"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 converses with Pascale Georgiev and Kingston Trinder, founding principals of Atelier ditions, an independent publishing house and creative consultancy established in 2015. Developing collaborative projects across disciplines, Atelier ditions offers curatorial and editorial consultation, creative direction, content creation, and print innovation, and authors archival monographs, contemporary art books, catalogues raisonn, and exploratory printed matter.
Among their most recent books is John Cage: A Mycological Foray, developed in collaboration with the John Cage Trust, which draws readers across the idiosyncratic, mushroom-suffused landscape of John Cage. One encounters photographs, compositions, and contemplations, all in the same unexpected fashion one stumbles upon a variety of flora and fungi species while foraging for mushrooms. Volume I intermingles Cages mycological-oriented Indeterminacy stories with Diary excerpts and essays as well as the complete transcript of Cages text work, MUSHROOMS et Variationes (1983); Volume II offers the first-ever reproduction of Cages portfolio, Mushroom Book (1972), authored in collaboration with illustrator Lois Long and botanist Alexander H. Smith.
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. Episode 047. EVERGREEN
Pascale Georgiev, Kingston Trinder
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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Dec. 16, 2021
Produced for Wave Farm in the Hudson Valley in New York.
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