Showing through December 13 The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection, curated by Lisa Moren. The exhibition presents a rich, conceptually challenging collection of art assembled by the late Fluxus artist Dick Higgins and Something Else Press, acquired by UMBC. The Higgins Collection of objects, printed matter, audio cassettes, silkscreens, and hand letter press prints represents such well known artists as Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Carolee Schneemann and Emmett Williams. Intermedia presents the first opportunity to view this remarkable collection. Complementing the exhibition will be an illustrated catalog.
On October 16th, a symposium will be held from 4 to 6 pm, featuring Hannah Higgins (University of Illinois at Chicago), Chris Thompson (Maine College of Art), Owen Smith (University of Maine), and co-moderators Kathy O�Dell and Lisa Moren. A reception will follow from 6 to 7 pm. At 7:30 pm, Fluxus artists Alison Knowles and Larry Miller will conduct a workshop and performance with UMBC students in the Fine Arts Recital Hall (to be followed immediately by a concert by the Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo, described below). Intermedia has been supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council and the Friends of the Library & Gallery. The Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4:30 pm, on Thursday until 8 pm, and Saturday 1 - 5 pm. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-2270 or visit the online press release: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/releases/article.phtml?news_id=860 > > FLUXLIST-digest Thursday, September 4 2003 Volume 04 : Number > 208 > > > > In this issue: > ============== > > FLUXLIST: Ismist Manifesto > Re: FLUXLIST: Scores for Anne > Re: FLUXLIST: Scores for Anne > FLUXLIST: a Blue and Gold Macaw version > FLUXLIST: Fluxuations > Re: FLUXLIST: Scores for Anne > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:54:47 -0700 > From: mIEKAL aND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: FLUXLIST: Ismist Manifesto > > - --Apple-Mail-8-570625372 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=US-ASCII; > format=flowed > > In case you missed it, my 21 year old Blue Front Amazon, otherwise=20 > known as Dizzy, some kids call him Disney, had the following reply > when=20= > > I asked him "What is Fluxus?" > > http://cla.umn.edu/joglars/EARFULL/BO.dizzy.bird.ismist.manifesto.mp3=00=00= > > > > > OTHERWISE: > > Ive just cleared up a number of labeling incongruities on the=20 > FLUXUATIONS CD page. id.m.theft.able's audio performance pieces for=20 > various members of FLUXLIST who responded to the request for > one object.one location. > > have been labeled accordinglyingly > > http://www.xexoxial.org/fluxuations/initiation.html= > > - --Apple-Mail-8-570625372 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Type: text/enriched; > charset=US-ASCII > > In case you missed it, my 21 year old Blue Front Amazon, otherwise > known as Dizzy, some kids call him Disney, had the following reply > when I asked him "What is Fluxus?" > > > = > <underline><color><param>1998,1998,FFFE</param>http://cla.umn.edu/joglars/= > EARFULL/BO.dizzy.bird.ismist.manifesto.mp3=00=00</color></underline> > > > > > OTHERWISE: > > > Ive just cleared up a number of labeling incongruities on the > FLUXUATIONS CD page. id.m.theft.able's audio performance pieces for > various members of FLUXLIST who responded to the request = > for<fixed><fontfamily><param>Courier = > New</param><color><param>3331,CCCA,0000</param> > > one > = > <bold><bigger><bigger><bigger><bigger>object</bigger></bigger></bigger></b= > igger></bold>.one > = > <bold><bigger><bigger><bigger><bigger>location</bigger></bigger></bigger><= > /bigger></bold>. > > > have been labeled accordinglyingly > > > = > </color><underline><color><param>1998,1998,FFFE</param>http://www.xexoxial= > .org/fluxuations/initiation.html</color></underline></fontfamily></fixed>= > > - --Apple-Mail-8-570625372-- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:56:51 +0200 > From: "Alan Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Scores for Anne > > Dear AK, > > What is this project that people seem to be scoring for? Is is too late > to > participate? > > > AB > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:02:44 -0500 > From: Ann Klefstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Scores for Anne > > On 9/3/03 3:56 PM, "Alan Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear AK, >>=20 >> What is this project that people seem to be scoring for? Is is too late >> = > to >> participate? >>=20 >>=20 >> AB >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 > Ah, it's a fluxfest in Duluth, my hometown. An exhibition of event scores > (= > I > do have, from ages ago, your wonderful "Fruitscores" for which you did not > receive answering artworks but which can certainly go in the eventscores > show). The scores will be shown in the Tweed Museum concurrently with a > Dic= > k > Higgins retrospective exhibition, and some will be performed by students > in > October, in the Tweed and in a performance space downtown, the Norshor > Theater. Is it "too late" to participate? The show opens Sept 9. How quick > on the draw are you? I'll put it in if (1) it arrives in time; or (2) you > alert me that it's on its way so that I can leave some room for it. > > Always grace for bad children, here. > > Please send what you wish. > > I paste in here, again, the call for scores. > > > AK > > Call for Scores: Duluth Fluxfest > > =20 > > As outlined in the following press release, the Tweed Museum in Duluth is > hosting a retrospective exhibition of the works of Dick Higgins, inventor > o= > f > the term =B3intermedia=B2 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. > > =20 > > 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 =AD Duluth campus during the week of > October 1= > 2 > =AD 19. > > =20 > > 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-=8Bacts > of thought or physical acts, imaginary or actual-=8Beither 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 > > =20 > > =20 > > 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. > > =20 > > Send your score, by August 30, to: > > =20 > > Ann Klefstad > > 5913 London Road > > Duluth, MN 55804 > > =20 > > Please include an SASE if you wish your score returned; also include a > cove= > r > 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. > > =20 > > Thank you for your interest! I hope to see your work soon. > > =20 > > Ann Klefstad > > curator, Duluth Fluxfest Score exhibition > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > =20 > > =20 > > TWEED PRESS RELEASE > > =20 > > Fluxus Art - What's That? - Visit the Tweed and find out. > > =20 > > WHAT: Exhibition Betwixt and Between: The Life and Fluxus Works of Dick > > Higgins > > =20 > > WHERE: Tweed Museum of Art, located on the campus of the University of > > Minnesota Duluth > > =20 > > WHEN: Exhibition Dates: September 2 - October 19, 2003 > > =20 > > ADDITIONAL EVENTS: > > =20 > > =B3The Secret World of Fluxus: An Exhibition of Event Scores.=B2 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 =B3artists.=B2 Come and experience the growth of Higgins=B9s > ideas of > transforming everyday life into creative choice: Higgins, one of the > founders of the internet mailing list =B3Fluxlist,=B2 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. > > =20 > > =20 > > Tuesday, September 9, 2003 7pm Panel Discussion =B3What=B9s the Score?: A > discussion of the event score.=B2 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. > > =20 > > Tuesday, October 14, 2003 "Performance Lecture" by Hannah Higgins, Fluxus > historian and daughter of artists Dickk Higgins and Alison Knowles > > =20 > > Week of October 12 - 19, 2003 Interdisciplinary programming: "FluxFest" > with Music/Theatre/English Departments. One evening of student > performances > of Dick Higgins=B9 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 > o= > n > =B3bent scores=B2: written scores with improvisatory and experimental > elements. > > =20 > > Contact person for these events: Ann Klefstad, 218-393-9149; 218-525-3037; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > =20 > > or=20 > > =20 > > CONTACT: Peter Spooner, Curator, (218) 726-7056, Mary Rhodes, Public > > Information, (218) 726-7823 > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:43:04 -0600 > From: "jonah hex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: FLUXLIST: a Blue and Gold Macaw version > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > - ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01C37242.D4159CA0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I will have to check out what my folks' blue and gold thinks of the "What > Is > Fluxus?" question. > > Your bird was very informative.... > > - ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01C37242.D4159CA0 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD> > <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=3DGENERATOR> > <STYLE></STYLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY style=3D"COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Dominican Small Caps" = > bgColor=3D#00ff00> > <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3D5>I will have to check out what my folks' blue = > and gold=20 > thinks of the "What Is Fluxus?" question.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> > <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3D5></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> > <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3D5>Your bird was very=20 > informative....</FONT></STRONG></DIV> > <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> > > - ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01C37242.D4159CA0-- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:51:55 +0000 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FLUXLIST: Fluxuations > > Great work mIEKAL ! > Thank you very much. > > Walter > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:24:42 -0500 > From: "David Chirot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Scores for Anne > > Dear Anne and all-- > i am sorry my mscore from yesterday interupted--by who knows what force? > will send the rest tomorrow--(the email ones, and rest of piece cut off) > onwo/ards! > and thank you again so much for this project! > david baptiste > > > >>From: Ann Klefstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Scores for Anne >>Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:40:53 -0500 >> >>Dear David--I'll leave some room in the array for your mailed works when >>they arrive-- I'll print these poster-style and hang them up--hope to >> see >>you if you can come -- >> >>Thanks for your involvement with this! >> >>AK >> >> >>On 9/3/03 1:14 PM, "David Chirot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Dear Anne-- >> > I am sending my pieces >> > it took me longer as made many outdoors in an alley >> > they are visual scores, color etc spray painted and with rubbings-- >> > and then in small print also the event-- >> > >> > i got into making them with shoes found in alleys and dumpsters-- >> > so there are some "steps" so to speak-- >> > sorry it took me longer as i can't work in the place where i live so >>have to >> > work outside-- >> > i can also send some via email >> > i wanted to present Event Scores that are also scores--in a visual >>sense, >> > suggesting thing that are an intersign of visual, sound and >> > performance--colors, forms, arrangementes--of which the viewer make >> any >> > response they so please--by acting or sounding out--or scrwaling on >> them >>a >> > response, like grafitti--on alley walls-- >> > >> > here are some i can send via email write/right now: >> > >> > for example >> > >> > CONVERSATION PIECES, or BEGGING THE QUESTION >> > >> > 1.) find a good busy place to stand or sit >> > with a large coffee can painted various hues or having obsucre >> personal >> > hieroglyphics >> > have a sign in bright colors, written on it >> > >> > CONTRIBUTE THE UNNEEDED CONTENTS OF YOUR POCKETS >> > >> > the event begins with the conversations with passersby as to nature of >>the >> > event >> > THEN THE EVENT OF THE DONATIONS >> > it continues at end of day when, reurning home, one makes collages and >> > little asemblages out of the contributions >> > >> > 2.) dressed as poor beggar--in any idea of such outfit you please-- >> > have before you a very large can, dingy and bedraggled looking as you >>wish >> > have with you a sign >> > BEGGING THE QUESTION >> > the event is what ensues in terms of exchanges with passersby >> > >> > 3.) in the gallery, stand dressed in whatever attention getting or >> > anonymous outfit you please--theatrically if you so desire or >> neutrally >> > have below you--you may if you like be mounted on a small >>pedastal/podium-- >> > or beside you >> > a sing which begs the question >> > BUT, IS IT ART? >> > paper and pen are provided for the museum goers to write responses and >>rop >> > them in the box provided >> > later, the responses are collectd and made into collaged poems by >>tearing, >> > cutting them, mixing words, lines, syllables-- >> > and one returns with this and to the question, again taking up the >> pose >> > beside paper and pen: >> > >> > BUT, IS IT ART? >> > >> > again collect the responses, remix--are there any differences now? >> > BUT, IS IT ART-- >> > >> > >> > 4.) WORE ON TEARERISM >> > >> > in the gallery--or outside, roaming about--stationing themselves at >> > various "perimeters"-- >> > someone dressed as a security guard >> > with them a large box with stenciled on it the militray looking words >> > WORE ON TEARERISM >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> From: Ann Klefstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Scores for Anne >> >> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:04:37 -0500 >> >> >> >> Thanks, zoe, perfect for the museum context, I'll put them on cards, >>great! >> >> ak >> >> >> >> On 9/1/03 9:56 AM, "zoe marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi, have been meaning to send something for ages, but now too late >> to >> >> put in >> >>> the post so here goes by email... >> >>> >> >>> these were typed onto smallish cards and left on top of a plinth in >> a >> >>> gallery with the instruction 'TAKE A CARD', but you dont have to do >>that >> >> (or >> >>> indeed anything) with them, its up to you! >> >>> >> >>> FIND A WORK ON THE WALL. tRY TO SEE THE BACK OF IT BY LEANING YOUR >>HEAD >> >>> AGAINST THE WALL. >> >>> >> >>> FIND A LIGHT SWITCH. EXAMINE IT THOROUGHLY. >> >>> >> >>> LOOK CLOSELY AT THE LEFT HAND CORNER OF A WORK. SAY 'OH'. MOVE AWAY. >> >>> >> >>> STAND THREE FEET AWAY FROM A WORK. FROWN. SAY'HMM'. >> >>> >> >>> STAND IN THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM. RUB YOUR CHIN. >> >>> >> >>> WALK IN A CIRCLE CLOCKWISE AROUND THE ROOM. MUTTER 'POSTMODERNISM, >> >>> INTERESTING'. >> >>> >> >>> TAKE ANOTHER CARD. READ IT. PUT IT BACK EXACTLY WHERE YOU FOUND IT. >> >>> >> >>> HIDE THIS CARD IN YOUR POCKET. >> >>> >> >>> LEAVE THIS CARD SOMEWHERE. >> >>> >> >>> TAKE ANOTHER CARD WHI8LE NO-ONE IS LOOKING. >> >>> >> >>> STAND EIGHT FEET FROM A WORK. RAISE YOUR EYEBROWS. BREATHE IN. MOVE >> >> CLOSER. >> >>> >> >>> sorry dont have time to type more, on library computer and must log >>out, >> >>> good luck with all the scores, luv zoe >> >>> >> >>> _________________________________________________________________ >> >>> Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone >> >> http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > _________________________________________________________________ >> > Enter for your chance to IM with Bon Jovi, Seal, Bow Wow, or Mary J >>Blige >> > using MSN Messenger http://entertainment.msn.com/imastar >> > >> > >> >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Need more e-mail storage? Get 10MB with Hotmail Extra Storage. > http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es > > ------------------------------ > > End of FLUXLIST-digest V4 #208 > ****************************** >
