{"id":783,"date":"2008-10-17T23:15:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T22:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=783"},"modified":"2018-05-21T10:54:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T09:54:20","slug":"jonas-mekas-presents-flux-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2008\/10\/17\/jonas-mekas-presents-flux-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Mekas presents Flux Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><b>JONAS MEKAS PRESENTS FLUX PARTY<br \/>\nFriday 17 October 2008, 11:15pm til late<br \/>\nLondon Rio Cinema<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Legendary artist-filmmaker Jonas Mekas presents Flux Party featuring the complete Fluxus film anthology as assembled by George Maciunas, rare Fluxus audio and a few surprises. This special late night screening on the big screen of East London\u2019s splendid art deco picture palace includes films by George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Paul Sharits and Wolf Vostell. Jonas Mekas will be in attendance to discuss Fluxus and his friend and fellow Lithuanian \u00e9migr\u00e9, the late George Maciunas, and Ben Vautier will show rare Fluxus performance footage.<\/p>\n<p><b>FLUXFILM ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\nGeorge Maciunas &amp; others, 1962-70, 120 min<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Curated by Mark Webber and Anne-Sophie Dinant. Organised by the South London Gallery.<\/p>\n<a onclick=\"wpex_toggle(907819522, 'PROGRAMME NOTES', 'Read less'); return false;\" class=\"wpex-link\" id=\"wpexlink907819522\" href=\"#\">PROGRAMME NOTES<\/a><div class=\"wpex_div\" id=\"wpex907819522\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><b>JONAS MEKAS PRESENTS FLUX PARTY<br \/>\n<\/b>Friday 17 October 2008, 11:15pm til late<br \/>\nLondon Rio Cinema<\/p>\n<p>Legendary artist-filmmaker Jonas Mekas presents Flux Party featuring the Fluxfilm Anthology as assembled by George Maciunas, rare Fluxus audio and surprise performances. Drinks and Fluxcakes will be served.<\/p>\n<p>Fluxus was a provocative and humorous art movement that produced objects, performances and events which challenged the boundaries between traditional art and everyday life. Early Fluxus pieces included feeding a bale of hay to a piano, a painting to be stepped on, or the sound of dripping water.<\/p>\n<p>The Fluxfilm Anthology, showing here in its most comprehensive version to date, includes <i>Zen for Film<\/i> (clear film for collecting dust), <i>Four<\/i> (Yoko Ono\u2019s infamous film of bare bottoms), <i>Smoking<\/i> (cigarette smoke shot with a high speed camera) and other films of comical street performances, counting games, x-ray movies and interference patterns. The Fluxfilms embodied the minimal aesthetic, playfulness and poetic dimensions of Fluxus and transposed its performative aspects into the cinema.<\/p>\n<p>This informal late night event is a unique chance to see films by artists such as George Brecht, John Cale, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Paul Sharits, Chieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell and Robert Watts presented on the big screen of the Rio Cinema, East London&#8217;s splendid art deco picture palace. Jonas Mekas will be present to discuss Fluxus and his friend and fellow Lithuanian \u00e9migr\u00e9, the late George Maciunas.<\/p>\n<p>Seminal figures of the New York downtown art scene since the beginning of the 1960s, Jonas Mekas (b.1922) and George Maciunas (1931-78) were connected through many different projects. Mekas was a central force of the avant-garde film scene and presented early screenings at Maciunas\u2019 AG Gallery. Maciunas coordinated Fluxus as an international community of artists, whose contributors also included Joseph Beuys, Henry Flynt, Takehisa Kosugi, John Lennon and La Monte Young.<\/p>\n<p>Maciunas was also fundamental in the emergence of SoHo as an artistic centre in New York. As early as 1966, he began to purchase dilapidated industrial buildings and convert them into cooperative real estate, starting the trend for loft style living. Jonas Mekas was one of the first to participate in the Fluxhouse venture, acquiring space for both his own home and the Filmmakers\u2019 Cinematheque \/ Anthology Film Archives.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Mekas returned to Lithuania to inaugurate the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius, presenting his own Fluxus collection to the public for the first time in a joint Mekas \/ Maciunas exhibition. The centre is planning an extensive film archive and a Fluxus Research Institute. In 2009, Mekas will act as the Ambassador of Vilnius during its year as the European Capital of Culture.<\/p>\n<p>Curated by Anne-Sophie Dinant and Mark Webber. Presented by the South London Gallery. With thanks to Benn Northover, Serpentine Gallery, Re:Voir and the Rio Cinema.<\/p>\n<p><b>FLUXFILM ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\n<\/b><em>The most complete known version of the Fluxfilm Anthology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 1: &nbsp;Zen For Film, Nam June Paik, 1964, 20 min<br \/>\n\u201cClear film, accumulating in time dust and scratches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 2: Invocation of Canyons and Boulders, Dick Higgins, 1966, 3 min&nbsp;version.<br \/>\n\u201cMouth, eating motions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 3: End After 9, George Maciunas, 1966, 1 min<br \/>\n\u201cWord &amp; number gag, no camera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 4: Disappearing Music For Face, Chieko Shiomi, 1966, 10 min<br \/>\n\u201cTransition from smile to no-smile, shot at&nbsp;2000fr\/sec. Camera shows only a CU of the mouth area.\u201d Camera: Peter Moore<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 5: Blink, John Cavanaugh, 1966, 5 min<br \/>\n\u201cFlicker: White and black alternating frames.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 6: 9 Minutes, James Riddle, 1966, 9 min<br \/>\n\u201cTime counter, in seconds and minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 7: 10 Feet, George Maciunas, 1966, 13 sec<br \/>\n\u201cPrestype on clear film measuring tape, 10ft. length. No camera. At the end of every foot of film numbers appear, 1, 2, etc to 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 8: 1000 Frames, George Maciunas, c.1966, 42 sec<br \/>\n\u201cNumerals on clear film from 1 to 1000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 9: Eyeblink, Yoko Ono, 1966, 1 min<br \/>\n\u201cHigh speed camera, 200fr.\/sec. view of one eyeblink.\u201d Camera: Peter&nbsp;Moore<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 10: ENTRANCE to EXIT, George Brecht, 1966, 7 min<br \/>\n\u201cA smooth linear transition from white, through greys&nbsp;to black, produced in developing tank. The \u2018door sign\u2019 ENTRANCE fades in,&nbsp;white letters on the black background, stays for a few seconds, then slowly fades&nbsp;into white. Five-minute fade into black and the title EXIT, which stays for a few&nbsp;seconds then fades into white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 11: Trace No. 22, Robert Watts, 1965, 1 min<br \/>\n\u201cX-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 12: Trace No. 23, Robert Watts, 1966, 3 min<br \/>\n\u201cBegins with a shot of a demarcation line on an asphalt tennis court. A&nbsp;hand points to the distant landscape, then numbers 408 and 409 appear on a&nbsp;female torso. The female then passes different decorated plastic hot dogs, banana&nbsp;shapes suggestively between her legs, through her arm pits, etc. Ends with an egg&nbsp;floating on water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 13: Trace No. 24, Robert Watts, 1966, 3 min<br \/>\n\u201cBegins with a picture of Marilyn Monroe, then shifts to a female&nbsp;body, shot from belly button down, which is wriggling under piles of cellophane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 14: One, Yoko Ono, 1966, 5 min<br \/>\n\u201cHigh speed camera 2000fr\/sec. match striking fire.\u201d Camera: Peter&nbsp;Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 15: Eye Blink, Yoko Ono, 1966, 1 min<br \/>\n\u201cSame&nbsp;as No. 9, probably.\u201d Camera: Peter Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 16: Four, Yoko Ono, 1967, 6 min<br \/>\n\u201cSequences of buttock movement as&nbsp;various performers walked. Filmed at constant distance.\u201d With Susanna Campbell,&nbsp;Philip Corner, Anthony Cox, Bici Hendricks, Geoffrey Hendricks, Kyoko Ono,&nbsp;Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, Jeff Perkins, Susan Polang, Jerry Sablo, Carolee&nbsp;Schneemann, James Tenney, Pieter Vanderbiek, Verne Williams. Camera: Jeff&nbsp;Perkins, Anthony Cox.<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 17: 5 O\u2019Clock in the Morning, Pieter Vanderbiek, 1966, 5 min<br \/>\n\u201cA handful of rocks and chestnuts falling,&nbsp;filmed with high speed camera.\u201d Camera: Peter Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 18: Smoking, Joe Jones, 1966, 6 min<br \/>\n\u201cSequence of cigarette smoke shot with high speed&nbsp;camera, 2000fr\/sec.\u201d Camera: Peter Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No.19: Opus 74, version 2, Eric Andersen, 1966, 1 min<br \/>\n\u201cSingle frame exposures, color. Different image each frame,&nbsp;various items in the room, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 20: ARTYPE, George Maciunas, 1966, 4 min<br \/>\n\u201cArtype patterns, intended for loops.\u201d Benday dot patterns. Dots,&nbsp;lines.&nbsp; \u201cScreens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film.&nbsp;No camera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 22: Shout, Jeff Perkins, 1966, 3 min<br \/>\n\u201cClose-ups of two faces, shouting at each other.\u201d Starring&nbsp;Jeff Perkins and Anthony Cox. Camera: Yoko Ono.<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 23: Sun in Your Head, Wolf Vostell, 1963, 6 min<br \/>\n\u201cSingle Frame sequences of TV&nbsp;or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes,&nbsp;women men interspersed with pictures of texts like: \u2018silence, genius at work\u2019 and \u2018ich liebe dich.\u2019 The end credit is \u2018Television d\u00e9collage, Cologne, 1963\u2019.\u201d Camera: Edo Jansen.<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 24: Readymade, Albert Fine, 1966, 45 sec<br \/>\n\u201cColor test strip from developing tank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 25: The Evil Faerie, George Landow, 1966, 30 sec<br \/>\n\u201cA man on the roof making flying gestures with his hands.&nbsp;Film is preceded by a picture of an object of \u2018L\u2019 shape shakingly moving. At the&nbsp;end of the film, image of \u2018Kodak girl\u2019 briefly appears.\u201d With Steven M. Zinc.<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 26:&nbsp;Sears Catalogue 1-3,&nbsp;Paul Sharits, 1965, 28 sec<br \/>\n\u201cPages from&nbsp;Sears catalogue, single frame exp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 27:&nbsp;Dots 1 &amp; 2, Paul Sharits, 1965, 46 sec<br \/>\n\u201cSingle frame exposures of dot-screens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 28:&nbsp;Wrist Trick, Paul Sharits, 1965, 28 sec<br \/>\n\u201cVarious gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame&nbsp;exposures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No Number:&nbsp;Unrolling Event, Paul Sharits, 1965, 5 sec<br \/>\n\u201cToilet paper event, single frame exposures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 29: Word Movie, Paul Sharits, 1965, 4 min<br \/>\n\u201cSingle frame exposures of words, color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 30: Dance, Albert Fine, 1966, 2 min<br \/>\n\u201cFace Smiling. Hammering&nbsp;a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls,&nbsp;twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 31: Police Car, John Cale, 1966, 1 min<br \/>\n\u201cUnderexposed sequence of blinking lights on a police car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 36: Fluxfilm No. 36, Peter Kennedy &amp; Mike Parr, 1970, 3 min<br \/>\n\u201cTips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all&nbsp;around the frame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 37: Fluxfilm No. 37, Peter Kennedy &amp; Mike Parr, 1970, 2 min<br \/>\n\u201cFace going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic&nbsp;between camera and subject.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 38: Jen e vois rien Je n\u2019entends rien Jen e dis rien, Ben&nbsp;Vautier, 1965, 5 min<br \/>\n\u201cSeeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 39: La traverse du port de Nice \u00e1 la nage, Ben Vautier, 1963, 2 min<br \/>\n\u201cSwimming&nbsp;across Nice harbour fully clothed. Ben swims across a bay in Nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 40: Fair un effort, Ben Vautier, 1969, 2 min<br \/>\n\u201cLifting and holding up a chest of drawers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluxfilm No. 41: Regardez moi cela suffit, Ben Vautier. 1962, 3 min<br \/>\n\u201cSitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that\u2019s&nbsp;all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><br \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alina Rudnitskaya\u2019s humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking often brings out the humour in her chosen subjects. 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