ReVIEWING 15 Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025

1:00pm
Reuter Center Lobby – UNC Asheville
Registration I Check-in Begins

Durational Performance, ongoing
lauri stallings, choreographer, and moving artists Zandia Covington and Mary Jane Pennington – the word for world is forest

1:30 – 2:30pm
SESSION NO. 1 – Room 206
Moderator: Margi Conrads
Ellen Levy: Ray Johnson Remembers and Remembers and Remembers Black Mountain
Alex Landry: Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 207
Moderator: Cherry Saenger
Justin Childress: Walking the Field: Emergent Cartography through Olson’s Projective Verse
Kate Tarlow Morgan: The Body is a House: Charles Olson’s Method for Proprioception

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 230
Moderator: Elliot Inman
gordon fung: A Heterotopic Theater from the Aborted Future: Perpetuating Black Mountain College’s Experimental Pedagogy through Cageian Theaters
Sean Lopez: Fluxus Propaganda 

PERFORMANCE – Outdoor Patio
Robert Ladislas Derr: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (120 min)

2:45 – 4:15pm
PERFORMANCES – Manheimer Room
Jacqueline Calle with dancers Eliza Hyatt, Amanda Proffitt-Newcomb, Katia George, Leigha Hofmann, Kloe Tucker, Clara Zander, Cara Draz, Channing Dayton, Chloe Smith, Uriah Boyd, Nia Huell-Griffin, RJ Lee, 
and musician Maria Parrini: Suite in a Box (30 min).
Doug Drewek + Raleigh Dailey: Emergent Form: An Electroacoustic Improvisation by Drewek & Dailey (30 min)

WORKSHOP – Room 120
Kyriakos Apostolidis: Intra-space (90 min)

WORKSHOP – Room 205
Justin Tornow: On the collusion of performance and philosophy at BMC: Activating Dewey and the avant-gardes to address 21st century problems in education (90 min)

PANEL – Room 207
Performance and Black Mountain Poetics I
Moderator: Joseph Pizza
Jeff Gardiner – Olson and Dance
Jeff Hamilton – Charles Olson’s ‘for Robt Duncan . . . ‘ & Performing ‘the eternal events’ of Grief
Eireene Nealand – The Body as Polis

WORKSHOP – Room 230
Max Bielenberg: Geometric Building with ExaPlex (90 min)

4:30 – 5:45pm
Manheimer Room
WELCOME – Jeff Arnal (Executive Director, BMCM+AC) and Kim Van Noort, Chancellor, UNC Asheville
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION – Debra McCall 
Debra McCall is a dance historian, choreographer, Certified Movement Analyst, and performer best known for her reconstructions of Oskar Schlemmer’s 1920s Bauhaus Dances. Recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the NEH, she also received the Rome Prize in Design from the American Academy in Rome and a Fulbright-Nehru Professional and Academic Excellence Award for her documentation of medieval reliefs of sacred dancers at the Thillai Nataraja Temple in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. McCall served on the graduate faculties of New York University and Pratt Institute where she was Mellon Lecturer. Her Bauhaus work has been presented in a variety of venues including Performa 09, Artissima 17 Torino, and Harvard University’s The Bauhaus and Harvard: 100 years.

7:00 – 9:00pm – RECEPTION for POINTS IN SPACE: Performance at Black Mountain College exhibition
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (120 College St., downtown Asheville)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

8:00 – 9:00am – Reuter Center Lobby, UNC Asheville
MEET + GREET

Durational Performance, ongoing
lauri stallings, choreographer, and moving artists Zandia Covington and Mary Jane Pennington: the word for world is forest

9:00 – 10:00am
SESSION NO. 1 – Room 205
Moderator: Mary Holden Thompson
Joseph Bathanti: Outside Inside: The Prison Writing and Teaching of Fielding Dawson
Tymek Woodham: Gothic Black Mountain: abject matter in the memoirs of Michael Rumaker and Fielding Dawson

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 206
Moderator: Thomas E. Frank
Jason Miller: Poet Langston Hughes’s Unknown 1949 Visit to Black Mountain College

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 207
Moderator: Nan Zander
Maurice Moore: Drawing Wit Sound (feat. We Don’t Owe Yall Androgyny In De Breaks)
Sol Swan Tuite: The Black Mountain Bricoleurs as a site of trans resistance to the Reinvention of Gender Binaries

SESSION NO. 4 – Room 230
Moderator: Blaise deFranceaux
Dominika Tylcz: Embodying Space: Ruth Asawa and Modern Dance
Donna Wojnar Dzurilla: Ruth Asawa: Fine Art in the Shadow of Craft

10:15 – 11:45am
PERFORMANCES – Manheimer Room
Caitlyn Schrader (and collaborators of liminality project): Temporary Performance Assembly: navigating encounters with light, sound, and movement (30 min)
James Belflower + Devin King: I Have Done Nothing to Ring Out (30 min)

WORKSHOP – Room 120
Chris Yon + Taryn Griggs: Let’s Roll! A workshop in adapting chance operations for collaborative group dance making for movers of all abilities (90 min)

WORKSHOP – Room 205
Derek Fenner: Talking Black Mountain from the Inside Out (90 min)

LISTENING SESSION – Room 206
Performing Black Mountain Poetry: A Roundtable Discussion of Early Recordings
Moderator: Jeff Davis
Seth Forrest
Jeff Gardiner
Eireene Nealand
Joseph Pizza

WORKSHOP – Room 207
Justin William Evans: Writing Through Mesostics – An exploration of a method for turning prose into poetry and music, as developed by John Cage (90 min)

WORKSHOP – Room 230
Jess Peri: Cameraless Photography at Black Mountain College (90 min)

11:45am – 12:45pm
Catered Lunch

1:00 – 1:45pm
Manheimer Room –
FEATURED PRESENTATION
Jeff Arnal will talk about performance at Black Mountain College and the exhibition Points in Space at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.

2:00 – 3:30pm
PERFORMANCES – Manheimer Room
Kate Tarlow Morgan: Down 2 Bone or Proprioception (7min)
Emily Hay: Flutist/Vocalist and Friends Improvisational Music Performance (30min)

PERFORMANCE– Room 120
Sean Lopez: The Light Keeper (30 min)

SESSION NO. 1 – Room 205
Moderator: Kira Houston
Holly Filsinger: From the Collection: Searching for Faith Murray Britton
William Graham: Bolotowsky: Connections, Commonalities and Conflict

WORKSHOP – Room 206
Drew Sisk: Seed Change: Reimagining Black Mountain through AI and Typography (90 min)

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 207
Moderator: Patrick KuKucka
Nicholas Boone: Jorie Graham, Contemporary Black Mountain Poet
Hannah Mathews: Following in Denise Levertov’s “Footprints”
Devin King: Maverick American Composers in the Correspondence between Ronald Johnson and Jonathan Williams

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 230
Moderator: Margot Ammidown
Thomas E. Frank: Louis Adamic and the Struggle for American Democracy
David Peifer: The Story of a Black Mountain College Mathematics Student
Clare Ivey Colton: Interloper at Black Mountain College

PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION – Outdoor Patio
Claire Elizabeth Barratt (CillaVee) with Sara Baird: The Rhizomatic Collective Unconscious Dreamcatcher (90 min)

3:45 – 5:15pm
SESSION NO. 1 – Manheimer Room
Moderator: Heather South
Lexie Harvey: Examining Otherwise: A Close Reading of Tommy Jackson’s Cigarette-Paper Programs at Black Mountain College
David Silver: Medea, the last performance at Black Mountain College
Andrew Kohn: Wolpe and his ghostwriter

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 120
Moderator: Nan Zander
Justin William Evans: The Influence of Black Mountain College on American Film
Deborah Randolph: Parrott’s Culinary Choreography: Black Mountain College Alumni and Faculty in Santa Fe

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 205
Moderator: Ralph Burns
Charlott Greub: A Work-Life Learning Model in Art and Architecture Education: The Experimental House of the Bauhaus School in Weimar and the Jalowetz House at BMC
Drew Sisk: Werklehre: Material, Mythology, and Memory from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain
 
SESSION NO. 4 – Room 206
Moderator: Margaret Curtis
Barbara von Bechtolsheim: The Summer of 1945 at Black Mountain College
Elliot Inman: The 1948 Performance of Satie’s Le Piège de Méduse as a Prototype for the Happenings of 1952 and Beyond
Michael Beggs: Against the 1948 Summer Session 

SESSION NO. 5 – Room 207
Performance and Black Mountain Poetry II
Moderator: Joseph Pizza
Jeff Davis: Ronald Johnson and the Black Mountain School
Seth Forrest: “There is / a silence / to fill”: Performed Materiality in the Work of Robert Creeley, John Chamberlain, and Franz Klin

SESSION NO. 6 – Room 230
As If A Made Place: Visiting Black Mountain Through Creative Making
Moderator: Bevin O’Connor
Bevin O’Connor: Bodying Forth: created presence, process elegy, and the tactile poetics of paper-making
Mathew Weitman: Geodesic Drone: Chance Experiments for Modular Synthesis
Kelan Nee: Geodesic Drone: Exploring Synergy in the Arc of a Geodesic Dome

8:00 – 9:00pm PERFORMANCE
BMC Museum + Arts Center
120 College Street, downtown Asheville
flux in time: a heterotopic theater from the aborted future (2025)
Kyriakos Apostolidis, gordon fung, Kim Nucci, Che Pai, and Kyle Price of //sense, a Chicago-based neo-Fluxus theater troupe, stage an immersive “theater of mixed means” that weaves a metaphorical and metaphysical network through history, art, and life, paying homage to the legacy of Black Mountain College. This performance invites audiences to collectively revisit the past and reimagine the future. Through the embodied actions of its artists, the troupe transforms time and space into heterotopic sites where multiple centers across eras converge in the present moment. Conceiving individuals as living time capsules, the performers fuse human experiences into intellectual rhizomes, cultivating a shared terrain of intelligence, consciousness, and the cosmic mind.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

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 David Silver and Alice Sebrell – $20 per person

Durational Performance, multiple locations on the campus
lauri stallings, choreographer, and moving artists Zandia Covington and Mary Jane Pennington – the word for world is forest