7ª Bienal do Mercosul

Laura Kuhn (1953) é escritora, performer, acadêmica e Diretora Executiva do John Cage Trust. Durante seus anos de graduação na UCLA, trabalhou com o russo Nicolas Slonimsky, vindo a tornar-se a editora que o sucedeu no célebre dicionário de músicos, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians e de Music Since 1900. Em 1986, após a obtenção de seu mestrado, trabalhou também com John Cage em uma variedade de projetos de grande escala, incluindo suas seis conferências mesósticas pronunciadas na Harvard University como portador da cátedra em poesia de Charles Eliot Norton (publicadas como I-VI pela Harvard University Press, 1990); e em suas óperas Europeras 1 & 2, criadas para a Ópera de Frankfurt e que foram objeto de sua tese de doutorado: John Cage's "Europeras 1 & 2": The Musical Means of Revolution. De 1991 a 1996 integrou o corpo docente de um programa inovador e interdisciplinar de artes e performances na Arizona State University West, em Phoenix. Simultaneamente, após a morte de John Cage em 1992, trabalhou ao lado de Merce Cunningham, Anne d'Harnoncourt e David Vaughan, e importantes amigos do artista, para fundar o John Cage Trust. Em 2007, Kuhn estabeleceu a residência permanente do Trust em Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, e ali desempenha a função de professora de artes performáticas. Realizou a adaptação de James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet, peça para rádio escrita em 1982 por Cage, a qual ela dirigiu em sete locações ao redor do mundo. Em 2007 dirigiu a produção de Lecture on the Weather (1976), de Cage, no Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, cujo elenco contava, entre outros, com Merce Cunningham, John Kelly, John Ashbery e Jasper Johns.  

Laura Kuhn (1953) es escritora, performer, académica y Directora Ejecutiva del John Cage Trust. Durante sus estudios en la UCLA, trabajó con el ruso Nicolas

 Slonimsky, a quien sucedió en calidad de editora del diccionario de músicos Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians y de Music Since 1900. En 1986, después de obtener su posgrado, trabajó con John Cage en un gran número de proyectos de envergadura, incluyendo sus seis conferencias mesósticas pronunciadas en Harvard University en la cátedra en poesía de Charles Eliot Norton (publicadas como I-VI por la Harvard University Press, 1990); y en sus óperas Europeras 1 & 2, creadas para la Ópera de Frankfurt y que fueron objeto de su tesis doctoral: John Cage's "Europeras 1 & 2": The Musical Means of Revolution (1992). Entre 1991 y 1996 integró el cuerpo docente de un programa interdisciplinario de artes y performances en la Arizona State University West, en Phoenix. Simultáneamente, después de la muerte de John Cage en 1992, trabajó junto a Merce Cunningham, Anne d'Harnoncourt y David Vaughan, e importantes amigos del artista, para fundar el John Cage Trust. En 2007, Kuhn estableció la residencia permanente del Trust en Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, Nueva York, y allí se desempeña como profesora de artes performáticas. Ha realizado la adaptación de James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet, obra para radio escrita por Cage en 1982, que dirigió en siete oportunidades en diferentes auditorios alrededor del mundo.. En 2007, dirigió la producción de Lecture on the Weather (1976), de Cage, en el Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, cuyo elenco contó, entre otros, con Merce Cunningham, John Kelly, John Ashbery y Jasper Johns.

Laura Kuhn (1953) is a writer, performer and scholar, and is the Executive Director of the John Cage Trust. She studied with Russian-born Nicolas Slonimsky at the UCLA Graduate Division, eventually taking his place as the editor of the Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and of Music Since 1900. In 1986, after obtaining her Master's Degree, she also began working with American composer, artist and philosopher John Cage on a wide variety of large scale projects, including his six Charles Edward Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard University, which he called "mesostic" (published under the title I-VII by Harvard University Press in 1990), as well as on his large scale operas, Europeras 1 & 2, for the Frankfurt Opera, which was the theme of her 1992 doctoral dissertation: John Cage's "Europeras 1 & 2": The Musical Means of Revolution. From 1991 to 1996 she taught at an innovative interdisciplinary arts and performance program at Arizona State University West, in Phoenix. At the same time, after John Cage's death in 1992, she worked with Merce Cunningham, Anne d'Harnoncourt and David Vaughan, all long-time collaborators and friends of the artist, founding the John Cage Trust, where she continues to hold the post of executive director. In 2007, the John Cage Trust installed itself permanently at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where she now holds the position of John Cage Professor of Performance Arts. Among the many projects she has directed are a CD-ROM with excerpts of the preparation of a piano for the Cage's piece Sonatas & Interludes (1946-48, available from Big Fish Audio), for musicians who play MIDI keyboards, in addition to the adaptation of James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet, a radio piece written in 1982 by Cage, which she directed at seven locations around the world. Between 1999 and 2002 she also worked as a vocalist for Mikel Rouse's irreverent talk show/opera Dennis Cleveland, which was last performed in May, 2002 at the Lincoln Center in New York. In the fall of 2007, she directed a production of John Cage's piece, Lecture on the Weather (1976) at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, with a cast that included performers such as Merce Cunningham, John Kelly, John Ashbery and Jasper Johns.