The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus (1993)

The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus (1993) video here

The film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have completely disrupted our ideas of what art can be. In large part filmed in Venice in 1990, when many of the original Fluxus artists met to hold a large exhibition almost 30 years after the first highly untraditional Fluxus' performances. Features Eric Andersen, Philip Corner, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Vautier, and many others. 12:28​ Dick Higgins 13:19​ Eric Anderson 13:26​ Emmett Williams 13:46​ Ben Patterson 14:03​ Philip Corner 14:27​ Ben Vautier 14:42​ Henry Flynt 14:54​ Ken Friedman 15:03​ Henry Flynt 15:14​ Jackson Mac Low 15:28​ yoko ono 15:59​ Yasunao Tone, smooth event, 1983 16:40​ Robert Watts, "F/H Trace" or "solo for wind instrument", 1993 17:05​ Ben Vautier talks about George Maciunas 18:31​ George Maciunas 19:01​ Dick Higgins on Maciunas 19:12​ other artists on Maciunas 21:45​ George Maciunas interviewed by Larry Miller, 1978 26:45​ "In memoriam George Maciunas" by Nam June Paik and Joseph Beuys, Düsseldorf, 1978 27:21​ Nam June Paik 28:03​ John Cage performing 4'33" NY, 1970 30:16​ Yoko Ono 33:39​ Arthur Kopcke in "music while you work" from "En cigarets tid" by Anders Hauch 34:03​ Ben Vautier on Fluxus 39:50​ "566 to Henry Flynt" by La Monte Young 40:04​ La Mont Young 40:40​ Henry Flynt 48:09​ Lick by Ben Patterson, wiesbaden, 1982 1:06:26​ Philip Corner, piano activities, 1962

Mel Chin Art 21

 

Mel Chin video here and here

Mel Chin’s art is both analytical and poetic and evades easy classification. Alchemy, botany, and ecology are but a few of the disciplines that intersect in his work. He insinuates art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility. Unconventional and politically engaged, his projects also challenge the idea of the artist as the exclusive creative force behind an artwork.

Lucy Lippard and John Chandler, Robert Smithson and Allan Kaprow

 

SPIRAL JETTY, 1970, by Robert Smithson (36 minutes) color, video here

What Is a Museum? Dialogue Between Robert Smithson and Allan Kaprow here

The Dematerialization of Art, Lucy Lippard and John Chandler, here

Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967

Experimental film referenced in The Dematerialization of Art here

GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE

 

Smart Museum of Art video here and here

Guillermo Gómez-Peña: An Open Letter to the Future of the Museum

Guillermo Gómez-Peña has an obsession with rewriting and restaging so-called “Western Art History” while highlighting colonial legacies of systematic exclusion, demonization and fetishization of Brown, Black, and indigenous bodies.

This live radio keynote from Gómez-Peña challenges contemporary art museum practices and calls for an open discussion regarding radical restructuring from within. The keynote is part of Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Audio Art & Strange Poetry from the US/Mexico Border, a year-long series of experimental audio performances presented by Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Public Media Institute, and the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art as part of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40. Later in the series, Gómez-Peña will be joined by invited luminaries in the field who will offer their own responses to the Museum of the Future.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña (Mexico City, 1968) is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and artistic director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978, and since 1995, his three homes have been San Francisco, Mexico City and the “road.” His performance work and 21 books have contributed to the debates on cultural, generational, and gender diversity, border culture and North-South relations. Gómez-Peña art work has been presented at more than one thousand venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, USA Artists Fellow, and a Bessie, Guggenheim, and American Book Award winner, he is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe. Gómez-Peña is currently a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency, and a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. For Gómez-Peña’s archive of performance visit guillermogomezpena.com. 

Dorothea von Hantelmann

Bard Faculty Spotlight Video here

Verbier Art Summit Dialogue here

Dorothea von Hantelmann is Professor of Art and Society at Bard College Berlin and Director of the Arts Program.

A theorist, scholar, writer and curator whose work is at the forefront of new developments in contemporary art and exhibition culture, Dorothea von Hantelmann joined Bard College Berlin following her service as documenta Professor at the University of Kassel, and research positions at the Free University, Berlin and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.