Discover the music of John Cage, an American composer, music theorist, and artist who was also a friend and collaborator of Jasper Johns. Together with other contemporaries, Cage and Johns explored the combination of visual and musical elements in performance art to create new, daring pieces of contemporary art. Cage was a pioneer of open-form music–in which the boundaries between performer, composer, and audience are ambiguous–and of the modern use of musical instruments as a new way of experiencing both sound and art.
Norwegian pianist Else Olsen Storesund, who specializes in open-form music, will play a selection of contemporary music and answer questions.
Else Olsen Storesund’s appearance at VMFA is made possible by a gift from Toni A. Ritzenberg. Educational programming for Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life, is generously supported by the Robert Lehman Foundation.