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Opening Reception for the Exhibition
ReVIEWING 11 Conference Reception
Friday, September 20, 6:30-8:30pm
Performance by Max VanDerBeek at 7pm + 8pm
Curated by Sara VanDerBeek + Chelsea Spengemann, Director of the Stan VanDerBeek Archive
This exhibition explores the work of contemporary artist Sara VanDerBeek and that of her father, pioneering film artist and Black Mountain College (BMC) alumnus Stan VanDerBeek. An innovator in animation and expanded cinema, VanDerBeek often collaborated with dancers to create films that captured the dynamic movement of modern dance. Included are a number of recently preserved dance films as well as other works made by VanDerBeek and his peers at BMC. New photographs and sculptures by Sara VanDerBeek employ cinematic layering and montage to explore the simultaneity of contemporary human experience. The artworks on view, including select archival materials related to Stan's studies at BMC, suggest varied ways of perceiving the resonance between past and present.
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Stan VanDerBeek, Poemfield No. 1 (1967). 16mm film transferred to video, color, silent. 5:00 min. Realized with Ken Knowlton © Estate of Stan VanDerBeek. All rights reserved.
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Sara VanDerBeek
Sara VanDerBeek earned a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1998. Her photographs utilize a variety of formal strategies and references yet remain consistently engaged with issues of memory and the experience of time and space. She first became known in the mid-2000s for photographs featuring her own makeshift sculptural configurations constructed from found images and pieces of wood, metal, and string.
Sara VanDerBeek, along with Chelsea Spengemann, Director of the Stan VanDerBeek Archive, will present our keynote address at this year's ReVIEWING Conference.
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A joyous and gay celebration of Michael Rumaker
Saturday, September 21, 1:30 - 2:30
{UNC Asheville Reuter Center, Manheimer Room}
This year we said goodbye to Michael Rumaker, BMC alumnus, writer and LGBTQ+ advocate. Those who knew Michael or who were influenced by his work are invited to speak, read, recite, dance, sing or otherwise perform in his memory. This is in keeping with his wishes that he and his work be remembered through a “joyous and gay occasion and a celebration” of his life.
All are welcome to attend, with no conference ticket required. If you would like to participate in the celebration or if you have any questions, please reach out to Alice Sebrell at alice@blackmountaincollege.org.
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Stan VanDerBeek's MovieDrome in progress, Stony Point, New York (1964). Courtesy of the Stan VanDerBeek Archive | Stan VanDerBeek, Poemfield No. 1 (1967). 16mm film transferred to video, color, silent. 5:00 min. Realized with Ken Knowlton. Copyright Estate of Stan VanDerBeek. All rights reserved. | Sara VanDerBeek, Baltimore Dancers Twelve (2019). Digital c-print. | Image composite, right to left: Sara VanDerBeek, Women and Museums IV (2019), Stan VanDerBeek, What Who How, film still (1957), Sara VanDerBeek, Women and Museums III (2019). | Michael Rumaker photographed in his Nyack home, Dec. 28, 2006. (Photo: Mark Vergari, TJN).
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