JOHN CAGE / BUCKY FULLER CIRCUS

A World Game Moment.

Presented by Susan Eernisse Turner & Curiology Gallery

Wind turbines beneath a starry sky
Film & Atmosphere

Featured Video

BELIEVE installation with visitors
Anchored in Houston's FotoFest

Event Details

March 21, 2026 · 3:30pm – 2:00am

10 acre park · 11,000 sq ft of exhibition space

Location:
Curiology Gallery
200 Bowling Alley Lane
Alvin, Texas 77511

Contact:
Phone: 823-205-7037
Email: susaneernisseturner@gmail.com

Microphone stand in the middle of a quiet street
Immersive Journeys

The Experience

A cooperative, interactive, immersive installation inspired by the legendary 1994 Menil Collection exhibition “Rolywholyover – A Circus”.

Featuring Noel B. Murphy as Ringmaster and Marilyn Marzella.

Vibrant landscape with a lone tree
A New Kind of Circus

World Premiere

JOHN CAGE / BUCKY FULLER — A CIRCUS FOR FOTOFEST

Plus a Champagne Reception celebrating 40 Years of FotoFest and Susan’s 33rd Anniversary with the festival.

Brick wall mural under dramatic skies
Why Curiology Exists

The Vision of Curiology Gallery

Susan Eernisse Turner, Professor of Art History for 37+ years, founded Curiology Gallery to rekindle curiosity in children and adults alike. The gallery expands into:

Metal angel sculpture against the sky
Beyond the Gallery Walls

Additional Creative Programs

Susan also operates:

Noel B. Murphy with intricate light patterns
Bucky’s Ringmaster

Noel B. Murphy

Noel B. Murphy is the author of Bucky Biz and the writer/director of the BUCKY Trilogy of three documentaries on Buckminster Fuller. These films have won over 25 awards, including Best Environmental Feature in Montreal and two Green Academy Awards.

Noel has played Bucky Fuller in his one-man show I Seem To Be a Verb. Today he serves as Executive Director of BuckyWorld.org, spinning Bucky thinking out to the world.

Throughout this event, Noel Murphy will guide Bucky experiences: Q&A screenings, workshops led by Noel, and special readings from Bucky Biz and his just-released science fiction action drama The Synernet, set fifty years from now.

Noel Murphy has a sharp magic. You’ll see.

John Cage portrait
Avant-Garde Legacy

John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and the non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.

Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, largely through his lifelong creative association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage’s romantic partner for most of their lives.

Buckminster Fuller portrait
Design Science Pioneer

R. Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as “Spaceship Earth”, “Dymaxion” (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), “ephemeralization”, “synergetics”, and “tensegrity”.

Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. He also served as the second World President of Mensa International from 1974 to 1983.