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29/11/2007

Fluxus East

Contemporary Art Centre - CAC, Vilnius

Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe. 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. Curated by Petra Stegmann.


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Curator: Petra Stegmann
Exhibition architecture by: Andrea Pichl

Artists: Gábor Altorjay, Eric Andersen, Azorro, Robert Filliou, György Galántai, Tibor Hajas, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Tadeusz Kantor, Danius Kesminas, Milan Knizák, Alison Knowles, Július Koller, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Vytautas Landsbergis, George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Larry Miller, Ben Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Slave Pianos, Tamás St. Auby, Endre Tót, Gábor Tóth, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Jiri Valoch, Ben Vautier, Branko Vucicevic, Emmett Williams among many others

During the opening: performance OPUS 01130 – A Conversation by Eric Andersen and perfomance 4'33" Generation Gap (Variation 3 - Pravda) by Tamás St. Auby Lecture by prof. Vytautas Landsbergis: Friday 7 December, 4.30 pm

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 also possible to play at FLUX PING PONG.

Further exhibition venues: Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (February 7 - March 30, 2008), Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest (April 17 - June 1, 2008), Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn (September 4 - November 23, 2008). http://www.fluxus-east.eu

Opening: Friday 30 November, 6 pm

Contemporary Art Centre
Vokieciu 2, LT - 01130, Vilnius

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