FLUXUS - FLUXUS EAST INFORMATION - 2007-09-24
DEAR PETRA AND EAST FLUXUS FRIENDS
just recieved east fluxus program
what t a text what a program!
names names names
and dates dates
my health is not good but i will try to come
FOR My FRENCH AND ENGLISH FREINDS COMING TO BERLIN
HERE IS MY TRANSLATION OF YOUR PROGRAM
FLUX IS NOT DEAD, IT JUST SMELLS FUNNY...
I LIKED THAT SENTANCE
BUT IF ONLY IT COULD BE TRUE
AN ADRESS WHERE TO GO
Künstlerhaus Bethanien | Mariannenplatz 2 | 10997 Berlin
A DATE NOTE TO FORGET
27. Sept - 4. Nov 2007 | Mi bis So 14 - 19 Uhr | Eintritt fre
THERE WILL BE PERFORMANCES BY AND OF THESSE FANTASTC NAMES
| Eric Andersen | Tamás St. Auby | Geoffrey Hendricks | Milan Kníz_ák | Alison
Knowles | Larry Miller | Ben Patterson | Slave Pianos | Ben Vautier |Gábor Altorjay, Eric Andersen, Tamás St. Auby,
Azorro, Robert Filliou, György Galántai, Geoffrey
Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Tadeusz Kantor,
Milan Kníz_ák, Alison Knowles, Július Koller,
Jaros_aw Koz_owski, Vytautas Landsbergis,
George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Larry Miller, Ben
Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Slave Pianos, Endre Tót,
Nomeda und Gediminas Urbonas, Jir_í Valoch,
Branko Vuc_ic_evic_, Emmett Williams u.v.a.
SCHOLARS WILL BE ABLE TO FIND ALL ABOUT FLUXUS
(anti-)artistic, international network with centres
in the USA Western Europe and Japan.
But what about this "intermedia" art -
(AN ANDERSEN SMELL )
art encompassing music, actions, poetry, objects and events
- beyond the "Iron Curtain"?
What echo did Fluxus find in the states of the former Eastern Bloc,
and what parallel developments existed there?
As a "programme of action",
THEN I READ WITH CURIOSITY THAT
", Fluxus - according to its self-styled "chairman",
the exiled Lithuanian George Maciunas
in a letter to Nikita Chrus_c_ev - KROUTCHEV?
was predestined to bring about unity between
the "concretist" artists of the world and the "
concretist" society of the USSR.
Maciunas planned Fluxus as a collective
based on the model of the Russian LEF
(Left Front of the Arts)i
But these plans - e. g. for a perfoRmance tour by the artists
on the Trans-Siberian Railway -,
developed with polished communist rhetoric in manifestos and letters,
were to remain no more than a utopia.
AFTER 1962, A DIFFERENT FLUXUS EAST DEVELPED
through creative exchange between Fluxus artists
and artists/musicians of the former Eastern Bloc, leading
to events including concerts with Fluxus compositions
broadcast by Polish Radio (1964),
Fluxus concerts in Lithuania (1966), Prague (1966) and Budapest (1969),
and later a Fluxus Festival in Poznan_ (1977).
IN FACT THE SHOW "FLUXUS EAST" represents a first
stocktaking of the diverse Fluxus
activities in the former Eastern Bloc; the ex hibition shows
parallel developments and artistic practices inspired by Fluxus,
which are still adopted by some
young artists today. Besides the "classic" Fluxus objects,
the display will include photographs, films, correspon-
dence, secret police files, interviews and recordings of music
that document the presence of Fluxus in the former
Eastern Bloc. As an interactive exhibition,
FLUXUS EAST
aims to facilitate a profound encounter with ideas,
works and texts - some presented as facsimiles to permit intense study.
IT WILL possible to play at FLUX PING PONG, and visitors are also invited
to explore the POIPOIDROME by Robert Filliou.
KONFERENZ | CONFERENCE
Fluxus Networks between West and East
Haus der Kulturen der Welt | John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 | 10557 Berlin
Art Forum Berlin | Messedamm 22 | 14055 Berlin
27. - 29. Sept 2007 | in englischer Sprache |
Eintritt frei, wenn nicht anders angegeben
27 - 29 Sept 2007 | in English | free admission, if not stated otherwise
LETS TRY TO RESUME
Fluxus as a global network, linking artists from the US,
Asia, West and Central Eastern
Europe, will be the focus of this meeting of Fluxus protagonists
and Fluxus specialists. Especially presentations
and performances by artists that were active in co-operations
across the Iron Curtain as well as lectures by
international art historians will be in the centre of this encounter.
The question of Fluxus as an inspiration
for young artists today is also at stake.
The conference is part of the exhibition FLUXUS EAST by Künstlerhaus
Bethanien as well as the programme
NEW YORK by the House of WORLD CULTURES.
PANEL I
WHAT I AGREE ON
Flux is not dead, it just smells funny...
Fluxus Strategies in Contemporary Art?
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE
Galeria Akumulatory 2
Polnisches Institut | Burgstraße 27 | 10178 Berlin
more than 1100 works (music, film, poetry, prose, pain-
ting, sculpture, drawing, photography, etc.) and documents
by approximately 70 Hungarian artists. These
artworks - considered by the state as illegal art -
formed the local 60s. The NEAR-EAST-EUROPEAN
CRISS-CROSS is a quick cross sectional view of the
unofficial and semi official art-relations between some
socialist countries." Tamás St. Auby, Superintendent of
IPUT (the International Parallel Union Of Tele-
communications) and Agent of NETRAF (Neo-Socialist. Realist.
IPUT's Global Counter-Arthist.ory-
Falsifiers Front) for the PI2M and the CRISS-CROSS.
Tamás TÖRÖK, curator of the CRISS-CROSS.
Ausstellung | Exhibition
MY QUESTION WHY HAVE YOU DID FORGET GALLERY FOKSAL ?
EGO?
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE
THE IRON CURTAIN at ART FORUM BERLIN) -
a chamber opera based on the correspondence of
Fluxus "inventor" George Maciunas and Lithuania's
first post-Soviet Head of State, Vytautas Landsbergis.
The performance will feature Landsbergis himself
at the piano together with soloists, choir and keyboards
with cameo performances from Fluxus luminaries.
The work combines music, art, theatre, architecture, di-
aries, letters, poetry, testimonies, political writings,
manifestos, film, dance, food, drink and other objects by
SLAVE PIANOS, George Maciunas, Vytautas Landsbergis,
Jonas Mekas, Leokadija Maciunas, Claudio
Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Jean DeMaque,
M.K.Ciurlionis and Nam June Paik.
Konzert | Concert
YOU WILLBE ABLE TO HERE A CONCERT WITH
the junior ensemble for New Music at the School of Music in Friedrichshain-
Kreuzberg, will be playing Fluxus classics,
commissioned compositions and improvisations under the direction
of Sylvia Hinz: Bill Dietz: B - A (2007)
with ensemble ZWISCHENTÖNE /
THE PROGRAMME WILL PRESENT
Ben Vautier: ORCHESTRA PIECE NO. 4 (1965) /
George Brecht: TWO DURATIONS (1961) / Dick Higgins: DANGER MUSIC
NUMBER SEVENTEEN (1962) /
Iskar Kordt: NEUES STÜCK (2007) / Eric Andersen: OPUS 13 (1961)
/ George Brecht: THREE AqUEOUS EVENTS (1961) /
Mieko Shiomi: DISAPPEARING MUSIC FOR
FACE (1964) / George Maciunas:
IN MEMORIAM TO ADRIANO OLIVETTI (1962) / Barbara Thun:
MIGRATIONEN (2007). The ensemble members
are all aged between 8 and 12.T
AND OF COURSE
The exhibition is funded by the
German Federal Cultural Foundation
Dank an | Thanks to Botschaft der Republik Litauen
in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Kgl. Dänische Botschaft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Internationale Partner | International partners
(WHY NOT THE CIA TOO°?
FLUXUS EAST IS SUPOSED TO JOURNEY IT WILL GO TO
Artpool Budapest |
Contemporary Art Center/Vilnius |
Bunkier Sztuki/Kraków |
Ludwig Múzeum/Budapest
| Further exhibition venues
Contemporary Art Center/Vilnius | 30. Nov 2007 - 13. Jan 2008
Bunkier Sztuki/Kraków | 7. Feb - 30. März 2008
Ludwig Múzeum/Budapest | 17. Apr - 1. Juni 2008
Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH
Mariannenplatz 2 | 10997 Berlin | Tel. +49 / 30 / 61 69 03-0 |
Fax +49 / 30 / 61 69 03-30 |
fluxus@bethanien.de
HERE NOW ARE MY QUESTIONS
WHAT ABOUT DUCHAMP CAGE AND DADA ?
WHAT A BOUT CULTURAL STRATEGY IN VILNIUS ?
WHY SO MANY SPONSORS ?
WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS ?
WHY IS FLYING CARPET NOT IN THE PROGRAM ?
IS ERIC ANDERSON ALWAYS JEALOUS OF MACIUNAS
IF I COME CAN I SING BILLY BOY?
WILL FLUXUS PRICES GO UP AFTER THIS SHOW ?
IS GERMANY TRYING TO COURT EAST EUROPE?
WHY IS RUSSIA ABSENT ?
WILL DRINKS BE FREE ?
HAS FLUXUS EGO CHANGED
WHY TOT ENDRE IS NOT MENTIONED
WHO DECIDED TO CALL MACIUNAS A SELF-STYLED "CHAIRMAN ?
SHOULD WE EXPECT A FUTURE FAR EAST FLUXHS ?
DID NATO REALY RUN AFTER MACIUNAS ?
IS FLUXUS DECOMING ARCHEOLOGY
WERE ALL THE FLUXUS ARTISTS ON THE MAYFLOWER ?
IS FLUXUS SOMETHING ELSE
JUST AFTER BERLIN COMMES FLUXUS IN ATHNES AT THE BENAKI MUSEUM
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