FLUXLIST: Fw: no subject
This is a BCC copy of a message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 100(11) Instruction Works www.ikatun.com/100-11/ - Tonight iKatun kicks off 7a*11d's 5th International Perf- ormance Art Festival with the performance of the first of eleven instruction works. This performance will take place at 7PM at the opening reception for the festival at 401 Richmond St., Toronto, Canada. Each day of the festival, iKatun will be performing one instruction work somewhere in Toronto from those submitted to the project website: www.ikatun.com/100-11/ Tonight, iKatun will infiltrate the opening reception for the festival with the below instruction: DAY #1: INSTRUCTION #42 -- the Grotesque A person [or a few persons] enters - a stage or something - and stops. Then slowly starts taking off the shirt, slowly turning it inside out and then putting it back on again. This goes on until all garments are turned inside out. When fin- ished the performer exits. If performed by more than one the performance can be organized so that the performers are taking off and turning different clothes inside out at the same time (somone takes of shirt as someone takes of trousers as someone etc). Submitted by Robert Ek [ http://bekant.org/ ], Sweden, 2004-09-29 12:27:43 - WAYS TO PARTICIPATE: CONTRIBUTE AN INSTRUCTION WORK: www.ikatun.com/100-11/ WATCH THE WEBCAST by INTERACCESS Video will be posted each day http://www.interaccess.org/ia.php?pg=kanarinka READ THE BLOG Photos and log will be posted each day www.ikatun.com/100-11/ WALK WITH US TO PERFORM OR OBSERVE Meet any day for the next 10 days at 9AM at the coffee shop at 401 Richmond St, Toronto, Canada. Each performance first involves a walk to an undetermined destination - wear good shoes. -
FLUXLIST: books for sale
Hello all, I have a couple of Fluxus-related books I'd like to sell: Emmett Williams MY LIFE IN FLUX AND VICE VERSA and the FLUXATTITUDES catalogue. Anyone interested in either please contact me off-list for price/details. Reed
FLUXLIST: books for sale
Hello all, I have a couple of Fluxus-related books I'd like to sell: Emmett Williams MY LIFE IN FLUX AND VICE VERSA and the FLUXATTITUDES catalogue. Anyone interested in either please contact me off-list for price/details. Reed
FLUXLIST: books for sale
Hello all, I have a couple of Fluxus-related books I'd like to sell: Emmett Williams MY LIFE IN FLUX AND VICE VERSA and the FLUXATTITUDES catalogue. Anyone interested in either please contact me off-list for price/details. Reed
FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST- stark bonks
John, I think I was sin fingers last week if that helps any. At the moment I'm drum tundra but I'm pretty sure that won't last. Cheers, Reed Resident Knucklehead
FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST Sun Ra/ Mail-Art
That Szwed book's great. Just to let you know also that Space is the Place(Sun Ra's movie) has been re-released on DVD and also includes some home movies of the arkestra in Egypt. It seems to be available everywhere (the usual Amazon etc.) thanks for the heads up on this, Sol. Oh, Reed thanks for the mail art...will reply soon your welcome! I'll look forward to it. Reed
Re: FLUXLIST: Is it art?
Don, I suppose it's art in the same way that a sign from which some letters have fallen off making the sign's message incoherent is a found poem. Reed Altemus I received several items in the mail recently. This morning I looked at them and then stacked them all together to take to my truck. As I looked down two of them fell open. One was a color photography book by Robert Hirsch, Exploring Color Photography, and on the back cover was a photo of a large moth. Next to that photo was the cover of a Birds and Blooms, magazine with a similar moth, in color so that it appeared as if it was another page of the same book/magazine. It gave me quite a shock or as Picasso would say, A leap in the imagination. Was this art? -Don Boyd
FLUXLIST: summer reading/pronunciations
I just finished the Susan Sontag anthology of Artaud' writings while simultaneously reading the excellent biography of Sun Ra by John Szwed. Now I'm in the middle of Samuel Butler's Erewhon and just started a book I found today called World of the Maya. Maciunas is pronounced ma chewn ass with a short a fluxus is pronounced flukes us the first u is long and the second u short. It took a while before I found out also because I had only read about it. Reed
FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-digest V4 #604
Thanks to Madawg for the wonderful Princess Petal commemortive booklet which arrived today! Very nice job. Felt happy to be included and glad to be able to spend a few moments remembering a friend. Reed
FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-digest V4 #554
Alice, Hi. Mailing address is the same: Reed Altemus P.O. Box 52 Portland, ME 04112 USA New email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 (207) 879 6337 Thanks a lot for doing this- I used the last one for one mailing and had some very nice responses. A useful networking tool... Reed
FLUXLIST: RE: Ben Patterson:s 70th birthday
Am writing from \tokyo--\ben has arrived by Orient \express according to \george Maciunas` wishes for his 70th birthday--we are going to caravan to Mt. \fuji where \ayo has organized about 30 performances of \fluxus artists on the mountain--don:t know much else except it is an event not to be missed sponsored by \gallery 360 degrees in \tokyo--I have just passed my 70th and wanted you all to know that on 29 May we will be on Mt. \fuji. Judith \a. Hoffberg aka Umbrella Original Message: - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (FLUXLIST-digest) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:57:33 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FLUXLIST-digest V4 #442 FLUXLIST-digest Tuesday, May 25 2004 Volume 04 : Number 442 In this issue: == Re: FLUXLIST: I survived FLUXLIST and what is Fluxus? Re: FLUXLIST: I survived FLUXLIST and what is Fluxus? -- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 16:54:58 -0400 From: suse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: I survived FLUXLIST and what is Fluxus? I am interested in the piece. Actually, though I am absolutely nobody, I gathered up a group of folks who have been influenced by fluxus and planned to hold an exhibition this month. Plans generally evolved into the mud over at Birdland where the event was to be held. It will be revived again in the future--meantime energies are being directed toward The Buttonwood Tree. www.buttonwood.org. PS ANYONE out there with an interest in site design is welcome to come up with a new site for The Buttonwood Tree--we are perhaps changing the name as we go through a process similar to mitosis--perhaps simply 'The Button'--someone is already designated to design otherparts such as NOMA, etc. - - Original Message - From: Owen Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 4:18 PM Subject: FLUXLIST: I survived FLUXLIST and what is Fluxus? Wow! All I did was not check my email for a couple of days and the list exploded with a flurry of posts. As I read through them what struck me was regardless of the nature and direction - what has beeen generated is a really interesting series of statements about fluxus, history, art, theory and the connections between them, so for a reader point of view thank you all. As some of you know I am currently editing a special issue of Visible Language on Fluxus, but not the usual historical stuff, more on fluxus as an ongoing aesthetic/cultural phenomena. I am planing/hopeing to include materials by artists who are not necessarily fluxus in the historical sense but have been influenced by or see their work and iideas in relation to fluxus - so all the posted comments have been very interesting for me to read and I have quite enjoyed all the variety of issues and statements. And in the end, I guess what it says to me is that fluxus is still alive, at least in relivance, otherwise not so many of you would feel the way you do, and that is a good thing. . . . I am also working on a piece for the issue that might be relivant to these discussions so I am sending it along. It is in rough draft format and I intend to expand it with more current practices/examples, but none-the-less I will include it here for your consisderation, and if you are not interested please just ignore the rest of this post. Owen Owen -- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 17:07:27 -0400 From: Owen Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: I survived FLUXLIST and what is Fluxus? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am interested in the piece. Sorry the piece did not come throught the last time - here it is for anyone who is interested. Also Suse tell me more about this show, it sounds very interesting even if it did not happen this time. Owen As evidenced by the existence of this publication Fluxus is increasingly becoming the object of scholarly consideration. In the last ten years there have been an ever-increasing number of exhibitions, journal publications and even books on Fluxus. In light of this growing recognition and attention I would suggest that we should ask ourselves, What is the nature of the information that we are gaining and at what expense is this knowledge being accrued? It may seem peculiar to suggest that the acquisition of knowledge about Fluxus and the construction of a history of Fluxus is somehow detrimental, but I believe that this is often the case and I would therefore argue that we must consider not only the particulars through which a history of Fluxus might be developed but also what such a process does to our awareness/understanding of Fluxus or even to Fluxus itself. There are two principal concerns which should be addressed: the first is that many of the traditional accepted practices of history, art history, and cultural institutions such as museums, are directly in conflict with some of the basic attitudes that I feel lie behind many
Re:FLUXLIST: NYC 11-16-03
I'm going to be in New York on the 16th (this coming Sunday) for the Postcards from the Edge show to benefit the VisualAIDS project. The show is from 3-6pm at Galerie Lelong at 528 West 26th (between 10th and 11th). Anyone interested in meeting? me me me me me ! ! ! ! ! however though but - i shall be stuck here in ol' venice town, trying desperately to catch the flu or anything that would warrant a week off work. and fretting over the fact that i/ i won't be able to meet melissa in ol' NYC. (which in times past proved to be a most enjoyable thing (until bukoff showed up!)) ii/ roger stevens is coming to venice on his jollies darlink melissa have a pint of bass for me and a jolly good time too is meryl the peril going to be there? alan FreeformFreakout Organisation www.freeformfreakout.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] driven by apathy
FLUXLIST: la poesia xe bea
babelfishingleseitaliano Bangalore, Mangalore, Chandernagore, galore. Sicomoro, sophomore del sagamore, Mattamore. Ancora, evermore, nevermore, diasporo del forevermore, zoospore, endospore. Megaspore, microspore, tetraspore. Aplanospore di Exospore. Dinosaur di Chickasaw, elasmosaur di Megalosaur, Plesiosaur, Tyrannosaur. Titanosaur. Humidor di d'Or di Louis. Stevedore di Cuspidor. Lobsterthermidore. Labrador matador, picador adore. Toreador dell'Ecuador, Conquistador. Salvador di San pi sopra, Salvador di EL prima di Salvador prima. portugese Bangalore, Mangalore, Chandernagore, galore. Sycamore, estudante de segundo ano de universidade do sagamore, Mattamore. Alm disso, evermore, nevermore, diaspore do forevermore, zoospore, endospore. Megaspore, microspore, tetraspore. Aplanospore de Exospore. Dinosaur de Chickasaw, elasmosaur de Megalosaur, Plesiosaur, Tyrannosaur. Titanosaur. Humidor do d'Or de Louis. Stevedore de Cuspidor. Lobsterthermidore. Labrador matador, picador adore. Toreador de Equador, Conquistador. Salvador do San hereinbefore, salvador de EL antes do salvador afore. sorry (in english)
FLUXLIST: like totally rhyming poem
AWEORORE Bangalore, Mangalore, Chandernagore, galore.Sycamore, sagamore sophomore,Mattamore.Furthermore, evermore, nevermore, forevermoreDiaspore, zoospore, endospore.Megaspore, microspore, tetraspore.Exospore aplanospore. Chickasaw dinosaur,Megalosaur elasmosaur,Plesiosaur, Tyrannosaur.Titanosaur. Louis d'Or humidor.Cuspidor stevedore.Lobsterthermidore. Labrador matador, picador adore.Ecuador toreador,Conquistador.San Salvador hereinbefore,El Salvador beforeSalvador afore. tee hee http://freeformfreakout.org/
FLUXLIST: bertrand
dear bertrand, congratulations! verys bests alan
FLUXLIST: brubaker's finest wearable gourds
Gourd art? i'm intrigued off to apply a little of fluxus to my playtime coffee
Re: FLUXLIST: Musica Coatta
On 5/29/03 4:54 AM, Walter Cianciusi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Cianciusi MUSICA COATTA (Forced Music) Score, Edition of 10 Copies. Send me your address if you want to get a free copy. Thank you. How Generous. Rick Griffith - M A T T E R -- - 1614 15th Street, Fourth Floor, Denver, Colorado 80202 -- - http://www.morematter.com --
Re:FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-digest V4 #28
who is thank you? what have they done? why do you want them removed? this could start a whole new dilemna. FreeformFreakout Organisation www.freeformfreakout.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] driven by apathy
Re: FLUXLIST: baby octopi
We find baby octopi useful substitutes for rubber thimbles, when counting money, sorting through mounting bills and resignation letters. Your The Freeformfreakout Organisation Finance and Payroll Div FreeformFreakout Organisation www.freeformfreakout.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] driven by apathy
FLUXLIST: mundane paint cans
If fuxxus is anything it is utterly obvious, mundane, common place and certainly 1 gal paint cans are the same. cecil a 1 gal paint can that looks like a 1 gal paint can, because that's what it is, may be mundane - and there is beauty in that. a 1 gal paint can that is obviously a container for something other than 1 gallon of paint is something else. there is a danger of things becoming too contrived by the effort made to remane mundane and utterly obvious. cor blimey, i'm on a roll today - can't remember the last time i posted so many times in one day aaah it's friday i can feel tomorrow's hangover already alan
FLUXLIST: structured paint cans
RE --(maybe a little too structured for my taste...any thoughts?) perhaps these could be component parts to be placed in a final container? the only structure would be the 'theme' ie instruction, sound, etc - but it would be wide open to interpretation. a sound pice does not have to be audio after all. i wonder if we could do a series of pieces over a period of time. each edition of editions could contain pieces of a similar sort. for example - edition1 - simple event texts edition2 - drawings edition3 - music based pieces (scores and / or recordings) etc
FLUXLIST: pc hair?
in re;to make no sense division I was referring to the fact that people were wondering whether la tino plastic dolls were pc- i think someone got their threads crossed - or are we doing one of those nonsense subject lines again? FreeformFreakout Organisation www.freeformfreakout.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] driven by apathy
FLUXLIST: FFFO makes noe sense div.
how bout: makes-no-sense-division? Dear Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms nAnts Who do you think sanctions the FFFO correspondence? Yours L. Mow-Banana Asst. Director Freeformfreakout Organisation Miffed at being by-passed in the Promotion Stakes Div. FreeformFreakout Organisation www.freeformfreakout.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] driven by apathy
FLUXLIST: hair confusion
And Mr. Bowman, for those of us who are somewhat electronically challe nged (no scanner), may we send a Blue-Haired You portrait via the time- honored tradition of snail (or air) mail? Dearest Bellisima Melissima and Fluxlisters in general I was hoping for some sort of kompewta generated stuff, but seein as its yoohoo i shall extend the spec to mailed stuff as well. Bearing in mind that my scanner is knackered, keep it small (ish) Oh, and another thing, there was a distinctly purply tinge this morning! Now THAT I really don't understand!!! (What do they mean a makes no sense division?!?!? should I be insulted? (cue Bukoff!)) x alan FreeformFreakout Organisation www.freeformfreakout.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] driven by apathy
FLUXLIST: Beethoven s t r e t c h e d
reminds me of another unfinished project from the fffo the soundtrack to douglas gordon's 24 hour psycho i actually got someone interested enough to join in, but like most of my stuff it fizzled away to nowt (fizzled may be too strong a term..) alan broken down on the information superhighway
Re: FLUXLIST: inspiration
re: NP: 'heroes', david bowie nice one carol! for inspiration - try listening to bowman's acoustic version of heroes - a duet with diego barovier - you will be inspired to do almost anything - just to get out of the room! cheers al broken down on the information superhighway
Re: FLUXLIST: inspiration
I remember liking a version of heroes sung by bowie in german, helden--it was so . . . blonde, you know. uh hu! and i'm like urr, blond, um you know... cool! uh hu uh hu hee hee hee !!! ;-) erm, did i get that ? yours uncertainly al but like i reckon getting a response istotally like , uhm cool.. hee hee broken down on the information superhighway
Re: Re: FLUXLIST: France
yes H, Should I try to send Subject: [Fwd: France] (fwd) again? Let's vote!: YES NO IPUT votes: YES Thanx. H, a --- On Mon, 27 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but does anyone know why it didn't get through in the first place ? al broken down on the information superhighway broken down on the information superhighway
Re: FLUXLIST: France
but does anyone know why it didn't get through in the first place? al broken down on the information superhighway
FLUXLIST: gardening
been a long time since i rock and rolled (da na, dana na na) been a long time since i did the stroll (da na, dana na na) actually the stroll bit i just did yesterday. walking in central park i spotted a small sign in a flower bed saying please keep out, respect the wildlife. Newly Planted On rounding the bend who should I see? Nonother than LEd Zep's very own Robert Plant! True! Yeah! I wonder why he's taken to municipal gardening. Anyone else have a totally pointless I saw a famous person in an almost, but not quite amusing situation? ahem! a broken down on the information superhighway
FLUXLIST: hamburglar and CHiPs
Meryl wrote: Pulled over for weaving. Sol wrote: Guess the USA isn't so free as we're led to believe. In Britain we'r e free to make any cloth we choose on the loom of our choice without p olice interference. I wrote: That maybe so, Sol. But I was once cautioned for failing to stop a t a badly embroidered accident Ah! but Roger weren't you stitched up for that one? those coppers can be real sew and sews oh dear! sorry! i think i shall go out to take some air broken down on the information superhighway
FLUXLIST: ovine kangaroo...
Meryl writes: My mistake. I was actually pooled over for knitting. did they shout hey you! what you knitting?...Pullover!? meryl, i think i'm free on wednesday - but the 'boss' isn't back yet so who knows here's hoping alan broken down on the information superhighway
FLUXLIST: needle nardle noo
How about a biography of the fifty most famous artists who shoul d have been in Fluxus but didn't exist? I think this could be difficult to do for those who aren't great writers - i think i would struggle. BUT i love the idea and i'd really like to give it a go. could we draw pictures as well? eh? eh? do we have to justify their fluxusness etc? actually that would be tricky as a fairly sophisticated knowledge/understanding of fluxus may be neede before we start spoofing it. i wonder if we could, collectively, decide on a set of criteria that the characters have to meet. e.g. maciunas' 'fluxus art amusement' manifesto, or other well know and generally accepted ideas. this may be limiting but may avoid problems arising with the 'what is fluxus?', fluxus doesn't exist', 'fluxus is this!No it isn't it's THIS!' camps OR slightly less contentious: How about a biography of the fifty most famous artists who shoul d have been ON FLUXLIST but didn't exist? one of my favourite milligan pomes From Sydney Zoo an alligator Was put on board a flying freighter. He ate the pilot And the navigator. And asked for more with mashed potater alan broken down on the information superhighway
FLUXLIST: tarot ta tiddley oh!
Howza bout the Fluxus Tarot? waddabowt the Fluxus Carrot a story for kids and other young animals fluxus tarot - like the fluxdeck only with a risk - if misused you could summon eric andersen! (yes! yes! that's for baptising me in the name of the devil! you rotter! ;-) ) broken down on the information superhighway
FLUXLIST: irrelevant subject headings
i'm bored, stuck here in the gallery. what can i do to liven up my day without messing up the gallery, appearing to unprofessional (a bit too late! was the cry), scaring anybody who may come in? alan
FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST: The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910 - 1934 :: MoMA
kathy, i'll be in! i saw the show just the other day, great stuff. i was so inspired that i came back and made five totally unrelated collages. which was odd - or maybe not. anyway i'd like to do some bookstuff. we have to remember the diffrence in paper sizes (A4 us letter) (in italy i recieved a press pack to copy with text right to the edges of the us letter sized sheets - considering that A4 is a bit narrower - imagine the fun I had at the photocopier.) alan http://www.moma.org/russian/ Could this be a possible next project? Either 50 books with 50 pages by 50 people, 1 books by 50 (or s o) people or, ideally, 50 10-page books by 50 people. Like the 50 fluxbox multi ples. How would this cohere? Theme, story, size...
FLUXLIST: not Thursday Night Dinner
meryl, i,m here until the 23rd, we could meet up if you wish. i,m off work sunday and monday - you can gat me on the gallery no in the evenings - i plan to be out of here during the day. so if you get this we could meet on monday or something? let me know pity i didn't think on, melissa's been here all the time - but she goes home tomorrow. alan
FLUXLIST: Book 1910 -1934
kathy writted How about theme or story, then? A day in the life... My first compu ter... Favorite socks... Biography of another fluxlist member... what about just Fluxlist, perhaps eric might contribute ;-) seriously though, fluxlist seems to be different for each person i talk to about it. i don't necessarily mean a straight what is fluxlist to me sort of thing, we could include examples of things inspired by the list, the problems it's had, interpersonal relationships, kathy's 'bio' idea of another member (like robin crozier's portrait of robin crozier. it could be factual or completely not! if you know what i mean. to the participants, the list plays some part in their life - to be on it, you have to interact with it in some way - even if it is just hitting the delete key. well, it was just an idea. i'd love to get involved in a book project again (after happy new ears - it was just a pleasuer to recieve it) with this we may have even more free reign but i feel kathy's right - we need a theme alalalalalalalalananananananan
Re: FLUXLIST: Book 1910 -1934
perhaps we should only work on it between ten - past seven and twenty six minutes to eight in the evening? a
FLUXLIST: Meryl! well grapple me grinchers!
meryl!! spike milligan!! we HAVE to meet up you now have no choice i shall picket the flatiron building, dressed in cardboard trousers and a string fedora shouting oooeeerrrgghgh!! Meryl! no more curried eggs for me! interspersed with rousing renditions of i'm walking backwards for christmas with a gas stove over my head played on knee trumpet. waiting for your reply alan the red fort 537 broadway (between minnie bannister and puckoon new york NY
FLUXLIST: scanning Henry Flynt
hi, tartarugo i'll pass on the review to henry, i'm sure he'll be interested to see it. i just listened to the very same disc only yesterday and i like it too. i can also recommend graduation and other new country and blues music (www.ampersand.com) and there's another, the name of which has completely escaped me (oops) however, i'm booked in to work with henry over the next couple of weeks, it may be nice to interview him about the music - if anyone would be interested in knowing any more. i don't know, what do you think peoples? any questions? i think i'd like to do it anyway, it'll give me a break from scanning photos anyway. BTW carol, my scanner ground to a halt! a real anti-climax, it just makes a horrible death-rattle noise, takes a half-hour to make a distorted pre-scan and then I give up' a
FLUXLIST: fluxlist dinner/cup of tea
hi fluxlisters in the NY area are we still on for the 11th? what shall we do? eat, drink and be meryl? lemmeno alan
Re: FLUXLIST: IM going TO HARVARD
ive been on an ironing board am i in?
FLUXLIST: noo yoik
dear dearies, are we still on for a fluxlist evening/dinner/cup of tea and a cake in in the bee gapple? allen, melissa, meryl, kathy? anybody? the more the merrier alan
FLUXLIST: Emmett Williams at Anthology Film Archives
Emily Harvey Gallery 537 Broadway at Spring New York NY 10012 tel: 212 925 7651 fax: 212 966 0439 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jonas Mekas Emily Harvey Present: Emmett Williams, Fluxus artist and poet, will give a rare American performance of his building poem, The Boy and the Bird. The piece consists of twenty-one nouns, nine candles, and ninety slides. The text was written by the artist in 1969. It takes 45 minutes to perform. As the piece expands with the gradual introduction of the nouns, the moving shadows cast by the progressive lighting of the candles allow the listener to conjure their own personal imagery from the forms in the shadows surrounding the artist. The fluid metamorphosis of words and shadows are accompanied by the ninety projected images. These images follow the structural development, according to Williams, but correspond only incidentally, or accidentally, to the text. As Emmett himself said of The Boy and the Bird What I have in mind is an interpretative free-for-all on the part of the performer, utilizing all his vocal skills, including real laughter, and real tears. At Anthology Film Archives, NYC 32 Second Avenue (SE corner 2nd Street) 212 505 5181 For Information and reservations call Emily Harvey Gallery 212 925 7651
FLUXLIST: NEW EMMETT WILLIAMS SHOW at EMILY HARVEY GALLERY
Emily Harvey Gallery 537 Broadway at Spring New York NY 10012 tel: 212 925 7651 fax: 212 966 0439 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EMMETT WILLIAMS STORY LINES Emmett Williams returns to New York City and the Emily Harvey Gallery with Story Lines, an exhibition of recent verbal/visual collages that reflect a personal tradition which first took shape in the early 1960s with a group of Hieroglyphics for Do It-Yourself Translations. The artist and poet describes these pieces as finding their source in a vast collection of old fashioned decals transfer pictures depicting life and lore galore in France and her colonies, some of them dating back to the first world war and beyond - to which he offers new life and adventure as the cast of characters in a world of cryptic narrative. Its also a world in which they make the acquaintance of the personal images of little Fluxus people, a constant hallmark of Emmett Williams work. As always, these little Fluxus people are quite surprising, since they seem so very low-brow so intimate in a world of far more peregrine riddles, and of far more philosophical procedures. Each of the collages is completed by a phrase that helps it make sense, while also making it clear that although meaning is something our minds require, actual experience may not supply it, and at times may even deride it. Willaims was born in Greensboro, South Carolina, in 1925, and was one of the original points of lights in the Fluxus constellation espied by George Maciunas in the early 1960s. He was a participant in 1962 at the first famous Fluxus Festival on New Music in Wiesbaden, Germany. Before that time, however, he was already well know as a Concrete Poet. If that mix seems odd, its odder still that Williams activities have always belied that touch of something doctrinaire which hovers in the air near these terms. As a performer, hes also known to reach astounding levels of lyricism,and a kind of erotic calm. Williams has lived most of his life in Europe. After his discharge from the Army in 1946, he worked his way to Poland and Greece on cattleboats. Graduating from Kenyon College in 1949, he went to Paris, and remained in Europe for seventeen years. His friendship and collaboration with Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, Robert Filliou and other European artists began in the 1950s. Williams returned to the United States as editor-in-chief of Dick Higgins Something Else Press in New York. In 1976 he toured Japan with his friend and Fluxus colleague, Ay-O, and returned to Tokyo a decade later as a artist in residence at the Machida-shi Museum of Graphic Art, living at the Ryodenji Temple. He was artist in residence and research fellow at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University from 1977 until his return to Europe in 1980. Williams lives in Berlin, performs and exhibits widely throughout Europe, and is president of the international Artistss Museum in Lodz, Poland. In 1997 the prestigious Brerlinische Galerie awarded him the first Hannah Hoch Prize for a lifetime of achievement in the arts. His Anthology of Concrete Poetry (1967) is considered one of the best guides to the innovations and experiments in visual and concrete poetry. And John Updike wrote of the pleasure and wonderment that Williams Selected Shorter Poems (1974) gave him. Williams autobiographical My Life in Flux And Vice Versa was published in 1992 by Thames Hudson. Mr Fluxus, a collective portrait of George Maciunas edited by Williams and his wife, the English artist Ann Noel, was published in 1997, also by Thames Hudson
FLUXLIST: II NEW EMMETT WILLIAMS SHOW at EMILY HARVEY GALLERY
Emily Harvey Gallery 537 Broadway at Spring New York NY 10012 tel: 212 925 7651 fax: 212 966 0439 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EMMETT WILLIAMS STORY LINES April 10 - May 4, 2002 tuesday - saturday 11 - 6pm opening reception: wednesday april 10 . 6 - 8pm Emmett Williams returns to New York City and the Emily Harvey Gallery with Story Lines, an exhibition of recent verbal/visual collages that reflect a personal tradition which first took shape in the early 1960s with a group of Hieroglyphics for Do It-Yourself Translations. The artist and poet describes these pieces as finding their source in a vast collection of old fashioned decals transfer pictures depicting life and lore galore in France and her colonies, some of them dating back to the first world war and beyond - to which he offers new life and adventure as the cast of characters in a world of cryptic narrative. Its also a world in which they make the acquaintance of the personal images of little Fluxus people, a constant hallmark of Emmett Williams work. As always, these little Fluxus people are quite surprising, since they seem so very low-brow so intimate in a world of far more peregrine riddles, and of far more philosophical procedures. Each of the collages is completed by a phrase that helps it make sense, while also making it clear that although meaning is something our minds require, actual experience may not supply it, and at times may even deride it. Willaims was born in Greensboro, South Carolina, in 1925, and was one of the original points of lights in the Fluxus constellation espied by George Maciunas in the early 1960s. He was a participant in 1962 at the first famous Fluxus Festival on New Music in Wiesbaden, Germany. Before that time, however, he was already well know as a Concrete Poet. If that mix seems odd, its odder still that Williams activities have always belied that touch of something doctrinaire which hovers in the air near these terms. As a performer, hes also known to reach astounding levels of lyricism,and a kind of erotic calm. Williams has lived most of his life in Europe. After his discharge from the Army in 1946, he worked his way to Poland and Greece on cattleboats. Graduating from Kenyon College in 1949, he went to Paris, and remained in Europe for seventeen years. His friendship and collaboration with Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, Robert Filliou and other European artists began in the 1950s. Williams returned to the United States as editor-in-chief of Dick Higgins Something Else Press in New York. In 1976 he toured Japan with his friend and Fluxus colleague, Ay-O, and returned to Tokyo a decade later as a artist in residence at the Machida-shi Museum of Graphic Art, living at the Ryodenji Temple. He was artist in residence and research fellow at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University from 1977 until his return to Europe in 1980. Williams lives in Berlin, performs and exhibits widely throughout Europe, and is president of the international Artistss Museum in Lodz, Poland. In 1997 the prestigious Brerlinische Galerie awarded him the first Hannah Hoch Prize for a lifetime of achievement in the arts. His Anthology of Concrete Poetry (1967) is considered one of the best guides to the innovations and experiments in visual and concrete poetry. And John Updike wrote of the pleasure and wonderment that Williams Selected Shorter Poems (1974) gave him. Williams autobiographical My Life in Flux And Vice Versa was published in 1992 by Thames Hudson. Mr Fluxus, a collective portrait of George Maciunas edited by Williams and his wife, the English artist Ann Noel, was published in 1997, also by Thames Hudson
FLUXLIST: II: Emmett Williams at Anthology Film Archives
Emily Harvey Gallery 537 Broadway at Spring New York NY 10012 tel: 212 925 7651 fax: 212 966 0439 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jonas Mekas Emily Harvey Present: Emmett Williams, Fluxus artist and poet, will give a rare American performance of his building poem, The Boy and the Bird. The piece consists of twenty-one nouns, nine candles, and ninety slides. The text was written by the artist in 1969. It takes 45 minutes to perform. As the piece expands with the gradual introduction of the nouns, the moving shadows cast by the progressive lighting of the candles allow the listener to conjure their own personal imagery from the forms in the shadows surrounding the artist. The fluid metamorphosis of words and shadows are accompanied by the ninety projected images. These images follow the structural development, according to Williams, but correspond only incidentally, or accidentally, to the text. As Emmett himself said of The Boy and the Bird What I have in mind is an interpretative free-for-all on the part of the performer, utilizing all his vocal skills, including real laughter, and real tears. Saturday April 6th, 2002 . 6pm At Anthology Film Archives, NYC 32 Second Avenue (SE corner 2nd Street) 212 505 5181 For Information and reservations call Emily Harvey Gallery 212 925 7651
FLUXLIST: thanks pedro!
and apologies to all for the rather spectacular oversight on my part (re emmett williams show that is) ahem wlll, it just wouldn't be me if i got it 100% right, would it? ala
FLUXLIST: FLUXUS RARE EXHIBITION CAT
allen et al the catalogue is NOT rare, it may not have been produced in massive quantities, but it was after all only published in Feb 2002 price 15 euro (around 15 dollars more or less) I have a mint condition copy, signed by by all present - opening bid??? for those who are interested The Fluxus Constellation ISBN: 88-87262-20-9 neos edizioni - genova via casata centuriona, 3/2 genova [EMAIL PROTECTED] Museo d,Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce via jacopo ruffini Genova i dont know the postal/zip codes i reckon you'll get one from the museum (15 euro + postage) if you're interested that it ho hum alan
FLUXLIST: help
hi does anyone have scott rigby's e-mail address? i beenangonanlostit ta! alan
FLUXLIST: strange link to the fffo found
this has to be the wierdest link for the FFFO i,ve seen yet http://Kylie.4t.com/ follow the link to the fffo page turns out it,s my brother who's working at a nuclear power plant in NW england and spends a lot of time in his hotel room/bar if anybody has a look, please take the time to email him - that,ll really confuse him as he thinks im the only one who knows about the pages alan
FLUXLIST: an englishman in new york II
on april 2, 2002, bowman will arrive once again in new york city. share prices for bass ale and brooklyn lager are set to skyrocket fanelli's, it has recently been noted, is tripling its supplies. a motion to close down borders, airports and ports has been mooted in congress. can't say we haven't warned you! regards Freeformfreakout Organisation We Must Get Bowman Out of Our Collective Hair At Any Cost Division
Re: FLUXLIST: where is my mail?
PlEASE SEND FLUXUS ARTIFACTS TO CRISPIN AND ANDY what? original fluxus, post Fluxus, neo Fluxus phoney fluxus?
Re: FLUXLIST: The real old thing
re the catalogue eric mentions it,s pretty good - i recommend it (for what my recommendation is worth) al
FLUXLIST: erm....
i think that what i was trying to say is that, for me: why there is the argument not what it is.. is that any better? nope, thought not. but has anyone noticed? there,s been a lot more posted these past couple of days! a
FLUXLIST: coordination (beta version)
hi all my first posting was Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:52:42 +0100 (BST) canny bit's gone on since then like! yours alan interesting stuff sol, i wonder if i can use it to resurrect my old co-ordination drawings proiject, h wonders... wanders off down the alley, realises it's the wrong alley has to stop and ask directions..
Re: FLUXLIST: Peculiar Goings On
it is the bad trans virus! you can download a removal prog, but i don't have the url here sorry (i out of the office) BUT this works for windows (well it's what the prog did - if anyone knows better please let us know) go to windows/system/kernel32.exe bada boom al delete this file
FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST: URL for fffo new york red wine incident!!!!!!!!!
eryk! please do! alan Can I post the Take a Cat piece to my haiku list? -e. alan bowman wrote:
FLUXLIST: fffo red krayola
alex thanks for the kind response. you hit the head right on the nail! Free Form Freakout(s) are the filler tracks on the Parable of Arable Land if i'm not mistaken. i have it on tape somewhere, i'm still looking for the CD if anyone can help:-) the fffo was in fact born of red wine there are some films somewhere, possible back in england with freeform freakout as the backing track. there is also one of 2 silver foil masks of my face in candle light with pink stainless tail as the soundtrack. rubbish i'm sure, but they were fun to make alan
FLUXLIST: fffo red krayola
alex thanks for the kind response. you hit the head right on the nail! Free Form Freakout(s) are the filler tracks on the Parable of Arable Land if i'm not mistaken. i have it on tape somewhere, i'm still looking for the CD if anyone can help:-) the fffo was in fact born of red wine there are some films somewhere, possible back in england with freeform freakout as the backing track. there is also one of 2 silver foil masks of my face in candle light with pink stainless tail as the soundtrack. rubbish i'm sure, but they were fun to make alan
Re: FLUXLIST: ONGOING PROJECTS
roger! re: THE HOUSE OF FLUX - simply post your reminiscences of the place. I'll be collecting them all up, probably in the New Year, and will hopefully turn them into a book or a website or something. (See early Room Enquiries) what was this, did i miss it, or is my memory really going. probably yes, and errmm waht was the second one? at the moment i am staying in the last of george maciunas' fluxhouses i wonder if this is relevant at all bests erm.. oh aye! alan!
FLUXLIST: meeting melissa mccarthy
meet melissa mccarthy in the port authority bus depot make her walk against the flow, dragging a suitcase find a bar smoke at the wrong end recieve a wonderful gift have a good time make her walk back against the flow dragging a case bowman photo to follow, at some point... melissa! it was a real pleasure, pity time ran out (BTW absolutely nothing happened on the way back!) very warmests alan
FLUXLIST: wiseguys
an event for all meet allen bukoff event ends it is well worth it ab
Re: FLUXLIST: bea(la)n
Can I call you Al? If i can call you Betty!
FLUXLIST: brads beans
brad, if i send you peanuts how many beans can i get?
FLUXLIST: Pariah ?
i've not been following this thread at all but i saw the list of odd town names what's it all about then? near where i used to live there's a village called noplace i lived near a place called downhill - the bus to go there just had Downhill written on the front - made me laugh anyway! tantobie always confused me though there's a lot of odd names in NE UK as for here in italy.. sorry if this has got nowt to do wi' owt alan
FLUXLIST: Fluxlist in Venice
memo: Bowman introduced Scott Rigby to grappa last week He hope's he is forgiven;-) he spent a very pleasant evening with scott and leigh who were here for the biennale - and is sorry he couldn't get them into the guggenheim do! bowman was in london on fri, sat, sun but didn't meet anyone and didn't go to the tate (slacker!) coming soon the bowman/ay-o/gigliotti loud shirt demonstration pics i wish he booden't dictade bemos when he is foo ob code yours anna wombal frustrated secretary FFFO Name Dropping Div
Re: FLUXLIST: [Fwd: Speciale Biennale]
haven't had time to digest the original mail as yet (what do i have to do?) however I shall be there (or in a bar very nearby) could try and get emily harvey roped in I think scott's going to be out here then too (scott?) erm, bests alan
FLUXLIST: query
hi all! just a quick query, if i wanted to do a sort of cv ov my 'art' (and i use the term very loosely) based stuff - what form should it take? a list of performances and projects undertaken, installations etc - like the big stuff... or a list of everything ? what do i leave in and leave out? HELP!!(please) Also did anyone bother with the 4am poetry page? just that my italian friends have been asking - they were very chuffed with their english poetry - it was an interesting evening. has anyone else seen the fridge poetry packs you can buy? you can waste hours sitting in front of the fridge! maybe i should just get out more eh? bests alan
Re: FLUXLIST: The Hunt
Josh am i first? i would like to be a part of your scavenger hunt alan bowman via lorenzago 15/7 30174 mestre - venezia italy cheers alan --== Sent via Deja.com ==-- http://www.deja.com/
Re: FLUXLIST: FFFO Proof of Existence Division
We are not disputing your non/existence fffopoed http://members.tripod.com/~GeneaNel/dat64.htm#5 http://co.jefferson.tx.us/dclerk/criminal_index/1981.htm http://www.acun.com/dentons/html/dat403.html http://www.math.lsu.edu/grad/phdgrads.html Go to 1970s http://www.2id.org/25-24-f.htm FONTENOT ROBERT Rank=SGT Serial Number=RA18329293 Branch=Infantry Military Occupation Specialty=02745 Year of Birth= Race=Negroid State of Residence=TX County of Residence=Dallas Unit=24th Inf Regt Division=25th Div Type of Unit=Inf Regt Place of Casualty=North Korea Date of Casualty (yymmdd)=51 04 16 Type of Casualty=Returned to Duty Detail of Casualty=SWA/Seriously wounded in action by missile Group of Casualty=Returned to Duty (Far East Command) Evacuation Disposition= http://genforum.genealogy.com/fontenot/ etc.etc. etc
FLUXLIST: FFFO Fridgepoetry Page
new entries on the fridgepoetry pages http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/fridgepoetry3.html
FLUXLIST: FAO Dave bap ch
sorry to go thru the list but my pc's down at home. Dave Bap Ch did you get a parcel from me? or is it lost d'y'think? bests alan worst thing is, can't even remember what i sent! oops
Re: FLUXLIST: Mafia Names
Just call me "Disgruntled Johnny The Fish" from now on! Funny, I was thinking, can you be "gruntled"? alan
FLUXLIST: Customs raid Fluxbox
Lurk mode off Just letting everyone know that I've received the Fluxlist-box (Am I the last?) I suspect the reason it took so long to get to me (apart from being on the opposite side of the globe) was because Australian customs felt it necessary to open it up and look for contraband and/or to charge me for duty. I doubt that customs would have understood what was within. They didn't even bother repacking everything back into the box. I suspect they broke the cigarette candy thinking it was drugs. Apart from that everything seems to be in order. I thank all those who took part in the project, and especially those who put it together, a sterling effort. Im still to explore all of its content. All the best, Nick Potter /Lurk mode on
