Contents for February 20, 2023
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CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Michael Katchen, FF Senior Archivist, In Memoriam
Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Application Information Session, Feb 22 at 7pm ET
1. Jamie Sunwoo, FF FUND recipient 2022-23, at The Brick, Brooklyn and online, March 4-5
2. Alison O’Daniel, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Feb. 25
3. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Paragon, Brooklyn, Feb. 25
4. Epstein & Hassan, FF Alumns, now online at ChelseaCommunityNews.com
5. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, at Lichtundfire, Manhattan, Feb. 21
6. Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumn, at The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 28-Jul. 16
7. Anya Liftig, Barbara Bloom, Simone Forti, David Hammons, Pope.L, FF Alumns, now online at Culture.tech
8. Alina Bliumis, FF Alumn, at Situations, Manhattan, opening Feb. 24
9. Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, FF Alumns, at Museum Tinguely, Basel, opening Feb. 21
10. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Greenkill Gallery, Kingston, NY, Mar. 4-Apr. 30
11. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, at The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA, thru April 21
12. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Touchstones Rochdale, UK, thru May 6
13. Charles Dennis, FF Alumn, at Lace Mill, Kingston, NY, March 31-April 1
14. Mark Bloch, Dick Higgins, Allen Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Claes Oldenberg, FF Alumns, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com
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Michael Katchen, FF Senior Archivist, In Memoriam
Michael David Katchen
Michael David Katchen, artist, archivist, and educator, passed away peacefully on February 12, 2023, at his home in Brooklyn, New York.
Michael was born on July 21, 1955, to Vera Jean Waskie and Michael Katchen in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Many of Michael’s life-long interests—photography, swimming, collecting, construction, and love of all tools—were formed early on during his years in Allentown. Since his house was generously allowed by his parents to function as his center of social activity during high school, it was there that his love of conversation and eclectic, enduring friendships developed.
Michael received a BFA from Philadelphia College of Art and an MFA from Hunter College. In 1980 while pursuing his MFA degree, he began an internship at Franklin Furnace, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to showcasing performance art, artists’ books, and other time-based ephemeral arts, located on Franklin Street in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. In quick succession Michael was hired to be the Registrar and then Director of Collections, a post he held from 1983 to 1993. Under Michael’s stewardship, Franklin Furnace amassed over 13,500 titles of artists’ books and related materials, which were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 1993. After facilitating the transfer of the Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection to the MoMA library, Michael focused on digitizing, preserving, and cataloging forty-five years of arts events produced by Franklin Furnace and making them publicly available as online research resources.
Aside from its reputation as an important nexus for avant-garde art, Franklin Furnace was also known behind the scenes for its openness, inclusivity, and as a vital hub for nurturing emerging artists and arts professionals (sometimes these were one and the same). It was also the space where Michael met and courted his future wife, Suzanne. Their love of art and swimming quickly drew them together (at this time Michael was a dedicated U.S. Masters Swimmer).
Michael and Suzanne married in 2001 at a seaside wedding in Santa Cruz, California. In the ensuing years they had two wonderful daughters. Michael was a proud and devoted father. It was his greatest pleasure to watch his daughters grow and to talk to them about everything. He armed them with philosophical and practical knowledge. Lessons on feminism started in grade school as did the proper use of a ruler, scissors, and an eraser. By the time his daughters reached middle school, he passed onto them his small anvil for their jewelry making, and cameras for exploring the visual world.
Michael’s last project was the creation of a new Franklin Furnace collection of contemporary and historic artists’ books. In 2022, the Board of Directors honored Michael’s long and dedicated service by naming the historical database that he created the Michael D. Katchen Relational Database.
Michael was a frequent speaker, panelist, and presenter at conferences sponsored by the Society of American Archivists (SAA), American Institute for Conservation of Historic
and Artistic Works, (AIC), Electronic Media Group, (EMG), and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), among others.
Michael was an adjunct faculty member at the School of Visual Arts in New York and was a mentor for undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students in the fine arts and in library science from schools in the U.S. and around the world.
Michael was also a practicing artist whose work has been presented in a one-person exhibition at the Stamford Museum, and in group exhibitions at Henry Street Settlement, Rhode Island School of Design, Housatonic Museum of Art, Connecticut College, and the New York Public Library. Michael employed collage techniques from disparate print and digital sources to create a vast body of work that was both familiar and jarring.
In his own words: “The artwork I create serves as both a personal expression and a social commentary on the codified visual literacy employed by contemporary society. By altering, re-purposing, and subverting images and visual language that people know and use, consciously and unconsciously, I introduce a different and meaningful reinterpretation and perhaps a visual roadmap for others to question and reflect upon.”
For the past ten years Michael had been battling both ALS and Parkinson’s disease. It was a testament to his spirit that he continued to make art until the last few months of
his life, until he was physically unable to do so.
Michael is survived by his wife, Suzanne Varni; their daughters, Lucina and Marissa; his sisters Kathryn Maasz and Kimberly Costanzo; brother-in-laws Mark Maasz and Tony Costanzo; niece Kim Carwile and nephew Tristian Costanzo.
Father Ivan Tyhovych will preside at a mass held in Michael’s memory, nine a.m. EST, Saturday February 25th at The Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church, 160 North 5th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Suzanne, Lucina and Marissa welcome your comforting presence. Thank you for all your condolences and kind thoughts.
Please also visit this link: https://www.lifeposts.com/p/milestone/70266/michael-david-katchen-memorial/lifestory/
In lieu of gifts or flowers, please consider donating to Bridging Voice, a group that assists more than a million people struggling from the impact of neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or another great group–the ALS Organization of Greater New York, which was always so very helpful to us.
by Patrick Pardo
Thank you.
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Application Information Session, Feb 22 at 7pm
Interested in being one of our 2023-2024 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Recipients? For this info session, we will be joined by multidisciplinary artists, Franklin FUND Recipients, and panelists Billy X. Curmano and Verónica Peña. The panelists will give details about how to apply for a Franklin Furnace FUND grant, provide helpful tips on grant-writing and will answer questions regarding different sections of our guidelines.
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
7:00pm-8pm EST
RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkd-yrrD8pHN17kl32Z7ntp1SYOus0_Etc
More info here: https://franklinfurnace.org/2023-24-info-session/
Thank you.
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1. Jamie Sunwoo, FF FUND recipient 2022-23, at The Brick, Brooklyn and online, March 4-5
Whether you’re in New York City or abroad, you’ll have another chance to see my multimedia show Embodied! You may catch it in person at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Ave) or via livestream.
In Embodied, four performers repeat text verbatim as they listen to remixed audio tracks of fifty-five interviewees all responding to a single prompt: “Describe a time you were acutely aware of your race.” Surveillance cameras track their movements and wireless microphones manipulate their voices, capturing the insecurity, paranoia, and absurdity of life in America during mass social unrest. Embodied explores how we interpret messages when they’re being delivered by people with different race and gender identities– a survey of fears, defenses, and hopes as people struggle to understand their perceptions of self and others.
I’ve included show credits and ticket links below.
Saturday March 4th, 8pm performance
Sunday March 5th, 8pm performance & post-show discussion (also available on livestream)
In-person and livestream tickets can be found here: https://www.bricktheater.com/event/embodied/2023-03-04/
Written and directed by Jaime Sunwoo
Produced by Free Rein Projects
Lighting and sound design by Matt Chilton
Video design by Andrew Murdock
Video consulting by Yudam Hyung Seok Jeon
Performed by Ella Dershowitz, Dustin Fontaine, and Vanessa Rappa, and Saadiq Vaughan
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by Jerome Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and Brooklyn Arts Fund. Rehearsal space for Embodied was provided with generous support from HB Studio and Persona. Embodied was developed,in part, at Now in Process, a program of New Ohio Theatre.
Cheers,
Jaime Sunwoo
Thank you.
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2. Alison O’Daniel, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Feb. 25
Please visit this link:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8508
Thank you.
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3. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Paragon, Brooklyn, Feb. 25
Hello!
I’m performing solo next Saturday at Dweller techno festival. Would love to see you there!
Dweller techno festival at Paragon
Saturday, February 25, party starts at 10PM
990 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11221
For more info: https://ra.co/events/1651241
Thank you.
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4. Epstein & Hassan, FF Alumns, now online at ChelseaCommunityNews.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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5. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, at Lichtundfire, Manhattan, Feb. 21
In conjunction with the show
Refracture: Visual Realignment
at
Lichtundfire
175 Rivington Street – New York, NY 10002
Event:
Tuesday, February 21, 6:30 PM
A panel discussion:
The art of Rodney Zelenka
With Mark Bloch, Mary Hrbacek and Priska Juschka
Moderated by Elga Wimmer
Q&A and Reception:
info@lichtundfire.com • Tel. 917.675.7835
Thank you.
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6. Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumn, at The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 28-Jul. 16
Please visit this link:
https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html
Thank you.
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7. Anya Liftig, Barbara Bloom, Simone Forti, David Hammons, Pope.L, FF Alumns, now online at Culture.tech
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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8. Alina Bliumis, FF Alumn, at Situations, Manhattan, opening Feb. 24
Alina Bliumis
Plant Parenthood
Opening reception: Friday, Feb 24, 6-8 PM
Exhibition dates: Feb 24 – Apr 2, 2023
Situations presents Alina Bliumis first solo exhibition with the gallery, titled “Plant Parenthood.” In this series, Bliumis composes flowers that have been used to induce abortion in various countries throughout history. Using watercolor and watercolor pencil on wood panels, the artist portrays the flowers in sexualized gestures as subtle odes to reproductive organs. Bliumis’ exhibition brings attention to the fact that the removal of safe, legal, medical abortions does not eliminate the means or will of women to find ways to regain control of their bodies.
Each of the flowers portrayed in the series is known to have been used in various folk medicines to terminate pregnancies. Asarum, for example, appears alongside several other abortifacients in the 12th-century medical writings of the sainted German nun Hildegard von Bingen, who advised abortions herself. The peacock flower was deployed as a form of anti-slavery resistance in 17th-century Suriname, by enslaved women “who used it to abort offspring who would otherwise be born into bondage,” as historian Londa Schiebinger wrote in her monograph Plants and Empire. These herbal remedies have always, however, been dangerous: In 2018, an Argentinian woman died after attempting to induce a miscarriage with parsley, an emmenagogue widely popularized in the 19th century. The series thus hints at long and tenuous histories of the abortion underground.
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States does not protect the right to have an abortion. The Dobbs decision overturned the precedent set almost fifty years ago by Roe v. Wade, which protected this right on the legally precarious basis of a pregnant person’s Fourteenth-Amendment “right to privacy.” Justice Alito’s opinion outlined an originalist interpretation of the nation’s founding document, noting that it “makes no express reference to a right to obtain an abortion.” It was also ratified when white male property owners alone possessed the right to vote for their representatives, apportioned by a calculus including three-fifths of the population of enslaved persons. The vote would remain restricted by sex for another 130 years.The U.S. Constitution is not the only legal basis for a modern polity that lacks express protections for reproductive rights—nor is the United States the only country in which reproductive freedom is so severely under threat. According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, 91 million people who can become pregnant live in countries where abortion is criminalized in all instances. Three hundred fifty-eight million more may only terminate their pregnancies if carrying to term would threaten their life. Around the world, people of marginalized genders are fighting for the right to control their bodies against the legal incursions of the state, which seeks to restrict access not only to abortions but to all forms of reproductive healthcare. Before the professionalization of medicine transferred power over contraception and abortion care from pregnant people and midwives, to male doctors, herbal abortifacients were widely used as family planning methods. In ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, for example, fetuses were conceived of as part of women’s bodies and their nourishment or disposal, therefore, was the prerogative of the pregnant person. But scientists and other researchers have been slow to systematically study the use of herbal medicines to induce abortion, so a dearth of specifics exists detailing the history and contours of the practice. In large part, these rituals have been shielded from the gaze of patriarchal eyes. Bliumis’ paintings mirror the work of our foremothers who used botanicals as medicine. Without context, a viewer might only see flowers, but with knowledge, the viewer begins to understand the power and self-determination preserved by these plants.
Alina Bliumis (b. Minsk, Belarus) is New York-based artist who received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 1999 and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy in 2005. She has exhibited internationally at the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France; the First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Busan Biennale, South Korea; Tokyo Biennial, JP; Assab One, Milan, Italy; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris; Centre d’art Contemporain, Meymac, France; The James Gallery, The Graduate Center CUNY, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Museums of Bat Yam, Israel; The Jewish Museum, NYC; The Saatchi Gallery, London; Botanique Museum, Brussels; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and MAC VAL/Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France. Her works are in various private and public collections, including MAC VAL – Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France; Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia; Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel; The Saatchi Collection, UK; The Harvard Business School, USA; The National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia; and Missoni Collection, Italy.
Situations is located at 127 Henry Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan. Our hours are Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm. For inquiries, please visit our website, www.situations.us or write to info@situations.us
Situations
127 Henry Street
New York, NY 10002
Thank you.
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9. Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, FF Alumns, at Museum Tinguely, Basel, opening Feb. 21
À bruit secret
Hearing in Art
February 22–May 14, 2023
Vernissage: February 21, 6:30pm
Museum Tinguely
Paul Sacher-Anlage 1
CH-4002 Basel
Switzerland
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm,
Thursday 11am–9pm
À bruit secret. Hearing in Art is the fourth in a series of five themed exhibitions at Museum Tinguely dealing in experimental ways with the human senses. Focusing attention on hearing, which plays an important role in multisensory experiences of art, the exhibition offers various immersive and interactive encounters with familiar and less familiar soundscapes. Historical works as well as pieces created specially for the show by 25 international artists, invite visitors to pay attention to what they are hearing, opening up acoustic fields usually hidden from the human ear. What does the Rhine sound like as it flows through Basel? What’s to be heard beneath the surface of the ocean? Can urban noise or the voices of animals and humans be used to make artworks? How have human activity and climate change altered the sounds of the jungle? Can soundwaves be perceived other than by our ears, and how can acoustic phenomena be visualized? The exhibition includes sculptures, multimedia installations, photographs, works on paper, and paintings dating from the Baroque period to the present day.
The exhibition features works by artists including Kader Attia, Ursula Biemann, George Brecht, Pol Bury, Cevdet Erek, Dominique Koch, Christina Kubisch, Fortunato Depero, Marcel Duchamp, Isa Genzken, Hermann Goepfert, Rolf Julius, František Kupka, Oswaldo Maciá, Marcus Maeder, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Carsten Nicolai, Emeka Ogboh, Meret Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Alexander Tillegreen, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter Roth, Luigi Russolo, Kurt Schwitters, Jean Tinguely, Bill Viola, Jorinde Voigt, James Webb.
Comprising many different kinds of sound, the acoustic world surrounds humans like a universal «composition». What we hear evokes emotions, memories, and associations that are shaped by subjective and sociocultural factors and that vary over time. From the late 1960s, researchers like Canadian composer and sound theorist R. Murray Schafer divided our acoustic environment into soundscapes, distinguishing between three kinds: natural, technical, and human, with the latter including both the voice and music. Since the early twentieth century, if not before, the sounds of machines and technology have become ever more dominant, encroaching on the original sounds of nature all over the planet. Schafer called on us to refine our sense of hearing, laying important foundations for ecoacoustics, the study of how environmental factors and human activities impact on the acoustic aspects of ecosystems.
À bruit secret takes inspiration from this call for a more differentiated perception of sounds. Multimedia artworks immerse museumgoers in various soundscapes from around the planet, with water, the natural environment animated by plants and animals, language as the basis of communication, and the dissonant noise of big cities all playing a part.
For the first time ever in Switzerland, Museum Tinguely presents Robert Rauschenberg’s Oracle (1962-1965), a five-part assemblage of found objects that exudes cacophonic radio sounds and that even features flowing water.
Curator of the exhibition: Annja Müller-Alsbach
Thank you.
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10. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Greenkill Gallery, Kingston, NY, Mar. 4-Apr. 30
Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, will present new works in a three person show at the Greenkill Gallery at 229 Greenkill Ave Kingston, NY.
Franc will show several selected works from his Wall Works series from March 4 – April 30 2023. The Wall Works series include large scale mixed media pieces that incorporate painting, photography, sculpture and even architecture. His wide array of materials include archival color photographs, paint, collage, fresco painting, found objects, plaster, spray, gravel, faux cement all incorporated onto large slabs of Polystyrene. At first glance these works are convincingly real but on closer inspection, they appear to be improbable, seeming to weigh hundreds of pounds. In actuality, these mixed media wall pieces are feather-light, weighing just a few pounds.
Palaia’s colorful and textured imagery is culled from his many travels to dozens of countries and cities where he photo-documents urban walls layered with graffiti, murals, street art, signs, billboards and posters found in Rome and Naples in Italy, Paris and Marseille in France, Havana, Berlin, and many locations in the USA. Palaia says, “walls are drop cloths of a society” and he proves it. His works are playful and political simultaneously.
The overall effect of Palaia’s work, banking on his extensive experience with Roman art and antiquities, presents the viewer with a kind of archaeology of the future. We have all seen where greedy art collectors literally carve out street art wall sections painted by Banksy, well, Palaia does this for you!
Franc Palaia is an award winning multi-disciplinary artist and muralist with an extensive exhibition record that includes, OK Harris, the Metropolitan Museum in NY, LA MoCA, the New Museum, Vassar College, Newark Museum, the High Museum, the Saatchi museum, London, Galerie Salvador, France and the American Academy in Rome.He has received over two dozen prestigious grants and fellowships such as the Rome Prize, L.C. Tiffany Grant, Painted Bride grant, two Polaroid Sponsorships, three NYFA grants, two New Jersey Arts Council grants, Ludwig- Vogelstein grant, Puffin Grant among others. His works are in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn, Newark, Montclair and Morris Museums, Fundacio Salvador Dali and the New Jersey State Museum to name a few.
Greenkill gallery hours: Tues-Sat 3-5pm and by appointment
Email: 220greenkill@greenkill.com
Thank you.
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11. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, at The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA, thru April 21
The Frank Moore Papers at Bancroft Library
In conjunction with the exhibit of Frank Moore’s oil paintings at BAMPFA (University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum), Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley has created some exhibits, featuring selected documents from the Frank Moore Papers, in the display cases outside the Heller reading room and in the Helen Weber Kennedy Reference Center of Bancroft Library. The exhibits will be on display on the 3rd floor at The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Feb. 1 – April 21, 2023.
https://eroplay.org/the-frank-moore-papers-at-bancroft-library/
Thank you.
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12. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Touchstones Rochdale, UK, thru May 6
Betty Beaumont’s “Changing Landscapes: Art in an Expanded Field” (1989) in “A Tall Order!” (2023):
Images of “Changing Landscapes: Art in an Expanded Field” (1989), a twenty-year survey exhibition of Betty Beaumont’s work, are on view in “A Tall Order!” from February 4 – May 6, 2023 at Touchstones Rochdale, alongside other artworks exhibited at the Rochdale Art Gallery during the 1980s.
The 1989 “Changing Landscapes” exhibition was structured by a timeline which wrapped around the gallery space, accompanied by twenty framed years (1969-89). Four pedestals, each with a single slide-cube-projector containing 80 transparencies, were placed in front of different sections of the timeline, elaborating some of that section’s specific works. When viewing “Changing Landscapes,” various aspects of Beaumont’s personal practice emerge: a feminist concern with a non-intrusive yet discursive relationship to the physical, exterior landscape and the invisible, interior one; filmic, time-laden installations and siteworks; and elements of performance.In addition, images of Beaumont’s 1989 performance “RiverWalk” and her “Oculus” monument project (1989 – ) are included in “A Tall Order!.”
“A Tall Order!” will be on view at Touchstones Rochdale from February 4 – May 6, 2023.
Gallery address: Touchstones Rochdale, The Esplanade, Rochdale OL16 1AQ, UK
Hours:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Thank you.
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13. Charles Dennis, FF Alumn, at Lace Mill, Kingston, NY, March 31-April 1
I’m happy to announce that a 2023 version of Avant-Garde-Arama, the performance festival of short works that I co-created at P.S. 122 in New York City in the 1980’s will visit Kingston, NY next month at the historic Lace Mill. Hope to see you there!
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090056089224
Tickets:
Thank you.
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14. Mark Bloch, Dick Higgins, Allen Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Claes Oldenberg, FF Alumns, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com
I wrote an article about a new publication about Dick Higgins’ Something Else Press. It is called A Something Else Reader and features a who’s who of Fluxus and the avant garde –artists such as Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Claes Oldenberg, Al Hansen, Emmett Williams, Robert Filliou, George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Allen Kaprow, etc.
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/reader-edited-by-dick-higgins/5683
“Book Review: A Something Else Reader, Edited by Dick Higgins.” Primary Information has released “A Something Else Reader,” 350 pages of unorthodox curiosities from 1963-1973. George Maciunas’ requested Higgins write a history of Fluxus that became “Postface” but then delayed it until Spring 1965, Dick vowed to start his new press and use it to publish what others could not: “new forms that aren’t labeled,” “useful science books that aren’t dull enough for professionals,” yet “hip enough for the establishment” and finally, whatever establishment presses did,” he vowed he would do “something else,” especially “what nobody else knows how to handle.” His focus was “new tendencies and republishing titles from the historical avant gardes.”
Mark Bloch
Thank you.
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