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Chance Encounters with John Cage: Points in space—performance at black Mountain college, with jeff Arnal
Thursday, July 9, 3–4pm ET
Black Mountain College Museum+Arts Center Executive Director Jeff Arnal discusses their exhibition on Performance at Black Mountain College.
Black Mountain College’s interdisciplinary and collaborative philosophy fostered groundbreaking time-based experiments across disciplines, significantly influencing performance, theater, film, music, dance, and visual art worldwide. Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College(September 5, 2025–January 10, 2026) featureed visual and time-based artworks that echo BMC’s innovative spirit from 1933 to 1957. BMC was a nexus of avant-garde activity, fostering innovation through collaboration and experiential learning. The exhibition highlighted key events and figures, including John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Lou Harrison, Roland Hayes, Ray Johnson, Hugo Kauder, Ursula Mamlok, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, Alma Stone Williams, Stan Vanderbeek, and Stefan Wolpe, alongside movements like Bauhaus, Dada, and Fluxus. The exhibition featured historical and contemporary works, interactive installations, performances, and immersive experiences that bring the past into conversation with the present.
guided not so much by what Cage has done but, rather, by what Cage’s legacy is doing now.
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