Live! at the University of Michigan and MOCAD

In “How to Get Started,” John Cage proposed a collaborative framework in which sound engineers capture and subsequently layer his extemporized monologues, which consisted of ten brief commentaries on topics of interest. This amounted to an experiment having to do with thinking out loud, in public, before a live audience.

Join us on October 28 and 30, 2016 as six performers draw upon Cage’s realization as a script in effect and add new layers to the mix: their extemporizations on ten topics of interest, in their voices.


Friday, October 28, 7 p.m.
Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
Martha Jones, Amanda Uhle, Greg Baise

Sunday, October 30, 1 p.m.
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)
James Cornish, Michael Stone-Richards, and Alison Wong

Oct. 24 – Oct. 28, 2016
Exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery
University of Michigan


Institute for the Humanities
University of Michigan
202 S. Thayer Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)
4454 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48201

Presented by the University of Michigan Institute, John Cage Trust & Slought in partnership with MOCAD.