From: "Gallery Information" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: fluxus events Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:08:51 -0800
Hello - this may be a bit late, but better than not at all. If you'd be so kind as to include us on your bulletin board - the exhibition is great, and we've got Simon Anderson and Peter Frank giving talks, plus two performances. attatchments included in case inline formatting goes awry.
Many thanks!
Kathy Macpherson Ben Maltz Gallery Otis College of Art and Design <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 310.665.6909
Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is proud to present
3 NIGHTS OF FLUXUS in conjunction with the exhibition Betwixt & Between: the Life & Work of Fluxus Artist Dick Higgins
Lecture
Monday, March 31, 8pm
Something Else Again - Art critic and lecturer Peter Frank will talk about the history of Something Else Press � experimental artist book press founded by artists Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles in the early 1960s. Their Something Else Newsletter was the first public network to give voice to the international Fluxus movement. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Sound Performances
Tuesday, April 1, 8pm
Steve Roden - a house in waterproof paper
A quiet improvised sound performance using acoustic objects and electronics following a fragment of Dick Higgins text from the book Fantastic Architecture as a score.
<http://www.inbetweennoise.com/>Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles who has been exhibiting since 1986.
In his sound works, objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings are abstracted through electronics to create audio new spaces, or 'possible landscapes'. The sound works present themselves with an aesthetic Roden describes as "lower case'' - sound concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of listening.
Loren Chasse - otic diary
A meditation on close sounds and the intimacy of noise.
<http://www.23five.org/lchasse/>Loren Chasse lives in San Francisco where he leads creative listening workshops for after-school programs. He also records and performs both as a solo artist and with the groups idBattery and Thuja. Chasse also currently serves as Director of Education for the nonprofit sound arts organization <http://www.23five.org/>23five Incorporated.
Chasse�s approach toward sound is to activate areas of a landscape and the objects in them as instruments.
�We suspend our own �noise� when confronted with a wondrous sound. Subsequently, we might begin listening to ourselves in a new way, realizing how we might become part of this wondrous thing.�
Lecture
Wednesday, April 2, 8pm
Befluxed & Beflummoxed - Fluxus scholar and co-curator of Betwixt & Between Simon Anderson will talk about the history of Fluxus and the life and work of Fluxus artist Dick Higgins. Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory & Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Betwixt and Between: the Life and Work of Fluxus Artist Dick Higgins includes paintings, original and published graphic musical notations, silk-screen prints, large graphics, scrapbooks, audio of scores and poetry, and video of film by Dick Higgins. The exhibition also includes the complete run of books by Something Else Press - one of the most important venues for artists working in experimental book and print forms - founded by Higgins and his wife, fellow Fluxus artist Alison Knowles.
The exhibition runs through Saturday, April 26, 2003
Gallery hours Tue - Sat, 10am - 5pm
Ben Maltz Gallery
Otis College of Art and Design
9045 Lincoln Blvd (at La Tijera, just North of LAX)
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310.665.6905
310.665.6909
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