THE DEMATERIALIZED AUCTION: A Fluxus Fundraiser for George New York January 10 2014
The Dematerialized Auction: A Fluxus Fundraiser for George!
Curated by Jordan Carter & Anitra Lourie In support of Jeffrey Perkins’ documentary film on George Maciunas LOTS 1-20 Live Auction LOTS 21-31 Catalog Exclusive EHF 537 Broadway New York, N.Y.
Participating Artist Live Auction: Eric Andersen, Jean-Baptiste Farkas, Ken Friedman, Thomas Geiger, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jon Hendricks, Florence Jung, Alison Knowles, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Larry Miller, Ben Patterson, Julia Pelta-Feldman, Yoko Ono, Jeffrey Perkins, Casey Reas, Xaviera Simmons, Tim Simonds, Joao Simoes, Addie Wagenknecht, Mackenzie Younger
Participating Artist Catalog Exclusive: Frédéric Acquaviva, Alain Arrias-Misson, Bengt af Klintberg, Michel Collet, Sarah Collet, Charels Dreyfus, Steve Giasson, Jake Laffoley, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Tamas St.Turba, Valentine Verhaeghe
With Contributions from: The Emily Harvey Foundation, Bitforms Gallery, Kirkwood NY, Robbie Gordy, Michael Kozek-Perkins
1 Eric Anderson 1963 Â
“To keep it alive, you just have to keep it in mind!”
Translate each piece of a collection into spoken directions so that anyone can rebuild the pieces without ever having seen them. The original collection will be destroyed after several successful reconstructions.
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Jean-Baptiste Farkas November, 2014
The Distance from this Sentence to Your Eye is My Sculpture
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Ken Friedman 1971 Â
"Finding the Center” A. B. C. D. E.
Find the center of the room. At this location stand on your head. Get someone else to find the center of a wall. Have that person stand on his head at that location. While standing on their heads the two people carry on a conversation, sing a song, or bark like a dog.
Alternative: (outdoors) A. B. C. D. E.
Find the center of a field. At this location stand on your head. Get someone else to find the center of a road (or path). Have that person stand on his head there. Then, while standing on their heads, the two people call to each other.
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Geoffrey Hendricks 2014
5
Jon Hendricks November 15, 2014 Â
"This piece allows you rightfully to pretend that you were a good friend of George Maciunas."
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Florence Jung 2014 Â
Make a Salad
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Alison Knowles
From Wiesbaden performance of 1960 Â
Emergency Fluxus Piece Swallow your head and recite Jacques Derrida.
8 (Larry Miller - For George. ©2014 and as per agreement for “The Dematerialized Auction”)
A score (in the hope of being without enduring) Go lightly; practice allurement.
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Emma McCormick-Goodhart 2014
10 Yoko Ono
1962
lay on back close eyes sleep dream of future event dream of past event skewer brain and suspend between those two points
11 Benjamin Patterson, score from Methods and Processes, 1962
Don’t make a salad
12 Julia Pelta-Feldman 2014
13 Jeffrey Perkins 1966 Â
Finite Distributed Network"
14 Casey Reas
2014 Â
PUT YOURSELF ON THE SPOT FOR 4 MINUTES FACING AN AUDIENCE TIME YOURSELF WITH A 4 MINUTE SIGNAL WITHOUT NOTICE OF HOW MUCH TIME HAS PASSED TALK ABOUT SOMETHING YOU LOVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT SOMETHING YOU HATE SOMETHING YOU LOVE TO HATE SOMETHING YOU HATE TO LOVE IF YOUR TIME IS UP AND YOU HAVEN’T FINISHED STOP TALKING AND START OVER AGAIN WITH SOMETHING ELSE YOU LOVE FOR 2 MINUTES IF YOU FINISH BEFORE YOUR 4 MINUTE SIGNAL TURN AWAY FROM THE AUDIENCE CONTINUE TALKING AGAIN ABOUT SOMETHING YOU LOVE UNTIL NOTIFIED OF YOUR 4 MINUTE SIGNAL.
15 Sur Rodney (Sur), December 2014
Un$tled (Apple) Gather a large bowl of apples (or a fruit of your choosing) Sit in front of this bowl of apples in bright light or total darkness Contemplate topics, ideas and or people that break your heart Eat the apples, one by one, un$l your heart is fully broken or un$l tears fall from your eyes onto the apples in the bowl. Whichever comes first.
16 Xaviera Simmons 2014
17 Tim Simonds
11, 2014
A Sudden Movement Piece"
18 Joao Simoes 2014
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19 Mackenzie Younger 2014
On the most perfect day of the spring, I will walk to the top of a mountain peak in the Alps. Once I am at the top. I will sit for 10 minutes and think of you. At the end of the 10 minutes, I will take a photo, a piece of the mountain top, and mail it to you.
20 Addie Wagenknecht
November 2014
SCORES & INSTRUCTIONS EXCLUSIVELY IN THE CATALOG
Musique Athlétique (Athletic Music), 2014 take two break (core) dancers (for ex. Yoann Sarat and Claire Sinturel) attach small pre-‐ampli?ied speakers to the dancers’ bodies (for ex. USB-‐keys) play any of my music (www.frederic-‐acquaviva.net) let them perform with audience around (or not) and then send me a photo at acquavivafrederic@gmail.com (thanks)
21 Frédéric Acquaviva 2014
locate a place somewhere between "lucubration� (which may not be entirely English but which certainly is French) and lubrication (which is good American): find an activity or a state of being situated somewhere between the difficult & laborious & dubious work of the cerebral Gallic and the good old American lube job, so physical, so practical—should yield the most satisfying results for male and female alike!
22 Alain Arrias-Misson 2014
Say "yes" to each question that you will be asked tomorrow, throughout the day
23 Michel Collet 1995
TAKE THIS GREEK WORD
GIVE IT TO SOMEBODY (PLEASURE) Sarah Collet
24 Sarah Collet 2014
flux (one $me) flux (two $mes) adjudgé
25 Charels Dreyfus
An Invisible Performance for Jeffrey Perkins:!
Striving to realize a Fluxconcert in a dream!
26 Steve Giasson 2014
When you walk into a forest, don’t forget to knock.
27 Bengt af Klintberg 2014
Toilet time-compression A service to be activated (duration variable). At any given museum, foundation or enterprise there will be a maximum time limit for toilet breaks: 2 minutes to be precise. If one breaches this rule a member of staff will abruptly invite the guest to move on - "times up!".
28 Jake Laffoley of IHEAP
29 Ghislain Mollet-ViĂŠville
AUCTION COINCIDENCE AS EVIDENCE FOR GOD (bid: $xx)
30 Tamas St.Turba
2014
TAKE A FLOWER SNEEEK OUT OF YOUR HOUSE TO FIND YOUR NEIGHBOR HAVE A REAL CONVERSATION WITH HER/HIM ABOUT HILDEGARDE VON BINGEN
31 Valentine Verhaeghe
The Dematerialized Auction: A Fluxus Fundraiser for George