by the way (fluxus )2012-08-28Hello this is From Ben Vautier A quick newsletter in English Before leave for Wiesbaden My newsletters are usually in French if I write in English i must think in English it is an unusual exercise for me I just finshed my show at Catherine Issert gallery and i am suffering of an Art and ego indigestion My mind goes up and down i am not feeling so well what's more I am loosing my memory I often forget what I meant to write no joke But i fight it Too much too think about I never learnt how to rest Maybe i go to Wiesbaden with the panel "To forget Fluxus is Fluxus " By the way Sometimes i think Maciunas Invented the "Fluxus concert " by Just putting together small pieces of friends From here and there Pieces that If they had been left alone Would only have been personal modern art works Not Fluxus I would give Maciunas 5/10 for personal newness ? And 8/10 for putting newness together By the way What's nice about Alzheimer? is that my mind jumps from One thing to another I can't read theoretical texts anymore But i can imagine new theories i even have new theory's on the universe On politics on ethnics on sex The Swiss editor Favre Has proposed to publish my theories By the way I am astonished Although My spelling mistakes are horrible My English is not so bad Personally I would enjoy I f I could stop worrying Just sit down have a drink Make (not love ) but court a pretty girl And write some philosophy By the way I just found this quote on my computer I had written last time in new york what comes next after instruction art Attitude art ? no art ? Give up art? Who care about art? Why art? or back to folk art Such topics interst me Why folk art? Because it has to do a people and memory an Inuit a German a Bambara a Hoppy an Italian each have their own language Own words thus own vision of the world " By the way i was reading that homo sapiens wiped out The more pacific Neanderthal So as a homo sapiens i have no excuse By the way Fluxus will finish being archaeology And scholarship i would have enjoyed seeing Fluxus alive Finishing up in analysing ego Opening up ego like a suit case By the way I hate feeling anxious This 50 years of Fluxus Makes lots of people think It is my turn I was here before them etc i really like the Fluxus crowd Ben Paterson Eric Anderson Allison Knowles Henry Flynt ken Friedman ETC But you agree we are Just a bunch of super homo sapiens Fluxus egoists Annie says i see ego and aggressivity everywhere Because I am myself an aggressive egoist my mummy told me not to believe in man kind was she right or wrong By the way Afghanistan Syria Libya Just power Rapports de force By the way How is Allison I love her short emails i herd that like me she is Slowly loosing her memory By the way Had the visit of Xatrex and Julia Robertson She spent the day saying "oh my god " And taking photos of my of Brecht la Monte young a Henry Flynt archives JULIA has a great smile By the way Someone told me La Monte young Was against publishing in Anthology Simple events by George Brecht He wanted to be the first To do short pieces By the way Jean Dupuy tells wonderful stories Of his life in New-York Listening to him is just as if you were there By the way I like Tomas newsletters By the way Julia and Xatrex Are head and tales for henry Flynt Flynt is made like all of us of ego Sometimes crazy And Some times new because crazy By the way My grandson without knowing my interest for Flynt Told me the other day I am interested i in a musician I found on the net I said who? he said Henry Flynt By the way I just received the visit of Jeannette From Kitchen Amsterdam she says Harry Ruhe is an important man in Wiesbaden Since 4 months he has his Fluxus shop in front of the museum Jonas Mekas Showed his films Robert watts wrote "Das wichtige an Fluxus ist dass Niemand weiss was es ist " Dick Higgins Ben Patterson opened a bar in june Harry did the four fluxus boxes Potsdam showed fluxus Performance films Some one said Aber wo ist Beuys? By the way I study ego in Fluxus I hate both sides of my own ego I hate myself when People coming to me ask "you are ben? And I hate myself when they don't ask me By the way I remember once I told la Monte young We are all egoists and do art too only to help our ego He said no I do art for the enrichment of mankind By the way Ben Patterson has when he wants the nice voice of a a radio speaker Of the sixties By the way I just recieved Ben Patterson catalogue from Huston Very impressive full of Humour truth and philosophy By the way Fluxus concert pieces can be boring When ego turns pieces that should be short into long te deums By the way I work all day with lists One list after the other And the lists go into notebooks And then back too lists By the way just as say's Abraham Moles Better have a brain that runs amuck Then a dead brain By the way As I never throw anything Away and horde and classify everything I also use my site on the net ben --vautier .com as a huge garbage can that contains all my junk poetry sex politics fluxus etc By the way Just a few words to say I like Gabor Toth Just a few words to say we are all getting old each day little more By the way We were talking about all those Who left us And someone said Who is going to die next? Annie said Fluxus never dies By the way I wonder if it is a strong or a weak point When I say I don't like myself I don't believe in ben vautier By the way I must thank john Hendricks for Sending me all these clippings About ethnics And phoning to keep my moral up By the way Caterina Gualco brought out a book on Fluxus in Italy 200 pages I would never had imagined That Italy had so much Fluxus activity By the way Since Francesco Conz Fluxus collection is blocked By law every day it gets bigger and bigger By the way Fleurice Wurz sent me this list of what happening around Fluxus into 2012 : Blois Wiesbaden Saint Etienne Chiasso Potsdam Genova And that is only the beginning Etc By the way Bernard Blistene phoned me from Berlin Ben I visited the Fluxus show in Berlin They don't have a single ben vautier In the show By the way Blois Fluxus museum Blois is still on the list But I have given up wanting to decide Blois is 2 hours from Paris Galdin a Goulesque are working hard To turn blois into a Fluxus super zen center Gino will be maybe lending a great part of his collection By the way The Fluxus show's Caterina Gualco is doing in her gallery en Genova are called "we are still alive" Her shows start in January and finishing in March 2012 By the way About Fluxus concerts if you agree or not I believe the magic of a Fluxus concert Comes from Maciunas cocktail making Mixing of Brecht, Paik, and Patterson etc By the way Daniel Crippa And Caterina Gualco Were The organizers of the Catania show Wherr Ben Patterson gave a fantastic fluxus concert By the way In Nice france The boxing ring at the villa arson Went well Lots of new funny pieces Mamadou invented a pure Fluxus piece He starts by reading a book and after 1 mnute reads aloud "the public must try to cover my voice " every body started talking At the same time I liked the piece Another Ring piece was When Catanea took of her clothes (the top only) sat on the a chair and we gave out pencils a paper for the audience to draw her Also a beautiful Cage peace by Françoise Apter 30 Marbles every time she put a marble on the floor a note of music was played (by a computer ) By the way My big problem with Fluxus is ego Although some supposed Fluxus after Cage and Duchamp Contained less ego I still believe Fluxus contains as much ego as any other art movement new relisme futurism So i imagined a piece i come on stage and say Ben vautier is jealous of marcel duchamp Ben vautier is jealous of Rembrandt Ben vautier is jealous of Rubens Ben vautier is jealous of manet Ben vautier is jealous of jean dupuy Ben vautier is jealous of Dick Higgins Ben vautier is jealous of Vostell Ben vautier is jealous of joseph Beuys Ben vautier is jealous of Yoko Ono Ben vautier is jealous of George Brecht Ben vautier is jealous of Eric anderson Ben vautier is jealous of Ken Friedman Ben vautier is jealous of Brancusi Ben vautier is jealous of Daniel Spoerri Ben vautier is jealous of John cage Ben vautier is jealous of Larry Miller Ben vautier is jealous of Robert filliou Etc By the way A variation could be with random names picked up From a hat Ben Vautier is jealous of Yoko Ono Yoko Ono is jealous of George Brecht Goerge Brecht is jealous of Takako Takako is jealous of Ken Friedman Ken Friedman is jealous of Eric Anderson Eric Anderson is jealous of Duchamp Duchamp is jealous of Brancusi Brancusi is jealous of etc is jealous of By the way Loosing my memory is painful so i have decided to try to quit the game By the way Jeanette told me Willem de Ridder will be in Wiesbaden I loved that piece with the two chairs I saw in Extrema Dura By the way i have tons of archives on Fluxus Looking threw them i found My Fluxus pages for Gino's ben Vautier bullshit issue Unprintable too nasty By the way Pierre Jean Galdin (from Blois )is coming to Nice after tomorrow We are supposed to take a plane together for Frankfurt Then rent a car and go to Wiesbaden to see Ben Patterson's show and Participate in Ben's ring I don't quite get what they expect from me at the moment I don't have the energy necessary to start worrying But it may come and I am sure By the way Its late I have to go to sleep All my newsletters are on my site Ben-vautier .com And all you have to do is clic below to get out of my mailing list thanks and Good night ben |