Draft subject to change
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
1:00pm
Reuter Center Lobby – UNC Asheville – Registration/check-in begins
Ongoing throughout the conference
Reuter Center Lobby
Mark Dixon and Jonathan Henderson – Anechoia Memoriam: An Interactive Performance for Typewriter and Piano
Outside on the patio
Shawn Protz and NC State University students with Noura Howell and Georgia Tech students – A happening for a happening, an immersive inflatable experience
1:30 – 3:00pm
Panel #1 – Room 206
Moderator: Rick Chess
Siu Challons-Lipton – Artistic Literacy: Black Mountain College and 21st Century Education
Irene Hall – Go Ask Alice: The Influence of Alice Chipman Dewey on John Dewey and Black Mountain College
Borim Song – Black Mountain College Artists Explored in Elementary STEAM Lessons
Panel #2 – Room 207
Moderator: Jack Michael
Marcia R. Cohen – A Circuitous Path: John Cage, Mushrooms, Thoreau and Haiku…Oh My!
Rennie Tang – Performing Charcoal Landscapes
George Elvin – Drawing Silence: Drawing as a Search for Stillness
Panel #3 – Room 205
Moderator: Tom Frank
Callous Physical Theatre (Joséphine Garibaldi & Paul Zmolek) – Dialogic Devising in [Cage(d) Time] | Strategies of Scoring Indeterminacy | Runescores
Laura Sellers – Response to John Cage’s Mycological Foray
Blanca Bercial – What constitutes silence?
Panel #4 – Room 230
Moderator: Mary Holden Thompson
Topher Lineberry – Black Mountain College: Eclipsing the Local in Artworld Memory
Carl Schmitz – “I have nothing to say and I am saying it”: John Cage and the Abstract Expressionist Ego
Emily Ruth Capper – Cage, Kaprow, and the Experimental Lecture
3:15 – 4:00pm
Manheimer Room
JACK Quartet and John Luther Adams in conversation – Leading up to the world premiere of John Luther Adams’ Waves and Particles, the composer and members of JACK Quartet discuss the work.
4:15- 5:15pm
Manheimer Room
KEYNOTE – Laura Kuhn (executive director, John Cage Trust) & Jeff Arnal (executive director, BMC Museum + Arts Center) discuss the life and work of John Cage. Accompanied by a slideshow of rare photographs from the John Cage Trust.
7:30 – 9:30pm
BMC Museum + Arts Center (120 College St., downtown Asheville)
World premiere of John Luther Adams’ Waves + Particles by JACK Quartet, commissioned by BMCM+AC
On view – Don’t Blame it on Zen: The Way of John Cage & Friends curated by Jade Dellinger
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Reuter Center Lobby, UNC Asheville – Meet + Greet
9:00 – 10:30am
Panel #1 – Room 206
Moderator: Julie Levin Caro
Corey Loftus & Madison Bell-Rosof – Studies Made on the Typewriter: Anni Albers’s Innovative Approach to Teaching Textile Design at Black Mountain College
Michael Beggs – In Search of Alex Reed
Jennifer Nieling – The Nantucket Looms: Historicism, Modernism, and the Legacy of Black Mountain College
Panel #2 – Room 207
Moderator: Adam Blair
Listening to Silence: Phenomenological Reflections on John Cage
Adam Blair – Actively Listening to Cage’s Silence: How to Draw One’s Attention to the Present
Molly Kelly – Silence Becomes Something Else: Cage, Al-Saji, and a Phenomenology of (Sonic) Hesitation
Caleb Faul – Uncaging Artistic Experience: John Cage and the Structure of Indistinction
Panel #3 – Room 205
Moderator: Tiffany Funk
Lauren C Sudbrink will perform “Audience Participatory Performance”
Christopher M. Reeves – The Limits Grant Permission to Stray: Cage through Julius Eastman, Charlotte Moorman, and Glenn Branca
Chaz Evans – Cage’s history of gameplay
Tiffany Funk – John Cage and Lejaren Hiller’s HPSCHD (1967-1969)
Panel #4 – Room 230
Moderator: Sadie Bowen
Ann Warde – Collaboration and Experiment in Cage and Hiller’s HPSCHD: Messages for a future global world
Jesse Kitt & Rose Kaz – Resurrecting Theatre Piece Number One
Maisie Ridgway – Waking John Cage: Language Sounding Itself in ‘Roaratorio’
10:00am – 1:00pm
Reuter Center Lobby
Robert Ladislas Derr and collaborators – Sound of Days performance
10:45am – 12:15pm
Panel #1 – Room 206
Moderator: Kate Anderson
David Silver – Burying a cow and other desperate stories about food and the farm during the last gasps of Black Mountain College, 1954-56
Henry Voigt – Lou Bernard “Barney” Voigt (1915-1953): A family history
Thomas Frank – The Arts of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Liberal Arts at Black Mountain College
Panel #2 – Room 230
Moderator: Jeff Davis
The Music of Black Mountain Poetry I
Josh Hoeynck – Sticks to be Tossed: Charles Olson and John Cage at Black Mountain College
Sally Hansen – A Musical Phenomenology: Rhythm and Remembrance in Hilda Morley’s “Organic Form”
Deven Philbrick – Infinite Echo: Sound and Meaning in the Writings of Nathaniel Mackey
Panel #3 – Room 207
Moderator: Hilary Chiz
Charlott Greub – Between Field, Silence and Stochastic-Translating Musical Notations into Spatial Compositions
Elliot Inman – John Cage, the Student: Time at Black Mountain College
Seth Forrest – nature in her mode of operation: Cage, noise, and ecological thought
Panel #4 – Room 205
Moderator: Eric Baden
Kyle Canter – We Taught It In Action: Photography at Black Mountain College
Lilia Kudelia – The Scale of “Brazos River” (1976): the collaboration between Viola Farber, David Tudor and Robert Rauschenberg for Dallas television
Benjamin Lee – Avant-Garde Collaboration and Dispersal: John Cage and Sun Ra, Coney Island, 1986
Performance – Room 120
Rita Camacho Lomeli – The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, interactive group reading & discussion
Manheimer Room
Performance
Lei Han, Wayne Kirby + UNCA students – The Shape of Silence (90 minutes)
Outside (repeating)
Liquid Plastic (Adam Otto Lutz & Alan S. Tofighi) – Raw Utopics (Drive & Discontents) for RC car tire, ink, line follower, recorded audio, Geodesic dome
12:15 – 1:15pm
Catered Lunch
1:00 – 1:45pm
Manheimer Room
Laura Kuhn (executive director, John Cage Trust) + Jade Dellinger (curator of Don’t Blame it on Zen: The Way of John Cage & Friends) performance of John Cage’s Indeterminacy with a screening of Merce Cunningham’s How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run.
2:00 – 3:30pm
Panel #1 – Room 207
Moderator: Rick Chess
Alex Porco – Becoming New American: M.C. Richards’s Zen Poetry and Poetics, 1951-1954
Holly Messitt – Hilda Morley’s Poetic Eye
Panel #2 – Room 230
Moderator: Tom Frank
Piers Gelly – Exquisite Corpse, or Human Centipede?: Experiments in Collective Authorship
Ken Betsalel & Heidi Kelley – Percussive, Noisy, and Silent: Honoring the Caged Bardo in Black Mountain Pedagogy
Joseph Pizza – John Cage and the Poetics of Silence
Panel #3 – Room 206
Moderator: Curt Cloninger
Abriana Jette – I have nothing to say / & I am making it: John Cage and New Media Studies
Paul Beaudoin – The Space Between: John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Stefan Wolpe, and Bill Viola
Jeff Hamilton – John Cage, the Epigram, and the anti-cult Cult
Panel #4 – Room 205
Moderator: Dave Peifer
Joseph Bathanti – Outside Inside: The Prison Writing and Teaching of Fielding Dawson
Joshua Unikel – His Plexigrams: John Cage as Typographer, Visual Poet
Nancy Tobin – Hearing A Sonorous Sculpture: Exploring Cagean Silence beyond 4’33”
Manheimer Room
Presentation / Workshop
Leap Then Look (Lucy Cran & Bill Leslie) – Reimagining the Light, Sound, Movement Workshop
Performance – Room 120
Happening: Ted Pope and Tom Murphy
3:45 – 5:15pm
Panel #1 – Room 206
Moderator: Josh Hoeynck
The Music of Black Mountain Poetry II
Eric Keenaghan – Love, War, and the Masters of Measure: Black Mountain’s Queer Legacy, in the Music and Verse of Robert Duncan and Lou Harrison
Jeff Davis – Ta’wil: Olson’s Late Turn
Seth Forrest – “a clutter of unspecific forms”: Some reconsiderations of the music of Black Mountain Poetics
Panel #2 – Room 205
Moderator: Martin Tatarka
David Patterson – Beyond Cunningham: John Cage’s Transactions with the American Modern Dance Community at Large, 1942-54
Sara Wookey – Transmitting Trio A: An Unspectacular Dance as Spectacle in the Museum
Christophe Preissing – Writing on Water: Composition, Performance, and Audition in John Cage’s Musicircus and HPSCHD
Panel #3 – Room 207
Moderator: Heather South
Eric Baden – Black Mountain College and Mexico: Translation in Motion
Maura Doern Danko – What made the magic? What accounts for Black Mountain College’s wildly inspiring legacy?
Trevor James Smith – Painterly Listening: Musical Ekphrasis with Cage, Feldman, Albers, and de Kooning
Workshop – Room 230
Julie J. Thomson & Fritz Horstman – Leaf Studies Workshop
Performance – Room 120
Lindsay Packer – Viewfinder
4:15 – 5:45pm
Manheimer Room
Everette Scott Smith – Performance of John Cage’s Ryoanji for Solo Oboe and Percussion Obbligato (1983) (17 min)
Christina Soriano – For Cage, a dance performance (11 min.)
Greg Stuart – triple/filter after/cage sound performance (40-60 min.)
8:00 – 10:00pm
BMC Museum + Arts Center (120 College St., downtown Asheville)
Carl Patrick Bolleia – John Cage Piano/Toy Piano Retrospective: Black Mountain Keyboard (30 minutes)
Thomas Moore – solo piano works by John Cage, with a focus on compositions written around 1952 and 1953 (40 minutes)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14
9:00 – 10:00am
Coffee + Conversation – Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (120 College St., downtown Asheville)
10:00am
Depart for Lake Eden Campus Tour
Carpools depart from BMCM+AC for Black Mountain College’s Lake Eden Campus Tour, led by Julie J. Thomson and David Silver
$15 per person – tickets sold separately from conference passes
In order to continue offering our annual Black Mountain College Lake Eden Campus Tour, we have instated mandatory carpooling. Please arrive at BMCM+AC at 120 College Street for Coffee + Conversation between 9am – 10am to pick up your parking pass and follow us to designated tour parking.