ReVIEWING 15 Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

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

1:30 – 3:00pm
Moderator: Cherry Saenger
SESSION NO. 1 – Room 120
Justin Childress: Walking the Field: Emergent Cartography through Olson’s Projective Verse
Shana Dumont Garr: The Land as Companion: Portraits from Black Mountain College
Kathleen Quaintance: Teaching With Experimental Blues 

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 205
Moderator: Elliot Inman
Andy Tolhurst: The Educator’s Zoom Lens: Conflict in the Southern Fiction of John Andrew Rice
Kyler Schubkegel: Coming into the World: Domestic Landscapes, Sex, and Proprioception in Robert Creeley’s A Day Book (1971)
Nick Boone: Jorie Graham, Contemporary Black Mountain Poet

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 206
Moderator: Abigail Bergsman-Carpenter
Holly Filsinger: From the Collection: Searching for Faith Murray Britton
Erika Funke: Buckminster Fuller: Radio Head
Corey Loftus: Becoming Receptive to the “Light of Life”: Hazel Larsen Archer and Photography at Black Mountain College 

SESSION NO. 4 – Room 207
Moderator: TBD
Andrew Kohn: Wolpe and his ghostwriter
Ant M Lobo: AntiBodies: Drag + Gender Performance at BMC
Qianwen Yu: Music of the Loom: Reverberations and Refigurations of Style in Hand Weaving and Musical Composition

SESSION NO. 5 – Manheimer Room
Moderator: Jeff Davis
Poetry and Place: From Black Mountain College, Out, Part I
Jeff Gardiner: Land and Life: Sauer’s Influence on Olson
Jeff Hamilton: Upon Feeling a Presence: Robert Duncan’s Golden Book & Charles Sherrington’s Planetside Reading of Process Philosophy
Joseph Pizza: Talking of Cities and Farms: Duncan, Olson, and the Ecology of Open Field Poetics
Sean Lopez: Olson’s Maximus: Embodying the Land through Intermedial Poetics

3:15 – 4:30pm
WORKSHOP – Room 120
Lexie Stoia: Soil and Clay: A BMC Material Exploration
What makes good soil “good?” What is wild clay? In this part presentation/part hands-on exploration, we’ll discuss the land and its materiality, with topics including geology, soil fertility, clay extraction, ceramics, and sustainable agriculture on the BMC farm. (75 minutes) 

WORKSHOP – Room 205
Drew Sisk: Seed Change: Reimagining Black Mountain through AI and Typography
Investigate the legacy and mythology of Black Mountain College through the use of artificial intelligence. (75 minutes)

WORKSHOP – Room 206
Katie Vie: Harvesting the Unconscious: using synesthesia and poetry to distill the psyche’s yield
As a nod to Michael Rumaker’s essay “The Use of the Unconscious in Writing,” we will explore the “harvest” stored in the deepest reservoirs of the psyche using writing and synesthetic expression. (75 minutes) 

WORKSHOP – Room 207
Kelly Love: “Creatings” Mandala Seminar and Story Circle Session
Remember your creative roots, understand their fruition, reflect upon connections to the legacy of BMC, and visualize the propagation of potential seedling “Creatings” to be. (75 minutes)

PERFORMANCES – Room 230
Peder & Hendrik: After Silence. A collaborative performance that relies on improvisation, chance, and physical comedy to playfully blur the lines between performer and spectator. (45 minutes)
Sean Lopez: Be Essentially Abstract Universe
An intermedial performance that explores the intersection of poetry, visual art, and ecology through the lens of Black Mountain College’s legacy and its connection to the land. (25 minutes)

WORKSHOP – Manheimer Room
Catherine Cross-Tsintzos: From the Work of the Land
A hands-on opportunity with the work of the land to explore the work of the hand. Touch and manipulate raw agricultural materials to create small weavings, cordage, and a natural pigment color sampler on cotton fabric. (75 minutes) 

4:45 – 6:00pm – Manheimer Room
WELCOME – Jeff Arnal (Executive Director, BMCM+AC) and Kim Van Noort, Chancellor, UNC Asheville
INTRODUCTION – Leigh Maher, BMC Museum + Arts Center Board Member
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION – David Silver: Stories from the farm at Black Mountain College: This keynote follows a band of renegade students, faculty, staff, and community partners as they start a college farm in the 1930s, build a better one in the ‘40s, and watch it all collapse in the ‘50s. Combining deep archival research and dynamic storytelling, David spotlights the extraordinary contributions of some of the lesser and unknown members of Black Mountain College, especially students, women, and staff, and showcases strong and sustained collaborations between the college and its surrounding communities.

7:00 – 9:00pm – RECEPTION for The Farm at Black Mountain College exhibition
BMC Costume Party – Reveal your inner BMC identity!
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (120 College St., downtown Asheville)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26

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

9:00 – 10:30am
SESSION NO. 1 – Room 205
Moderator: Jeffrey Gardiner
Alessandro Porco: “My imagination is enchanted”: M.C. Richards’s Atlantic Crossing and Literary Methodology at Midcentury
Aishwarya Sahi: Then, Now, and the Not-Yet-Here: Queer Temporalities in Duncan’s H.D. Book
Chris Simpkins: Hilda Morley and the Black Mountain College Farm

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 206
Moderator: Frances-Ann Norton
Barbara von Bechtolsheim: The Summer of 1945 at Black Mountain College – Beginnings of a New Era
Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan: When Cold War Science Came to Black Mountain College; or, Why Artists Should Care about the History of Physics
Caitlin Woolsey: Feedback: Stan Vanderbeek’s Immersive Environments

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 207
Moderator: TBD
Dima Alekseyev: Collaboration of BAUHAUS and VKHUTEMAS
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 the Black Mountain College Campus
Mats Werchohlad: Engaging in Landscape – Bauhaus Protagonists at the Intersection of Traditional Landscape Design and a New Understanding of Nature

SESSION NO. 4 – Room 230
Moderator: Joseph Pizza
Dustyn Bork: Materials and Sustainability: Lessons from the Land at Black Mountain
Thomas E. Frank: Experimental Colleges, Land, and the Sense of Place
Kelly Love: Permacreativity and the Sustainable Fruits of Black Mountain College and Farm

10:45am – 12:15pm
SESSION NO. 1 – Room 120
Moderator: TBD
Mark Cranford: Recycle Artists’ Scrap Paint Materials, Establishing Sustainability and Social Practice
Jesse Fowler: City as Text: A Practical Example of AI Ethics and Generative AI’s Role in the Creative Economy
Rachel Pittman: Appalachia’s Warhol: Appalachian Climate Disasters as Abject Environmental Artists

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 206
Moderator: Kira Houston
Elliot Inman: Visual Riddles and the Unexpected:  The work of Black Mountain College Students Ruth Asawa and Ray Johnson
Ellen Levy: Ray Johnson Remembers and Remembers and Remembers Black Mountain
Sebastian Matthews: Wish You Were Here: Ray Johnson in Detroit, Black Mountain, the Lower East Side, & Sag Harbor

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 207
Moderator: Kate Averett Anderson
Michael Beggs: The College That Never Was: Looking at Unbuilt Plans for the Black Mountain College Campus
Holly Gore: On Unlevel Ground: Women Builders at Black Mountain College
Deborah Randolph: Black Mountain College Reverberations

SESSION NO. 4 – Room 230
Moderator: TBD
Land as Verb: BMC as Model for Teaching and Artistic Practices
Lisa Jaye Young + Liz Sargent: High Country to Low Country: Black Mountain College and Learning from the Land
Susan Falls + Tracy Cox-Stanton: Pony Tricks: Somatic Ethnography as Mirror and Map
Jessica Smith: Growing Natural Color, is it Sustainable?

12:15 – 1:15pm
Catered Lunch

1:15 – 1:45pm
Manheimer Room 
BMC TRIVIA CONTEST       

2:00 – 3:30pm
WORKSHOP– Room 120
Kathy Leiner: REFUSE-REUSE COLLABORATIVE. Inspired by the artists of BMC this hands-on workshop is for creating new works from found and discarded objects. Participants are invited to come and go in the creative process with multiple options for engagement. (90 minutes) 

WORKSHOP – Room 206
Jess Peri: CAMERALESS PHOTOGRAPHY. A workshop exploring the art of the cameraless photograph where we will learn about its history and how it was used at Black Mountain College, applying these techniques to make our own photograms. (90 minutes) 

WORKSHOP – Room 207
Justin Tornow: Let’s get to work! : Drawing insights and inspiration from the BMC work program to address 21st century problems in education. This workshop aims to harness the passions, insights, and experiences of all participants to co-create a lively and radically imaginative session of communal ideation capable of potentiating material shifts in education. (90 minutes)

WORKSHOP – Room 230
Fritz Horstman: Interacting with Color: A Practical Josef Albers’s Color Experiments. 
Using colored paper and scissors we will engage with the color experiments that Josef Albers first taught at BMC, experimenting with color relativity and illusions of transparency. Based on Horstman’s new book. (90 minutes)

PERFORMANCES – Manheimer Room
CillaVee: The Sub-Division of Lettuces. A pseudo-punk art-pop band. (15 minutes)
Astrid Rieder + Erik Spangler: TRANS-ART PERFORMANCE. A transdisciplinary dialogue between abstract drawing and new music (40 minutes)
Paul Bright: til human voices wake us: bmc quiet house | rh fields. A four-channel sound collage composed of sound recorded in the Quiet House on the campus of Black Mountain College, and the fields of the Reynolda House Museum of American Art grounds. (5-10 minutes, repeating)

PERFORMANCE – Outdoor Patio
Robert Ladislas Derr: Where They Come From. This performance explores the experiential complexities of poetry and roots using Charles Olson’s poem, “These Days” as a point of departure. (60 minutes) 

3:45 – 5:15pm
SESSION NO. 1 – Room 205
Moderator: Dave Peifer
Joseph Bathanti: Magnetic Ether: the Back of Beyond
Clare Ivey Colton: Interloper at Black Mountain College
Carissa Pfeiffer: Creative Crossroads: Black Mountain College and the Public Library

SESSION NO. 2 – Room 206
Moderator: Bevin O’Connor
As If A Made Place: Visiting Black Mountain Through Creative Making
Kelan Nee: Geodesic Drone: Exploring Synergy in the Arc of a Geodesic Dome
Mathew Weitman: Geodesic Drone: Chance Experiments for Modular Synthesis
Bevin O’Connor: Bodying Forth: Created Presence, Process Elegy, and the Tactile Poetics of Paper-Making

SESSION NO. 3 – Room 207
Moderator: Holly Filsinger
Martin Haber: To Set My Soul Free: How Black Mountain College’s Experiment in Living Helped Lead To The Woodstock Colony of The Arts
Frances-Ann Norton: North, South, East, West: Connecting Art Students Through Bernstein’s Borderlands
Sophie Mak-Schram: Mountains beyond Mountain: Alternative pedagogies of land in relation to Black Mountain College

SESSION NO. 4 – Room 230
Moderator: Joseph Pizza
Poetry and Place: From Black Mountain College, Out, Part II
Onur Ayaz: The Nation’s North Star: Poetry, Place, and Music at Black Mountain College
Christian Daichi Carlson: When, Where, Why, and How ‘The Thing Was Moving’: Spatial Histories and Syntactic Play in Charles Olson’s Poetics
Jeff Davis: Charles Olson’s Place: ‘Anywhere Is Everywhere

SESSION NO. 5 – Manheimer Room
Moderator: Ellen Levy
Katherine Kuenzli: Anni Albers, Textiles (1949): Defining Industrial Design at the Museum of Modern Art
Sochuiwon Priscilla Khapai: Poetic Assemblages of Nature and Play in Cy Twombly
Dominika Tylcz: Snail’s shell, fern’s spiral: the role of nature in Ruth Asawa’s practice

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27

9:00 – 10:00am
Coffee + Conversation – Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (120 College St., downtown Asheville)

10:00am – 1:00pm
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 plus a Book Launch and celebration for The Farm at Black Mountain College. – $20 per person