Kirsten Mae Wallace

15.01.14

The Fluxus Group:

at MOMA, NY.

Came across this exhibition and these works after looking at "The Postman's Choice" by Ben Vautier.

Ben Vautier:

"In 1965, French artist Ben Vautier devised the provocative piece of mail art called “Postman’s Choice.” It was a postcard with lines on both sides, made to be addressed to two different destinations and then stamped on both sides. With no return address included, the letter carrier gets to choose who gets the postcard. Reproduced with permission of the artist."

- fluxshop.se

"non-art cannot exist because it is art... I think Fluxus brought out these questions"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wifEeopqg3o

"As far as I am concerned, I think that
Fluxus is not a production of objects, of handicraft articles to be used as a decoration in the waiting rooms of dentists and professionals,
Fluxus is not professionalism
Fluxus is not the production of works of art,
Fluxus is not naked women,
Fluxus is not pop art,
Fluxus is not an intellectual avant-garde or light entertainment theatre,
Fluxus is not German expressionism,
Fluxus is not visual poetry for secretaries who are getting bored.

Fluxus is the "event" according to George Brecht:
putting the flower vase on the piano.
Fluxus is the action of life/music: sending for a tango
expert in order to be able to dance on stage.
Fluxus is the creation of a relationship between life and art,
Fluxus is gag, pleasure and shock,
Fluxus is an attitude towards art, towards the non-art of anti-art, towards the negation of one's ego,
Fluxus is the major part of the education as to John Cage, Dadaism and Zen,
Fluxus is light and has a sense of humor."

Fluxus Subjectiv Catalogue, 1997

Walking into Water

Moi, ben je signe, 1975

"Whether right side up, upside down, or perpendicular to the text, each page is annotated with instructions or questions to the reader called Propositions for a Page, by Ben Vautier (another rendition of a 1965–66 work). These directional lines instruct the reader to engage in a specific action: “Fold this page many times to the smallest possible size,” “Close your eyes while you look at this page,” and “Read this page through a mirror.” "

- MOMA, Off the Shelf: Vintage Fluxus

16.01.14

Flux Fest:

Flux Fest 2013, at Sandbrook Studios in Brooklyn, challenged film makers to create a short film about time travel.

http://www.fluxfest.com/

Flux Shop:

http://www.get2flux.co.uk/ - A shop in Leith, Edinburgh. I will need to go and see if it sells art objects related to the fluxus group or not.

http://fluxshop.se/ -

"Sign up for a Flux Date at one of our shops. Fill out the form and wait for someone to pick up your date. Coming soon to a computer close to you.

Free to sign up. €5 to pick up a date"

I really enjoy the playfulness and the humour in these works; combining interactive performance with mail art.

"Interactive, often humorous, text-based works characterize Fluxus art, and MoMA’s catalogue was clearly designed with the spirit of Fluxus in mind. The term Fluxus originated in 1961 as an idea by George Maciunas for the title of a magazine that would provide an overview of a “culture in flux” (a facsimile of Maciunas’s provisional plan for Fluxus‘s first six issues is reproduced in the catalogue)."

- http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/03/30/off-the-shelf-vintage-fluxus-2

"How do we re-evaluate the object status of the work of art, under the impact of the real-time conditions of performance?"

- http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/fluxus/FluxNYU.html

22.01.14

Romany Dear

I have been interested in Dear's work ever since I invigilated They Had Four Years @ Generator, Dundee. I am now trying to incorporate dance into my art work, and it is proving to be a difficult challenge, which she makes look easy.

http://www.nineteenthirteen.org/nineteenthirteen/Romany_Dear.html

"Movement is at the core of Romany Dear’s practice; she has a genuine fascination with the way people move, whether collectively or alone, in synchronization or in improvisation. Using dance as a medium to speak through, Romany creates live and recorded works that look at the communicative power of our bodies, exploring the concept of conversation within choreography. Beginning with everyday gestures as inspiration, she creates situations that intend to heighten our awareness of movement and hopefully encourage us all to move a little bit more."

These masked faces, with all bodies wearing the same black clothing, to me, represent being anonymous. It is an influential piece for what I am working towards, as I get very nervous performing solo; don't have the courage or confidence yet and it something I am trying to work on in my dancing.

Inside Vianne Again

I saw this piece @ Melbourne Now and stood watching it for a while as others came and went.

23.01.14

Shelley Lasica

"FULL COLOUR is a new dance work developed within a three-month period earlier this year. The work continues LASICA’s exploration of the moments of ambiguity in a performer’s intention to do something, the nature of performance itself and the inherent notion of repeatability in choreographed material as opposed to the assumed novelty of an improvised moment.

FULL COLOUR is a dramatic reflection on the way people organize their lives: the choices we make each day about what we do, the limitations to those choices, and the contrast of how random events outside our control affect us."

Full Colour

"COLLECT is a proposition toward a performance for all participants: the audience and the performers. How do we know what we know, how do the different ways of knowing reveal themselves in the act of performance and the act of witnessing performance?"

http://shelleylasica.com/index.php?/recent/collect/