KISS ME AGAIN: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ARTHUR RUSSELL
Saturday, Oct. 10
NYU Tisch Performance Studies, 721 Broadway (at Waverly Pl.), Suite 612, NYC
9:30 – Coffee
10:00a-10:30 Keynote – Tim Lawrence, author of Hold on To Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene
10:30-11:30 Panel 1: Musical Variations
Chair: Sukhdev Sandhu
Peter Zummo: “Pop and the Multi-Pentatonic, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Whole Steps and Minor Thirds”
Elodie Lauten: “Lesser-known Relationships: In the Singing Tractors Nexus, a Sense of Freedom and Exploration”
Ryan Dohoney: “The Experimental Assemblages of Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman”
11:45-1:15 Panel 2: Arthur Russell: Recording and Legacy
Chair: Peter Gordon
With Mustafa Ahmed, Bob Blank, Joyce Bowden, Gary Lucas, Bill Ruyle, Peter Zummo.
2:00-3:15 Panel 3: Arthur Russell and the World
Chair: Simon Reynolds
Joyce Bowden: “Impermanence and Non-Duality: Buddhist influence in the music of Arthur Russell”
James Thomas: “I’m Sorry, But This Is How I Learn” (Theme: repetition and language in Russell’s collaborations)
Ernie Brooks: “Arthur Russell: Creativity and the Business of Music, Resolving a Pursuit of the Ineffable with the Need for Recognition in Worldly Terms”
Daniel Portland: “I Touched You on the Arm: Cruising as Epistemology in the Life and Work of Arthur Russell
3:30-5:00 Wild Combination screening and Q&A with Matt Wolf
5:00-6:30 Panel 4: Remembering Arthur Russell
Chair: Steve Knutson
With Alan Abrams, Ernie Brooks, Peter Gordon, Steven Hall, Elodie Lauten, Tom Lee
6:30-6:45 Wrap-up
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