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Under the Influence: Celebrating the Legacy of Black
Mountain College
A collaborative festival on the 50th anniversary of John Cage's
multi-media "Theatre Piece No. 1".
September 19-22, 2002 in Asheville, Black Mountain and Cullowhee,
NC
Website: www.blackmountaincollege.org/festival/
In the summer of 1952 amid the creative ferment of Black
Mountain College in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains,
John Cage created an unscripted presentation incorporating
music, dance, spoken word, visual art and projections. Later
titled "Theatre Piece No. 1", the event achieved renown as
the very first multi-media "Happening". On the 50th anniversary
of this historic event, the Black Mountain College Museum
& Arts Center and its collaborators are presenting Under the
Influence: Celebrating the Legacy of Black Mountain College.
Revolutionizing the American arts and sciences in the first
half of twentieth century, the influence of Black Mountain
College faculty and alums such as Josef and Anni Albers, John
Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius,
M.C. Richards, Alfred Kazin, Willem and Elaine de Kooning,
Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, Robert Rauschenberg,
Stan VanDerBeek, Robert Creeley, Jonathan Williams, and many
others continues to be felt to this day.
Festival programming will consist of performances, installations,
workshops, poetry readings, film screenings, and roundtables
showcasing contemporary artists, performers, and theorists
whose ideas and work bear the distinctive influence of Black
Mountain College. Festival participants and contributors include
musicians Pauline Oliveros, Tony Conrad, Mark Hosler, DJ Spooky,
and John Cobb, poets Patrick Herron, Michael Boughn and Lee
Ann Brown, installation artists Yoko Ono and Jack Dangers,
educators Sue Riley and Greg Ulmer, filmmaker Craig Baldwin,
dancer Ray Eliot Schwartz and many others.
The festival will occur September 19-22, 2002 at various
venues in Asheville, Black Mountain and Cullowhee, NC with
related events throughout the month.
For detailed and up to the minute information, see the festival
website at http://www.blackmountaincollege.org/festival/.
Contact:
Alice Sebrell (828) 299-9306 / bmcmac@bellsouth.net
David McConville (828) 236-9777 / influence@blackboxstudio.com
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