fluxus in the basement.... i found a plastic 'ice cube' in the basement if 537 broadway, the building in which george maciunas had the apartment in which he was beaten up. i was going to or returning from checking out ay-o's 'black hole', also in this basement. 537 broadway is also home to the emily harvey gallery, which was maciunas' apartment, and also home to jean dupuy and olga adorno and at one time the grommet gallery. in this building, yoshi wada rebuilt the furnace (in the basement), a furnace that, if i remember the story correctly, yoko ono played a part in breaking (this may have been another furnace). the passageway in which i found the cube leads to the lift in a building in mercer street, which you can take to visit ay-o and nam june paik. i discovered this helping emmett williams and ann noel home one night. you have much, much more chance of getting invited into ay-o's place though. also, from this basement on the occasion of ay-o's birthday, and also at another time for emmett's birthday, i carried an awful lot of chairs. alan bukoff turned up to ay-o's bash and didn't sit on a chair, he spent a long time in the windowsill with olga adorno, then we played yoshi's earth horns (which really upset the neighbours) http://www.fluxus.org/FLUXLIST/people/ab&ab.html i brought the ice cube of plexi back to italy, where i made 'notice' .. (Crap photo here - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/n.waugh/image%20pages/notice.html ) this piece was shown in the 'life never stops' show at archivio emily harvey, curated by emily h. and ben vautier, and is now (apparently) in the possesion of mr vautier who hasn't paid for it! anyway, this show was in the place where i met ay-o, yoshi wada and emmett for the first time, http://digilander.libero.it/freeformfreakoutorg/eharvey/. yoshi played his earth horn in venice, allen and i played them in new york.
fffo in the garage. whilst at my mother's house in the north east of england, i came across the only surviving jar of 'l. mow-banana's soluble fish' but that's another even more banal story.... a
