Symposium Fluxus, The Time at Work(s)
In Paris, the 21&22

Organised By
The Pierre Francastel Research Center of the University of Paris X (CPF)
4T FluXuS The National Institute of History of Art (INHA)
The National High School of Telecommunication (ENST)

Organisé sous l’égide du Centre de Recherche Pierre Francastel, le colloque, réunira les meilleurs spécialistes de Fluxus, venus d'Allemagne, de Norvège ou des USA, ainsi que certains artistes du groupe, pour une séance de travail de deux jours, centrée sur les questions de temporalité dans les œuvres Fluxus. Ce sera là l’occasion de produire un véritable travail scientifique, qui remettra en perspective la longévité exceptionnelle de ce mouvement et l’éphémérité de la plupart de ses œuvres. Ce sera enfin l’occasion de confronter le discours des spécialistes et le témoignage des acteurs de l’histoire.

Address:
46 rue Barrault
75013 Paris
Tel: 01 45 81 77 77

Métro station: Corvisart (line 6)
get a map : Maporama
Dick HIGGINS, Danger Music #2, 1962 - Ph. Hartmut Rekort (c) Archiv Sohm, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.

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9h00
Ouverture du colloque par Claude FRONTISI,
Directeur du Centre Pierre Francastel

Working Time, Works in Time
- Thursday morning – 21st of november
As a mainly performative art, denying the forms of the permanence linked to the “fetishisation”, Fluxus has explored, since its very first moments, the complete realm of the ephemeral, even through the indeterminacy. Thus, from the shortest to the longest, beyond the bearable even, the time seems to be the very material of Fluxus, wich one was already warned, by the numerous process of the questions of temporality within Fluxus works: duration, references, inscription, recording, writing, interpretation etc.

Moderator
Bertrand CLAVEZ, Président de 4T FluXuS, France

Guests
Jean-Yves BOSSEUR, Research Director at CNRS, Paris IV University, France “Fluxus et la notion de temporalité musicale"
Pr. Hannah B. HIGGINS, University of Illinois, USA "Fluxus and the art of Memory (historic, experimential, personal)"
Jean-Claude MOINEAU, Lecturer, Paris VIII University, France «Fluxus : une critique artiste de l’art"
Pr. Owen SMITH, Maine University Art Dept., USA “Fluxus: Thinking About Time, Marking Time and Playing With Time”

Works of those Times
- Thursday afternoon. 21st of november
How Fluxus could have work with time, without getting involved in its time, i.e. its political moment also? The flames between Henry Flynt, George Maciunas, and the others artists show this engagement, as does the Great Bear Pamphlets of Dick Higgins, and as does the implication of many artists in the modification of the world they were living in. This sequence will examine this particular aspect of the art and life fuse, which means also the comprehension of political, economical, ideological situation by the artists, in order to transform it, by the ordinary means of the activism, but also by individual acts that have contribute to shape our contemporary world.

Moderator
Jean-Marc POINSOT, Professeur des Universités, directeur à l'INHA, France

Guests
Nicolas AURAY, Lecturer in Sociology, Ecole nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France. "Hackers et Event"
Esther FERRER, Artist of the ZAJ Group, Spain "Performer sous Franco, de l'érosion de l'éternel par l'éphémère"
Vytautas LANDSBERGIS, Fluxus Artist, Musicologist, Ex-president of Lithuania "Contacts and Perception of Fluxus in Lithuania Beyond the Iron Curtain and Under Soviet Captive Mind System"
Ben PATTERSON, Fluxus artist, Germany “Time and Consequences: or, the Miracle of Fluxus. How it Saved the World!”
Kristine STILES, Assistant Lecturer in Art, Duke University, USA "Around The Edges: Fluxus and Anomaly, Sky, Sex, and Psi"

Collecting, selling, exhibiting Fluxus : market time as time goes by
- Friday morning. 22nd of november
There is a kind of paradox when one tries to think Fluxus through its material objects, but there are Fluxus artists, art sellers, collectors, curators, exhibitions, and works into collections (private or public) etc. This statement, a kind of principle of reality, has to be thought by scholars, in order to reevaluate Fluxus regarding its realizations too, and not only regarding its intentions. What can one buy in Fluxus? How can one make a choice in establishing a collection? Under what historical positioning? How can an event be sellable? What to place in the museum? All those questions will be asked to the actors of such a specific art market.

Moderator
Bernard GOY, Director of the FRAC Ile de France

Guests
Bernard BLISTENE, Chief-curator of the National Patrimony, Inspector for the Creation, France. "Exposer Fluxus, autour de l'expérience d'une exposition à Marseille en 1995"
Francesco CONZ, Fluxus Collector, Italy "Un collectionneur dévot (fétichiste par excellence) a-t-il le droit de son vivant de vendre sa collection?"
Michel GIROUD, Editor, Professor at Beaux-Arts de Besançon, France "Editer Fluxus en France, de Canal aux Presses du Réel"
Caterina GUALCO, Fluxus gallerist, Italy "Le marché de l'anti-marché, ou le miracle permanent du marchand de Fluxus"

The works in the walk of time
- Friday afternoon. 22nd of november
Forty years later, what remains of Fluxus? So many times buried, Fluxus is born again and again as the phoenix from its ashes, becoming though the longest movement in the history of the Avant-garde by remaining always fluid to avoid its historicisation, and thus its disappearing as living art movement. This sequence will examine the questions risen by the writing of Fluxus history, as much as the significance of such a celebration, considering the fact that they have been established by the artists themselves as soon as 1972.

Moderator
Denys RIOUT, Professeur des Universités, Université de Paris 1, France

Guests
Bertrand CLAVEZ, Doctorant en Histoire de l’ertrand CLAVEZ, President of 4T FluXuS Association, France "Ecrire l'histoire de Fluxus : un enjeu artistique"
Charles DREYFUS, Art Historian, Performance Artist, France "Moussaillon intempestif de l'art, l'agitateur Fluxus sous toutes ses non-formes, dont celle de la réalité du non-art à travers sa courte histoire"
Nicolas FEUILLIE, Ph.D. in Art History, France "Fluxus : dilution de l’œuvre dans la vie, dilution de l'art dans l'histoire ?"
Ken FRIEDMAN, Fluxus Artist, professor of Leadership and Strategic Design, Norwegian School of Design, Norway "Theorizing Fluxus"
Annie GENTES, Lecturer in Information and Communication Science at ENST et Carol-Ann BRAUN, Multimedia Artist, France "Net Art, une exploration"

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Booking :
4T FluXuS
44 rue François Martin
93140 Bondy France
Tel/Fax : 01 48 49 18 79 / 01 48 49 31 91
contact@4t.fluxus.net

 

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