{"id":8055,"date":"2018-01-30T18:29:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T23:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/?p=8055"},"modified":"2018-01-31T12:13:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:13:12","slug":"black-mountain-college-symposium-keynote-lecture-and-receptionperformance-held-february-1-in-cohen-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2018\/01\/black-mountain-college-symposium-keynote-lecture-and-receptionperformance-held-february-1-in-cohen-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mountain College Symposium Keynote and Performance Held in Cohen Hall on February 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanderbilt\u2019s Department of Art and the Wond\u2019ry present\u00a0Chance Operations: Art and Education at Black Mountain College<\/em>, a two-day interdisciplinary symposium (February 1-2) that will examine the contemporary relevance of Black Mountain College\u2019s immersive teaching models on art, design, and education. Artists, curators, students and educators from various disciplines will illuminate Black Mountain\u2019s unique pedagogical approach through lectures, roundtables, readings, concerts and performances.<\/p>\n

\"RuthErickson\"On Thursday, February 1, at 6 pm in Cohen Hall 203, Ruth Erickson, Mannion Family Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and co-curator with Helen Molesworth for the major exhibition\u00a0Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933\u20131957,<\/em> is the keynote speaker for the symposium with her lecture titled “Learning from Black Mountain College.”<\/p>\n

Examining pedagogy at Black Mountain College,\u00a0Erickson traces the ways that learning and living coalesced at the college to form a unique experimental environment. She will closely consider a range of examples, including class exercises, campus architecture, performance workshops, and artwork by Ray Johnson, Robert Rauschenberg, Ruth Asawa, and Merce Cunningham, to illuminate the culture of \u201cmaking do\u201d at the college, which, she argues, allowed for increased experimental ingenuity on the part of students and teachers.<\/p>\n

At a reception following Erickson’s talk, Intermission Arts and New Dialect will perform\u00a0Third Voice<\/em>, a research lab and performance program incorporating newly composed music, video installation, and dance. The collaboration offers an opportunity for emerging composers and choreographers to connect and develop new works, very much in the spirit of the work done at Black Mountain College. Collaborators include New Dialect choreographers Rebecca Steinberg, James Barrett, Curtis Thomas, Spencer Grady, and David Flores, and Intermission composers George Miller, Christopher Bell, Nathaniel Banks (and Arlie), Spencer Channell, and Matt Kinney and Kay Kennedy. All pieces will be performed for the site-specific event at Cohen that evening.<\/p>\n

Free and open to the public, the February 1 event is organized in conjunction with the Fine Arts Gallery exhibition,\u00a0Looking Back (Looking Forward): The Black Mountain College Experience<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and John Warren\u2019s Commons iSeminar,\u00a0The Experimental Arts at Black Mountain College.\u00a0<\/em>The schedule of symposium events for Friday, February 2, continues here<\/a> and will be held at Ingram Studio Arts Center, Room 220, and the Wond’ry.<\/p>\n

The two-day symposium is supported by the Department of Art, Department of Theater, and The Wond\u2019ry, with additional support from the Fine Arts Gallery, Department of History of Art, Blair School of Music, the Cinema and Media Arts program, The Ingram Commons, and StudioVU: The Department of Art Lecture Series..<\/p>\n

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