"All Things Cage" is a weekly program featuring conversations between Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, and Cage experts and enthusiasts from around the world. If youd like to propose a guest or a topic for a future program, write directly to Laura at lkuhn@johncage.org.
Laura Kuhn talks with Jade Dellinger, a long-time independent curator who since 2013 has been the director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern College (formerly Edison State College) in Fort Myers, Florida. Over the past decade, Dellinger has produced a number of gallery exhibitions involving the work of John Cage, which well cover across two programs. Two exhibitions to note: his 2012 exhibition for the Tampa Museum of Art titled "Things Not Seen Before: A Tribute to John Cage (with 33 1/3 " Performed by Audience)," and his 2019 exhibition for the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery entitled "JOHN CAGE: STEPS & OTHER WORKS FROM THE MOUNTAIN LAKE WORKSHOP," which was mounted with the able assistance of Ray Kass, long-time director of the Mountain Lake Workshop. Dellinger has had an amazing history and his arrival at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery was almost inevitable. Well cover much of the history this week (he has lots of stories to tell!) and delve more deeply into the exhibitions noted above next week.
The late Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman once described his "Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage" (Knopf, 2012) as the hardest book hed ever written. This was because, as he put it, pick up any rock and theres John Cage! Indeed, Cage was not only a world-renowned composer, numbering among his compositions the still notoriously tacet 433, but a ground-breaking poet, a philosopher, a chess master who studied with Marcel Duchamp, a macrobiotic chef, a devotee of Zen Buddhism, a prolific visual artist, and an avid and pioneering mycologist. He was also life partner to the celebrated American choreographer, Merce Cunningham, for nearly half a century, and thus well known in the world of modern dance.
Jade Dellinger, Part 1
Weekly program featuring conversations between Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, and Cage experts and enthusiasts from around the world.
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July 8, 2021
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