Scroll Over Beethoven
Here is a real world drawing I did after yesterday’s digital collage. It’s all about editing Macuinas and if you don’t believe he needs editing, read on…
….these texts were illegable in the found document…. way too small. Only by scannning them, do the emerge for us to read.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:52 am
A couple of these charts (in their original full-size) were on show at Maya Stendahl’s Maciunas show last spring.
Also worth noting: the image behind John & Yoko in the image here is another Maciunas poster.
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Art editing - in both digital format and real world drawing are compelling. Looking daily at this flux book work, I see you in an editing mode, it’s a sort of a shorthand flux - in the flux, and feels modern. With movement and play, and relevance to our time, I appriciate your work in my day.
September 24th, 2006 at 1:11 am
There was something about fluxus, like everything in the sixties I guess, that worked brilliantly and still failed… There is just so much echo of it in my own body of work and in a lot of work I see and hear That it’s been kind of fun to examine it more closely as a movement and then alter it and over write it in some effort to keep going….
That’s why these will always be the flukes drawings (also because of the fluke of having a non working x key when working with fluxus pages)
I’m not claiming to make fluxwork… just to think about it as I do whatever it is that I do.
September 24th, 2006 at 3:35 am
In my work, I’ve changed flux to flower, taking apart the word flower and making is flow er. Because when I work, I like to think I’m in flow, like a tai chi for art, I move and flow energy around from inside to out. I like flukes because you didn’t have an x! Hey, x is sometimes a kiss! I got to see a 60s artist Fluxist named Ben Patterson at LACE last summer, we did our initials in Morse Code and he recorded the whole room… it was a sound poem, when I got home, I recorded my own version of the project, instead of saying my initials, I did Dada in morse code, which is - Da Dit Dit Dit Da Da Dit Dit Dit Da. I’m sad the groovy 60s failed.