FLUXUS - FLUXUS BERLIN NEWSLETTER - 2007-09-05
Fluxus is not dead
The situation is worse
Fluxus is becoming art
No problem
Don't worry
Fluxus energy is back
Berlin in September
Athens in October
Ben Patterson allison
always onthe track
never stopping
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I love Saint Auby Tamas
He sends me mails on holes in the universe
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Thanks to Eric Anderson
Fluxus has now
a "Campari time"
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I am backing Fluxus speaking English
Thanks to Petra
She has a beautiful laugh
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Petra's "Fluxus east " show in Berlin
Is bringing together
A fantastic bunch of east Europeans
It will be a great show,
New works - new information
Containing artists who said
No to art.
Like Koller
"Non-invitation to a non-exhibition"
A simple question is : Gábor Toth coming ?
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Fluxus is not glamour,
Not people,
Not money,
Not art
But Contradictions
That is to say
ART -NOT ART
MONEY -NO MONEY
FAME -NOT FAME
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Petra did not see the George Brecht show.
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Ay-O in Venice said
"Fluxus soon will cost a lot of money"
In the meantime he did four performances free
In the street.
So I say
"Fluxus is still free".
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With Petra we visited Serge Oldenbourg 's house
Another dead Fluxus artist.
Caterina Gualco should
Do a Serge Oldenburg show.
Since he died his wife has a garage
Full of old works,
Some a very strong
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With Petra
We joked and had conversation
About Fluxus secret services.
Will Fluxus change the world ?
Don't forget
Maciunas worked for Nato.
Filliou worked for the United Nations in Korea
Who knows?
Fluxus?
A Lithuanian secret organization.
Occupy Berlin
Then invade Russia.
FLUXUS LITHUANIEN STRATEGY
Turn Putin into a Fluxus artist?
Specific aim
Two directions
separate "event" from "happening".
(Happening is too theatrical)
Event is clear
Putin must drink a glass of water
And open the window
Then because of natural ego
Become an avant-garde artist.
FLUXUS DICTATORS
Become a fluxus dictator
Fluxus loves dictating
(see Maciunas - Higgins - Yoko Ono -
Ben - Larry Miller - Knizak etc etc etc etc
FLUXUS LANDSBERGIS
If I don't speak much about him
Because
every time I start wanting writing about him
I can't remember
How you spell his name
So I give up
FLUXUS : ALISON
Last news
Bertrand Clavez sent me photos
Of Alison performance in Lyon
Looked good
Incredible Alison always on the track
FLUXUS MEKAS
Always a good Lithuanian patriot
Jonas has sold his collection to Vilnius.
FLUXUS KEN FRIEDMAN
Ken Friedman is a big problem.
Sometimes
I think he does a great job
On putting all these Fluxus scores on the net.
That permit students all around the world to play Fluxus.
Sometimes
He reminds me of a spoilt brat
Crying for more marmalade on his pancake
Sometimes
Some say he uses other people's ideas
Sometimes
I think : but don't we all do that?
FLUXUS GABOR TOTH
My favorite,
Because the most non-art
And the least super-ego
Or maybe the most super-ego.
FLUXUS ENDRE TOT
If Fluxus contains attitude
Endre Tot is not me
FLUXUS SAINT AUBY TAMAS
I love Auby's emails
They are great
FLUXUS JEFF BERNER
Another Fluxus mystery.
He did two things:
One was to arrive in Prague by plane
To see Knizak's Aktual
And the other was to give a show in San Francisco called Aktual
It becomes more mysterious when Jeff
On stage he prefers
Singing cabaret songs than doing Fluxus.
Sometimes I wonder if he did not
Mix up Fluxus with Cabaret.
Closer to the Moulin Rouge
Than to John Cage.
FLUXUS ERIC ANDERSON
Eric Anderson good news
sent me back my check
"Le tas d'esprits" was a very god show
but we say in french cost me
"la peau du cul"
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I am working on a new show called
An'art
It will contain artists
who say they don't want to do art
who say they want to get out of art
who says they are indifferent to art
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Where is Fluxus today?
Many are dying.
with cow disease
But just like Bird Flu
Others catch Fluxus.
It could start spreading.
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A question I asked Petra :
How come we have so few?
Fluxus contacts in Russia?
They were more open to
Rock and Roll than Fluxus.
Normally - having Malevitch in their garden -
They should have caught up with Fluxus
as a post-Malevich situation.
FLUXUS PAIK
Nam June Paik told me one day
He was very pro-Korean.
I even heard that
He had spent a lot of money,
Buying land in Korea.
But why then did he work with Sony and not Samsung?
FLUXUS YOKO
Yoko Ono came to New York
With notebooks of her early works from Japan.
And kind of said
Fluxus is a Japanese "Zen". Disease
FLUXUS FILLIOU
Robert Filliou worked for the United Nations
in Korea as an organiser agent.
And one day he told me:
I made there one day a big mistake,
I decided to transfer water
From the left side to the right side of Korea -
But I had forgotten
That there were mountains in the middle.
FLUXUS GEORGE MACIUNAS -
Was she a ballet dancer
Or was she Saline's secretary ?
THE FLUXUS INCANTATION
"We did this a long time ago "
is turning into a collection of relics
Too many documents and archeology.
No new question marks.
FLUXUS CATALOGUES
With always the same photos
The same sentences.
Danger of Fluxus indigestion
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Don't forget PAIK said : "Fluxus is
A state of mind"
SO DON'T FORGET
FLUXUS EAST
September 27 to November 4, 2007,
Wed - Sun 2-7 pm
Opening: September 26, 7 pm
FLUXUS NETWORKS IN
CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Mariannenplatz 2
D-10997 Berlin
WILL BE WORKS OF
Gábor Altorjay, Eric Andersen, Tamás St. Auby, Azorro, Robert
Filliou, György Galántai, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Tadeusz
Kantor, Milan Knízák, Alison Knowles, Július Koller, Jaroslaw
Kozlowski, Vytautas Landsbergis, George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Larry
Miller, Ben Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Slave Pianos, Endre Tót, Gábor
Tóth, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, Jirí Valoch, Ben Vautier, Branko
Vucicevic, Emmett Williams
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