From: Ben Vautier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun Feb 6, 2005 12:03:43 PM America/Chicago To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Newsletter Ben] FLUXUS Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
THIS IS A SMALL FLUXUS LETTER TO REMEMBER EMILY
THE BRIDGE
Emily built a beautiful bridge between down town Broadway and Venice and another between Venice and Nice
Just like in a good science fiction movie you could get on the bridge from Gate One the last steps from her Broadway gallery and find yourself on Gate Two on top of the famous Venice Rialto bridge
To build such a bridge you don't need stones or steel but details and moments and Emily was a specialist in accumulating moments words details observations
To keep the bridge there we must just remember them So
I remember Emily, she used to eat with us on the terrace in the sun and talk about ecology.
I remember Emily with her funny little hats
I remember Emily accepting a show of mine in N.Y. in witch I proposed to brake up America and give Alabama to the Senegal
I remember Emily as a great organiser deciding when to live, what to show
I remember an Emily who loved deciding
I remember Emily falling in love for new born cats
I remember Emily journeying with all the show in a suitcase
I remember of an Emily a bit correct but a bit stingy
On who pays for the drinks
I remember Emily saying she came straight down from the Mayflower bunch
I remember Emily talking about swimming in cold water
I remember Emily et ses rires d'enfant
I remember son �merveillement devant les gen�ts si parfum�s de Pierrefeu
(your turn all of you now to remember )
I remember
SOME OTHER FLUXUS NEWS
The project of a Fluxus meeting festival in Rue de Seine of Paris
Is always on my mind Two or three gallerys are always eager to show the Fluxus works
Problem : problem is time, energy, and work
I am afraid of too much stress
I am jealous of Ben Patterson journeying around the world taking the Transiberian. Hee never stops
Knizac invited me to go to Pragues. Why not? Prague is a beautiful town and full of beautiful women
I am afraid of drinking too much beer
I saw a fantastic photo of WALTER Marchetti with a piano covered WITH fruits Everybody came to eat on the piano
Michaud Has still remaining some edition of the Fluxus THROW AWAY PHOTO edition. Its a great piece. And cheap
In Europe where ever you go you fall nos days on a John Armleder show - Swiss power.
I Received a fantastic Fluxus open letter from Allen Bukoff, Michigan I will with his authorisation put it on the net on my Fluxus page In a few days. Go and read it its on the fluxus tongue
http://www.ben-vautier.com/
The Fluxus room in Beaubourg show "son et lumieres " was with La Monte Young's room the best room in the show
Charles Dreyfus is in Perpignan walking around
In Genova (italy)George Brecht works are getting more and more expensive. Sometimes you wonder if they are just instruction cords or real works
Passing by Milano I had a beautiful meal or spaghetti with Gino and Viviana and
Gallery Depardieu shows Giuseppe Chiari in Nice (with Pedrini Collection)
Fluxus artists don't stop doing shows, talks, concerts Erik Andersen is one of those
I love receiving Jean Toche's letter witch I collect preciously
Some day Somebody should compile all his letters together in a big box or book and send it to Bush as a present.
Fluxus favorites at the Moderna Museet in Danmark
In Nice, Brandi, Kristof and Bataillard play so insupportable badly that could be Fluxus
I am interested in what I would call post Fluxus situation that is to say all this young artist full of ideas about life and art
For instance Jean Mas, who is interested in showing "a little"
(in french : "P")
Sometimes I call them "attitude art"
Jacques Lizene de Li�ge is one of them
I received a fantastic book by Gabor Toth. Full of his art limit ideas. I was quite jealous
I am suppose to comment Fluxus'films of Paik and others at Beaubourg in a few days
I don't know what really to say Maybe I just say that.
Clavez in Paris is doing a god university job informing everybody
In France about Fluxus. I feel sometimes he forget Nice but Nice was important. It would be find if he could bring out the book at a sometime Fluxus show in Rue de Seine in Paris
Takako's joint work with George Brecht at a fair of Bologna was fantastic. Full of imperceptible details and had lots of sucess
(lara vincy gallery)
In France Berguez died. People don't know about him but he was very close to Fluxus sending mail art about life and sex
Maciunas is becoming a myth. Daniella Palazzoli talks about meeting with him in New York in a epistolic way as if she met jesus
Jacques Pinaud the artist has lost his memory it is his last Fluxus piece.
In french I received this letter from Catherine his wife about him
"Jacques est tr�s calme et serein. Il a souhait� avoir un r�veil m�canique pour pouvoir le remonter, ainsi il est devenu le ma�tre du temps. Maintenant il trouve assez difficile de remonter le r�veil: il aimerait avoir le temps de rien comme Richard Bacqui�."
I saw a fantastic video of Paik throwing down a piano and then two strong men put it back straight and Paik throwing it down again and again
Fluxus Paris (in french)Someone told me
Yoko Ono est un probl�me. Quand elle arrive quelque part elle v�hicule de la gloire et donc une angoisse.
Thts enough for today Ben
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