{Re}HAPPENING 13 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 13 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

Seeing Is Not Knowing
Artist: Bea Lamar
LOCATION: ARCHERY RANGE (MAP #1)
(Ongoing with happenings every half-hour)
A happening shaped by invisible cues, where the collective moves through a field of heightened perception, directional gaze, extrasensory activation, and the felt presence of the mysterious threads that connect us all.

the lake & the boy
Artists:John Fifield-Perez
LOCATION: DINING HALL DECK (MAP #8)
(Ongoing 4:00-8:00PM)
A weaving / sound installation that evokes the events of January 28th, 1952, when Cy Twombly called Robert Rauschenberg back to shore from a near-fatal, frigid swim out into Lake Eden. Using the forces between queer body and place to tension a loom, it stirs up the muddiness of queer life at BMC.

Tech Play
Artists: Heather Coker Hawkins + Dr. Maurice Moore
LOCATION: BOATHOUSE (MAP #16)
(Ongoing 5:00-10:00PM)
This immersive, evolving installation integrates movement, light, and technology to inspire play and engagement. Heather Coker Hawkins + Dr. Maurice Moore are educators and artists committed to fluidity of exploration and unsettling rigid structure, categorization, and definition.

The Knitted Plane
Artists: Jonathan MacGillis + Jennifer Meakins
LOCATION: ENTRY PATH (MAP #2)
An installation inspired by Anni Albers’ exploration of textiles as pliable planes. Using digitally knitted fabric stretched over a framework of pipes, the sculpture transforms through a series of cuts, creating three-dimensional forms that interact with the surrounding environment

Collaborative Paper Quilt
Artists: Local Cloth members including Joyce Tromba, Denise Arcuri, Megan Plotkin, Sandy Aycock, Paddy Lynch, Jo Ann Stanley, Alinahh Ever
LOCATION: DINING HALL COVERED DECK (MAP #7)
Collaborate to create a paper quilt square which will become part of a whole. Led by Local Cloth, a non-profit network of more fiber artists in WNC, this project embodies the spirit of non-hierarchical collaboration and the power of the collective.

Radio Infrequencies: Walk-and-Talk
Artist: Christopher Hamilton
LOCATION: LAKESIDE PATH (MAP #18)
Join alumni from the days of Black Mountain College in a rotating presentation of lectures and talks throughout the afternoon. The artistic and intellectual luminaries of the past are brought to auditory life in a casual walk-and-talk along the beautiful lakeshore pathway of Lake Eden. A schedule of lectures will be posted at the installation site – join in for a leisurely stroll, stay for the insights.

Ant Float Dream Boat
Artists: Swannatopia’s Experimental Art Club
LOCATION: LAKE EDEN (MAP #12)
Taking influence from the collaborative spirit of BMC, Ant Farm, interpersonal floatation devices, friendship, and WNC’s response to Helene, Swannatopia presents an illuminated parade float ant ballet using shadows and light and pageANTry. Expect ANTics all day with a sunset surprise @ 8:19 PM.

If These Trees Could Talk
Artists: Forest Gamble, Liz Williams, Leslie Rosenberg
with Joe Gamble, Aliya Miranda, Sophie Caswell
and students from UNCA’s FYS 178: WNC Post Helene: How Can We Serve Our Neighbor’s class;
and from UNCA’s NM 350: Intermediate Video class: Ella Andrei-Bolden, Katie Denten, Merlin Diaz Nieto, Ava Kafiti, Hailey Kessler, Kiah Lockamy, Taylor Mason, Emily Parks, Elias Shack, Aidan Stratton, I-anna Torres Salazar, Samaya Young-Stewart
LOCATION: SOUTH LODGE DOWNSTAIRS LEFT (MAP #3)
A multimedia installation that acts as a vehicle for reflecting on Helene’s damage to the people of WNC and our natural places. Sculpted stumps serve as platforms for animations which share the stories of Helene victims through a mixed media approach.

I Was Borne Upstairs
Artists: Ellen Boyette + Archer Boyette
LOCATION: SOUTH LODGE UPSTAIRS LEFT (MAP #3)
(Ongoing 3:00-7:00PM)
An installation that embodies and warps the classic Gothic novel, Jane Eyre. Combining fragmentary textual recordings and projected disintegrations of hand-manipulated 16mm film, the project expands the ideals of BMC into a feminist space by crafting a sensorial display of canonical female madness. 

Sustenance
Artist: Oskar Gambony-Steding
LOCATION: GYM (MAP #13)
An installation using ant farms filled with edible poetry to explore the nourishing aspects of creation.

Monument to the Promise of Tomorrow
Artists: Nyssa Collins, Kyle Cottier, Vanessa Hartman, Madisen Saunders + Kit Buckley
LOCATION: FIELD BELOW GYM (MAP #14)
A durational sculpture and performance in which the artists and participants will build and deconstruct a monument over the course of the day. This work is representative of the creative potential of artists and workers that is frustrated and misplaced in our current economic system.

Camera Obscura: A World Turned Upside Down
Artists: Grace Clark + Ash Strazzinski
LOCATION: FIELD BELOW GYM (MAP #14)
(Ongoing until sunset)
An interactive pop-up camera obscura tent honoring the perspective-altering history of photography at BMC; both in its role as a form of art and its role in the historic documentation of a legacy that we celebrate through {Re}HAPPENING today.

til human voices wake us
Artist: Paul Bright
LOCATION: QUIET HOUSE (MAP #15)
A four-channel sound and video installation collaged from recordings at two locations: the BMC Quiet House and the fields of the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Both sites evidence the erasure of ‘pure’ nature and acknowledge the incorporation of human intrusions into the environment.

The PHENOMENAL-PROJECTIVE TEXTILE-FIELD
Artists: Daniel C. Remein + Arthur J. Russell
LOCATION: FIELD BY STUDIES BUILDING (MAP #17)
An experience of sensory space woven with a Warp of Language and Sound and a Weft of Color and Kinetics. The project draws on the work of Charles Olson and Anni Albers to explore how language and perception can modulate a spatial field or manipulate an invisible textile.

SCHEDULED EVENTS

3:30-5:30PM
(Ongoing participatory theater happening)
the mediacircus and its double//dip in the lake
Artists: //sense collective, including Kyriakos Apostolidis, Ivan M. Akiri, Sinuo (Snow) Chen, Eunjin Choi, Mengjun Duan, gordon fung, Beile Hu, Ian Kang, Yun Lee, Zio (Zhe) Li, Kim Nucci, Che Pai, Carissa Pinckney, Kyle Gregory Price, Terry Sofianos Wohlgenant, Omnia Sol, blair st george, Winnie Weiyun Szu, Lili Xie
LOCATION: GYM (MAP #13)
//sense is a Chicago-based experimental participatory theater troupe building community through an intermix of arts, life, game, and technology. They create brave spaces through “mediacircus” for participants to unleash their imagination. Drop in anytime during the 2-hour participatory happening!

3:30-3:45, 7:45-8:00 AND 9:30-9:45PM
(Ongoing installation with 15 minute performances)
Swannanoan Silt
Artists: Tristan Turner, Isaac King + Agis Shaw
LOCATION: SOUTH LODGE LOBBY (MAP #3)
A two-channel projection performance with an improvised score examining how WNC rebuilds in the aftermath of Helene. Projected 16mm motion pictures and slide photography engage with Helene’s invisible ecological impact, as the film was processed in the contaminated Swannanoa and French Broad Rivers.

4:00-4:20, 6:00-6:20 AND 8:30-8:50PM
(Ongoing installation with 20 minute performances)
Troubled Water 2.0: Hell’n High Water
Artists: Caro + Chri 
LOCATION: ROUND HOUSE (MAP #6)
An installation exploring the power of water and impact of impermanence. Made of water bottles saved after Hurricane Helene with live performance and projected images and video of the storm, Troubled Water 2.0 reprises the artist duo’s 2021 installation and performance in a new context.

4:00-4:45 AND 6:45-7:30PM
(45 minute workshops)
Musical Quiltation
Artists: Gwyn Lyles 
LOCATION: SOUTH LODGE PORCH (MAP #3)
A workshop in which participants will build the skills to read quilts as musical notation. We will develop a repertoire of sounds associated with the patterns of the quilts, and progressively more complex patterns will be introduced as we learn to play them.

4:30-4:45 AND 6:30-6:45PM
(15 minute performances)
Wonder Metal Arabesque 1 + 2
Artists: Susan Hefner + Kevin Shea
LOCATION: DINING HALL (MAP #5)
This duo blurs the roles of dancer and musician using a unique sound/movement vocabulary to create structured improvisational percussion pieces. Their slapstick, nonsensical play creates both accidental and intentional sound, using junk as a vehicle for the aural/visual imagination.

5:00-5:30 AND ONWARDS
(30 minute storytelling with ongoing installation)
Chinderella a la Normando
Artists: Normando Ismay
LOCATION: SOUTH LODGE PORCH (MAP #3)
A participatory workshop and installation by Normando Ismay. This storytelling-based project will result in a collaborative sculpture and will focus on creating a sense of community. Listen to the story at 5PM and then join the collaborative artmaking process.

5:15-6:15PM
¡MIRA!
Artist: E.  Medina
LOCATION: DINING HALL (MAP #5)
A solo performance of English/Spanish poetry and musical sound collage which aims to highlight and expand on the historic dialogue between several BMC artists/composers and their contemporaries in Mexico during the late 1960s and early 70s.

5:45-6:15 AND 8:00-8:45
(30 minute workshop AND 45 minute performance)
The Atlanta Improviser’s Orchestra
Artists: Atlanta Improviser’s Orchestra
LOCATION: GYM (MAP #13)
The Atlanta Improviser’s Orchestra is a unique musical experience in conducted improvisation. Conductors take turns guiding a group of some of Atlanta’s most talented improvisers in a collaborative and spontaneous group composition that pushes the boundaries of genre and expression.

6:00-6:45PM
trans-Art Performance
Artists: Astrid Rieder + Erik Spangler
LOCATION: SOUTH LODGE UPSTAIRS RIGHT (MAP #3)
A transdisciplinary dialog between abstract drawing and new, improvised music. Two artists enter a bidirectional dialog based on mutual inspiration, in which they meet without hierarchy.

6:30-6:45 AND 9:30-9:45PM
(15 minute performances)
Calm Center / Msg in a Bottle (a DANCE for RAY JOHNSON)
Artists: Dane Cree
LOCATION: GYM (MAP #13)
A dance/performance homage to Ray Johnson’s KAFKA “reading.” Inspired by parts of Ray’s movements and vocalizations, a cardboard box and a leather belt. This contemporary dance will be performed in front of a projected animation using the square grid structure of Ray’s ‘Calm Center’ painting.

7:15-8:00PM
(45 minute performances)
Impulse
Artists: Meg Mulhearn + Kim Rueger 
LOCATION: DINING HALL (MAP #5)
This experiential performance will explore concepts of intention, motivation, and curiosity, utilizing modular synthesis, violin, live sampling, and interactive tools engineered to allow audience members to manipulate sounds.

8:45-9:15PM
(Ongoing installation with 30 minute performance)
slu
Artists: Gavin Stewart & Vanessa Owen (Stewart/Owen Dance), Douglas Carr (Soft Talk), Colston Byrd & Early Gima (DRUGStm)
LOCATION: DINING HALL (MAP #5)
A performance and installation synthesizing digital and analog media, live dance, sound, and set pieces within an evolving, interactive feedback loop. slu merges technology, organic material, and chance encounters to respond to and reflect on experiences of natural and technological worlds.

The John Cage Room

The John Cage Room is curated by LamplightAVL, an arts nonprofit based in Asheville NC.
LOCATION: NORTH LODGE (MAP #4)

Ongoing Installations

The Demon
Artist: Nate Northup
LOCATION: PORCH
The demon will accept requests of malice and ill will from attendants, made anonymously and deposited into a collection box.

XOR Installation
Artist: XOR (Matthew Boman)
LOCATION: PORCH
Music concrete meets streaming. An immersive blend of the digital and physical that grounds you in your environment while bridging connections across space and time. A participatory installation that facilitates a shared listening and creating experience.

one from the river, one from the mud
Artists: Lindsay Mercer and Andrew Weathers
LOCATION: DOWNSTAIRS RIGHT
Andrew Weathers presents a modified version of a sound work made while in residency at 821, AW Walks to the West Bank of the French Broad Every Day. It will be presented in tandem with an installation by Lindsay Mercer, as well as in a performative iteration.

ode to a pond
Artists: Madeleine Sis
LOCATION: DOWNSTAIRS LEFT
This visual recreation of a pond world serves as an ecological representation and a metaphor for an equitable, harmonious community whose health relies on a balanced exchange of production and consumption. The pond invites participants to practice reciprocity in the wider landscape of life.

Room For Light and Sound
Artists: Brett Naucke and Peter Speer
LOCATION: UPSTAIRS RIGHT
Brett Naucke & Peter Speer present a self-playing and continuously evolving audio and visual installation inspired by the experimental spirit and techniques of Black Mountain College-era artists.

Interactive Web
Artists: Olyver Scarbeary
LOCATION: UPSTAIRS LEFT
Olyver Scarbeary presents a participatory experience aimed at deepening presence and opening the doors to collective imagination, weaving tangible and abstract social webs.

Vine Shrouds
Artist: Zoie Reamer
A multimedia installation created from invasive vines manipulated into grid formations, reflecting on the balance of what is forced and what flows.

Live Performances

3:15PM
Superflower
Zoie Reamer
Blending the worlds of experimental, pop, and traditional folk ballads, auditory moments of everyday life, chordal melodies, and haunting vocals come together to weave an immersive tapestry of sound.

4:00PM
XOR Performance
Matthew Boman with projections by Mica Rutkowski
XOR is the experimental/electronic project of Matthew Boman. With haunting melodies, pulsating rhythms, and seductive hooks, XOR propels electronic music into a realm of sonic uncertainty.

4:35PM
Andrew Weathers
Andrew Weathers is a composer, improviser, and intermedia artist based in the Front Range region of Colorado. His work is equally concerned with the disjunction of duration and place, as well as improvisation’s prospect as a vessel of discovery and collective practice.

5:15PM
Zach Cooper
Black Mountain-based Grammy-award winning composer will be premiering a new tape piece, “Randy Travis’ Quartet for the End of Time”

6:00PM
Shane Justice McCord, Splashblade, and Ashley Paul
(Shane McCord, Jake Pugh, Ashley Paul)
Shane McCord’s Tree of Heaven (2025) explores sound through textured acoustic instrumentation, field recording collage, woodwind composition, tape manipulation and lyrical songs. Shane will perform a piece on piano accompanied by Jake Pugh on computer.

7:15PM
Spyrodon
(Tara Foley + Alex Theodoropulos)
SPYRODON is a sound and a visual project: a collaborative entity between husband-and-wife artist team, Alex Theodoropulos and Tara Foley.

8:00PM
Mere Fever
(Hannah Eicholtz + Abe Leonard)
Mere Fever is a musical project that explores the delicate balance between tenderness and experimentation.

8:50PM
Ellicott Hooligan
(David Portner, Michael Powers and Shane McCord)
Ellicott Hooligan is a WNC-based trio utilizing improvisation, experimentation, and acoustic instrumentation. Part trance inducing sonic exploration, part emotional release; Ellicott Hooligan occupies a space somewhere between wholeness and nothingness.