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  Cagecircle: Composition for an Exhibition

  Saturday, June 27, 2026 – Sunday, July 12, 2026
  Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
  
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  Cagecircle: Composition for an Exhibition

  An exhibit curated using John Cage's I Ching chance procedures featuring material objects from multiple Bard community collections.

  Saturday, June 27, 2026 – Sunday, July 12, 2026
  Charles P. Stevenson Jr. 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, 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
  
  Sponsored by: Stevenson Library and John Cage Trust
  

  Contact: Heather Topcik
  Phone: 845-758-7148
  E-mail: [email protected]
  Website: https://johncage.org/cagecircle