At first there was only black.
Then there was silence.
Did you listen?
1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
John Cage's 4´33 piece
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Black Mountain College Museum
Black Mountain College was an experimental school founded in the middle of the twentieth century on the principles of balancing academics, arts, and manual labor within a democratic, communal society to create "complete" people. The environment was so conducive to interdisciplinary work and experimentation that it proved to be one of the most important settings for twentieth-century artists in their quest to revolutionize modern art.
Through a balanced curriculum of academics, arts, and manual labor in a democratic community, students would become "complete" people.The college fostered extreme experimentation through creativity and interdisciplinary coordination.
The work of its faculty and students revolutionized the arts and science scenes in the second half of the twentieth century. Among the best known affiliates were Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, Buckminster Fuller, Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline, M.C. Richards, Charles Olsen and Jacob Lawrence.
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
John Cage - the official site
Cage speaks about silence
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Branca de Neve - Filme de João César Monteiro
It's 75 minutes of "radio-cinema". The entire 75-minute film contains less than two minutes of actual filmed footage; the rest is a black screen, interrupted by a few seconds of blue sky every 10 minutes. There's no images. You'll get voices and sounds only. The text is from Robert Walser, a writer from Switzerland. It's a great text. But people don't pay a ticket to sit on a theatre and look at black. It was a daring and shocking act from this peculiar Portuguese movie director. To a lot this movie brought to mind Kazimir Malevich's painting, The black square on a white ground. César refused the analogie. He was not doing something new. Guy Dabord made a movie with black and white images and some voices and that was it.(Hurlements en faveur de Sade) When the movie premiered I also remembered Cage. And today I remembered this awkward César's movie. Probably most of Design101 students never heard about César's movie. Have you? What came to your mind when you watched today's homework? I would like to know!
More on Portuguese movie director João César Monteiro
More on Robert Walser
John Cage - the official site
Cage speaks about silence
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Branca de Neve - Filme de João César Monteiro
It's 75 minutes of "radio-cinema". The entire 75-minute film contains less than two minutes of actual filmed footage; the rest is a black screen, interrupted by a few seconds of blue sky every 10 minutes. There's no images. You'll get voices and sounds only. The text is from Robert Walser, a writer from Switzerland. It's a great text. But people don't pay a ticket to sit on a theatre and look at black. It was a daring and shocking act from this peculiar Portuguese movie director. To a lot this movie brought to mind Kazimir Malevich's painting, The black square on a white ground. César refused the analogie. He was not doing something new. Guy Dabord made a movie with black and white images and some voices and that was it.(Hurlements en faveur de Sade) When the movie premiered I also remembered Cage. And today I remembered this awkward César's movie. Probably most of Design101 students never heard about César's movie. Have you? What came to your mind when you watched today's homework? I would like to know!
More on Portuguese movie director João César Monteiro
More on Robert Walser
Flowmarket - a story that materializes your immaterial needs
7. FLOWERS FOR FRIENDS
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