Tune into the 1pm immersive performance of John Cage’s “Lecture on Nothing” performed simultaneously with “Extended Lullaby,” surrounding the audience, as the kickoff event of Cagecircle: Composition for an Exhibition, a chance-determined exhibition drawing on items from nearly two dozen collections at Bard College, produced in partnership with Bard College Stevenson Library.

Cagecircle: Composition for an Exhibition brings together a dazzling variety of archival items—from twenty-two collections—to create an unexpected cabinet of curiosities. For this collaboration between the John Cage Trust and Bard College’s Stevenson Library, they used John Cage’s methods of chance procedures as a tool for curation. The exhibition takes inspiration from Cage’s Museumcircle, an exhibition he curated using chance procedures in 1991 for Munich’s Pinakotech de Moderne art museum as a test for his posthumously installed exhibition, Rolywholyover: A Circus. For Museumcircle, Cage asked institutions within the vicinity of the exhibition to supply lists of representative items from their collections that they would be willing to loan. For that exhibition, nineteen institutions each provided lists of ten objects. Chance procedures were then used to select one unpredictable item from each list. The result was a “John Cage” exhibition that nonetheless had no works by Cage in it, though fully represented his creative methods. Cagecircle features items from 22 collections, including items from the John Cage Trust itself.

Information here: johncage.org/cagecircle.

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