Block a6 spatial concept, symbol, pant ‘ually; the social ptial implica Diack; black a8 sass, negation, nothing: ness and black as change, impermanence ‘nd potentially: these are some ofthe experience of black dlacuse seven men in conversation between To- ‘onto and New York. artsioanade atranged for the simuitane- fous converstion. Iv possible Through the caopertion of the C.B.C. and the Bell Telephone Company who set up 8 elephone loop for ove hour between New York and Toronto. The text of thie conversation, taken kom lapes made In the 6.8.6. studios, forme a running com: mentary fa tis isu, Some deletons and Sequential reorderings were made lathe Inrest of conciseness and clay. ‘The conversation begins on tis parcipants are thown on pages 4 and apllon ate found on page 19 Rehhard ae 1 once organized a tlk on black, and | startod with black as a symbol, black as a olour, and the connotations of Back Ia ‘our euitire where our hole sytem ei ‘ores on us informs of darkness, ght fnd badness are eseociated with black, ‘ean artist and painter | would eliminate the symbolic prety much for Back i i= teresting not a6 8 colour bul as 8 non ‘colour and as the abeonce of colour like thon 10 tak about Black in at — Imopochrome, monotone and the ert of oining versus the aft of colour Here is a quotation from Hokusl: “there is. bleck which sold anda Diack which is fresh. Lustrous block and dul black, black In sunlight and black In shadow, For the ole Black one must use an aamise tute of Ble, for tha ul back an admis- ture of write, forthe usu black, gum must be added, Black in sunlight must Fave grey reflections” { wanted to read that Because that doesnt have any mear- Ing for us [might ls, touch on some religious at- pects of black, Because ve Boon called Sumber of names tke "he Bick monk nd s0 on. I suppose it began with the Bo in which Black Is usualy ev and Sinft and feminine, | thik a whole set of Impositions have allocied our althudes toward white and black ~ the cowboy with the white hal ané white howe, and the ‘ilain withthe block gloves. rd then the Use of black al the way trough the bbe, through Chaucer, Millon, Shak: speare and 8 low others. Evan in terms of colour easte there are blacks and co! ‘ured, what Harold tases in Encounter ‘once called a yearning for whiteness Ia the West, ke high yellow and £0 on ‘There fs 2 relation in Chistian Yo the back Nell void and the white heaven invih. the blackness of darkness that Is liwolved. wih formessnese or the. une Black formed oF the maternal, he hidden, gull ‘origin, redemption, ath tut, ime. Black an symbole al those. Thor's the black castle and the black Haigh: and | sup pote in one way or anol they lt rep fesent tanscendancy, which is inerest- lig. And Lao Tso “the lao is dim and ark", and the Kasba te Bleck ube it Macea; there's the black rook in the ‘dome of the rockin derseaem, and what the mediaeval mytie Eckhard ealed the Divine Oark But 28 an ara | wanted to iminte the religous leas about bieck Rocknot ye boon panicularly Inoresied in the ‘question of black Because of ho relation between colour and emiional expres sion, ag the thing tat struck mo through poculalion ang research over many Years inthis ara ts hat ater the Protestant Re- foxmation in tho West we tend to gel a Conetition anda restriction of colour usage, among the uppor classes and among men. among all the people who fro supposed tobe dominant, Whal seems thon te happen is that auterwast ats ‘most formal is Sack an whi, and ge gests playing” down of personally. Bat then, of course, youve got the extteme contrast that black underwear, for many men ={ mean lemole underwear is very lascivious and sony. Ad alot te things that Ad Reinharat mentioned ae invoives with thi. The Idea af Back and geod fs Inpossiie, in tho West ~ and, of course, IMs Is especially urgent today VVeame aevoss a photograph a couple ot years ago of what fs bel black wedlng cake in the world. Now In sa dolberale stompt io upea hese Seeplyheld associations that" we Rave with black as a symbol. In my research Fm struck By the lat that many Negro vires In Alea pave internalized thie fame thing of black a8 evi and white 05 ue, Aad | don't know wheter we'e taking about cara things or bologlest things, whotner we've taking about the ‘xperince of darnese at coming to be afraid of (har's a very pryehologcal ‘and bilogical thing), or whather we're talking about some Kind of faguage thing tare everaying our experience: a8 ree ‘sponsibie for his eat of seeceaons. No- where can | find postive associalons wih black which I lnd very mysterio, Reichert Wal nat of course, we've had mono tone wesons in China. And he chiaros- {210 tradiion fs nomeoiourete in tho Wort. And tho negative ~ again that = term that fs tke black: but the idea of regatvy ie net a bod i668. anymore wnereas once tho posive seemed great Bnd the nogalve seemed tril, I's the hogtivenoss of black, or darkness. pa Neuter in painting which inerests ne. Winan you ge into the dovk-andight ex. riches in the els, think thal woud be someting else 500 My lator was bling for te Tot feon oars of his le, and { hin tats Back ‘ess In my own Work | Rave ually deat Ima way wi opposes and ed fo ba ance things. Mr Reinhard’ work = pa Uiculay ineresting bacause he's made balances of things where thee, in @ wa ‘0 0 opposites, seems prety relevant land it may have some relationship tothe things that Aide does. 'm doing piece In he "Happening Series” at the Expo Youth Pavilion. I's going te be realy a ‘und thing, But most of Ws going to be one inthe dark. The reaton fe to om phasize heating, W's Tike 9 radio sais pece for bined poopie. ovoioe sev ta Tapes whieh are going through kind Of enfalogve of sounds which evenly Bocomes wha Is calleé musi. A fot of{Aldo Tambeln Fily-aker, panier, Michael Snow Painter, sculptor Hm Cee Taylor Musician, composer, Seuiptor Borm In Syracuse, NY. in risk, jazz musician. Bom in poet. Born In 1893, studied at tho New 4830, he ved in ily and attended Toronto in 1929. Graduated from York College of Music end graduated Schoo! there. relrting to the US, the Ontario College of Artin 952, ftom the New England Coneervatory in 1346. BFA. Syracuse Unversiy, vavelad and painted in Europe | In Boston, Since 1960 he has boon’ MEA. Universy of Note Damme in’ duting the next two yoors. Exhbis Increasingly recopnized as a master ‘oulpie. Taught in several insti wth Iseaes Gallary In Taronto and of tho “now jaz,” combining violent tions before moving to New York In Poindexter in Now York, whore he jazz tompo and dynamics with nis 4968 were he founded the Group has been living forthe past several Sophisticated musical vaining, both Centre in 1983, Since then he has” yeers. Famed for his “Walking in parlormance and in composition. worked on "Back Events," fore- Woman” series of paintings, con- He has had an importent Influence fnner ef intermedi, Integrating srulione, me and grape, uile- on jazz musician ike Archie Shepp, Imary aspects of he arte under the ng a repeated outline image of a Sonny Murcay and Albart Ayler. ‘medium ol Hight Mie prececupatin walking woman, Hie most recent Among hs recordings are Looking with black ie evident im the thls of work, an expariment in sound with Aad (Contemporary, 7502), Imo his works: Sitch, Block 2, Black Sarknose and igh, appeared tha Hot (mpulae, A} and Unit Zoro, Back is ana Black Plus X. Youth Pavilion in Expo 87. Structures (Blue Note, £237), This Founder of Bleck Gale, the first fleciromadia theste in New York In Canada his works have bean seen atte University of Westem Ontario in London and inthe Youth Pavilion al Expo 67 le representational sound, Ina sense, things that you can recognize but wat have 2 quality of sound ko the sounds of vraves, city sounds, tings whieh arent ‘entiiabie tke carsin machine sounds, land then sounds thal are made In a free way electronical. It isn't @ sort of “total nse" thing; isan atlmpt © make you really concontate on one sense, There fave to be occasional ntereuptions. of Hight to eeinforee the Tact that Ws lack. CON, So lar architects have boon soared to death to use black, | think basically for the reason thal Bleck estoys. scale When you" destoy Seale you disorient yoursell, When | was younger 1 painied iny washroom black, everyihing int ox. yoar he was an oustanding euccess at the Holland Jaze Festival, and was the firs jazz musician ever In ‘Ad Rolnharét Painter, Bo: In Bulla, NY. i 1913, stad at Columbia Collage and in Europe Hae exhibited extensively in New York, Pavia, London. Plea of Modern Art and Asie Ai” at Brooklyn College, New Yor, since 1847, A prominent memser of te New York art scene since the pionoor days of abstract expression ‘sm. Best known (rom aboat 195 lor his series of Blacker lack and all-black convases Fairs note The black conversation lok pce on 16 August 1967. Two weeks la, 35 this ive was’ going to press. ve learned of Ad Renard agi ea his susio on 90 August, Wiles 10 play his own compositions Ae atthe Venice Festival of Contom- orary Must opt the threo tintures, and if you weren't artis, And the uso of black, whichis Sick whon you went In you ote sick darkness, reinforces the elect of&Wstal lwnen you came out Architects have been event working with black by delat because, of course, light Isa very Imporaal part of Talo, ———— latchitgture. And 1 think even insinuating Ahink for my Het statement | wou ke black spaces could be used. Ifyou are info ea that the experiance le woe, ad ‘very bright place and then you walk later think, you" ow the Wo ely into normal lah, or vice versa, of course merge ae one experiance, you go through a back sensation, you go “Whether is bare pale ight, whitened Uhrough a black space, I's nota physica! eyes inside a lion's bel y eancled by space in terms of a space thas been justice, my wish to be, 2 hed mystic ated, but I sin your mind myopic region, i you wil least shadow at ‘ur alscration, lo dlsappoar, ors sove= Dicomer es Gigh, altel inuve, sense my ey, 1 ied n paratet botwe propetise of black and the music. in ‘Me purely visual lp and grind, faicRairea, swathed, edged tothe bottom each and every second wich Im involved, music which has the minute, month; existence. ding ood ly Wo organize and transcend musical of diminutive wit, cauloned 1 watingArnold Rockman Socioiogit, at ete, Bom in London I 1930, he Slanded the University of Lendon Dolor emigraing to Israel Came to ‘Canada in 1953. Now working nthe anthropology department of the University of Toren, researching sociology ofthe aris andthe per ception ol ely orm. Inerasted In fealour 96 an important aspect of Stu Broomer Musician. Gorn in “Toronto in 1847 snd studied atthe Royal Conservatory of Music, Com: Doter of electronic musie and leader ft kinsic ensemble. Has given ‘concerts atthe Universo! Toren and National Galery of Canada and Dariipated in mixed mosla exon Workes wih Miense! Snow an Sound and Darkness forte Youn Hervey Cowan Architect ane erie Born in Toronto in 1985 anda graduate a te University f Toro a newspaper eoturin on "The Cy Inlorested In Back spree si applies Yo architect fapressive symborsm ye in stop to wid, unceasing oneroy ‘tein equaling spirit the knowing, of black ign Silence may be Inte aa beginning, an fend, white nose, pry, claslea| ballet the question of back, is inabiily 10 re fect yot 10 absor. | think these are some fot the complexes iat we wil have 10 get Tenet — Black to me fa the © beginning Abe. ‘inning ef what K wants be, rather than that does not want to be. 1 am not ‘seussing black as 2 trediion or non- tradition in paiming of ax having enthing {odo with pigment ot as an opposton to Colours. Aa. tm working. and exploring black in diferent kinds of dimensions, 'm Peviion at Expo seintely becoming more and more eon ‘inced that Bick ie actly the begining Bt everyhing which the at concepts ot Black get rid of the logis! hsorea! otnton. Black is a stale of being bind Dich inex wich ie within orally the ‘oneness ofall lack is the expansion of Conacioveness in all oeeston. | believe wry strongly thatthe completely ‘a concept and the concept of sit wit neve Yo colapse for he ver re fon hey ave both om tha wrong ack. Black fe one of tho important roazone why the racial contlets ae happening today, because ita part of an olg way to look 1 humon beings or race in terms of Colour We oppose biack. Bleck wil oot "i a he separation of colour atthe end Blackness isthe beginning of the reson sizing af human beings ia stone be Tovar thatthe word “biack power” Ie 9 powerat message, lor destroys the 06 botlon of western man, an by destroying that tion fal deatoys the Wadiion othe an concept etme putt tis wy 0 thi of mane ‘teations and of the era that man tives Inv all of sudden we have a simulne (us Idea of al man's endeavors coming to us at once, We have been pressing on magniying the most derasont objects Whether under Louis XV oF the coniom porary pompous aft court, wheal round os there is whe coaton going (on of forms and concepts, ofthe atomic tra, the apace era the complet ere A Rlnharat tas of Bleck ina tigh |