Re: FLUXLIST: Fw: [Newsletter Ben] GEORGE BRECHT IN KOLN
He has many newsletters on many different topics 99 per cent of which are in French, but Ben's Fluxus newsletter is in English or at least this one was. You can subscribe to any or all of them via his web site. Reed - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 8:58 PM Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Fw: [Newsletter Ben] GEORGE BRECHT IN KOLN I'd like to know how you get Ben's newsletter in English-mine always comes in French-Dawg
Re: FLUXLIST: Fw: [Newsletter Ben] GEORGE BRECHT IN KOLN
I'd like to know how you get Ben's newsletter in English-mine always comes in French-Dawg
Re: FLUXLIST: Re:Happy Birthday
Judith, That's so great- I just received the book Musicage the conversations with Joan Retallack today in the mail. Synchronicity I guess. I'm anxious to start it soon but knowing it's his birthday makes the book such a strange coincidence! Anyway, thanks. Reed - Original Message - From: "Judith Hoffberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 5:16 PM Subject: FLUXLIST: Re:Happy Birthday Happy Birthday, John Cage! jah aka Umbrella
Re: FLUXLIST: Re:Happy Birthday
On 12 Sep 2005, at 4:16 nm., Judith Hoffberg wrote: Happy Birthday, John Cage! Better late than never! He would've been 93 last week! ®ø∂ --- Now playing: The Jazz Crusaders - Tonight Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -Mark Twain
FLUXLIST: Re:Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday, John Cage! jah aka Umbrella
FLUXLIST: Rada Dada in New York
Did fluxlister get a chance to see this? from the village voice: Rada Dada's Unexceptional TricksCollective: Unconscious279 Church StreetThrough Saturday In the spirit of Duchamp, Tzara, and various outsider artists, Max Rada Dada, a fiftysomething nomad who tours from a base in North Carolina, entices New Yorkers to play as he performs visual puns, creates clattering chaos with pots and pans, shares collections of bizarre objects. Wearing his old Eagle Scout uniform, a twirly ringmaster mustache penciled on his handsome face, he enlists us as an impromptu percussion section, calls on us for help with the riskier tricks, takes our money. This probably works better when his precious collections are spread out as a carnival sideshow, rather than delivered to a captive theater crowd, but it's still a real eye-opener; John Cage would have loved it. Elizabeth Zimmer
FLUXLIST: Fw: [Newsletter Ben] GEORGE BRECHT IN KOLN
- Original Message - From: "Ben Vautier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 5:40 AM Subject: [Newsletter Ben] GEORGE BRECHT IN KOLN Hello Fluxus friends This is a small newsletter concerning George Brecht and his coming show at Ludwig Museum in Köln Opening on the 16 th of September at 14 to 19,00 George Brecht is the artist maybe the artist in the world who marked me the most. I was at the time in 1962 interested in what could be defined as " the limits of art " I had met Yves Klein (the monochrome) Manzoni (shit in art) and knew about Duchamp's Ready Made So when Maciunas in 1962 in London said to me : There is someone in New York called George Brecht whose work also contains and concerns a limit in art I said : what does he do? Maciunas answered : He blinks or just shakes your hand or closes a door. I remember being so taken aback at the idea that I decided to go to New York and see George Brecht There in 1964 I saw him on Canal Street Brecht arrived sat at the piano the lights went out. in the dark Brecht left the piano the light came back the piano was all alone music can't get simpler And as it was my habit to compare and classify what I saw I put Brecht with Duchamp and John Cage Top three Very far in front of all the others Pop : new realist , Arte Povera artists etc Why? Because most of the others Are just new decoration Why do I consider George Brecht so important? Because this simple white chair against this wall close to the door, in my kitchen when I think : that it is George Brecht that reduces all other works to the walls, to the level of esthetical decorations Why do I consider George Brecht so important? Because In 1961 at Martha Jackson in New York there was a show with all the Pop of the time and Brecht, a table, two chairs and deck of cards his piece went partially unnoticed but 40 years after contains rupture and not variation Why do I consider George Brecht so important? Because When 30 year's later Beaubourg Museum wanted to acquire Brecht his instructions were of going with the BHV (retail shop) or elsewhere, buy a coat rack a red waxed coat to pose them some where in the museum Why do I consider George Brecht so important? Because Robin Page said of Brecht : He is the only man who can walk on snow without leaving a trace Why do I consider George Brecht so important? Because "Water Yam", the main work of Brecht, contains "events" and the Brecht event is a kind of frontier line between art and life simplicity, details, etc in art Why do I consider George Brecht so important? Because his attitude towards art does not contain the classical art ego duo or I would say is put as much as possible aside but i still have lots to say about the importance of "event" in art so I think I will write a longer article on Brecht you can read on my site http://www.ben-vautier.com/ just clic on the fluxus tongue Still just a few words Well but I am Ben vautier And I do art I have an ego Difficult to hide So I don't hide it And since I will be going to see Brecht's show in Köln I would like to inform you that I am also participating in a show with Ben Patterson and Vera Lossau at the Gallery Shüppenhauer Bismakstrasse 70 The opening is on the 17 th September at 14 h to 19h00 I decided to show some works on chance Hope to see you in Köln Ben vautier Pour ne plus recevoir cette newsletter (liste [fluxus]), cliquez sur ce lien ou copiez_collez-le dans votre navigateur web ; suppression IMMEDIATE / To unsubscribe to this newsletter (list [fluxus]), click on this link or copy_paste it in your web browser; you will be unsubscribed IMMEDIATELY : http://www.ben-vautier.com/newsletter/index.php?page=mail&subscribe=false&la_liste=fluxus&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FLUXLIST: New collection
Check out the guide to a new collection here: http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/finding/JMBcomplete107.htm We have a number of other collections in process, but there will be something of a delay in making them accessible while we focus on moving out of the building into temporary quarters while the library is being renovated. But we have lots of materials from Scott Helmes, K. S. Ernst, F. A. Nettelbeck, Lee Ballentine, Scott MacLeod, Jon Cone, Peter Huttinger, Jim Leftwich, Sheila Murphy, Peter Ganick, John Perlman, Paul Lambert, and many others in the pipeline, to say nothing of William S. Burroughs. You can also take a gander at what we have catalogued already at: http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/finding/ Onword, John __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books & Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net ___
Re: FLUXLIST: Happy Birthday today to--
And 4 is such a fine age to be, too. At 3 no one takes you seriously, but you're not yet burdened with the heavy responsibilites of the 5-year-old. BG >Happy Birthday Today! > > to > > Carson David > > son of S.--- & David Chirot > > 4 years old today > > > may you walk always with and in > >peace, love and understanding > >_ >Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee? >Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
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