To all: Saw a show curated by Harley on Ray Johnson & May Wilson this weekend. Video screening on both and panel discussion. This new video on Ray Johnson is very good - they even interview postal workers in Locust Valley, who say they are still getting weird stuff in the mail addressed to RJ, even though he's no longer with us, because the senders know once it gets through the p.o. has to send it back!!!! Info on the video is as follows - if you order it, be sure to specify a U.S. version if you're in the U.S. CONNECTIONS: RAY JOHNSON ON-LINE, 41 min. 2001 DENMARK Written, directed and produced by Lars Movin and Steen Muller Rasmussen, Sound and editing by Niels Plenge, Frederiksborggade 42, 4.th., DK � 1360 Copenhagen K, Denmark, Tel. +45 33 157707, Fax +45 33 157107, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Portrait of the American artist Ray Johnson (1927-95), driving force behind the New York Correspondence School, started in the early 60's. Ray Johnson was known for his numerous mail art projects, involving artistic strategies like networks and collaborations. Key terms in his mail art activities "ADD TO AND RETURN" or "SEND TO", inviting recipients to contribute to his work. Besides mail art, Ray Johnson was doing collages, assemblages and performances throughout his life. In the 40's, he went to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, in 1948 he moved to New York City where he joined the American Abstract Artists group, and later was associated with the first generation of Pop Artists. His death in January 1995, jumping from a bridge in Sag Harbor, Long Island, was considered to be somewhat of a mystery. The film is based on a personal interpretation of Ray Johnson�s artistic strategies, using the telephone and the internet as primary sources for sound and image. SEOSED. RAY JOHNSON ON-LINE, Lars Movin, Steen Muller Rasmussen The video is based on a series of audial interviews with friends of Johnson while running visual film. They also use views of a computer screen as an intro to various subjects, and one was a search on "Ray Johnson" where Fluxlist appeared!!! Best, PK
