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This listing (1901636033) has been removed or is no longer available. Please make sure you entered the right item number. If the listing was removed by eBay, consider it canceled. /:b On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, UQ0502 wrote: > Right now only US $7.38 > > The winning bidder will receive the legendary pair of stretchy pants, > significant in the history of Fluxus, Happenings, Vienna Actionism, > Performance Art, Conceptual Art and the New York Correspondence > School. The stretchy pants first appeared in Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece" at > Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965. Gradually revealed as audience > members scissored Ono's clothing, the stretchy pants were all that > shielded Ono from the prying eyes of the spectators. The undergarment > made its next documented appearance during the "Street Cleaning Event" > performance by Hi Red Center, June 1966 at Grand Army Plaza (58th > Street and 5th Avenue), New York City. Allegedly, struggles between > the members over who would wear the stretchy pants upset group notions > of collaborative collectivism and led to the demise of the collective. > Next, the pants figure prominently in VALIE EXPORT's 1976 "Abrundung" > as she used her body to understand and complement the architectural > environment around her. In 1977-78, George Maciunas honored the > stretchy pants by producing the stamps, "Fluxpost (Stretchy Pants)." > Following this publication, the stretchy pants disappeared from public > view for nearly three decades. In December, 2006, an enigmatic > reference to the pants appeared in the members' questions section of > conceptual artist Stefano Pasquini's (www.stefpasquini.com) eBay > listing, "Ebayaday Original Fluxus art in the post Stolen Ebayday." > Conceptual artist Robin Kahn -- feminist provocateuse, public artist > (www.copilandia.org), editor of anti-copyright artist anthologies > (www.creativetime.org/archive), curator of radical art exhibitions, > and self-published author (www.printedmatter.org) – inquired about the > stretchy pants, only to be told that they had been sold. Six months > later, the stretchy pants arrived as the final installment of six > months of surprise correspondence artworks sent to eBayaday winner > Rebekah Modrak. The silver-pink pants, still stretchy, retain the > famed inscription "TAKE ME", as well as the unexplained pink stain. > The winning bidder will receive this renowned pair of pants along with > all four of the prominent photographs that appear in this listing. > > Don't miss it on: > http://cgi.ebay.com/Original-Fluxus-stretchy-pants-of-post-Stolen-Ebayaday_W0QQitemZ190163603379QQihZ009QQcategoryZ554QQcmdZViewItem _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
