FLUXUS NETWORKS
FLUXUS EAST
September 27 to November 4, 2007,
Wed - Sun 2-7 pm
Opening: September 26, 7 pm
FLUXUS NETWORKS IN
CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
D-10997 Berlin
Gábor Altorjay, Eric Andersen, Tamás St. Auby,
Azorro, Robert Filliou, György Galántai, Geoffrey
Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Tadeusz Kantor, Milan
Knízák, Alison Knowles, Július Koller, Jaroslaw
Kozlowski, Vytautas Landsbergis, George Maciunas,
Jonas Mekas, Larry Miller, Ben Patterson, Mieko
Shiomi, Slave Pianos, Endre Tót, Gábor Tóth,
Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, Jirí Valoch, Ben
Vautier, Branko Vucicevic, Emmett Williams
curator: Petra Stegmann, exhibition architecture: Andrea Pichl
Fluxus is well-known as an (anti-)artistic,
international network with centres in the USA,
Western Europe and Japan. But what about this
"intermedia" art -- 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", Fluxus -- according
to its self-styled "chairman", the exiled
Lithuanian George Maciunas in a letter supposedly
to Nikita Chruscev -- 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 (Leftist
Arts Front). 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 developed
through creative exchange between Fluxus artists
and artists/musicians of the former Eastern Bloc,
leading to events including Fluxus festivals in
Vilnius (1966), Prague (1966), Budapest (1969),
and Poznan (1977).
FLUXUS EAST represents a first stocktaking of the
diverse Fluxus activities in the former Eastern
Bloc; the exhibition 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, correspondence,
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 is possible to play at FLUX PING PONG,
and visitors are also invited to explore the
POIPOIDROME by Robert Filliou.
Performances by Eric Andersen, Geoffrey
Hendricks, Milan Knízák, Alison Knowles, Larry
Miller, Ben Patterson, Tamás St. Auby, Ben
Vautier and others will take place at the
opening on September, 26th.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue
(German/English, ca 250 pages, ca 200
images, hardcover).
The exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien and the catalogue are funded by the
German Federal Cultural Foundation.
From September 27-29, 2007 the conference FLUXUS.
NETWORKS BETWEEN WEST AND EAST -- a joint event
of Künstlerhaus Bethanien and House of World
Cultures -- will take place at House of World
Cultures and Art Forum
Berlin.http://www.hkw.de/de/programm2007/new_york/veranstaltungen_14292/fluxus_14921/AlleVeranstaltungen.php
Further exhibition venues: Contemporary Art
Center, Vilnius (November 30, 2007 - January 13,
2008),Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (February 7 - March
30, 2008), Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
(April 17 - June 1, 2008).
Network programme in Berlin:
Tschechisches Zentrum Czechpoint
Czech Action Art of the 1960s to the 1990s
Exhibition, September 14 - November 2, 2007
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin Portable Intelligence
Increase Museum. Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and
Actionism in Hungary during the 60s - 1956-1976 /
The Near-East-European Criss-Cross (1956-1989)
Exhibition, September 26 - November 4, 2007
Polnisches Institut Berlin Galeria Akumulatory 2
Exhibition, September 28 - November 8, 2007
Art Forum Berlin Slave Pianos: Dissident Consonances
(The Flux-Labyrinth & the Iron Curtain at the Art Forum Berlin)
Concert, September 28, 2007
For more information about FLUXUS EAST contact:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrea Pichl
Straßburger Str. 43A
10405 Berlin
+49 30 4421098
+49 177 388 2166
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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