ReVIEWING 13 - CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline July 1, 2022

The 13th Annual ReVIEWING Black Mountain College conference (scheduled for October 7-9, 2022 in Asheville, North Carolina) will have a thematic focus on Black Mountain College faculty member and pioneering Japanese American sculptor Leo Amino and feature keynote speaker Marci Kwon, PhD.

The format is designed to be interdisciplinary, with sessions that will include panels, presentations, performances, and workshops. BMC itself was a uniquely interdisciplinary organization, generating output from its faculty and students that often involved the melding of the visual, performing, and literary arts. Each year, conference participation reflects this with a mix of traditional academic papers, experiential sessions, performances, and installations. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please do so by July 1st.

In conjunction with the conference, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will present the exhibition Leo Amino / The Visible and the Invisible: Submerged Histories of Abstraction, curated by Genji Amino, Director of The Estate of Leo Amino. This exhibition will demonstrate Amino’s ingenuity in working with new materials to investigate the dynamics of perception through material and phenomenal transparency. In particular, the exhibition will highlight his groundbreaking experiments with polyester resin beginning in the mid-1940s following the material’s declassification by the military after the Second World War. Amino is the innovator of cast plastics in the history of American sculpture, and the first artist in the United States to create a full body of work in the medium.

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