Libraries at Bard College presents:
Cagecircle: Composition for an Exhibition
Presented by Stevenson Library and John Cage Trust
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Stevenson Library
1:00 pm
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The Hannah Arendt Center is pleased to provide four pieces for an exhibit curated using John Cage's I Ching chance procedures featuring material objects from multiple Bard community collections.
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, we 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.
Opening Immersive Performance: Lecture on Nothing (simultaneous with Extended Lullaby) by John Cage
Saturday, June 27, 2026, 1:00 pm
Free & open to the public in conjunction with Upstate Art Weekend
Exhibition runs through July 12th, 2026
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, we 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.
Opening Immersive Performance: Lecture on Nothing (simultaneous with Extended Lullaby) by John Cage
Saturday, June 27, 2026, 1:00 pm
Free & open to the public in conjunction with Upstate Art Weekend
Exhibition runs through July 12th, 2026