A spokesperson says---
“...The annual {Re}HAPPENING brings together dozens of contemporary artists whose work responds to and extends the legacy of Black Mountain College visionaries such as John Cage, David Tudor, Merce Cunningham, Anni Albers, M.C. Richards, Ruth Asawa, Buckminster Fuller, Josef Albers, and Robert Rauschenberg…
...COMPLETE ARTIST LINEUP
{Re}HAPPENING 14 features an exciting lineup of contemporary time-based works from artists across the nation. Expanded cinema works will include The Country Dwellers by Stefani Byrd, a video installation exploring Appalachian folk magic; Sphere by Ivana Larrosa and Lee Tussman, a performance inspired by Merce Cunningham’s “Beach Birds”; How to build a boat by Jake Parker Scott, featuring aluminum gamelan instruments, electronics and 16mm film projections; and 35mm Multi Image Slideshow by Alexandria Jarvis, an installation using randomized slide projections to mirror the subconscious desire to construct meaning.
Projects exploring movement and dance will include Vermilion | 10, an 11-minute duet created by choreographer Ava Desiderio and visual artist Elisabeth Condon; Bodies Written in Smoke, a Butoh Fu Workshop by Sarah Bernstein and Eunoia Jean Close; a durational performance entitled Passing By, where Hesam Salehbeig creates the presence of a river without water; la/do, a brief ritual of sound and movement by Deisha Oliver and Luciana Arias that passes through various intimate, unconventional spaces; and Pace Investigations No. 14 by Sandrine Schaefer, a performance that contracts and expands, causing actions to shift, accelerate, merge, or disappear.
In the realm of sound and collective listening, projects will include Matt Robidoux’s Spiral Worker, a synth system built around two aluminum corn ears; Ben Hjertmann’s Empath II, a new instrument that sympathetically resonates with the sounds of the {Re}HAPPENING; a performance of Soul Bell by the Charlie Boss Orchestra, a 25-person acoustic string and wind ensemble; A Room for Dreaming and Memory by Xor (Matthew Boman) and Mica Rutkowski where sound and color respond to movement; a web of kinetic fabrics with an interactive soundscape by Eric Rodent Cheslak and Mark Crowley; an immersive tape loop soundfield entitled Radio Infrequencies: Time Tape Space by Christopher Hamilton and Steve Pescatore; a prayer of gratitude entitled Thank You Water, played across Lake Eden, organized by Severn Eaton; and Portrait, an installation by Carlos Rigau that explores and reveals sounds of everyday violence.
Other projects invite hands-on participation to spark creativity, including Quack! An interactive chance poem for Black Mountain presented by Wendell M. Kling and Ben Miller; an installation by Carson Whitmore and Jason Lord, titled Catch and Release, which calls upon the desire and chance inherent to the act of fishing; The Star Loom, a community weaving project by Elliot Moonstone; an Expanded Drawing by Martha Skinner, CillaVee, Liz Lang, and Rebecca MacNeice—an architect, a dancer and a sound artist in dialogue with each other; REDACTED, an installation by R Stein Wexler exploring censorship and taboo; and "At Hand" or "Creatures From a Door to Perception," a wooden wonderland of giant birds, moths, and horses inviting collaborative play on homemade instruments within the imaginative space by Fred Merrill, Matthew Carey and Carolyn Zaldivar.
Finally, other projects will unfold throughout the day, engaging with text and material, procession and celebration. The {Re}HAPPENING will host a Solidarity March and Crankie Sing-A-long by the marching band Brass Your Heart led by Leslie Rosenberg; Lost Voyage Lake Eden, a live performance and journey undertaken across the campus by the Lost Voyage Collective (Miriam Parker, Jo Wood-Brown, Jean Carla Rodea, and Alystyre Julian); a project inspired by BMC poet Robert Duncan, Opening the Field: Return to the Meadow by Barbara Roether and Linda Larsen, that will slowly create a meadow blooming with poetry; and Matière: Improvised Typography from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain, a functional font designed in real time by Drew Sisk..."
