-----Messaggio Originale----- Da: Alison Knowles A: alan bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Data invio: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:09:33 -0400 Oggetto: Fw: Madame Hulot sez Coming in from my longtime home in New York I arrived in Venice just in time to have an evening with Emmett Williams and Ann Noel. We had an endless night of long talk and tall drinks and his health though frail is better than any of my friends of his vintage. Salute Emmett and Ann Noel who are off to do her diaries in Venice with Francesco Conz. The first event at the museo Fortuny was not possible without a friend Alan Bowman whom I located on the rolldeck at the Foundation Emily Harvey and seemed to remember having met in New York. Everyone wants to help and is very kind here but some actually do put the proverbial shoulder to the wheel and do it. That is Alan. We are very labor compatible and with wit and knowledge of the terrain (Venice) he has been indispensible. We plan to work together again. He actually rolls along over and under it all and comes out smiling, so I call him Always Bowling and he calls me with equal appropriateness, Owl and Sundried. The performance went well with two of my own works: Loose Pages which papers the body in flax and crackles when walking, Onion Skin Song which turns a sandwich of onion skins in seran wrap into musical notation (played with toys, bean turners). We used the shadows on the crumbling lovely walls to play from, but then also the onion skin sandwich itself(which we created live on the floor) we could turn and use as well. The concert concluded with three Vintage Fluxus works full of significance but with no specific meaning: a Dick Higgins Constellation (three of them with audience participation), Shoes of Your Choice (with much audience participation) and Ay-O's Rainbow ( three performers blowing bubbles while I lept about bursting with pins). For whatever reason Lucio Pozzi said this made him weep! It was lovely with bubbles floating about in marble halls. The concert ended with Bob Watts Trace for Orchestra. We burned the Barber of Seville at the music stand. This is a fine piece. The next day I left for the Villa Buttafava with Giovanni Orsini to put up an installation in the Villa and get out of Venice for three days. Putting instruments and artifacts, stones and beans plus his miracle fabric luminex into an old window with a plexi backing which we then hung on the wall. This installatain and in fact all I am doing here has the title Time Samples. Let's keep it simple as Robert (filliou) would say. Signor Orsini is of a very old family. In fact his ancestor Felix invented the "Orsin". this bomb relieved the world of Napoleon 111! Now, back in Venice, Always Bowling and I have just the Exhbition Time Samples ahead next week. we have lizards here, ants a'plenty and now mosquitoes. We try to be friendly with these creatures, we are, afterall the intruders. Nice to talk to the Fluxlist again. Onward Alison (akijan) Oh Odin's Underpants its a B(owman)LOG http://bowmansramblings.blogspot.com/ Visit the Freeformfreakout Organisation Online: http://www.freeformfreakoutorganisation.net
