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This FHC BLOG will contain an overview of all news we find and get in connection to Fluxus. Articles, publications, events, celebrations, Biographies, you name it. Every month the collection of the blog will be published on the FHC website as a digital archive

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Fluxus river test area for under water glasses for Nobody & everybody who wants to see the sea- visual poem by Litsa Spathi

The Fluxus Alpha-beta of Fluxlist Europe - visual poem by Litsa Spathi




Now we have OUR Fluxus Alpha-beta. The Alpha-beta of Fluxlist Europe. Has Nobody or Litsa Spathi forgotten anybody?

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Saturday, September 29, 2007

Thank you posting for Roland Halbritter: "Nobody ready for diving wearing exclusive Fluxus under water glasses" - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Nobody's big glasses for anybody who needs them - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Nobody's funny nose glasses

Nobody's horse selfportrait by learning the Fluxus rabbit land alphabet




Of course Nobody's horse has to learn all
the letters of the Fluxus rabbit land alphabet.
Because the letters are so small,
the horse needs glases.

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Nobody's Fluxus rabbit land - visual poem by Litsa Spathi - Versio # 2




In the Fluxus rabbitland - the home country of Nobody -
is a rabbit rery active. Here you see the result

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Nobody's Fluxus rabbit land - visual poem by Litsa Spathi - Versio # 1




In the Fluxus rabbitland - the home country of Nobody -
is a rabbit rery active. Here you see the result

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Friday, September 28, 2007

Onvious

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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Yoko Ono As An Artist - Yoko Ono As An Artist

Well before she emerged into popular awareness as John Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono had established herself in vanguard art and music circles as one of the most daring, innovative and eccentric artist-performers of her time. As one of the founders of the Fluxus movement at the beginning of the 1960s, Ono helped identify and define the playful, subversive, visionary sensibility that has undergirded experimentation in all the arts ever since. Her poem-like verbal scores, her films, and her staged performances anticipated everything from minimalism to performance art, the furthest reaches of new cinema to the most extreme of Punk-New Wave music. Her performances made signal contributions to what Fluxus mastermind George Maciunas called "neo-Haiku theater" and artist-historian Ken Friedman labelled "Zen vaudeville".
In the '60s Ono took the common housefly as an alter ego. Clearly, the artist, mocked and maligned long before she began attracting the misguided ire of rock fans, regards the fly as an embodiment of her public persona--its apparent insignificance counterbalanced by its outsize ability to annoy. But even more important to Ono's associative thinking is the fly's constant, nervous "performing" and its elusively melodious buzz.
With her Fluxus colleagues Ono has elevated the insubstantial to monumental status, allowing us to contemplate the magic of the ordinary, as well as to comprehend the ordinariness of the seemingly profound. This inversion, along with the inventive puckishness of her game-like concepts and activities, make her work endlessly provocative--at once irksome and inviting, loopy and lovely, teasing and teaching us to appreciate the intimate and elusive phenomena that comprise life.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Ups eXpress - navigation poem by Nobody

Lover's map - a visual navigation poem by Litsa Spathi dedicated to Mrs Brimmette

===---====...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>++++++O+++++>>>>>>>>>>>>>>++++=====
== ..............................................................................==b++++...........
.........................**************----
NObOdy +++prOudly ==
gibt bekannt:
Mrs Brimette... )(....is back ,back
baa)(aaaa)(aaaa)(ack & again
with us ,
she didn't forget her Nobodies,noo noO no
O no no no no+_)+_)+_)(+_)+_)(// .
Litsa Spathi is nOw very happy
& that's the reason fOr this
lOver's map navigatiOn pOem :
Mrs Brimette,+++ i hOpe you
never ever pote
pleOn will
tha fOrget ksehasis anymoOore
your hat

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Doing the dishes -Fluxus Performance

Sorry ------=0=0=0=
0=0=my reaction
"*"*"*"*"*"*"*""*"*"*""
*""*"*is so late because
-[]+[]+[]--[]=OO
i first had to+^+^+^+^+^
^+^+^+^+^+^+ do this
perfOrmance

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Answer for Saskia - navigation system answer poem by Litsa Spathi

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deAr ^+^+^+^+^+Saskia'.'.'.'.'. here is my ^_^_^_apology...for causing =o=o=o=o=o=oyou bAd+O+O+O+O+O+O
dreams. My .. [.."fluXus navigation system .. ] .. ansWer will help
you=-=-=-=-=-=- and='='='='= protect'=/=/=/=/= you like ][
=-=-=:::::=o=o=o-::::=-angel=-:::::::::::=-=""""-0=-0=
with best wishes..... & ...........groetjes
NObOdy

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Navigation system by Fluxlist Europe - Variation # 6 by Litsa Spathi

Navigation system by Fluxlist Europe - Variation # 5

Navigation system by Fluxlist Europe - Variation # 4

Navigation system by Fluxlist Europe - Variation # 3 by Litsa Spathi

Security notice for a cup of coffee on a happy sunday evening ---- visual poem by Litsa Spathi for Johanna

Securiy notice for sunday mornings - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Saturday security notice in black, yellow and red - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Andreas Hofer = 3X a her0 - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Monday, September 24, 2007

Fluxus Tree # 1 - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 2 - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 3 - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 4 - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 5 - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 6 - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree 7 - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 8 - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Life in Fluxus

Life in Fluxus
by : Arthur C. Danto

source: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20001218/danto

John Lennon once characterized his wife, Yoko Ono, as the world's "most famous unknown artist. Everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does." What she was famous for, of course, was him. The art for which she was unknown could not conceivably have made her famous--although even the most famous of artists would be obscure relative to the aura of celebrity surrounding the Beatle of Beatles and his bride. Yoko Ono had been an avant-garde artist in New York and Tokyo in the early 1960s, and part of an avant-garde art world itself very little known outside its own small membership. The most robust of her works were subtle and quiet to the point of near-unnoticeability. One of her performances consisted, for example, of lighting a match and allowing it to burn away. One of her works, which she achieved in collaboration with the movement known as Fluxus, consisted of a small round mirror which came in an envelope on which YOKO ono/self portrait was printed. It belonged in Fluxus I--a box of works by various Fluxus artists, assembled by the leader and presiding spirit of the movement, George Maciunas. But the contents of Fluxus I were themselves of the same modest order as Self Portrait. We are not talking about anything on the scale, say, of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. We are speaking of things one would not see as art unless one shared the values and ideologies of Fluxus.

Fluxus, in that phase of its history, was much concerned with overcoming the gap between art and life, which was in part inspired by John Cage's decision to widen the range of sounds available for purposes of musical composition. Cage's famous 4'33'' consisted of all the noises that occurred through an interval in which a performer, sitting at the piano, dropped his or her hands for precisely that length of time. A typical Fluxus composition was arrived at by selecting a time--3:15, say--from the railway timetable and considering all the sounds in the railway station for three minutes and fifteen seconds as the piece. As early as 1913, Marcel Duchamp made works of art out of the most aesthetically undistinguished vernacular objects, like snow shovels and grooming combs, and he was in particular eager to remove all reference to the artist's eye or hand from the work of art. "The intention," he told Pierre Cabanne in 1968, "consisted above all in forgetting the hand." So a cheap, mass-produced object like a pocket mirror could be elevated to the rank of artwork and be given a title. How little effort it takes to make a self-portrait! In The Republic Socrates made the brilliant point that if what we wanted from art was an image of visual reality, what was the objection to holding a mirror up to whatever we wished to reproduce? "[You] will speedily produce the sun and all the things in the sky, and the earth and yourself and the other animals and implements and plants." And all this without benefit of manual skill!

Fluxus made little impact on the larger art world of those years. I encountered it for the first time in 1984, at an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of New York in which the art made in New York in the period between 1957 and 1964 was displayed. It was a show mainly of Pop Art and Happenings; and there were some display cases of Fluxus art, many of them objects of dismaying simplicity relative to what one expected of works of art in the early 1960s, exemplified by large heroic canvases with churned pigment and ample brush sweeps. Maciunas spoke of Fluxus as "the fusion of Spike Jones, vaudeville, gag, children's games and Duchamp"; and the display cases contained what looked like items from the joke shop, the children's counter in the dime store, handbills and the like. Ono's relationship to Fluxus is a matter of delicate art-historical analysis, but if she fit in anywhere, it would have been in the world Maciunas created around himself, where the artists and their audience consisted of more or less the same people. It was a fragile underworld, easy not to know about. Ono's work from that era has the weight of winks and whispers.

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Monday with John Cage

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Fluxus I Light - video by Litsa Spathi

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Fluxus Tree # 9 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 10 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 11 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 12 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 13 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree 14 by Litsa Spathi

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Fluxus Tree # 15 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 16 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 17 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 18 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 19 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 20 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree #21 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 22 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 23 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 24 by Litsa Spathi

Monday, September 17, 2007

Fluxus Tree # 25 by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Tree # 26 by Litsa Spathi

 

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