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August Correspondence related to
the Fluxhibition
The
Ontological Museum has opened its fluxnexus wing of the museum with the
domain www.fluxmuseum.org. We 21st
century type fluxus artists have the
opportunity to document ourselves.
This is a continuation of the post-dogmatist program of self
documentation through the establishment of its own institutions. The FLUXmUSeum is available
to storage, document and exhibit any works that any fluxnexus artist
wishes to donate to it. Storage capacity for physical objects is
somewhat limited - no elephants or cars or anything like that.
Compactness in important.
In keeping with Ontological Museum policies, any registered member of
the fluxnexus (one who has been assigned a PIN#) can establish their
own branch of the FLUXmUSeum. Once enough materials are gathered, we
could do branch exchanges of material in order to have continually
scheduled fluxhibitions, fluxoramas and the like.
We are a few of weeks away from the beginning of a new art season.
Would any of you like to help organize a traveling exhibition that
would move around in a postal box from place to place and be put on
exhibition for a weekend or so? You could have an opening party, invite
your friends and have a blast - a fluxparty in a box. The box might
include events, poetry readings, objects, performances and so forth to
be created, performed, fabricated and exhibited that could be prepared
quickly for a low cost... Send the photos and other documetation to the
hub museum (fort worth) and I'll put it all on the FLUXmUSeum website. On monday ship off to the next destination.
Soon we could add 50 new international exhibitions to our fluxnexus
resumes. I am sure, in a few days we could throw something
together
and then improve it as it goes around. Each weekend could be critiqued
by whoever is hosting it and then we could tweek it up until it seems
really great.
Venues
Fluxmuseum Fort Worth
Fluxmuseum (your city here)
Fluxmuseum (your city here)
Fluxmuseum (your city here)
Fluxmuseum (your city here)
Fluxmuseum (your city here)
Fluxmuseum (your city here)
Fluxmuseum (your city here)
possible dates you can pick from:
Sept 15-17
Sept 22-24
Sept 29-Oct 1
Oct. 6-8
Oct. 13-15
Oct. 20-22
Oct. 27-29
Nov 3-5
Nov 17-19
Nov 24-26
Dec 1-3
Dec 8-10
Dec 15-17
Jan 13-15
Jan 20-22
Jan 27-29
Feb 3-5
Feb 10-12
Feb 17-19
Feb 24-26
Mar 3-5
Mar 10-12
Mar 17-19
Mar 24-26
Mar31-Apr-2
Apr 7-9
Apr 14-16
Apr 21-23
apr 28-30
May 5-7
May 12-14
May 19-21
May 26-28
Hope to hear from you,
Cecil Touchon
PIN-00000010
The FuxNexus
http://fluxnexus.com
Mon Aug 21, 2006
3:24 am
From: Walter Cianciusi
A quick
start on the new Museum Season
Thank you Cecil,
you can count on me.
My address is:
Walter Cianciusi
Via Homs 18
00199 Roma
ITALIA
You choose the date.
Bye,
Walter
Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:26 am
From: David-Baptiste Chirot
RE: [neofluxlist] A quick start on the
new Museum Season.
dear cecil
what a great idea!
i wd love to do this here in milwaukee
i will figure out a good date and let you know
is there a way to send yu works to contirbute to the fluxmuseum?
and i lost my paper with how to send to the fluxusblog--might someon
refresh
the non-existant memory?
many thanks again!
david-bs
Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:45 am
From: Allan Revich
RE: [neofluxlist] A quick start on the
new Museum Season.
Cecil,
I would love to host a museum weekend in Toronto. Possible in early or
mid-November.
Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:04 am
From: Bibiana Padilla Maltos
RE: [neofluxlist] A quick start
on the new Museum Season.
Cecilio,
Count me in for 2 VENUES, both sides of the US-Mexican border...anytime
after November.
Will you be doing a schedule/calendar so we know on advance how much
time do
we have to plan before getting the pieces?
saludos!
***************************
BIBIANA PADILLA MALTOS
Mon Aug 21, 2006
10:45 am
From Cecil Touchon
Re: [neofluxlist] A quick start on the
new Museum Season.
Hi David,
Yes, To send material to the Ontological Museum use this address
Ontological Museum
ATTN: Collections (or Fluxmuseum Collections or Eternal Network
Collections or IMCAC collections as the case may be)
6955 Pinon Stree
Fort Worth, Texas 76116
Anything visual will be photographed and added to website. A artist
file will be maintained by the museum for all contributors
here is a page spelling out the collections department:
http://www.ontologicalmuseum.org/museum/exhibitions.html
Please include a signed and dated note that says something like the
following...
I (name)
donate, by way of unrestricted gift, transfer and assign absolutely
this work to the IMCAC to become part of
its permanent collection.
Copyright of
the work remains with me, the artist. While the
copyright is retained in full by the artist, I grant unlimited and free
copyright usage
of the work donated
to the IMCAC for the Museum's use for educational purposes,
publications, publicity, fundraising, etc. as the museum deems
appropriate.
Mon Aug 21, 2006
12:21 pm
From: Cecil Touchon
TRAVELING FLUXHIBITION
Que Tal Bibiana?!
Do you want consecutive weekends or no matter? Could be two different
months? Side by side weekends will save postage of course since you
would hand carry between venues. What are the names of the cities or
towns that you will be conducting the exhibitions? So far we have
Rome, Milwaukee, Fort Worth, Prescott and
somewhere on the border in mexico. Walter is in Rome so it would be
nice if we could arrange an exhibition
in Venice, Paris, Heidelburg, Berlin, London, etc while the box is in
europe. Anyone who has fluxus contacts in europe or elsewhere might
contact them to see about including them.
As soon as anyone gives me firm dates I will start a calender with the
city listed next to the date. So any that are willing to commit to a
specific weekend please do.
Other possibilities are: If your going to be traveling somewhere and
want to do a show at that location we could arrange that too. For
instance I am going to be in Scottsdale for a show on the weekend of
Oct 6-8. I have been invited to do something at the Prescott College (a
couple of hours away) that weekend. I believe John Bennett, Sheila
Murphy (if you know who they are) and others will be there the next
weekend for some other project as I understand it from Sheila. I was
thinking I could do a one day show at the college. If john and shiela
were interested I could leave the box there for them to exhibit and add
to. and then they could send it along to the next exhibit of take it
home for an exhibit the next weekend before shipping it out. Also, if
we know other sympathizers who are traveling around doing poetry
readings, exhibitions and what not, we might arrange for them to put on
a fluxhibition for a few hours in the city where they will be that
weekend. -Really I guess a fluxhibition could just be a few hours long.
It could even be done peek-a-boo style by merely opening the box and
showing someone the contents and still be a perfectly valid
fluxhibition.
In the meantime I would encourage people to start sending materials for
the fluxhibition box pretty soon. No need for multiples so you can make
something kind of nice (but fairly small). The shipping box could be
any size. If there are enough objects included I could ship in a very
nice old alluminum blanket box that I acquired at a garage sale a
couple of weeks ago. It is something ike 15x30x6 inches I'll get
the
exact measurements later. It can build over the course of the year and
if there gets to be too much then the host, on any given weekend, can
pick and choose, offering the opportunity to have unique exhibitions at
each venue. We could also pick out favorite old school fluxus event and
performance scores to throw in the mix and who ever is the host could
include a number of their own works as a featured part of the
exhibition and fill in with stuff from the fluxhibition box. I could
empty the contents of my fluxbox into it if I can figure out where I
stuck it. But I am in Texas right now and I think the box is in Mexico.
Cecil
Mon Aug 21, 2006
2:06 pm
From: John M. Bennett
Re:
[neofluxlist] TRAVELING FLUXHIBITION
Yes, we're doing a performance in Prescott on the 13th
of
Oct.
If Sheila is agreeable, you could send it to her - I'll be travelling
by
air and really unable to schlepp the box around, but would be glad to
add
to it, etc.
onvoid,
john
Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:35 pm
Re: [fluxnexus] 1st International Traveling Exhibition of Fluxus by the
Members of the Fluxnexus
Thanks Allan,
I guess the word fluxhibition is a completely new one because when I
put that word in google it gave me zero results. So I suppose we can
claim that to the fluxnexus lexicon as as a new word. I guess fluxus
never has exhibitions or I am sure they would have called them
fluxhibitions. Any way, I have added a picture of the Box that I have
been mentioning. It is actually a nice sized box at 42x18x6.5 outside
dimensions; slightly less for the inside. The aluminum is thin and very
light weight. I would say the best way to fill it would be making a
number of cardboard boxes and portfolios that would contain the various
objects and fit the boxes and portfolios inside snugly. I am thinking
six 9x12x5 boxes and 3 6x6x6 boxes and a 17x35x1 inch portfolio box to
hold various oversized paper works. That will fill the box very well
and compartmentalize enough to organize and protect many different
things.
Cecil
Allan Revich wrote:
Nice work cecil!
Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:16 am
From Mary Camp
Re: [neofluxlist] A quick start
on the new Museum Season.
"Day de Dada" would like to host the traveling museum as part of their
Spring
07 performance art events in Staten Island, NY. Probably in April or
May.
Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:16 am
From: Sheila Murphy
Re: [neofluxlist] TRAVELING
FLUXHIBITION
Cecil - just for clarification - the Prescott program is the weekend of
the 13th of October - I mistakenly advised you that it was the 6th.
Sorry! Clear now to me, and adjusted my calendar. Thanks.
Tue Aug 22, 2006
9:44 am
From: Cecil Touchon
Re:
[neofluxlist] TRAVELING FLUXHIBITION
Hi Sheila, Yes as I mentioned in the last note:
"I am going to be in Scottsdale for a show on the weekend of Oct 6-8. I
have been invited to do something at the Prescott College (a couple of
hours away) that weekend. I believe John Bennett, Sheila Murphy and
others will be there the next weekend (oct 13) for some
other project as I understand it from Sheila. I was thinking I could do
a one day show at the college. If john and shiela were interested I
could leave the box there for them to exhibit and add to. and then they
could send it along to the next exhibit OR take it home for an exhibit
the next weekend before shipping it out?"
So I guess we can see each other in Scottsdale at my opening? but Grace
Vajda has invited me to do something on the 6th or 7th a poetry reading
or something like that. But she does not want to do any sort of full
scale exhibition and neither do I, nor could I on such short notice for
that matter. But I could take a fluxbox with me and have a peek-a-boo
exhibition (just open the box and pass around the stuff for people to
examine and discuss)... And you could join me if you like Sheila! That
would be really great.
Cecil
From: Cecil Touchon <touchon@sprynet.com>
To: Nerrada Parsons <send_to_nerrada@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [neofluxlist] A quick start on the new Museum Season.
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:59:58 -0500
Alright! sounds good. Are there any other fluxfolks in australia that
you could contact to add a couple of more venues? Any time is fine I
would say but if it can stay in the same area long enough to keep the
postage down all the better for everyone I would guess. Maybe we should
ask around a bit.
Check out the couple of new pages for the fluxmuseum galleries (they
are photomontages). http://fluxmuseum.org/gallery.html
Cecil
Nerrada Parsons wrote:
Cecil,
I love your idea it sounds great. I would love to be involved (I am
getting some work ready to send to you) I would also love to host the
fluxmuseum, here in Australia. I am in Brisbane. I gather from your
posts that you are trying to cut postage by arranging show dates that
allow the box to stay on one continenet for a period of time so I am
not sure when it is best for the box to come down under but when it
does count me in.
Cheers
neRRaDa
8/23/2006 12:42 AM
From: Nerrada Parsons
I will investigate
neRRaDa
Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:45 pm
From: Madawg
Re: [neofluxlist] TRAVELING
FLUXHIBITION
I
could take the box if there was a long stretch of time. I can take it
out on the road with my dear performance artist friend, Ed Leeper. He
has a free bookmobile service; Liquid Books.
Madawg
Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:16 pm
From: Cecil Touchon
Re: [neofluxlist] TRAVELING
FLUXHIBITION
Just need a time frame. x number of weeks beginning?
Cecil
Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:46 pm
From: Madawg
Re: [neofluxlist] TRAVELING
FLUXHIBITION
All up to Ed the book guy
so when he gets back to me I'll let you know--Dawg
Wed Aug 23, 2006
5:04 pm
From: Cecil Touchon
THE INTERNATIONAL, TRAVELING
FLUXHIBITION - 2006-07 SEASON
This exhibition is starting to take shape with a number of venue
commitments in place. Just to give you a deadline. The first place the
fluxhibition needs to be in a fairly complete state is by the last
weekend in September. That gives us 5 weeks from today to have
everything in the box. Your contribution can be in the form of poetry
for readings, small visual 2D and 3D works and objects that can be
pinned to a wall or put on a table or shelf, event scores, photographs,
performance scores, recordings, CDs, DVDs, etc. There will probably be
six 9x12x5 boxes and three 6x6x6 boxes and one portfolio measuring
roughly 17x30x1 for flat works like photos, drawings, etc. that will all
fit smugly into a 42x18x6.5 aluminum box.
Any visual items that you will be sending for the box, please send by
email digital, web ready images with description to me at
cecil@...
if you are able, so that I can build the webpages for
the exhibition and create an inventory sheet of the contents. Otherwise
I'll scramble and document all the parts myself if need be.
Please see all details at http://fluxmuseum.org
Hoping you will participate,
Cecil
Wed Aug 23, 2006
8:18 pm
From: Madawg
my
dear friend Ed Leeper got back to me and he said the sooner the better
since he is an outdoor venue and our rainy season begins in late
October. So I would like to ask of you perhaps the very first dates and
onword. Dawg
8/24/2006 1:19 PM
From Reid Wood
Hi Cecil-
I put these two items in the mail today for the traveling exhibition:
1. Postcard with 3" square and instructions.
2. Small booklet (3" x 4") entitled "Some Sewer Grates between my
house and downtown Oberlin."
I am attaching digital images tot his message. The postcard should
be no problem, but the book is 14 pages plus covers. We'll see
how it goes.
Mon Aug 28, 2006
11:31 pm
From: Cecil Touchon
first Items for the Fluxhibition have
arrived.
Several items have arrived for the fluxhibition box from John
Bennett,
Reed Wood, Walter Cianciusi and Simone Gad and Elizabeth Concannon.
Please participate! see details at http://fluxmuseum.org
cecil
Tue Aug 29, 2006
5:23 pm
From: Cecil Touchon
Fluxhibition Case
There is a request from madawg for the fluxhibition case for the weekend
of Oct 13-15 but I think I recall that Shiela Murphy asked me to leave
the fluxhibition case at prescott college for that weekend. Is that
right Shiela? If I misunderstood I will schedule with Madawg .
Cecil
Are you a member of the Fluxnexus? You ought to be.
http://fluxmuseum.org
Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:44 pm
From: Cecil Touchon
Re: [neofluxlist] Headline Haiku
Allan, do you have the whole collection of headline haikus in a word
file or something? That could be a nice addition to the fluxhibition
box. Also I was thinking the whole exchange on nothing could be an
interesting read as part of the material too if compiled into a single
document.
Cecil
Allan Revich wrote:
Headlines:
August 30, 2006
Iran goes to
brink
Ohio waists
expanding
Turks march
to protest
Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:50 pm
From: Allan Revich
RE: [neofluxlist] Headline Haiku
Yes,
I have been collecting the Headline Haikus since I started. I'd be
happy to include them in the fluxhibition. I will put them into a
chapbook and mail it this weekend.
Nothing might be harder to collect.
Allan
Thu Aug 31, 2006
12:36 pm
From Madawg
Re:
[fluxnexus] Fluxhibition Case
let me know the
availability schedule again please. Dawg
Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:44 pm
From Cecil Touchon
Re: Fluxhibition Case
The only definitely scheduled dates are in the right column at
http://fluxmuseum.org
Cecil
Thu Aug 31, 2006
10:59 pm
From Madawg
Re: [fluxnexus] Fluxhibition Case
I'll take Oct. 13-22 or do
I need to go to the site and reserve the slot? Dawg