[artinfo] [Newsletter Ben] NEWS OF EAST FLUXUS FROM BEN

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> DEAR PETRA AND EAST FLUXUS FRIENDS 
> just recieved east fluxus program 
> what a text what a program!
> names names names 
> and dates dates 
> my health is not good  but i will try to come 
>
> FOR My FRENCH AND ENGLISH FREINDS COMING TO BERLIN 
> HERE IS MY TRANSLATION OF YOUR PROGRAM 
>
> FLUX IS NOT DEAD, IT JUST SMELLS FUNNY...
> I LIKED THAT SENTANCE 
> BUT IF ONLY IT COULD BE TRUE   
>
> AN ADRESS WHERE TO GO 
> Künstlerhaus Bethanien | Mariannenplatz 2 | 10997 Berlin
>
> A DATE NOTE TO FORGET 
> 27. Sept - 4. Nov 2007 | Mi bis So 14 - 19 Uhr | Eintritt frei 
>
> THERE WILL BE PERFORMANCES BY AND OF THESSE FANTASTC NAMES  
> | Eric Andersen | Tamás St. Auby | Geoffrey Hendricks | Milan Kníz_ák | Alison 
> Knowles | Larry Miller | Ben Patterson | Slave Pianos | Ben Vautier |Gábor Altorjay, Eric Andersen, Tamás St. Auby, 
> Azorro, Robert Filliou, György Galántai, Geoffrey 
> Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Tadeusz Kantor,  
> Milan Kníz_ák, Alison Knowles, Július Koller,  
> Jaros_aw Koz_owski, Vytautas Landsbergis,  
> George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Larry Miller, Ben 
> Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Slave Pianos, Endre Tót, 
> Nomeda und Gediminas Urbonas, Jir_í Valoch, 
> Branko Vuc_ic_evic_, Emmett Williams u.v.a. 
>
> SCHOLARS WILL BE ABLE TO  FIND ALL ABOUT FLUXUS 
>  (anti-)artistic, international network with centres
>  in the USA Western Europe and Japan.
>  But what about this “intermedia” art -
> (AN ANDERSEN SMELL )
>  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”, 
>
> THEN I READ WITH CURIOSITY THAT
> ”, Fluxus - according to its self-styled “chairman”,
>  the exiled Lithuanian George Maciunas 
> in a letter to Nikita Chrus_c_ev - KROUTCHEV?
> 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 
> (Left Front of the Arts)i 
>  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 DEVELPED
>  through creative exchange between Fluxus artists 
> and artists/musicians of the former Eastern Bloc, leading 
> to events including concerts with Fluxus compositions 
> broadcast by Polish Radio (1964),
>  Fluxus concerts in Lithuania (1966), Prague (1966) and Budapest (1969), 
> and later a Fluxus Festival in Poznan_ (1977). 
>
> IN FACT THE SHOW  "FLUXUS EAST" represents a first 
> stocktaking of the diverse Fluxus 
> activities in the former Eastern Bloc; the ex hibition 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, correspon- 
> dence, 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 WILL possible to play at FLUX PING PONG, and visitors are also invited
>  to explore the POIPOIDROME by Robert Filliou. 
> KONFERENZ | CONFERENCE 
> Fluxus Networks between West and East 
> Haus der Kulturen der Welt | John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 | 10557 Berlin 
> Art Forum Berlin | Messedamm 22 | 14055 Berlin 
> 27. - 29. Sept 2007 | in englischer Sprache |
>  Eintritt frei, wenn nicht anders angegeben 
> 27 - 29 Sept 2007 | in English | free admission, if not stated otherwise 
>
> LETS TRY TO  RESUME 
> Fluxus as a global network, linking artists from the US,
>  Asia, West and Central Eastern 
> Europe, will be the focus of this meeting of Fluxus protagonists
>  and Fluxus specialists. Especially presentations 
> and performances by artists that were active in co-operations 
> across the Iron Curtain as well as lectures by 
> international art historians will be in the centre of this encounter.
>  The question of Fluxus as an inspiration 
> for young artists today is also at stake. 
> The conference is part of the exhibition FLUXUS EAST by Künstlerhaus 
> Bethanien as well as the programme 
> NEW YORK by the House of WORLD CULTURES. 
> PANEL I   
>
> WHAT I AGREE ON 
> Flux is not dead, it just smells funny...  
> Fluxus Strategies in Contemporary Art? 
> .
>
>  YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE 
> Galeria Akumulatory 2 
> Polnisches Institut | Burgstraße 27 | 10178 Berlin 
> more than 1100 works (music, film, poetry, prose, pain- 
> ting, sculpture, drawing, photography, etc.) and documents 
> by approximately 70 Hungarian artists. These 
> artworks - considered by the state as illegal art - 
> formed the local 60s. The NEAR-EAST-EUROPEAN 
> CRISS-CROSS is a quick cross sectional view of the 
> unofficial and semi official art-relations between some 
> socialist countries.“ Tamás St. Auby, Superintendent of
>  IPUT (the International Parallel Union Of Tele- 
> communications) and Agent of NETRAF (Neo-Socialist. Realist.
>  IPUT's Global Counter-Arthist.ory- 
> Falsifiers Front) for the PI2M and the CRISS-CROSS.
> Tamás TÖRÖK, curator of the CRISS-CROSS. 
> Ausstellung | Exhibition 
>
> MY QUESTION WHY HAVE YOU DID FORGET  GALLERY FOKSAL ?
> EGO?
>
> YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE 
> THE IRON CURTAIN at ART FORUM BERLIN) - 
> a chamber opera based on the correspondence of 
> Fluxus “inventor“ George Maciunas and Lithuania's
>  first post-Soviet Head of State, Vytautas Landsbergis. 
> The performance will feature Landsbergis himself
>  at the piano together with soloists, choir and keyboards 
> with cameo performances from Fluxus luminaries. 
> The work combines music, art, theatre, architecture, di- 
> aries, letters, poetry, testimonies, political writings,
>  manifestos, film, dance, food, drink and other objects by 
> SLAVE PIANOS, George Maciunas, Vytautas Landsbergis, 
> Jonas Mekas, Leokadija Maciunas, Claudio 
> Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Jean DeMaque,
>  M.K.Ciurlionis and Nam June Paik. 
> Konzert | Concert 
>
> YOU WILLBE ABLE TO HERE  A CONCERT WITH 
> the junior ensemble for New Music at the School of Music in Friedrichshain- 
> Kreuzberg, will be playing Fluxus classics, 
> commissioned compositions and improvisations under the direction 
> of Sylvia Hinz: Bill Dietz: B - A (2007) 
> with ensemble ZWISCHENTÖNE / 
> THE PROGRAMME WILL PRESENT 
> Ben Vautier: ORCHESTRA PIECE NO. 4 (1965) / 
> George Brecht: TWO DURATIONS (1961) / Dick Higgins: DANGER MUSIC 
> NUMBER SEVENTEEN (1962) / 
> Iskar Kordt: NEUES STÜCK (2007) / Eric Andersen: OPUS 13 (1961) 
> / George Brecht: THREE AqUEOUS EVENTS (1961) / 
> Mieko Shiomi: DISAPPEARING MUSIC FOR 
> FACE (1964) / George Maciunas:
>  IN MEMORIAM TO ADRIANO OLIVETTI (1962) / Barbara Thun: 
> MIGRATIONEN (2007). The ensemble members 
> are all aged between 8 and 12.T 
>
> AND OF COURSE 
> The exhibition is funded by the 
> German Federal Cultural Foundation 
> Dank an | Thanks to Botschaft der Republik Litauen 
> in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 
> Kgl. Dänische Botschaft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 
> Internationale Partner | International partners 
> (WHY NOT THE CIA TOO°?
>
> FLUXUS EAST IS SUPOSED TO JOURNEY IT WILL GO TO 
> Artpool Budapest | 
> Contemporary Art Center/Vilnius |
>  Bunkier Sztuki/Kraków | 
> Ludwig Múzeum/Budapest 
> | Further exhibition venues 
> Contemporary Art Center/Vilnius | 30. Nov 2007 - 13. Jan 2008 
> Bunkier Sztuki/Kraków | 7. Feb - 30. März 2008 
> Ludwig Múzeum/Budapest | 17. Apr - 1. Juni 2008 
> Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH 
> Mariannenplatz 2 | 10997 Berlin | Tel. +49 / 30 / 61 69 03-0 |
>  Fax +49 / 30 / 61 69 03-30 |
>  fluxus at bethanien.de 
>
> HERE NOW ARE MY QUESTIONS 
> WHAT ABOUT DUCHAMP CAGE AND DADA ?
> WHAT A BOUT CULTURAL STRATEGY IN VILNIUS ?
> WHY SO MANY SPONSORS ?
> WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS ?
> WHY IS  FLYING CARPET NOT IN THE PROGRAM ?
> IS ERIC ANDERSON ALWAYS JEALOUS OF MACIUNAS 
> IF I COME CAN I SING BILLY BOY? 
> WILL FLUXUS PRICES GO UP AFTER THIS SHOW ?
> IS GERMANY TRYING TO COURT EAST EUROPE?
> WHY IS RUSSIA ABSENT ?
> WILL DRINKS BE FREE ?
> HAS FLUXUS EGO  CHANGED 
> WHY TOT ENDRE IS NOT MENTIONED 
> WHO DECIDED TO CALL MACIUNAS A SELF-STYLED “CHAIRMAN ?
> SHOULD WE EXPECT A FUTURE FAR EAST FLUXHS ?
> DID NATO REALY RUN AFTER MACIUNAS ?
> IS FLUXUS DECOMING ARCHEOLOGY 
> WERE ALL THE  FLUXUS ARTISTS ON THE MAYFLOWER ?
> IS FLUXUS SOMETHING ELSE 
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> JUST AFTER BERLIN COMMES FLUXUS IN ATHNES AT THE BENAKI MUSEUM 
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