club
LOCATION: ROUND HOUSE (MAP #7)
(Ongoing)
Swannatopia presents an immersive prismatic playground and color wheel simulator with choreographed movements and dance. Every hour, the performers will introduce a new playground prop, color combination exercise, and ambient track that will slowly transform the space into a full spectrum experience. 

The Rhizomatic Collective Unconscious Dreamcatcher
Artist: Cilla Vee Life Arts
LOCATION: ISLAND (MAP #16)
(Ongoing)
Cilla Vee Life Arts (in collaboration with Warren Wilson College Students) presents The Rhizomatic Collective Unconscious Dreamcatcher, a performance sculpture installation that draws on the legacy of Anni Albers’s weaving practice at Black Mountain College. This work explores the crucial networks and systems of unification and connection in the natural environment and in human society by comparing mycorrhizal fungi with the neural networks of the mind and our Collective Unconscious.

Rattlin’ Bog
Artist: Victoria Bradbury
LOCATION: NORTH LODGE UPSTAIRS RIGHT (MAP #4)
(Ongoing)
Rattlin’ Bog is an interactive installation that uses projection, sound, animation, and digital fabrication to present a bog ecosystem. The viewer-participant controls the water level in the bog and the temperament of the animals by fitting cutouts into a sculptural engraved scene.

Portal of Perception
Artists: George Sims and Kirta Shuckstes
LOCATION: NORTH LODGE UPSTAIRS LEFT (MAP #4)
(Ongoing)
Portal of Perception is an engaging and immersive audio-visual installation that utilizes a back projection system with two screens to simulate a tunnel effect. This installation aims to captivate audiences by providing a unique and immersive experience through the combination of visual and auditory elements. Participants can experience a mesmerizing journey through dynamic visuals and synchronized soundscapes.

Woven Symphony: Weaving Glass’s Opening
Artist: Qianwen Yu
LOCATION: QUIET HOUSE (MAP #20)
(Ongoing)
This interactive installation delves into the intersection of weaving and music. Converting auditory melodies into tangible textures, it translates Philip Glass’s Opening into woven fabric. The project seeks to decompose and reconstruct common understandings of weaving and music history while using modern technology to interpret the relationship between the two.

Threshold Gods

Artist: Michelle Yi Martin
LOCATION: QUIET HOUSE (MAP #20)
(Ongoing)
A collection of Michelle Yi Martin’s large-scale sculptures, made of monofilament, horsehair, and jute, are suspended midair. The ethereal, amorphous forms present as beings in a transformative state – just at the threshold of life.

Longing Limbs
Artist: Jen Clay
LOCATION: BOATHOUSE (MAP #15)
(Ongoing)
Inspired by overgrown mountain walking trails, Longing Limbs is a playful representative of dread from “what hangs over your head.” Clay’s desire to find safety in uncertainty is shown in the combination of the familiar quilt embrace with the strangeness of hand-tree limbs. Clay is part of the inaugural cohort of BMC Active Archive Artists in Residence.

Shadows Unveiled
Artist: Julie Becton Gillum
LOCATION: ROAMING
(Ongoing)
Shadows Unveiled, a Butoh dance performance, aims to explore the essence of transformation and darkness that engulfs our existence. This nomadic dance journey will take the audience on a captivating exploration of emotions, symbolism, and movement, reflecting the various shades of a darkening world.

SCHEDULED EVENTS

3:00-5:00 (workshop) AND performances at 6:30-6:40 AND 8:00-8:30PM
(2 hour workshop and performances of 10 and 30 minutes)
The Trash Trout Motion Picture Show
Artists: Tom Hansell, Trevor McKenzie and Julie Shepherd-Powell
LOCATION: GYM (MAP #19)
The Trash Trout Motion Picture Show is a participatory workshop and multi-disciplinary performance that supports efforts to protect our rivers from pollution. The artists collaborate with water protectors to collect plastic from rivers, tape it to 16mm film, and project it to a live performance of traditional music and dance from the watershed where the trash was collected.  
The initial 10 minute performance will share the film clips created during the workshop, while the later 30 minute performance will feature traditional Appalachian musician Trevor McKenzie and flatfoot dancer Julie Shepherd-Powell.

3:00-5:30 AND performance 5:30-5:45PM
(Ongoing pottery session with scheduled performance)
Destruction is desirable
Artists: Michael Medeiros and Kiran Jandu
LOCATION: GYM PATIO (MAP #19)
Grounded in the work of Black Mountain College faculty M.C. Richards and David Tudor, Destruction is desirable is a two-person site-and-community-engaged performance piece inspired by monotropa uniflora, the ghost pipe. The collaboration between Kiran Jandu and Michael Medeiros is a participatory happening involving clay, movement, and live improvisational sound.

3:30-3:45, 6:30-6:45 AND 9:30-9:45PM
(15 minute performances)
Play, Life, Illusion 2
Artist: Miles Lamberson
LOCATION: NORTH LODGE LOBBY (MAP #4)
Play, Life, Illusion 2 is a multi-channel video and performance based on Xanti Schawinsky’s iconic Spectodrama. The performance incorporates dance, music, paperboard props, and costumes which re-awaken the experimental nature of Schawinsky’s space-plays.

3:30-4:15PM
Spiral Garden
Artists: Spiral Garden (band): Emmalee Hunnicutt, Graham Thomason, Jonathan Snead, Will Beasley, and Ben Hjertmann
LOCATION: DINING HALL (MAP #6)
Performing compositions by Ben Hjertmann: Surrealist Songs in Just Intonation including invented instruments and polyrhythmic (Just Intonation rhythm) grooves.

4:00-4:25 AND 7:00-7:25
(Ongoing installation with scheduled 25 minute performances)
ELIZABETHS
Artists: Nathan Carter and Rachel Allen
LOCATION: NORTH LODGE PORCH (MAP #4)
ELIZABETHS is a concrete compositional experiment between poet Rachel Allen and sculptor Nathan Carter. “Conception Score” is their first work for the stage. 

4:00-4:30, 5:00-5:30, AND 7:00-7:30PM
(30 minute participatory performance)
Music Gardening
Artist: Sarah Louise
LOCATION: FIELD BY STUDIES BUILDING (MAP #22)
Through an embodied herbal tea party and improvised singing, we practice using song for cross-species communication, honoring the intelligence of plants and acknowledging the importance of remembering how to learn directly from them. This opens a door for collaborating directly with the natural world to solve our most pressing problems. 

4:00-8:00PM
(Durational Reading)
Bicameral Poem
Artist: Justin William Evans
LOCATION: BRICK TERRACE (MAP #12)
A 4-6 hour reading performed at a distance. Listen to the reading through a radio receiver and watch through a telescope. You are encouraged to write as you listen, and writing will be incorporated into the durational reading.

4:30-4:45 AND 5:45-6:00PM 
(15 minute performances)
Technogenesis
Artists: Eric Mullis, Madeline Badgett, Taylor Railton, and Mikaela Laxton
LOCATION: DINING HALL (MAP #6)
An experimental dance trio that, inspired by Merce Cunningham and John Cage, merges aleatory techniques and digital software platforms to create unconventional choreography. 

4:45-5:15 AND 7:45-8:15PM
(Ongoing installation with scheduled 30 minute performances)
Aria for the Elements
Artists: Alisha Erao and Elisa Faires 
LOCATION: SOUTH LODGE UPSTAIRS CENTER (MAP #2)
An audio-visual alchemical synthesis that revisits John Cage’s use of chance operations with nature, voice, music and visual elements. Audience members are encouraged to visit the installation and contribute to a public altar that will be transformed into a graphic score.

5:00-5:30PM
Netty Simons: Circle of Attitudes
Artists: Zach Aliotta and Leah Wilks
LOCATION: DINING HALL (MAP #6)
Circle of Attitudes will present the groundbreaking and virtually unknown work of Netty Simons, a lifelong friend of Stefan Wolpe who was a composer in her own right. Her work combines sound and movement/dance using a complex system of graphic notation, and creates a framework for truly beautiful improvised encounters. In the context of Black Mountain College, she remains a mysterious “what if,” but from her friendships and artistic sensibilities, she belongs here. 

5:00-5:30, 6:00-6:30, AND 7:30-8:00
(Ongoing with scheduled performances)
The Abandoned Garden Structures
Artists: Drones in the Garden (Lynn Fister, Sophie Hull, Patrick Kukucka), Sally Reeske, and Allie Morris
LOCATION: FIELD BELOW GYM (MAP #18)
An all-day immersive botanical installation with scheduled musical performances and interspersed spoken word / poetry readings. Presented by Drones in the Garden in collaboration with Bagatelle Books and Static Age Records.

5:00-5:30, 6:00-6:30, 8:00-8:30, AND 9:00-9:30PM 
(30 minute performances)
Klee-tomania
Artists: Matt Greenwell and Ron Buffington
LOCATION: GYM (MAP #19) (Performances 1 and 2), FIELD BY STUDIES BUILDING (MAP #22) (Performances 3 and 4)
In Klee-tomania, Greenwell and Buffington revisit the instructional traditions of Black Mountain College. By coaxing live mixed sound recordings and video projections of historical footage into what Joseph Albers described as “constructive thinking,” Klee-tomania reanimates legacies of art pedagogy.

5:45-6:15 AND 8:45-9:15PM
(Ongoing installation with scheduled 30 minute performances)
Double Double or Nothing
Artists: Laura Steenberge and Madison Brookshire
LOCATION: SOUTH LODGE LOBBY (MAP #2)
Double Double or Nothing is a collaborative performance by filmmaker Madison Brookshire and composer Laura Steenberge. Two film projectors produce a low mechanical hum while a sine tone plays out of a nearby speaker, creating a chord that quietly fills the room. Brookshire (harmonium and voice) and Steenberge (viola da gamba and voice) respond to this low chord with long tones that are tuned to the overtones to produce subtle textures that simultaneously feel ever-changing and invariable.

6:00-6:30PM
aloud 
a participatory emergent moment in memory of Connie Bostic
With Amanda Wiles + guest contributors
LOCATION: FIELD BY STUDIES BUILDING (MAP #22)
aloud is a participatory moment of remembrance and creation of an emergent vocal soundscape that invites participants to be in the flow while invoking the spirit of the late artist Connie Bostic— a local legend and formative voice in Asheville’s art scene and shaping BMCM+AC who passed earlier this year. Drawing on the legacy of happenings, Amanda Wiles guides participants through a practice of somatic connection, movement, reflection, and a calling forth the words and imprints left by Connie (or others in your life who have passed). Invited guest contributors as well as participants will contribute to layering and echoing vocal elements to build a soundscape for the moment. 

6:15-7:00PM
names, erased
Artist: John Popham
LOCATION: DINING HALL (MAP #6)
names, erased is a solo performance for modern and baroque cellos. Inspired by Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning Drawing,” the program combines 17th century compositions with new works by Ya-Lan Chan, Inga Chinilina, Reiko Füting, and Yule Han. As the performer’s body retraces and reworks the movements of past cellists and composers, it uncovers new forms of sonic expression, and explores the art making—and “art erasing”—that results from artistic encounters across time. 

7:00-7:45 AND 8:30-9:15PM
(45 minute performances)
Intercession 
Artists: Caitlyn Schrader, Sean Mulcahy, and Bjorn Bates
LOCATION: GYM (MAP #19)
This durational performative experiment offers a layering of physical bodies, projections, fabric, sound, and surveillance cameras. It aims to interrogate the artist’s “performance of self” through self-conscious interactions of the physical body and projected image. The audience is encouraged to take control of the camera’s frame, resulting in a real-time manipulation of the performance. 

7:15-8:00PM
Extrapolations from Otherwhere
Artist: Majid Araim
LOCATION: DINING HALL (MAP #6)
Extrapolations from Otherwhere is a one person operetta set within Otherwhere, a fantasy realm existing parallel to ours: accessible to humans only through dreams and meditation, governed by magic and/or intention.

8:15-9:00PM
Sound, Performance, and Land
Artists: Liz Flood, Mauricio López F., Sam Anthem and Virginia Kennard
LOCATION: DINING HALL (MAP #6)
A collection of happenings in three phrases, with disciplines spanning sound, installation, performance, art and technology, and dance. Sound, Performance, Land is a new collective formed in response to a graduate seminar co-taught by legendary avant-garde composer Raven Chacon and experimental educator Whitney Johnson.

8:45-9:15PM
Child of Grunge
Artists: Blue McCall, Kezia Waters, Yaelin Calaguas Kim.
LOCATION: DINING HALL (MAP #6)
Appalachian prodigal son Blue McCall returns with a score exploring place-based simultaneity and interdisciplinary collaboration. Kezia Waters will dance with a neon sculpture fabricated by Yaelin Calaguas Kim, while Blue plays their grunge musician father’s electric guitar (incorrectly) for the first time. The performance connects the formal strategies of Asawa, Cage, Cunningham, and Rauschenberg with the deskilled and deranged compositional techniques of grunge, to today’s experimental music landscape.