Exhibitions at: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 8 - July 30, 2017, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 11 - April 30, 2017.
Content Note
Foreword / Olga Viso -- Acknowledgments / Fionn Meade -- Merce Cunningham and Westbeth / David Vaughan -- Collaborators. John Cage -- Morris Graves -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Jasper Johns -- David Tudor -- Takehisa Kosugi -- Nam June Paik -- Robert Morris -- Bruce Nauman -- Charles Atlas -- Rei Kawakubo -- Black Mountain College -- Essays. Root of an unfocus / Fionn Meade -- A May-December romance?: time and collaboration in The seasons / Juliet Bellow -- Antic meet triptych / Claudia La Rocco -- A medium for engagement: on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Events / Hiroko Ikegami -- Color should travel: Frank Stella's Scramble / Mary L. Coyne -- Not so much a program of music as the experience of music / Benjamin Piekut -- Blossoming of the bride: on Walkaround time / Carlos Basualdo -- Between us: friendship in Channels/Inserts / Kelly Kivland -- Four events that have led to large discoveries (about Merce Cunningham) / Douglas Crimp -- Ocean / Philip Bither -- Dancing for the digital age: Cunningham's Biped / Roger Copeland -- Variations V (1965) / Merce Cunningham -- Interviews. Legacy and forward motion: interviews with Common time commissioned artists / Philip Bither -- An interview with Beth Gill / Danielle Goldman -- An interview with Maria Hassabi / Aram Moshayedi -- An interview with Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell, and Silas Riener / Victoria Brooks -- Chronology. A labyrinth with no exits: a chronology of Merce Cunningham and his collaborators / Mary L. Coyne -- Artist texts. Notation (1968) / Merce Cunningham -- Space, time and dance (1952) / Merce Cunningham -- [The new school] (Early 1960s) / John Cage -- The Cage class (1991) / Bruce Altshuler -- 2 pages, 122 words on music and dance (1957) / John Cage -- A view of 9 evenings: theatre & engineering (1967) / Simone Forti -- Judson days (1962) / Robert Ellis Dunn -- Cunningham and his dancers -- conversation with Carolyn Brown, Douglas Dunn, Viola Farber, Steve Paxton, Marianne Preger-Simon, Valda Setterfield, and Gus Solomons Jr (1987) / David Vaughan (moderator) -- Four events that have led to large discoveries (1994) / Merce Cunningham -- Portfolios. Costumes from the Walker Art Center MCDC Collection -- Choreography in focus / Fionn Meade -- Reference. Appendix I. Merce Cunningham choreography -- Appendix II. Dances for camera -- Appendix III. Dancers -- Appendix IV. Composers -- Appendix V. Visual artists and designers.