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From: Ann Klefstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed Aug 20, 2003 12:44:07 PM America/New_York To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FLUXLIST: Please, event scores? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
O Flux ones, please take time during these dog days to send to me by email
or post, or even by telephone (218-525-3037) an event score or two or a
score. I have received some very wonderful ones but there is room for more.
There is interest in this humble and lovable fest from various media sorts,
including someone who produces segments for Studio 360 (a national arts
program). So we do want to reward their attention.
All participants who may want to visit Duluth can be accommodated, I think,
at my place or at others'. Fall colors very nice in Oct.
I paste in here the call again-- ********************************
Call for Scores: Duluth Fluxfest
As outlined in the following press release, the Tweed Museum in Duluth is
hosting a retrospective exhibition of the works of Dick Higgins, inventor of
the term “intermedia” and impresario of the event score. To honor his role
in the invention of twentieth-century art, and to have a good time, we are
developing an exhibition of event scores and a week of performances of the
scores to accompany this show. We request your help; please send in your
event score and encourage others to do likewise.
All scores will be exhibited in the Lecture Hall Gallery of the Tweed
Museum; scores accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope will be
returned at the close of the exhibition. Selected scores will be performed
on the University of Minnesota – Duluth campus during the week of October 12
– 19.
What is an event score? It is a document, often highly visually interesting
in its own right, that instructs the reader or viewer to perform acts-—acts
of thought or physical acts, imaginary or actual-—either privately or in
public. Event scores are texts that make things happen. Other than this,
there are no further parameters. See the Tweed press release below for more
on the history of the event score; for a sample of some scores, go to
http://www.performance-research.net/pages/epublications.html
Please spread the word; one does not need to be an officially designated
artist to participate in this exhibition. Scores by postal workers,
waitrons, programmers, administrative assistants, lawyers, midwives,
teachers, truck drivers, piano instructors, landscapers, and factory
workers, for instance, are strongly encouraged. Collaborative scores will
also be enthusiastically received.
Send your score, by August 20, to:
Ann Klefstad 5913 London Road Duluth, MN 55804
Please include an SASE if you wish your score returned; also include a cover
letter with your name, the title if any of the score, your contact
information, and any other information you wish to supply to exhibit-goers.
All participants will receive documentation of their participation in the
exhibition. All scores will be exhibited at the Tweed Museum; you will be
notified if your score is performed, and documentation of the performance
will be provided on request.
Thank you for your interest! I hope to see your work soon.
Ann Klefstad curator, Duluth Fluxfest Score exhibition email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TWEED PRESS RELEASE
Fluxus Art - What's That? - Visit the Tweed and find out.
WHAT: Exhibition Betwixt and Between: The Life and Fluxus Works of Dick
Higgins
WHERE: Tweed Museum of Art, located on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth
WHEN: Exhibition Dates: September 2 - October 19, 2003
ADDITIONAL EVENTS:
“The Secret World of Fluxus: An Exhibition of Event Scores.” This
exhibition will feature event scores solicited from artists and Fluxpeople
around the world who are connected by mail and the internet, through
informal performance groupings, internet mailing lists such as the Fluxlist,
and more traditional mail-art networks. This layer of the creative world,
nearly unknown to the official artworld but of vast reach and importance to
its participants, is open to participation from anyone, not just officially
licensed “artists.” Come and experience the growth of Higgins’s ideas of
transforming everyday life into creative choice: Higgins, one of the
founders of the internet mailing list “Fluxlist,” actively participated in
the growth and spread of Fluxus ideas beyond the original participants in
the movement. This exhibition will show a sampling of the results. You may
find that you wish to become a citizen of this world. In the Lecture Hall
Gallery of the Tweed Museum.
Tuesday, September 9, 2003 7pm Panel Discussion “What’s the Score?: A
discussion of the event score.” Diane Mullin, curator, MCAD Gallery at the
Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Ann Klefstad, features editor,
mnartists.org; and other participants yet to be announced.
Tuesday, October 14, 2003 "Performance Lecture" by Hannah Higgins, Fluxus
historian and daughter of artists Dickk Higgins and Alison Knowles
Week of October 12 - 19, 2003 Interdisciplinary programming: "FluxFest"
with Music/Theatre/English Departments. One evening of student performances
of Dick Higgins’ score works; one evening of performance of selected score
works from the event score collection/show in the Lecture Hall Gallery; and
one evening of performances of local experimental music/performance based on
“bent scores”: written scores with improvisatory and experimental elements.
Contact person for these events: Ann Klefstad, 218-393-9149; 218-525-3037;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or
CONTACT: Peter Spooner, Curator, (218) 726-7056, Mary Rhodes, Public
Information, (218) 726-7823
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:00 AM, Don Boyd wrote:
Kathy, Nice site. Thanks. Did you send the notice of the Dick Higgins performance festival in Duluth? I lost the details on that. Could you send it again? -Don
