my clicking on the link works.
you may try looking for the listing number 190163603379
and keep stretching!
;)
On 10/17/07, { brad brace } <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hey!!
>
> 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
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