2nd Annual Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference
October 8-10, 2010
The legacy of Black Mountain College continues to influence contemporary
culture in multiple realms.This
conference aims to investigate its history as well as the multiple paths of
influence, actual and possible, identifiable in the contemporary world and
beyond.
Co-hosted by The Black
Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and
The University of North
Carolina, Asheville
Keynote Speaker: Kenneth Snelson
Kenneth Snelson is
a major American sculptor with work in collections including the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, MOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center
in Minneapolis, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.,
museums in Holland, Australia, Japan and Germany and public art commissions all
over the world. He also holds several U.S. patents. Snelson was a student at
Black Mountain College in the summers of 1948 and 1949, where he worked closely
with Buckminster Fuller, and where he discovered the principle known as
"tensegrity". Known primarily for his gravity defying sculptures,
Snelson is also an accomplished photographer with a particular interest in
panoramic photographs. The recent publication Kenneth Snelson: Forces Made Visible traces this important artist's
five-decade career.
Papers, performances, multi-media and panel
proposals in all relevant disciplines are welcome.Abstracts of 400-600 words should be submitted to Brian
Butler (bbutler@unca.edu) by July 31, 2010. Notification will be made by August
28, 2010.