What the Fluxus?
By Paul Friswold Wednesday, May 26 2010
Some people will tell you that Fluxus died in 1978 with George Maciunas, but how can Fluxus die? The Fluxus approach to art is not any one thing; by nature, Fluxus art is intermedia, combining sound, object, image, text, audience and time into a single experience that allows for both happenstance and accident. That's a way of life in the 21st century, not a dead movement.
Homecoming: Fluxus and Visual Poetry by Regional Natives, an art exhibition featuring work by John M. Bennett, Keith A. Buchholz, Larry Miller and Cecil Touchon, is further proof of Fluxus' ongoing vitality. The show encourages interaction and promises fun for those open to share in the experience — and fun is a vital element of Fluxus.
Homecoming opens with a free public reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 28, at the Regional Arts Commission (6128 Delmar Boulevard; 314-863-5811 or www.art-stl.com), and the performance begins at 7 p.m. The gallery is open daily, and the show remains up through Sunday, July 11.
May 28-July 11, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Call For Art ......
FLUXUS ST.LOUIS in collaboration with MUSEUM of CONTEMPORARY ART ST. LOUIS Open Studios
Presents a call for Mail Art, Publications, Fluxus, Sound and Video work to be presented at
Fluxus St. Louis / Artfarm . Exhibition will take place July 24th and 25th, 2010.
All types of work are encouraged, All work will be shown, as well as permanently archived by
Fluxus St. Louis for further exhibition . Throughout the exhibition, Keith A. Buchholz will give
Informal talks on Fluxus and Mail Art Networks. We are hoping for this event to be our largest yet.
Last year, we were visited by Curators from several museums and universities, art admirers from 6 states, and tour buses of interested people from the region. Fluxus St. Louis maintains an outpost for the Mail Art and Fluxus communities, as well as the extended Avant – Garde network and is the only place to see this kind of work in the region. Deadline for work is July 15th, 2010 .
Send work to :
FLUXUS ST.LOUIS
c/o Keith A. Buchholz
4615 Oregon Av.
St. Louis, Mo 63111
U.S.A.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Art Critic John Perreault weighs in on FLUXFEST !!!!!
Item: Fluxfest Waves the Fluxist Flag
Fluxfest at Pierogi's The Boiler (on Sept. 11, with not a mention of 9/11)
had the genuine Fluxus offhandedness and the historically correct disregard for ceremony or performance-niceties such as a printed program. The latter would have allowed the patient audience -- outnumbered by the performers, as is also traditionally Fluxian -- to ascertain authorship, date of creation, and performer.
Thus, 13 or so friendly Fluxians from here and abroad, most of whom had not met before, presented an hour-and-a-half of Fluxus pieces, old and new. For the record, they were listed in WAGMAG, the Brooklyn Art Guide (which I had picked up at 111 High Street) in anti-alphabetical order: Allan Revich, Reid Wood, Mark Block, Christine Tarantino, Carol Starr, Reed Altemus, Tamara Wyndham, Don E. Boyd, Melissa McCarthy, Keith A. Buchholz, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Bradstifter, Mary Campbell, Pronoblem and more!!
Balloons were inflated, water poured from one plastic cup into another in a circle of plastic cups, jellybeans dispersed, toy instruments given out -- as were miniature versions of U.S. tender. Various classic Dada texts were read, including a poem by Louis Aragon called Suicide, which consisted of reciting the alphabet. (It is one of my all-time favorites.) But in another rather anti-Fluxian demonstration, a woman asked if anyone could love her as much as she loved herself. Obviously not. So shopping bag in hand, she stormed out, never to return.
The best was saved for last. The interlocutor, one of five participants wearing black hats, tacked a piece of paper on the wall behind him, then left. Other Fluxians got up, read what was on the piece of paper, and also left. Then members of the audience, myself included, did likewise. I copied what was on the piece of paper: "Word Event/Exit/ George Brecht, 1961."
Critic John Perreault on artsjournal.com/artopia 9/20/09
Fluxfest at Pierogi's The Boiler (on Sept. 11, with not a mention of 9/11)
had the genuine Fluxus offhandedness and the historically correct disregard for ceremony or performance-niceties such as a printed program. The latter would have allowed the patient audience -- outnumbered by the performers, as is also traditionally Fluxian -- to ascertain authorship, date of creation, and performer.
Thus, 13 or so friendly Fluxians from here and abroad, most of whom had not met before, presented an hour-and-a-half of Fluxus pieces, old and new. For the record, they were listed in WAGMAG, the Brooklyn Art Guide (which I had picked up at 111 High Street) in anti-alphabetical order: Allan Revich, Reid Wood, Mark Block, Christine Tarantino, Carol Starr, Reed Altemus, Tamara Wyndham, Don E. Boyd, Melissa McCarthy, Keith A. Buchholz, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Bradstifter, Mary Campbell, Pronoblem and more!!
Balloons were inflated, water poured from one plastic cup into another in a circle of plastic cups, jellybeans dispersed, toy instruments given out -- as were miniature versions of U.S. tender. Various classic Dada texts were read, including a poem by Louis Aragon called Suicide, which consisted of reciting the alphabet. (It is one of my all-time favorites.) But in another rather anti-Fluxian demonstration, a woman asked if anyone could love her as much as she loved herself. Obviously not. So shopping bag in hand, she stormed out, never to return.
The best was saved for last. The interlocutor, one of five participants wearing black hats, tacked a piece of paper on the wall behind him, then left. Other Fluxians got up, read what was on the piece of paper, and also left. Then members of the audience, myself included, did likewise. I copied what was on the piece of paper: "Word Event/Exit/ George Brecht, 1961."
Critic John Perreault on artsjournal.com/artopia 9/20/09
Friday, August 28, 2009
Contemporary Collage / Emily Amy Gallery, Atlanta
Contemporary Collage: Paper's Many Forms..September 11 - October 12, 2009
Reception for the artists: Friday September 11th, 2009 7-10 pm
Emily Amy Gallery presents new collage from gallery artists' Paul Rousso and Cecil Touchon, as well as a curated selection of works from the International Museum of Collage. Robert Motherwell stated, "Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation," and the collages created by these artists legitimize his statement.
I'll be showing 5 New Box works in this Exhibition, Curated by Cecil Touchon.
A Book About Death
A Book About Death Opening Sept 10 at The Emily Harvey Foundation
Please take a look: 313 entries thus far. Note the posters (8 of them), free to download and print.
Visit: http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
KLANG ! at BAU, Italy, this weekend
Viareggio (LU) - dal 7 al 9 agosto 2009
Klang! suoni contemporanei
MUSEI CIVICI - VILLA PAOLINA BONAPARTE
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Installazioni | Sound Art | Audio Design | Poesia Sonora | Elettronica
orario: Ore 18.00-23.00
(possono variare, verificare sempre via telefono)
biglietti: free admittance
vernissage: 7 agosto 2009. ore 18
catalogo: prodotto da BAU e distribuito gratuitamente nel corso della rassegna.
curatori: Vittore Baroni
autori: Krell - Lukha Kremo Baroncinij, Plagium 2000, Keith A. Buchholz, Martha Aitchinson, Paolo Albani, Antonio Amato, Fernando Andolcetti, Autechre, Nigel Ayers, Dario Barsottelli, Keith Bates, Elisa Battistella, Carlo Battisti, Horst Baur, Carla Bertola, Giovanni Bianchini, Andrea Borghi, Sergio Borrini, Antonino Bove, Luca Brocchini, Gianni Broi, Mirta Caccaro, John Cage, Angela Caporaso, Cobàs Mario Carchini, Emilio Carrasco, Ivan Carreño, Bruno Cassaglia, Lele Cerri, Alessio Chierico, Henri Chopin, Mario Commone, Gian Luca Cupisti, I Dantini Del Prete, Bruno De Angelis, Jakob De Chirico, Adolfina De Stefani, David Dellafiora, Gabriella Di Trani, Mike Dickau, Jan-Willem Doornenbal, Mike Dyar, Giovanni e Renata Strada, Brian Eno, Ever Arts, Fernanda Fedi, Luc Fierens, Fluxus, Nicola Frangione, György Galántai, Diamanda Galas, Ganesh, Gino Gini, Fabrizio Giorgi, Alfredo Gioventù, Eugenio Giustizieri, Sandro Gronchi, Gumdesign, Brion Gysin, Raoul Hausmann, Ryoji Ikeda, Claudio Jaccarino, Eberhard Janke, Miguel Jimenez, Mauricio Kagel, Dobrica Kamperelic, Kappa, Korf, Ignazio Lago, Susanna Lakner, Bruno Larini, Alessio Larocchi, Larsen, Jim Leftwich, Michael Leigh, György Ligeti, Arturo Lini, Tania Lorandi, Alvin Lucier, Serse Luigetti, John M. Bennett, Ruggero Maggi, Marco Marchiani Mavilla, Laura Mare, Monica Michelotti, Rodrigo Miragaia, Robert Moog, Emilio Morandi, Mirco Mugnaini, Lieutenant Murnau, Musicmaster, Nadia Nava, Riri Negri, Rea Nikonova, Alva Noto, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Vieri Parenti, Harry Partch, Linda Pelati, Massimiliano Pelletti, Rémy Pénard, Walter Pennacchi, Silvano Pertone, Franco Piri Focardi, Giancarlo Pucci, Kronos Quartet, Steve Random, Scott Ray Randall, Steve Reich, Giuseppe Riccetti, Eraldo Ridi, Pietro Riparbelli, Sabina Romanin, Claudio Romeo, Walter Rovere, Günther Ruch, Luigi Russolo, Joel S. Cohen, Marina Salmaso, Roberto Scala, Kurt Schwitters, Serge Segay, Eugenia Serafini, Danilo Sergiampietri, Jarmo Sermilä, Fulgor Silvi, Gianni Simone, Andrea Sozzi, Giacomo Spazio, Carol Stetser, Demetrio Stratos, Rod Summers, Studio Superficie, Zsolt Székelyhidi, Christine Tarantino, Leon Theremin, Officina Todomodo, Stefano Turrini, Lubomyr Tymkiv, Edgar Varese, Bart Verburg, Alberto Vitacchio, Ivano Vitali, Carlo Volpicella, Reid Wood, Iannis Xenakis, Enore Zaffiri
telefono evento: +39 0584944546
note: a cura di Vittore Baroni e associazione culturale BAU
genere: arte contemporanea, performance - happening, altro, collettiva
Klang! suoni contemporanei
MUSEI CIVICI - VILLA PAOLINA BONAPARTE
vai alla scheda di questa sede
Exibart.alert - tieni d'occhio questa sede
Via Niccolò Machiavelli 2 (55049)
+39 0584966413 , +39 0584966333 (fax), +39 0584961076
civicimusei@comune.viareggio.lu.it
www.comune.viareggio.lu.it/cultura/musei.html
individua sulla mappa Exisat
individua sullo stradario MapQuest
Stampa questa scheda
Eventi in corso nei dintorni
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Installazioni | Sound Art | Audio Design | Poesia Sonora | Elettronica
orario: Ore 18.00-23.00
(possono variare, verificare sempre via telefono)
biglietti: free admittance
vernissage: 7 agosto 2009. ore 18
catalogo: prodotto da BAU e distribuito gratuitamente nel corso della rassegna.
curatori: Vittore Baroni
autori: Krell - Lukha Kremo Baroncinij, Plagium 2000, Keith A. Buchholz, Martha Aitchinson, Paolo Albani, Antonio Amato, Fernando Andolcetti, Autechre, Nigel Ayers, Dario Barsottelli, Keith Bates, Elisa Battistella, Carlo Battisti, Horst Baur, Carla Bertola, Giovanni Bianchini, Andrea Borghi, Sergio Borrini, Antonino Bove, Luca Brocchini, Gianni Broi, Mirta Caccaro, John Cage, Angela Caporaso, Cobàs Mario Carchini, Emilio Carrasco, Ivan Carreño, Bruno Cassaglia, Lele Cerri, Alessio Chierico, Henri Chopin, Mario Commone, Gian Luca Cupisti, I Dantini Del Prete, Bruno De Angelis, Jakob De Chirico, Adolfina De Stefani, David Dellafiora, Gabriella Di Trani, Mike Dickau, Jan-Willem Doornenbal, Mike Dyar, Giovanni e Renata Strada, Brian Eno, Ever Arts, Fernanda Fedi, Luc Fierens, Fluxus, Nicola Frangione, György Galántai, Diamanda Galas, Ganesh, Gino Gini, Fabrizio Giorgi, Alfredo Gioventù, Eugenio Giustizieri, Sandro Gronchi, Gumdesign, Brion Gysin, Raoul Hausmann, Ryoji Ikeda, Claudio Jaccarino, Eberhard Janke, Miguel Jimenez, Mauricio Kagel, Dobrica Kamperelic, Kappa, Korf, Ignazio Lago, Susanna Lakner, Bruno Larini, Alessio Larocchi, Larsen, Jim Leftwich, Michael Leigh, György Ligeti, Arturo Lini, Tania Lorandi, Alvin Lucier, Serse Luigetti, John M. Bennett, Ruggero Maggi, Marco Marchiani Mavilla, Laura Mare, Monica Michelotti, Rodrigo Miragaia, Robert Moog, Emilio Morandi, Mirco Mugnaini, Lieutenant Murnau, Musicmaster, Nadia Nava, Riri Negri, Rea Nikonova, Alva Noto, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Vieri Parenti, Harry Partch, Linda Pelati, Massimiliano Pelletti, Rémy Pénard, Walter Pennacchi, Silvano Pertone, Franco Piri Focardi, Giancarlo Pucci, Kronos Quartet, Steve Random, Scott Ray Randall, Steve Reich, Giuseppe Riccetti, Eraldo Ridi, Pietro Riparbelli, Sabina Romanin, Claudio Romeo, Walter Rovere, Günther Ruch, Luigi Russolo, Joel S. Cohen, Marina Salmaso, Roberto Scala, Kurt Schwitters, Serge Segay, Eugenia Serafini, Danilo Sergiampietri, Jarmo Sermilä, Fulgor Silvi, Gianni Simone, Andrea Sozzi, Giacomo Spazio, Carol Stetser, Demetrio Stratos, Rod Summers, Studio Superficie, Zsolt Székelyhidi, Christine Tarantino, Leon Theremin, Officina Todomodo, Stefano Turrini, Lubomyr Tymkiv, Edgar Varese, Bart Verburg, Alberto Vitacchio, Ivano Vitali, Carlo Volpicella, Reid Wood, Iannis Xenakis, Enore Zaffiri
telefono evento: +39 0584944546
note: a cura di Vittore Baroni e associazione culturale BAU
genere: arte contemporanea, performance - happening, altro, collettiva
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