26 March 06 - 15:49In Your Face (at the AGO)

The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, Canada is currently conducting an experiment in participatory art-making that will be of interest to anyone with Fluxus tendencies.

Get creative – draw it, paint it or write it. Your work will join thousands of others in what could be the largest presentation of portraits in the world! Submit your original works of art by June 1 to be a part of In Your Face – an exhibition opening July 1, 2006.

For the first time in the Gallery's history the AGO is launching an exhibition created entirely by the public.

Opening July 1, In Your Face is an exhibition of portraits collected from the general public to celebrate the individuality and diversity of Canada. Submissions are now being accepted for the exhibition and the Gallery will be entering the completed project for consideration by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest collection of portraits ever assembled.

One of the AGO's initiatives as part of Toronto's Live with Culture celebration this year, In Your Face will allow everyone to become a creative part of the Gallery's future. In addition to external submissions, visitors can experiment with portrait-making in the Gallery and take part in interactive artists' demonstrations.

To participate visit http://www.ago.net/info/ago_exhibitions/exhibition_specific.cfm?ID=4224 and print the entry form. There is no entry fee and you can enter as many times as you want. There is however a release statement that must accompany each entry so be sure to download it from URL above before you send in your work. In case the URL above breaks, I have included the entry form below.

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21 March 06 - 13:15Fluxus Podcast

Walter Cianciusi a Fluxlister and contemporary Fluxus artist has recently set up a Fluxus podcast which can be subscribed to using Apple iTunes.

To listen you just need to:
1. download iTunes 6 (free) for Mac or PC:
www.apple.com/itunes/download/ ;
2. search for "Fluxus" in the Music Store page (podcast directory); 3. sign in "Fluxus" podcast.

The xml address for the Fluxus Podcast to feed in any podcast receiver (like Juice, Doppler, iTunes or whatever) is http://homepage.mac.com/cianciusi/podcast.xml

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04 March 06 - 21:46Bukoff is Back!

It is nice to see that one of my favourite Fluxus personalities is back in full swing again with a wonderful updated website at www.fluxus.org

Allen Bukoff has been active in Fluxus for many years. Like many of us who are serious about our Fluxus Allen has been furiously making sure that the world knows that Fluxus is alive and well and definately did not die with George Maciunas, despite the importance to the early days of Fluxus of Mr. Maciunas.

Allan quotes DIck Higgins, one of the first generation of Fluxus, who said, "Fluxus means change among other things. The Fluxus of 1992 is not the Fluxus of 1962 and if it pretends to be - then it is fake. The real Fluxus moves out from its old center into many directions, and the paths are not easy to recognize without lining up new pieces, middle pieces and old pieces together." Dick Higgins was right when he said this in 1992, and Allen Bukoff is right when he restates it in 2006.

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04 March 06 - 21:18Fluxus: To George With Love

This, from the online anouncement for a Fluxus exhibition at ArtCal:

[George] Maciunas coined the term "Fluxus" in 1961 from a Latin etymological root meaning "flow," in order to describe a movement with origins in Futurist performance, Dada, silent film, comedy, vaudeville, and gaming. Fluxus set out to question time-worn notions of authorship and value, and challenge ostensibly firm distinctions between artistic genres. Influenced by the work of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp, the Fluxus group shifted the emphasis from what an artist makes to the artist's personality, actions and opinions.

See: FLUXUS: TO GEORGE WITH LOVE
FROM THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF JONAS MEKAS

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