Dear Fluxlisters, (I hope some of you will be able to come, but don't forget to e-mail me before, in order to book a place for you)
"40 years of Fluxus: The Time At Work(s)" is a symposium dedicated to ...Fluxus that is planned in Paris, the 21&22 november 2002 organised by 4T FluXuS, the Pierre Francastel Research Center, the French National Intstitute for History of Art, and the National High School of Telecommunication. You can find all the informations on the website: www.4t.fluxus.net but please find the english version of the program here: THURSDAY MORNING. 21ST OF NOVEMBER 2002 1. working time, works in time As a mainly performative art, denying the forms of the permanence linked to the f�tichisation, Fluxus has, since its very first moments, explored the complete range of the ephemeral, even through the indeterminacy. Thus, from the shortest to the longest, until the boundaries of the bearable even, the time seems to be the very material of Fluxus, which we were already warned, by the numerous process of the recordings of actions. This first sequence will be dedicated to the questions of temporality within Fluxus works: duration, references, inscription, recording, writing, interpretation etc. Pr. Hannah B. HIGGINS, University of Illinois, USA "Fluxus and the art of Memory (Historic, Experimential, Personal)" Pr. Owen SMITH, Maine University Art Dept., USA "Fluxus: Thinking about Time, Marking Time and Playing with Time" Jean-Yves BOSSEUR, Dir. de recherches au CNRS, Universit� de Paris IV, France "Fluxus et la temporalit� musicale" Jean-Claude MOINEAU, Th�oricien, Ma�tre de conf�rences, universit� de Paris VIII, France "Fluxus : une critique artiste de l'art" THURSDAY AFTERNOON. 21st OF NOVEMBER 2002 2. works of those times. How could have Fluxus work with time, without getting involved in its time, i.e. its political moment also ? The flames between Henry Flynt, George Maciunas, and the others artists show this engagement, as does the Great Bear Pamphlets of Dick Higgins, and as does the implication of many artists in the modification of the world they were living in. This sequence will examines this particular aspect of the art and life mingling, which means also the comprehension of political, economical, ideological situation by the artists, in order to transform it, by the ordinary means of the activism, but also by individual acts that have contribute to shape our contemporary world. Ben PATTERSON, Artiste Fluxus, Wiesbaden "Time and Consequences: or, the Miracle of Fluxus. How It Saved the World!" Vytautas LANDSBERGIS, Artiste Fluxus, Ex-pr�sident de la Lituanie "Contacts and Perception of Fluxus in Lithuania Beyond the Iron Curtain and Under Soviet Captive Mind System" Kristine STILES, Ma�tre assistant en Art, Duke University, USA. "Around The Edges: Fluxus and Anomaly, Sky, Sex, and Psi" Esther FERRER, Artiste du groupe Zaj, Espagne "Performer sous Franco, de l'�rosion de l'�ternel par l'�ph�m�re" FRIDAY MORNING. 22nd OF NOVEMBER 2002 3. Collecting, selling, exhibiting Fluxus : market time as time goes by. There is a kind of paradox when one tries to think Fluxus through its material objects, but there are Fluxus artists, art sellers, collectors, curators, exhibitions, and works into collections (private or public) etc. This statement, a kind of principle of reality, has to be thought by scholars, in order to reevaluate Fluxus regarding its realizations too, and not only regarding its intentions. What can one buy in Fluxus? How can one make a choice in establishing a collection? Under what historical positioning? How can an event be sellable? What to place in the museum? All those questions will be asked to the actors of such a specific art market. Caterina GUALCO, Galeriste de Fluxus, Italie "Le march� de l'anti-march�, ou le miracle permanent du marchand de Fluxus" Francesco CONZ, Collectionneur Fluxus, Italie "Un collectionneur d�vot (f�tichiste par excellence) a-t-il le droit de son vivant de vendre sa collection?" Michel GIROUD, critique, th�oricien et �diteur, professeur aux Beaux Arts de Besan�on "Editer Fluxus en France, de Canal aux Presses du R�el" Bernard BLISTENE, Conservateur-chef du patrimoine, Inspecteur � la cr�ation "Exposer Fluxus, autour de l'exp�rience d'une exposition � Marseille en 1995" FRIDAY AFTERNOON . 22nd OF NOVEMBER 2002. 4. The works in the walk of time. Forty years later, what remains of Fluxus? So many times buried, Fluxus is born again and again as the phoenix from its ash, becoming though the longest movement in the history of the Avant-garde by remaining always fluid to avoid its historicisation, and thus its disappearing as living art movement. This sequence will examine the questions risen by the writing of Fluxus history, as much as the significance of such a celebration, considering the fact that they have been established by the artists themselves as soon as 1972. Ren� BLOCK, Critique, collectionneur, directeur du Kunstverein de Kassel, Commissaire des 40 ans Fluxus a Wiesbaden, Allemagne. "40 ans de Fluxus, notes sur l'exposition de Wiesbaden 2002" Charles DREYFUS, Artiste performeur, France "Moussaillon intempestif de l'art, l'agitateur Fluxus sous toutes ses non-formes, dont celle de la r�alit� du non-art � travers sa courte histoire" Bertrand CLAVEZ, Doctorant en Histoire de l'Art Contemporain, France. "Ecrire l'histoire de Fluxus : un enjeu artistique" Ken FRIEDMAN, artiste Fluxus, professor of Leadership and Strategic Design, Norwegian School of Design, Oslo. "Theorizing Fluxus" PRICES (for the two days): student: 5 Euros individual: 8 Euros Institutions: 15 Euros Lists of hotels etc. enable by e-mail
