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Author: Dovile Tumpytė
Keywords: concert, contemporary music, fluxus, international network
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Installation view at the Fluxus concert. Photo: Vytautas Landsbergis (courtesy of Vytautas Landsbergis).
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Installation view at the Fluxus concert. Photo: Vytautas Landsbergis (courtesy of Vytautas Landsbergis).
Date: Spring 1966
Participants: Vytautas Landsbergis (1932) and his students at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute
Organizer: Vytautas Landsbergis
Location: Vilnius Pedagogical Institute
In the 1960s, the musicologist Vytautas Landsbergis corresponded with his childhood friend, artist and initiator of the Fluxus movement George Maciunas. Maciunas laid out the ideas of this anti-art movement in his letters, and sent Landsbergis recordings of his favorite music and Fluxus performances, as well as Fluxus scores. Landsbergis used this material in his public lectures on modern music.
In 1966, Landsbergis organized a Fluxus concert at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute, where he taught at the time, together with the institute’s senior students (around 20). The event started with the New Music manifesto written and read by Landsbergis. The program of the concert that lasted for approximately 30 min. was comprised of the instructions sent by Maciunas, complemented with Landsbergis’s own ideas; Landsbergis also created the wall decorations that reflected the Fluxus spirit and set the atmosphere for the concert. Although this avant-garde movement did not take on in Lithuania (the mentioned concert remains the only notable Fluxus event), the dissemination of the ideas of Fluxus and modern music via Landsbergis’s lectures contributed to the emergence and spread of modern art forms.
Documents:
Vytautas Landsbergis: A Manifesto (1966)
Vytautas Landsbergis – interview: Fluxus in Vilnius (2007)
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Author: Daniel Grúň
Keywords: dematerialization, fluxus, interactivity, thematized role of the audience
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Július Koller: JK, Gallery of the Youth, Bratislava, exhibition bulletin with text by Igor Gazdík.
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Július Koller: JK, Gallery of the Youth, Bratislava, exhibition bulletin with text by Igor Gazdík.
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Július Koller: J.K. Ping-Pong Club (U.F.O.) Environment, 1970, B&W photograph on paper, 18.5 x 21 cm. Photo: Milan Sirkovský (courtesy of Květoslava Fulierová)
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Július Koller: J.K. Ping-Pong Club (U.F.O.) Environment, 1970, B&W photograph on paper, 18.5 x 21 cm. Photo: Milan Sirkovský (courtesy of Květoslava Fulierová)
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Július Koller: J.K. Ping-Pong Club (U.F.O.) Environment, 1970, B&W photograph on paper, 18.5 x 21 cm. Photo: Milan Sirkovský (courtesy of Květoslava Fulierová)
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Július Koller: J.K. Ping-Pong Club (U.F.O.) Environment, 1970, B&W photograph on paper, 18.5 x 21 cm. Photo: Milan Sirkovský (courtesy of Květoslava Fulierová)
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Július Koller: J.K. Ping-Pong Club (U.F.O.) Environment, 1970, B&W photograph on paper, 18.5 x 21 cm. Photo: Milan Sirkovský (courtesy of Květoslava Fulierová)
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Július Koller: J.K. Ping-Pong Club (U.F.O.) Environment, 1970, B&W photograph on paper, 18.5 x 21 cm. Photo: Milan Sirkovský (courtesy of Květoslava Fulierová)
Date: March 1970
Participants and organizers: Július Koller (b. 1939), Květoslava Fulierová, Igor Gazdík, Milan Sirkovský
Location: Galéria Mladých / Gallery of the Youth, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Since 1965, Július Koller has been dissolving boundaries between sporting and artistic events. In March 1970, he used the independent exhibition space Galéria Mladých to play table tennis with visitors at regular intervals for the duration of the exhibition. For “J. K. Ping-Pong Club,” Koller turned the gallery into a sports club complete with a ping-pong table, sports flags decorated with the initials J.K., and a list of playing conditions posted on the wall.
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Author: Daniel Grúň
Keywords: artist as curator, dematerialization, festival, fluxus, international network
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Poster–calendar for Róbert Cyprich’s Red Year, a pseudo-festival at the International Festival of Socio-cultural Processual Feasts, offset print, paper. (courtesy of Jana Želibská)
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Poster–calendar for Róbert Cyprich’s Red Year, a pseudo-festival at the International Festival of Socio-cultural Processual Feasts, offset print, paper. (courtesy of Jana Želibská)
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Poster–calendar for Róbert Cyprich’s Red Year, a pseudo-festival at the International Festival of Socio-cultural Processual Feasts, offset print, paper. (courtesy of Jana Želibská)
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Poster–calendar for Róbert Cyprich’s Red Year, a pseudo-festival at the International Festival of Socio-cultural Processual Feasts, offset print, paper. (courtesy of Jana Želibská)
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Poster–calendar for Róbert Cyprich’s Red Year, a pseudo-festival at the International Festival of Socio-cultural Processual Feasts, offset print, paper. (courtesy of Jana Želibská)
Date: 1979
Participants and organizers: Róbert Cyprich (1951–1996), and with the creative cooperation of 365 friends from all over the world.
Location: Czechoslovakia
Róbert Cyprich’s pseudo-festival Red Year is connected to several other events that he organized in 1979 including Faga Ready-Made ’79, ONE MAN SHOW? 15 000 000 ”MAN“ SHOW!, BEIG Inc., Time of Cage, and Bee Flower. The conceptual poster–calendar Red Year came about as a creative collaboration with 365 friends from around the world, and was conducted via mail. The work emerged from the collision between the international utopian ideals of the avant-garde and the reality of everyday life in Czechoslovakia at that time where official ”red” idealogy was imposed on society.
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