Terrence writes;
Thanks for (Geoff Hendricks) full name and links, Allen and Pauline (Oliveros).
The performance I saw was 13 years ago?! Funny it was like I saw it yesterday.
I think your post stired my memories of that performance and his telling me
about Fluxus.
Incidentally Hank Bull of the Western Front was on CBC Television tonight on a
program about Chinese Contemporary art here in Vancouver. In speaking of
Culture in Canada. Hank said if Montreal is the gateway to Europe; Vancouver
was the gateway to the Americas and the Orient. Calling Vancouver Lotus land.
Indeed Vancouver has a huge Asian presence and the asian contemporary art is
always being featured here. The program was a a sequay to the Asian Modern art
gallery that has just opened here. The only one of it's kind in North America.
Vancouver's Can/European and Can/Chinese have been influenced by Asian art for
some time. http://www.artbeatus.com/ shows strictly Modern Asian arts. They did
however have a major show of many works by Jean-Michel Basquiat in 97.
" The mission of the gallery is to
promote modern Chinese art and at the same time to encourage dialogue between
contemporary art of the east and the west. "The circumstances surrounding
Basquiat's work are similar to those of many contemporary Chinese artists,"
says
gallery director Sheng Tian Zheng. "His work was initially considered outside
the
mainstream as it actively challenged an established art world to seek
acceptance
from the general public."
I think the director's reading of Basquiat suspiciously leaves out his very
knowing careerism. I have some reservations of contemorary art that is too
contemporary or to be fair too fluxus. I mean we have to take a look around
ourselves and just act on whatever it is we must act on. I think the art of
cultural identity, sexual orientation, politics etc. will last for some time.
Its heyday is still with us. I being of Polish and some Austrian heritage
haven't really considered my family's background in terms of art/nature except
for some installation and photo text of geopolitics. Artists giving way to
naturalism rather then falling back on old formulas it the key to culture
renewed and not culture revived.
Maybe thats why Geoff Hendick's performance stuck in my brain. It just seemed
so damn amazing and fresh.
Terrence Kosick
artnatural get fresh!
allen bukoff wrote:
> >Does anyone know of him? He was from NewYork. A tall long haired
> >bearded fellow around 40+ at that time. He did cloud paintings as well if
> that
> >helps.
>
> Geoff Hendricks continues to be a very active artist. He resides in New
> York City and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, and teaches at
> Rutgers University. His brother, Jon Hendricks, is the author of "Fluxus
> Codex."
>
> You can find a couple of internet links for Geoff Hendricks at
> http://www.fluxus.org/classic/hendricks.html .
> You can find relatively recent photos of him (no longer wearing long hair or
> a beard) at http://www.fluxus.org/higgins/pic03.htm ,
> http://www.nutscape.com/fluxus/emily-harvey-gallery/rehearse.htm , and
> http://www.fluxus.org/matches/ .
