INCINERATOR

\In`tel*lec"tu*al*ism\, n. 1. Intellectual power; intellectuality. 2. The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.

Serving between 1933 and 1956 as a meeting point for some of the most imaginative artists, composers and writers of the period, Black Mountain College in southwestern North Carolina continues to exist as the mythical artistic birthplace of everyone from John Cage to Robert Creeley. Although it lasted only twenty-three years and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College was one of the most fabled experimental institutions in art education and practice. Its art teachers included Josef Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell, and among their students were John Chamberlain, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, and Cy Twombly. The performing arts teachers included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Lou Harrison, Roger Sessions, David Tudor, and Stefan Wolpe, and among the literature teachers and students were Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, Francine du Plessix Gray, Charles Olson, M. C. Richards, and John Wieners.

I N C I N E R A T O R

SPECIAL EVENT/PROJECT; IDEA PORTFOLIO. CO-CURATORS JENNIFER LEE AND TERRY YOUNG (A 12 YEAR HISTORY OF COLLABOTATION)

I.AUGUST: CONCEPTION, ABSTRACT (ORIGINAL DRAFT, UNEDITED) (PROJECT OUTLINE)

II.SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER: CORRESPONDENCE

III. NOVEMBER: ACTION

a. installation, recontextualization of works

b. 11.11.04 - 14.11.04 artist's retreat to cabin, discussion, investigation

c. 14.11.04 burning begins at dusk

IV. DECEMBER: SELF-PUBLISHED DOCUMENTATION MADE AVAILABLE

Maria Benjamin Anders Bojen &Kristoffer Orum Lali Chetwynd Peter Coffin James Duesing Cara Erksine J Fox Tom Hall Pearl Hsiung Jennifer Lee Carolin Leszczinski Edwin Morris Myrza de Muynck Olivia Plender Lou Rogai Adam Sipe Alex Smith Amelia Thompson Afra Veerman Willem Weismann White Bitch Sheilah Wilson Terry Young

Special Thanks Matt Logan