John Cage Composing, Computing, and Curating

Sandra Skurvida (FIT-SUNY, USA.)

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Routledge
31 January 2025

History of Art & Design Styles; Western "classical" music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Museums & museology

Series: Routledge Research in Art History

This study reassesses Cage’s multifaceted practice from a transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions.

In his compositions, John Cage opened the structures of music, language, and the museum to change perpetuated by chance operations. His correspondences across history with an extended circle of creators, including Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, and Henry David Thoreau, among many others, erased single-minded authorship via methodical processing of source material. Foreshadowing ecological recycling, Cage’s late compositions for museum opened perspectives for posthuman mediation in curating and contemporary art. He conceived of anarchy as the coexistence of mutually aiding yet autonomous self-determinate entities. This book introduces Cage to the twenty-first century as a composer whose work intersects different temporalities and modes of being, the past and the present, the human and the non-human, and the individual and the communal.

The book will be of interest to scholars of art history, music, curatorial studies, and museum studies.

By: Sandra Skurvida (FIT-SUNY USA.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781032717470
ISBN 10: 1032717475
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 31 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Cage and the Posthuman 1. Repetition as Difference: Erik Satie 2. Chance Measures: After Duchamp 3. Music as Text as Music 4. Technologies of Indeterminacy 5. Museum as Instrument Afterward: Cage and the Contemporary

Sandra Skurvida teaches in the History of Art Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), State University of New York (SUNY).