Conference location – UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center
FRIDAY
REGISTRATION OPENS – 1:00pm
2:15 – 3:30
PANEL – Room 206 – Moderator: Ellen Feig
Heather South: The Western Regional Archives’ BMC Holdings
Annie Davey: Subjectivity, Irreverence and the troubling of an art school’s myth
Fred Dewey: Carrying On from Olson & Black Mtn: A Pedagogy of Response & Responsibility
WRITING WORKSHOP – Room 207 – Jeff Davis: The Chance of Magic
This workshop will replicate in brief form the procedure Jonathan Williams developed when he wrote the section in in his long poem Mahler for Symphony No. 7 in B Minor. After steeping himself in Mahler’s work, he availed himself of an “hallucinatory deck” of cards, and wrote on those cards the 110 words that were the “private and most meaningful words of [his]poetic vocabulary,” and then, using different rules for each of the movements, he wrote the amazing poem!
We won’t have much time for steeping, but we will have cards, and we’ll look at the ways Jonathan used them, and discuss others. Participants should bring their own words.
3:45 – 5:00
PANEL – Room 207 – Moderator: Oliver Gloag
Ann Dunn: Albert Einstein, Writing, Science & BMC Philosophy
Belle Gironda: The Utmost One & the Utmost Other: Hilda Morley’s Kinetics
Eric Steineger: Hilda Morley: A Different Ekphrasis
PANEL – Room 206 – Moderator: Thomas Frank
Ana Luisa Valdeira: John Cage – the importance of being a lecturer
Claire Daigle: The abstract of what each of us bends the eye around
Ellen Feig: Without Punctuation: Stream of Consciousness, Black Mountain and the work of Fielding Dawson
PERFORMANCE: Ted Pope: New AntlerVelvet – Room 205
5:15 – 6:15 – Mannheimer Room
FEATURED SPEAKER: Mary Emma Harris: Black Mountain: Was It a Real College or Did We Just Make It Up Ourselves? (intro by J. Richard Gruber)
6:30 – 7:45
RECEPTION at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville Brian Butler Gallery talk about the Dan Rice exhibition
8:00 – 9:30
POETRY READING at BMC Museum + Arts Center
SATURDAY
9:00 – 10:30
PANEL – Room 206
The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry panel with editors Blake Hobby, Joseph Bathanti & Alex Porco
PANEL – Room 205 – Moderator: Peter Kusek
Anne-Grit Becker: Inverted Archeologies, or Olson thinking with Twombly
Eric Baden: glyphs graphs books editions; photography beyond black mountain
Patrick McHenry: Rethinking Academic Freedom as Method
FILM: Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place – Room 120
10:45 – 12:15
PANEL – Room 205 – Moderator: Jeffrey Gardiner
Jonathan Creasy: Charles Olson & Robert Creeley – Letters of Modern American Writing
Nick Boone: Love as Intersubjective ‘outstanding-standing-within’ in the Poems of Robert Creeley
Jeff Davis: Where I Is (Creeley’s late books, Olson, Dorn)
PANEL – Room 206 – Moderator: David Peifer
Tim Morris: “No Audience at All”: Robert Duncan’s Black Mountain Masques
Henrikus Joko Yulianto: Interfacing Poetics of Black Mountain College with Vision of Animality in Robert Creeley’s The Birds and The Dogs of Auckland and Robert Duncan’s A Little Language and The Temple of the Animals
Robert Ward: A beautiful situation”? James Leo Herlihy’s adventure at Black Mountain College
PERFORMANCE: Mercedes Teixido: Notes for Time and Place, an Improvisational Drawing Performance – Room 120
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1:30 – 3:00
PANEL – Room 205 – Moderator: Blake Hobby
Julie Thomson: To Dick from Ray: Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press and Ray Johnson’s The Paper Snake
Julia Connor: Source in the Written Work of M.C. Richards
Alex Porco: “Beautiful Gerard Legro is Dead”: Poetry, Collaboration, and Hoax
PANEL – Room 206 – Moderator: Grace Campbell
David Silver: Who fed the poets? The farm, food, and frog legs at Black Mountain College, 1949‐56
Amy Kirschke: Black Mountain College: The South’s Harsh Reality Illustrated
Christina Van Houten: “Sculpture is like farming”: Ruth Asawa, Feminism, and Postwar Critical Regionalism
PERFORMANCE – Outside Patio
Monika Gross & David Novak:
We reaving
A theatrical COMPOSITION BY FIELD of the co-respondence between / denise levertov + robert duncan
3:15 – 4:45
PANEL – Room 206 – Moderator: Brian Butler
Ryan Musgrave: 3 Mo(ve)ments in Pragmatist Aesthetics and U.S. Participatory Democracy: Addams’ Hull-House, Barnes’ Argyrol factory, & Black Mountain College
Jay Miller: Art and the Liberal Arts at Black Mountain College
Thomas Frank: “I Came Out of a Methodist Parsonage:” John Andrew Rice and the Dispositions of an Educator
PANEL – Room 205 – Moderator: Melissa Burchard
Jeffrey Gardiner: Furthering Perception. Projective Verse and the films of Stan Brakhage
Phillip Barron: Gloucester to Maximus: objectism and poetry of a place
Joseph Bathanti: Playing Catch with Fielding Dawson
PERFORMANCE: Christie Blizard and Mark McCoin: The Everlasting Light Bulb – Room 120
5:00 – 6:00 – Mannheimer Room
FEATURED SPEAKER: William Craig Rice: Back in Print: The Suppressed Autobiography of Black Mountain Founder John Andrew Rice (intro by Brian Butler)
6:00 – 7:00
RECEPTION / BOOK SIGNING
6:15 – 7:00 PERFORMANCE: Ken Fitch: REVIEW/REVUE: BLACK MOUNTAIN WRITERS WORDS IN CONCERT AN EVENT OF CONFERENCE – Outside Patio
7:00 – 8:30 – Mannheimer Room
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Vincent Katz: The Difficulty of Pleasure: A Whole Life in a Single Work of Art (intro by UNCA Provost Joseph R. Urgo)
SUNDAY
10:00 Coffee and conversation at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville
11:30 Carpools depart for Black Mountain College’s Lake Eden Campus Tour to be led by Mary Emma Harris (main campus) and David Silver (farm & barns). $10/person
7:30pm A staged reading of RED, the Tony Award-winning play by John Logan about painter Mark Rothko and his assistant (loosely based on BMC artist Dan Rice) at NC Stage Company, 15 Stage Lane, downtown Asheville. One performance only! Free, Donations encouraged to support the BMC Museum + Arts Center.
CONFERENCE SPONSORS: AVL Technologies, The Peter and Karen Klacsmann Charitable Fund, The North Carolina Arts Council, The UNC Asheville Howerton Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, The UNC Asheville Deans of Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, HENCO Reprographics, All Souls Pizza, Highland Brewing Company and Green Sage Café.
