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Materials, Sound + Black Mountain College brings together contemporary artists who each create an experience that is focused on the making of sound through materials. Featuring international and local artists working in the experimental tradition of Black Mountain College.
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Events
Opening Reception
Fri, Jun 7, 2019 from 5:30 – 8:00pm UTC
Join us in celebrating the new exhibition Materials, Sound + Black Mountain College. Handmade instruments and electronics, recycled electronic components, outmoded technologies, fake technologies, imagined sounds and silences will form a series of dynamic installations that challenge the way we think about materiality in a cumulative sound experience.
Curator Talk
Sat, Jun 8, 2019 from 2:30 – 3:30pm UTC
Caleb Kelly will discuss the approach behind the exhibition, addressing the works in the show and the links to Black Mountain College. Kelly is a New Zealand born academic and curator working from Sydney Australia. Focusing on sound in the arts, he has most recently published Gallery Sound (Bloomsbury 2017) and previously the influential edited volume SOUND (Whitechappel Gallery and MIT Press, 2011). In 2018 he curated Material Sound at MAMA Albury Australia, an exhibition that will tour Australian regional galleries from 2020 to 2022. Kelly is a senior academic at the UNSW Art & Design Australia.
Free + Open to the Public
Performance
Sat, Jun 8, 2019 from 7:00 – 10:00pm UTC
Performances by Pia van Gelder, Peter Blamey, Nathan Thompson, and Jenn Grossman (artists in the exhibition Materials, Sound + Black Mountain College)
Performances will utilize processes that explore the material nature of the instruments employed – handmade electronics, solar power, feedback systems, and contained sound.
Free + Open to the Public
Location
120 College Street
Asheville, NC, US
