(snowmobile trail marker? in braceland)
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Which names?
Dear Fluxlisters,
Currently I am working on a new project. For this I need the names of 16 Fluxus Artists that will be included in the work. All I need is the name. Who should I include and why should I include this person?
Besides the name I also need a location. Where is the Fluxus Artist located? North, South, East or West?
You can react by sending an e-mail to: l.spathi@fluxusheidelberg.org with name and direction and the reason WHY you want the name to be included. You can also suggest your own name if you consider yourself to be a Fluxus Artist.
Waiting for your reactions,
Litsa Spathi.
Currently I am working on a new project. For this I need the names of 16 Fluxus Artists that will be included in the work. All I need is the name. Who should I include and why should I include this person?
Besides the name I also need a location. Where is the Fluxus Artist located? North, South, East or West?
You can react by sending an e-mail to: l.spathi@fluxusheidelberg.org with name and direction and the reason WHY you want the name to be included. You can also suggest your own name if you consider yourself to be a Fluxus Artist.
Waiting for your reactions,
Litsa Spathi.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Fluxus visible thoughts & fear
"Fluxus visible thoughts & fear"- Fluxus & visual poem by Litsa Spathi
Monday, September 21, 2009
Art Critic John Perreault weighs in on FLUXFEST !!!!!
Item: Fluxfest Waves the Fluxist Flag
Fluxfest at Pierogi's The Boiler (on Sept. 11, with not a mention of 9/11)
had the genuine Fluxus offhandedness and the historically correct disregard for ceremony or performance-niceties such as a printed program. The latter would have allowed the patient audience -- outnumbered by the performers, as is also traditionally Fluxian -- to ascertain authorship, date of creation, and performer.
Thus, 13 or so friendly Fluxians from here and abroad, most of whom had not met before, presented an hour-and-a-half of Fluxus pieces, old and new. For the record, they were listed in WAGMAG, the Brooklyn Art Guide (which I had picked up at 111 High Street) in anti-alphabetical order: Allan Revich, Reid Wood, Mark Block, Christine Tarantino, Carol Starr, Reed Altemus, Tamara Wyndham, Don E. Boyd, Melissa McCarthy, Keith A. Buchholz, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Bradstifter, Mary Campbell, Pronoblem and more!!
Balloons were inflated, water poured from one plastic cup into another in a circle of plastic cups, jellybeans dispersed, toy instruments given out -- as were miniature versions of U.S. tender. Various classic Dada texts were read, including a poem by Louis Aragon called Suicide, which consisted of reciting the alphabet. (It is one of my all-time favorites.) But in another rather anti-Fluxian demonstration, a woman asked if anyone could love her as much as she loved herself. Obviously not. So shopping bag in hand, she stormed out, never to return.
The best was saved for last. The interlocutor, one of five participants wearing black hats, tacked a piece of paper on the wall behind him, then left. Other Fluxians got up, read what was on the piece of paper, and also left. Then members of the audience, myself included, did likewise. I copied what was on the piece of paper: "Word Event/Exit/ George Brecht, 1961."
Critic John Perreault artsjournal.com/artopia 9/20/09
Fluxfest at Pierogi's The Boiler (on Sept. 11, with not a mention of 9/11)
had the genuine Fluxus offhandedness and the historically correct disregard for ceremony or performance-niceties such as a printed program. The latter would have allowed the patient audience -- outnumbered by the performers, as is also traditionally Fluxian -- to ascertain authorship, date of creation, and performer.
Thus, 13 or so friendly Fluxians from here and abroad, most of whom had not met before, presented an hour-and-a-half of Fluxus pieces, old and new. For the record, they were listed in WAGMAG, the Brooklyn Art Guide (which I had picked up at 111 High Street) in anti-alphabetical order: Allan Revich, Reid Wood, Mark Block, Christine Tarantino, Carol Starr, Reed Altemus, Tamara Wyndham, Don E. Boyd, Melissa McCarthy, Keith A. Buchholz, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Bradstifter, Mary Campbell, Pronoblem and more!!
Balloons were inflated, water poured from one plastic cup into another in a circle of plastic cups, jellybeans dispersed, toy instruments given out -- as were miniature versions of U.S. tender. Various classic Dada texts were read, including a poem by Louis Aragon called Suicide, which consisted of reciting the alphabet. (It is one of my all-time favorites.) But in another rather anti-Fluxian demonstration, a woman asked if anyone could love her as much as she loved herself. Obviously not. So shopping bag in hand, she stormed out, never to return.
The best was saved for last. The interlocutor, one of five participants wearing black hats, tacked a piece of paper on the wall behind him, then left. Other Fluxians got up, read what was on the piece of paper, and also left. Then members of the audience, myself included, did likewise. I copied what was on the piece of paper: "Word Event/Exit/ George Brecht, 1961."
Critic John Perreault artsjournal.com/artopia 9/20/09
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Eat A Pizza Fluxus Performance for Litsa Spathi
I am back at my home computer after a grueling trip to New York and Atlanta. The New York Trip was for the occasion of the A Book About Death Event - Unbelievable! It was wonderful and huge. The next night I had to be in Atlanta for a show centered around the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction in which a wall was clustered with collages and box assemblages from the museum's permanent collection and additional works sent for sale by artists in the collection. The show is currently up in Atlanta at the Emily Amy Gallery more about that later...
While in NYC several of us spent a day wandering around Chelsea and eat lunch a Don Giovanni's Restaurant where we performed Litsa Spathi's Eat A Pizza performance piece.
(below: right to left) Keith Buchholz, Reid Wood and his wife, Melissa McCarthy, Cecil Touchon all sporting our anti-paparazzi sun glasses supplied by Melissa.
I then stole one of the plates from the restaurant and drew a fluxface on it with a magic marker and then we all signed the plate, Melissa made an altered postcard.
Afterwards we left the plate and card with a note to the owner that he should mount the plate on the wall as a historical marker noting that we were a troupe of internationally famous performance artists (hence the glasses). We'll see if he does. Please send him a note requesting that the plate be displayed or better yet ask if he would be willing to sell the plate and for how much. (they don't have an email on the webpage.
your letter or fax could read something like:
I understand that a number of internationally famous Fluxus performers did a NYC premiere of Litsa Spathi's piece entitled "Eat A Pizza". I would like to inquire as to whether you have the 'plate' artifact on display at your restaurant as I would like to come to see it. I would also like to inquire as to whether you would be willing to sell the plate and altered postcard and if so, for how much as I would be desirous of acquiring it for my collection. Thank you for hosting this important event, I hope to eat there soon and sit at the same table. How far in advance must I reserve that table?
Kind Regard, etc., etc.
Don Giovanni Ristorante
www.dongiovanni-ny.com
358 W 44th St
New York, NY 10036-5426
# Phone: (212) 581-4939
# Fax:(212) 471-8026
While in NYC several of us spent a day wandering around Chelsea and eat lunch a Don Giovanni's Restaurant where we performed Litsa Spathi's Eat A Pizza performance piece.
(below: right to left) Keith Buchholz, Reid Wood and his wife, Melissa McCarthy, Cecil Touchon all sporting our anti-paparazzi sun glasses supplied by Melissa.
I then stole one of the plates from the restaurant and drew a fluxface on it with a magic marker and then we all signed the plate, Melissa made an altered postcard.
Afterwards we left the plate and card with a note to the owner that he should mount the plate on the wall as a historical marker noting that we were a troupe of internationally famous performance artists (hence the glasses). We'll see if he does. Please send him a note requesting that the plate be displayed or better yet ask if he would be willing to sell the plate and for how much. (they don't have an email on the webpage.
your letter or fax could read something like:
I understand that a number of internationally famous Fluxus performers did a NYC premiere of Litsa Spathi's piece entitled "Eat A Pizza". I would like to inquire as to whether you have the 'plate' artifact on display at your restaurant as I would like to come to see it. I would also like to inquire as to whether you would be willing to sell the plate and altered postcard and if so, for how much as I would be desirous of acquiring it for my collection. Thank you for hosting this important event, I hope to eat there soon and sit at the same table. How far in advance must I reserve that table?
Kind Regard, etc., etc.
Don Giovanni Ristorante
www.dongiovanni-ny.com
358 W 44th St
New York, NY 10036-5426
# Phone: (212) 581-4939
# Fax:(212) 471-8026
... - a book about death & Tod...-
... - a book about death & Tod...- visual & fluxus poem by Litsa Spathi
...mourning - a book about death...
...mourning visual & Fluxus poem & book about death... by Litsa Spathi
...mourning - a book about death...
Visual and Fluxus-mourning poem- a book about death...poem by Litsa Spathi
Monday, September 14, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Fluxfest 2009 / A Book About Death
A couple of shots from the opening last night at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery of A Book About Death, curated and organized by Matthew Rose.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
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