Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
FLUXSHOE 1972, ICA Archive
THE 'FLUXSHOE'
The `Fluxshoe' was originally conceived by Mike Weaver in a letter written to Ken Friedman on 9 June 1970. Prior to his post at Exeter, Weaver had been editor of `Form' magazine and had come into contact with Fluxus as early as 1963, when he first corresponded with George Maciunas about work for the International Concrete Poetry exhibition in Cambridge. Both Friedman and Maciunas were enthusiastic about a Fluxus exhibition in the United Kingdom and generously offered to assist in arranging to obtain materials and made many suggestions for the show. Soon, a steady stream of material was shipped to Weaver, and from October 1970, to David Mayor, who as stated before was given the task of organising the exhibition. George Brecht's definition of Fluxus as involving `individuals with something unnameable in common' appears to have appealed most to Mayor. And so, `Fluxshoe' became a platform for performances and events by artists with similar attitudes whether they were allied to `official' Fluxus or not. Initially, the exhibition ws to be quite a modest affair, opening first, in May 1971, at Exeter University before travelling to the Royal College of Art in London. The timing, however, was hopelessly optimistic. Mayor soon realised that at least a year's preparation would be needed and so set about, in his characteristically methodical way, to send out questionnaires to potential participants. By the time Mayor had visited Hanns Sohm, Wolf Vostell, Tomas Schmit, Arthgur Koepcke and others in Europe over the summer, the title of the show had evolved into three possibilities: `Fluxpower', Fluxus in-formation' and `Megalofluxshoe'. Maciunas in a letter of December written oin the back of his most recent mail list - which incidentally featured Mayor as one of only eight fluxcore members - favoured the latter title. Letters had already been sent out to potential venues and the exhibition was advertised in the Arts Council's `Touring Exhibitions on Offer' Bulletin as a three part flexible `shoe (not a show)' consisting of: 1). slides and tapes of events, happenings, performances, and objects by members of Fluxus; 2). live performances by Flux members; 3). a catalogue presenting a background of basic information and recording events as they occur.' By the time 'Fluxshoe' opened on 23 October 1972 in Falmouth, over 100 Fluxus and non-Fluxus artists had agreed to appear either in person or in the exhibition or catalogue. The tour had extended somewhat, since 1971, to encompass seven venues: Falmouth (23-31 Oct 1972), Exeter (13 Nov - 2 Dec 1972), Croydon (15-26 Jan 1973), Oxford (10-25 Feb 1973), Nottingham (6-19 Jun 1973), Blackburn (2-21 Jul 1973), and Hastings (17-24 Aug 1973). Originally, there were to be additional sojourns in Edinburgh (at Richard Demarco's Gallery); Sunderland and Cardiff. In total, there were nine old-guard Fluxus artists who attended at least one venue of 'Fluxshoe', including Eric Andersen, Ay-O, Davi det Hompson, Alice Hutchins, Per Kirkeby, Takehisa Kosugi, Carla Liss, Knud Pedersen, and Takako Saito. Overseas and British artists who featured included: Ian Breakwell, Stuart Brisley, Paul Brown, Helen Chadwick, Marc Chaimowicz, Henri Chopin, Robin Crozier, Allen Fisher, John Gosling, Mary Harding, Anthony McCall, Opal L. Nations, Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Coum Transmissions, John Plant, Carolee Schneemann, Endre Tot, Paul Woodrow & the W.O.R.K.S. group, and Herv‚ Wrz. In addition to Fluxconcerts and Fluxfilm screenings, there were also events created specifically for each venue of the tour.
The `Fluxshoe' was originally conceived by Mike Weaver in a letter written to Ken Friedman on 9 June 1970. Prior to his post at Exeter, Weaver had been editor of `Form' magazine and had come into contact with Fluxus as early as 1963, when he first corresponded with George Maciunas about work for the International Concrete Poetry exhibition in Cambridge. Both Friedman and Maciunas were enthusiastic about a Fluxus exhibition in the United Kingdom and generously offered to assist in arranging to obtain materials and made many suggestions for the show. Soon, a steady stream of material was shipped to Weaver, and from October 1970, to David Mayor, who as stated before was given the task of organising the exhibition. George Brecht's definition of Fluxus as involving `individuals with something unnameable in common' appears to have appealed most to Mayor. And so, `Fluxshoe' became a platform for performances and events by artists with similar attitudes whether they were allied to `official' Fluxus or not. Initially, the exhibition ws to be quite a modest affair, opening first, in May 1971, at Exeter University before travelling to the Royal College of Art in London. The timing, however, was hopelessly optimistic. Mayor soon realised that at least a year's preparation would be needed and so set about, in his characteristically methodical way, to send out questionnaires to potential participants. By the time Mayor had visited Hanns Sohm, Wolf Vostell, Tomas Schmit, Arthgur Koepcke and others in Europe over the summer, the title of the show had evolved into three possibilities: `Fluxpower', Fluxus in-formation' and `Megalofluxshoe'. Maciunas in a letter of December written oin the back of his most recent mail list - which incidentally featured Mayor as one of only eight fluxcore members - favoured the latter title. Letters had already been sent out to potential venues and the exhibition was advertised in the Arts Council's `Touring Exhibitions on Offer' Bulletin as a three part flexible `shoe (not a show)' consisting of: 1). slides and tapes of events, happenings, performances, and objects by members of Fluxus; 2). live performances by Flux members; 3). a catalogue presenting a background of basic information and recording events as they occur.' By the time 'Fluxshoe' opened on 23 October 1972 in Falmouth, over 100 Fluxus and non-Fluxus artists had agreed to appear either in person or in the exhibition or catalogue. The tour had extended somewhat, since 1971, to encompass seven venues: Falmouth (23-31 Oct 1972), Exeter (13 Nov - 2 Dec 1972), Croydon (15-26 Jan 1973), Oxford (10-25 Feb 1973), Nottingham (6-19 Jun 1973), Blackburn (2-21 Jul 1973), and Hastings (17-24 Aug 1973). Originally, there were to be additional sojourns in Edinburgh (at Richard Demarco's Gallery); Sunderland and Cardiff. In total, there were nine old-guard Fluxus artists who attended at least one venue of 'Fluxshoe', including Eric Andersen, Ay-O, Davi det Hompson, Alice Hutchins, Per Kirkeby, Takehisa Kosugi, Carla Liss, Knud Pedersen, and Takako Saito. Overseas and British artists who featured included: Ian Breakwell, Stuart Brisley, Paul Brown, Helen Chadwick, Marc Chaimowicz, Henri Chopin, Robin Crozier, Allen Fisher, John Gosling, Mary Harding, Anthony McCall, Opal L. Nations, Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Coum Transmissions, John Plant, Carolee Schneemann, Endre Tot, Paul Woodrow & the W.O.R.K.S. group, and Herv‚ Wrz. In addition to Fluxconcerts and Fluxfilm screenings, there were also events created specifically for each venue of the tour.
ICA Archive (Tate)
1. Reise, Barbara: Groups and Subjects: Fluxus1969-c 1973. 1 folder, Includes material relating to: George Brecht, 'Happening & Fluxus' and Gustav Metzger. Manuscript collection TGA 786/5/4/14
2. TGA 815 David Mayor Fonds: the residue from the 'Fluxshoe' touring exhibition, 1972-73; the records of the Beau Geste Press, 1971-76; and Mayor's own papers, 1968-82
3. TGA 8714/3/27 Victor Musgrave's papers: file on the `Festival of Misfits, Oct-Nov 1962 (Gallery One)
4. TGA 815/1/5/69 David Mayor: Interview with Filliou, 8 January 1971
5. TGA 815/2/1/8/33 INTERMEDIA '69, exhibition 16 May - 22 Jun 1969. Catalogue of an exhibition, with text and illustrations, featuring Dick Higgins (including his `Intermedia' essay), Ben Vautier, Robert Filliou, Milan Knizak, Joseph Beuys and Christo among others
6. TGA 815/2/2/4/134 Robert Filliou. Corrugated cardboard folder with letraset title on front cover containing 23 photocopied pages [some autograph, some typed] 352x242. Scores, games, reviews, announcements including `Whispered Art History'; `Measured Up Music'; `LEEDS A new card game'; Robert Filliou' by Brion Gysin; `L'Esclave "T" Berger revant qu'il etait Roi' programme.
7. TGA 20085 George Brecht Fonds. Notebook compiled while the artist was employed as a lecturer at Leeds School of Art, Leeds, UK. (100 pages)Dec 1968 - Sep 1969.
8. TGA8229 Gustav Metzger papers 1961-2004 (uncatalogued)
9. TGA 20019 Paul Neagu Fonds (uncatalogued)
2. TGA 815 David Mayor Fonds: the residue from the 'Fluxshoe' touring exhibition, 1972-73; the records of the Beau Geste Press, 1971-76; and Mayor's own papers, 1968-82
3. TGA 8714/3/27 Victor Musgrave's papers: file on the `Festival of Misfits, Oct-Nov 1962 (Gallery One)
4. TGA 815/1/5/69 David Mayor: Interview with Filliou, 8 January 1971
5. TGA 815/2/1/8/33 INTERMEDIA '69, exhibition 16 May - 22 Jun 1969. Catalogue of an exhibition, with text and illustrations, featuring Dick Higgins (including his `Intermedia' essay), Ben Vautier, Robert Filliou, Milan Knizak, Joseph Beuys and Christo among others
6. TGA 815/2/2/4/134 Robert Filliou. Corrugated cardboard folder with letraset title on front cover containing 23 photocopied pages [some autograph, some typed] 352x242. Scores, games, reviews, announcements including `Whispered Art History'; `Measured Up Music'; `LEEDS A new card game'; Robert Filliou' by Brion Gysin; `L'Esclave "T" Berger revant qu'il etait Roi' programme.
7. TGA 20085 George Brecht Fonds. Notebook compiled while the artist was employed as a lecturer at Leeds School of Art, Leeds, UK. (100 pages)Dec 1968 - Sep 1969.
8. TGA8229 Gustav Metzger papers 1961-2004 (uncatalogued)
9. TGA 20019 Paul Neagu Fonds (uncatalogued)
Jeff Nuttall
http://jeff-nuttall.co.uk/html/timeline.html
Nuttall, Jeff (1979) Performance Art Volumes 1&2, Calder Books: London
Nuttall, Jeff (1979) Performance Art Volumes 1&2, Calder Books: London
Books
John A. Walker, John Latham: The incidental person - his art and ideas (London: Middlesex University Press, 1995
Guy Brett, Exploding Galaxies: The Art of David Medalla, London: Kala Press, 1995
Glew, Adrian and Hendricks, Jon. `Fluxbritannica: Aspects of the Fluxus Movement, 1962-73'. Broadsheet, Tate Gallery, 19 March-19 June 1994.
Guy Brett, Exploding Galaxies: The Art of David Medalla, London: Kala Press, 1995
Glew, Adrian and Hendricks, Jon. `Fluxbritannica: Aspects of the Fluxus Movement, 1962-73'. Broadsheet, Tate Gallery, 19 March-19 June 1994.
about Better Books
Fountain, Nigel: Underground: the London alternative press 1966-1974, Taylor&Francis, 1988
Better Books Writers' Nights
'sTigma' sculptural environment, 1965 (p.14), Jeff Nuttall, J.J. Lebel, John Latham
Early history of Better Books in Time Out, 12 April 1974
Better Books Writers' Nights
'sTigma' sculptural environment, 1965 (p.14), Jeff Nuttall, J.J. Lebel, John Latham
Early history of Better Books in Time Out, 12 April 1974
Tom Hudson
"Tom Hudson began his career as an artist and educator in Britian where, together with Victor Pasmore and Harry Thurbron, he developed the initial Basic and Foundation Courses. His experimental and innivative ideas had a very considerable effect on upon Art and Design Education. Sir Herbert Read, when opening the 'Visual Adventure' in New York in 1964, said of Tom Hudson's Contribution "he has done more than anyone else to change and develop Art Education in Britian'.
Formerly Director of Studies at Cardiff College of Art and Design, Tom Hudson was appointed Dean of Instruction at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in British Columbia and has worked internationally, including consultancy positions and lecture tours in Europe, Canada, USA, Brazil, Turkey and Japan. He served as consultant to UNESCO in Paris and to the City of Brasilia.
Numerous writings have been published internationally, copies of which are accessable in the National Archives of Art and Design Education at Bretton Hall.
Having 'retired' recently from the Emily Carr Institute his most recent achievements include television series and distance learning courses, all award winning." From: http://174.6.73.82/tom/tomhudson.html
Formerly Director of Studies at Cardiff College of Art and Design, Tom Hudson was appointed Dean of Instruction at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in British Columbia and has worked internationally, including consultancy positions and lecture tours in Europe, Canada, USA, Brazil, Turkey and Japan. He served as consultant to UNESCO in Paris and to the City of Brasilia.
Numerous writings have been published internationally, copies of which are accessable in the National Archives of Art and Design Education at Bretton Hall.
Having 'retired' recently from the Emily Carr Institute his most recent achievements include television series and distance learning courses, all award winning." From: http://174.6.73.82/tom/tomhudson.html
Ian Breakwell
http://www.anthonyreynolds.com/breakwell/diary/home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Breakwell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Breakwell
change as creative destruction
the ravensbourne symposium on creation destruction & chemical change, in: art + artists. London 1966, Vol. 1, No. 5, S. 48f.
Listed in: http://www.engeler.de/houedard.html
Listed in: http://www.engeler.de/houedard.html
Monday, 6 April 2009
ATLAS
Title: ATLAS (Archive for Trans-national Living Art Studies) [conference]
Practitioner: Roddy Hunter (chair); Anna Balint (of Artpool Research Centre, Hungary), Heinrich Lueber (of Performance Index, Switzerland), Roland Miller (of PIP), Boris Nieslony (of ASA, Germany), Nathalie Perreault (of Collectif Inter / Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada), Dr B
Event: Rootless 97 (Running Out of Time): The Nomad Domain, International Festival of Live and Time Based Art, Hull, 29 September - 2 November 1997
Venue: Spring Street Theatre, Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
Start Date: 11- Oct-1997
End Date: 11- Oct-1997
Add Date: Oct 23, 1997
Type Description: Festival brochure
Source: Rootless 97 programme insert in Live Art Magazine Issue No. 17, 29 September - 30 November 1997, p. 8 (copy NTU)
Abstract: A half day conference, discussing with participants the establishment of a trans-national central archive resource, entitled ATLAS, linking pertinent research bodies
Sponsors: Rootless 97: Hull Time Based Arts, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, The Hull School of Art and Design, McMillan Video, Photo '98, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts, Arts Council of England, APEX, Goethe Institut, British Film Institute
Practitioner: Roddy Hunter (chair); Anna Balint (of Artpool Research Centre, Hungary), Heinrich Lueber (of Performance Index, Switzerland), Roland Miller (of PIP), Boris Nieslony (of ASA, Germany), Nathalie Perreault (of Collectif Inter / Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada), Dr B
Event: Rootless 97 (Running Out of Time): The Nomad Domain, International Festival of Live and Time Based Art, Hull, 29 September - 2 November 1997
Venue: Spring Street Theatre, Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
Start Date: 11- Oct-1997
End Date: 11- Oct-1997
Add Date: Oct 23, 1997
Type Description: Festival brochure
Source: Rootless 97 programme insert in Live Art Magazine Issue No. 17, 29 September - 30 November 1997, p. 8 (copy NTU)
Abstract: A half day conference, discussing with participants the establishment of a trans-national central archive resource, entitled ATLAS, linking pertinent research bodies
Sponsors: Rootless 97: Hull Time Based Arts, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, The Hull School of Art and Design, McMillan Video, Photo '98, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts, Arts Council of England, APEX, Goethe Institut, British Film Institute
Northern Exchanges
Northern Exchanges 1: Performance and Place
Conference - Huddersfield, St Peter's Building
26 October, 1995
Participants: Shirley Cameron, Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, Dr Susan Melrose, Roland Miller, Nick Owen, Konya Reka and Uto Gustav (sic) [Gustav Uto], Chris Squire and others (speakers)
Source: Live Art Listings in Live Art Magazine Issue No. 6, 2 October - 16 December 1995, p. 12 (copy NTU)
Conference - Huddersfield, St Peter's Building
26 October, 1995
Participants: Shirley Cameron, Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, Dr Susan Melrose, Roland Miller, Nick Owen, Konya Reka and Uto Gustav (sic) [Gustav Uto], Chris Squire and others (speakers)
Source: Live Art Listings in Live Art Magazine Issue No. 6, 2 October - 16 December 1995, p. 12 (copy NTU)
a book
Hewison, Robert (1986) 'Too Much: Art and Society in the Sixties, 1960 - 1975', London: Methuen
Saturday, 14 March 2009
Roland Miller PhD Thesis Vols. 1-2.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6057607/Rolands-Miller-Phd-Thesis-Volume-1-and-2
Montage, Collage and Bricolage; The assemblage of ’Incorporating’ 1998/1999 Thesis submitted for the award of a PhD at De Montford University May 2000
Montage, Collage and Bricolage; The assemblage of ’Incorporating’ 1998/1999 Thesis submitted for the award of a PhD at De Montford University May 2000
Resume of art exhibitions and actions of Genesis P-Orridge
One-Person and Group Shows, and Disconcerts 1965-1981
http://www.genesisp-orridge.com/index.php?section=article&album_id=34&id=24&print=1
http://www.genesisp-orridge.com/index.php?section=article&album_id=34&id=24&print=1
Simon Herbert: Performance Magazine, Variant Issue 6
http://www.variant.randomstate.org/6texts/sup_Herbert.html
Arts on Film Archive, University of Westminster
Work by contemporary British performance artists and groups at events in the north and south west of England
Directors: Jonathan Lewis, Dennis Lowe (1973)
“A series of art events presented in the regions by the Arts Council of Great Britain and organised by the Serpentine Gallery – London.”
Full credits: The Welfare State is a co-operative of artists. Directed by John Fox, Mike Westbrook & Dave Holland. The Welfare State acknowledge the assistance of the South Western Arts Association. Sound recorded by Julie Kendrick; Photographed by John Lewis; Edited by Dennis Lowe; Co-directed by John Lewis, Dennis Lowe. A National Film School production made in association with The Arts Council of Great Britain.
Directors: Jonathan Lewis, Dennis Lowe (1973)
“A series of art events presented in the regions by the Arts Council of Great Britain and organised by the Serpentine Gallery – London.”
Full credits: The Welfare State is a co-operative of artists. Directed by John Fox, Mike Westbrook & Dave Holland. The Welfare State acknowledge the assistance of the South Western Arts Association. Sound recorded by Julie Kendrick; Photographed by John Lewis; Edited by Dennis Lowe; Co-directed by John Lewis, Dennis Lowe. A National Film School production made in association with The Arts Council of Great Britain.
Another Festival, Bath, 1973
During ‘Another Festival’ Bath 1973 a number of Performance Artists appeared whose work takes them out of the conventional theatre setting and into the streets.
The Performers: John Bull Puncture Repair Kit: Mick Banks, Al Beach, George O’Brien, Des [Diz] Willis; Lumiere & Son: David Gale, Cindy Oswin, Ian Johnston; Landscapes & Living Spaces: Roland Miller, Shirley Cameron; The Phantom Captain: Neil Hornick, Joel Cutrara, Peter Godfrey, Liz Weston, T. I. Bradford, Stuart Eames, Tessa May, Loyd May. Camera Roger Deakins, Tony Nicholls; Sound David Woollcombe; Director/Editor David Bruton. Thanks to Bath Arts Workshop, Mike Westbrook & Friends. A National Film School Production for the Arts Council of Great Britain.
David Bruton's film (1975) from the ACE's Fiml Archive
http://artsonfilm.wmin.ac.uk/films.php?a=view&recid=54
The Performers: John Bull Puncture Repair Kit: Mick Banks, Al Beach, George O’Brien, Des [Diz] Willis; Lumiere & Son: David Gale, Cindy Oswin, Ian Johnston; Landscapes & Living Spaces: Roland Miller, Shirley Cameron; The Phantom Captain: Neil Hornick, Joel Cutrara, Peter Godfrey, Liz Weston, T. I. Bradford, Stuart Eames, Tessa May, Loyd May. Camera Roger Deakins, Tony Nicholls; Sound David Woollcombe; Director/Editor David Bruton. Thanks to Bath Arts Workshop, Mike Westbrook & Friends. A National Film School Production for the Arts Council of Great Britain.
David Bruton's film (1975) from the ACE's Fiml Archive
http://artsonfilm.wmin.ac.uk/films.php?a=view&recid=54
Sylvie Ferre writing on Performance
Mentioning the following:
Orlan and Hubert Besacier have known the same problems with their Symposium of Art Performance from 1978 to 1983.
"The word "performance" according to Jacques Donguy appeared for the first timein 1970 with Mr. Hein in the "Journal of the Aesthetics". It is in my opinion previous to that: Rauchenberg's actions are usualy called performances, Suzi Gablik uses this term in 69 in the journal: Pop Art redefinited.
David Medalla, as soon as 1965 says: " In performance Art, the artist is the tool of art, he is art".
Linked to the 70's, Performance Art already appears during the 60's, remembering Ben Vautier, Gilbert & George and Joseph Beuys's actions. In 1959 the American Allan Kaprow realized 18 happenings in Six parts at Reuben Gallery, and Jean-Jacques Lebel "the Anti-Procès" in 1960.
But the purpose of the excessive happenings of Jodorowski, a transitory panic gone up with Topor, Arrabal, Leyaouanc, was to last no more than one day, and to leave traces which would remain engraved inside the human beings and appear by psychological changes
(" Melodrama sacramentiel ", 2d Festival of free expression of Paris, May 1965, in the American Center).
In Poland, Zbigniew Warpechowski makes its first performance in 1967, long before the word Performance appears in its country, a word heard for the first time in Warsaw and in Lublin , during the Festival organized by Henryk Gajewski and at the same time in the BWA Gallery curated by Andrzej Mroczek in the year 1978.
In 1975 in Marseille, Roland Miller and Shirley Cameron quote then the word " performer - artist ".
In 1968, in Lyon, Jean-Claude Guillaumon invites Ben, Filliou, Dietman, Guinochet and George Brecht for a dinner on the topic " to forget art and come eat with us ".
In 1969, Vito Acconci perform for the 1st time and Michel Journiac made in the Templon gallery the " Messe pour un corps" (mass for a body), an action during which he made the public receive communion with his blood prepared in a blood sausage.
Orlan and Hubert Besacier have known the same problems with their Symposium of Art Performance from 1978 to 1983.
"The word "performance" according to Jacques Donguy appeared for the first timein 1970 with Mr. Hein in the "Journal of the Aesthetics". It is in my opinion previous to that: Rauchenberg's actions are usualy called performances, Suzi Gablik uses this term in 69 in the journal: Pop Art redefinited.
David Medalla, as soon as 1965 says: " In performance Art, the artist is the tool of art, he is art".
Linked to the 70's, Performance Art already appears during the 60's, remembering Ben Vautier, Gilbert & George and Joseph Beuys's actions. In 1959 the American Allan Kaprow realized 18 happenings in Six parts at Reuben Gallery, and Jean-Jacques Lebel "the Anti-Procès" in 1960.
But the purpose of the excessive happenings of Jodorowski, a transitory panic gone up with Topor, Arrabal, Leyaouanc, was to last no more than one day, and to leave traces which would remain engraved inside the human beings and appear by psychological changes
(" Melodrama sacramentiel ", 2d Festival of free expression of Paris, May 1965, in the American Center).
In Poland, Zbigniew Warpechowski makes its first performance in 1967, long before the word Performance appears in its country, a word heard for the first time in Warsaw and in Lublin , during the Festival organized by Henryk Gajewski and at the same time in the BWA Gallery curated by Andrzej Mroczek in the year 1978.
In 1975 in Marseille, Roland Miller and Shirley Cameron quote then the word " performer - artist ".
In 1968, in Lyon, Jean-Claude Guillaumon invites Ben, Filliou, Dietman, Guinochet and George Brecht for a dinner on the topic " to forget art and come eat with us ".
In 1969, Vito Acconci perform for the 1st time and Michel Journiac made in the Templon gallery the " Messe pour un corps" (mass for a body), an action during which he made the public receive communion with his blood prepared in a blood sausage.
Roland Miller on the term Performance Art
http://www.performance-wales.org/english/events/cameron_miller_event.htm
Monday, 2 March 2009
Links
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/eventseducation/schools/Centre-Creative-Uni-educators-pack.pdf
http://www.richarddemarco.org/
http://www.newmoves.co.uk/archives/mainframes.html
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatrecollection/liveart/liveart_archivesmain.html
http://www.locusplus.org.uk/
http://www.thezapclub.co.uk/club.php
http://www.richarddemarco.org/
http://www.newmoves.co.uk/archives/mainframes.html
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatrecollection/liveart/liveart_archivesmain.html
http://www.locusplus.org.uk/
http://www.thezapclub.co.uk/club.php
Artists / groups
APG (Barbara Steveni – John Latham)
Art Research Exchange (Belfast)
The Basement Group (1979-1983), Newcastle
Stuart Brisley
Anne Bean
Shirley Cameron
Roland Miller
Eve Dent
Mona Hatoum
Gilbert & George
Tadeusz Kantor
Jordan McKenzie
Jeff Nuttal
Ian Hintchliffe
Alastair MacLennan
Gustav Metzger
Bruce MacLean
Rose English
Throbbing Gristle
Index group
Joan Littlewood
Welfare State
Andre Stitt
Kevin Henderson
Simon Patterson
Sylvia Ziranek
Nigel Rolfe
Paul Neagu
Marina Abramovic
Joseph Beuys
Jerzy Beres
Zbigniew Warpechowski
Peter Horobin
Stewart Home
Robert Filliou
Herman Nitsch
Yoko Ono
Art Research Exchange (Belfast)
The Basement Group (1979-1983), Newcastle
Stuart Brisley
Anne Bean
Shirley Cameron
Roland Miller
Eve Dent
Mona Hatoum
Gilbert & George
Tadeusz Kantor
Jordan McKenzie
Jeff Nuttal
Ian Hintchliffe
Alastair MacLennan
Gustav Metzger
Bruce MacLean
Rose English
Throbbing Gristle
Index group
Joan Littlewood
Welfare State
Andre Stitt
Kevin Henderson
Simon Patterson
Sylvia Ziranek
Nigel Rolfe
Paul Neagu
Marina Abramovic
Joseph Beuys
Jerzy Beres
Zbigniew Warpechowski
Peter Horobin
Stewart Home
Robert Filliou
Herman Nitsch
Yoko Ono
Places
Gallery One, London
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Indica Bookshop and Gallery, London (Barry Miles and John Dunbar), opened in 1966
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
Drian Gallery, London 1960s
Better Bookz (closed in 1967), London
Drury Lane Arts Lab, London
The Zap Club, Brighton
Hull Time Based Art, Kingston Upon Hull
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Indica Bookshop and Gallery, London (Barry Miles and John Dunbar), opened in 1966
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
Drian Gallery, London 1960s
Better Bookz (closed in 1967), London
Drury Lane Arts Lab, London
The Zap Club, Brighton
Hull Time Based Art, Kingston Upon Hull
1960s
Festivals/Events:
1962 - Festival of Misfits - Various Fluxus artists organize the Festival of Misfits exhibition at Gallery One in London. The highlight of the show is the installation/performance piece Living Sculpture, in which the artist Ben Vautier (born 1935) moves into the display window of the gallery for two weeks and offers himself for sale for the price of £250
1963 – Mark Boyle ‘suddenly last supper’, Queensgate event/happening (the meal??), Edinburgh
1964 – the festival of Happenings org. by Michael White in Victoria(?) – closed down after the first evening because attacks in the Press. Series of Mark Boyle performances at ICA closed down after the first evening.
1966 - International Times was launched on 14 October 1966 at The Roundhouse at a gig featuring Pink Floyd. The event promised a 'Pop/Op/Costume/Masque/Fantasy-Loon/Blowout/Drag Ball and featured Soft Machine, steel bands, strips, trips, happenings, movies. The launch was described as "one of the two most revolutionary events in the history of English alternative music and thinking. The IT event was important because it marked the first recognition of a rapidly spreading socio-cultural revolution that had its parallel in the States" by Daevid Allen of Soft Machine.[2]
1966 DIAS
1962 - Festival of Misfits - Various Fluxus artists organize the Festival of Misfits exhibition at Gallery One in London. The highlight of the show is the installation/performance piece Living Sculpture, in which the artist Ben Vautier (born 1935) moves into the display window of the gallery for two weeks and offers himself for sale for the price of £250
1963 – Mark Boyle ‘suddenly last supper’, Queensgate event/happening (the meal??), Edinburgh
1964 – the festival of Happenings org. by Michael White in Victoria(?) – closed down after the first evening because attacks in the Press. Series of Mark Boyle performances at ICA closed down after the first evening.
1966 - International Times was launched on 14 October 1966 at The Roundhouse at a gig featuring Pink Floyd. The event promised a 'Pop/Op/Costume/Masque/Fantasy-Loon/Blowout/Drag Ball and featured Soft Machine, steel bands, strips, trips, happenings, movies. The launch was described as "one of the two most revolutionary events in the history of English alternative music and thinking. The IT event was important because it marked the first recognition of a rapidly spreading socio-cultural revolution that had its parallel in the States" by Daevid Allen of Soft Machine.[2]
1966 DIAS
From the Richard Demarco Archive
Founded:
Traverse Theatre (1963)
Richard Demarco Gallery (1966)
Demarco European Art Foundation (since early 1990s)
Events / exhibitions
1964
15 August – 5 September
Traverse Festival Exhibition of International Contemporary Art
Presented by the Traverse Art Gallery in the Bank of Scotland Offices, 97-99 George Street, Edinburgh.
Artists: Mark Boyle, Xavier Corbero, Olivier Herdies, William Featherson, Esther Gentle, Abraham Rattner, Allen Leepa + text by Pierre Restany. Exhibition cat. Text by Douglas Hall (Curator of Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.) (archive photo)
1968
18 August – 7 September
22 Canadian artists’ exhibition at ECA
Presented by RDG and Canada Council
Edinburgh International Festival
Incl. Michael Morris!
1969
1. 10 March – 4 April
‘Four Romanian Artist’ at RDG
Paul Neagu
Ion Bitzan
Peter Jacobi
Ritzi Jacobi
2. 22 August – 13 September
Six One-Man Shows: William Scott, William Crozier, Rory McEwen, James Howie, Paul Neagu, Yago Pericot
Edinburgh Festival
Photo: Acompanying to Neagu’s Palpable Art exhibition was his Palpable Art Manifesto! 4 pages (in the RD archive under Neagu)
Photo: Exhibition card showing Neagu’s temporary structure to be erected round the statue of Lord Melville, Edinburgh
Photo: Exhibition invitation
1970
1. 21 August – 12 September
‘New Directions’ exhibition at RDG
2. 23 August -12 September
Edinburgh International Festival
3 exhibitions by the RDG:
a, Strategy: Get Arts (Contemporary Art from Dusseldorf)
RDG at ECA, Lauriston Place
in association with Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
Organisers: Richard Demarco
Georg Jappe
Jurgen Harten
Jennifer Gough-Cooper
Karl Ruhrberg
35 artists living and working in Dusseldorf. Including: George Brecht, Joseph Beuys, Robert Filliou, Gerhard Richter, Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Rot, Klaus Rinke, Gunther Weseler, Henning Christiansen, Monika Baumgartl, Blinky Palermoetc.
The title of the exhibition: a palindrome by Andre Thomkins.
Initiative: by RD after his visit to West Germany. 27 January – 7 February: Demarco’s tour of West German Arts Centre’s. Daily report: 28th February: called Beuys. Agreed on Beuys taking part in Dusseldorf in Edinburgh exhibition (later entitled Strategy: Get Arts). Later in a letter to the German Embassy he says Beuys will arrive on 6 may with Georg Jappe.
Documents / information sheets / press release: RD Archive (under publications)
The press release says: “The Richard Demarco Gallery considers that the Exhibitions it will be involved during the 1970 Festival … will help redefine the role of the artist in this new decade and re-define the very nature of Art Exhibitions” …. ” This will be the first major exhibition of Contemporary German Art in Britain since the war and no fewer than 20 artists will be invited over to help create the Exhibition which will make the installation an art-form in itself.”
Filliou’s letter to Jappe explaining his proposed work: working on the spot that he would leave behing as an intention to demonstrate what he called The Principle of Equivalence (Bier Fait, Mal Fait, Pas Fait). That Vocational Thing is a concept that within the Festival will combine performance, action, audience participation, spontaneous creation of work etc.
Filliou’s statement of the Vocational Thing, that was hung on the wall. (Maybe we could transcribe it?).
Photos from the Archive:
1. Photos of Robert Filliou’s work: The Vocational Game
2.Photo: catalogue page with George Brecht’s work
3. Photo: Press cuttings
4. Photo: Adran Henri with Gunther Weseler’s installation. Henri also wrote a review in the Scottish International magazine!
5. Photo: Blinky Palermo making his wall painting Blue/Yellow/White/Red ECA
Rainer Ruthenbeck
6. Photo: 26-30 August. Beuys Celtic (Kinloch Rannoch) Scottish Symphoni performance event with Henning Cristiansen (under Alistair Park)
7. Photos of the show under Klaus Rinke in the RD Archive
b, Sound in Space
ECA
A sound environment by Keith Critchlow and Alan Hacker
4 late-night performances between 25-29 August
c, Exhibition of seven artists (4 Scot, 3 Romanian)
RDG, 8 Melville Crescent, edinburgh
Rory McEwen, Patricia Douthwaite, Alistair Park, Michael Docherty, Paul Neagu, Horia Bernea, Ilie Pavel
1971
23 August – 11 September
‘Romanian Art Today’
RDG
Edinburgh International Festival
Artists: Paul Neagu, Vladimir Setran, Pavel Ilie, Ovidiu Maitec, Horia Bernea, Radu Dragomirescu (goog photos under Rado D’s name)
Performance by Neagu: ‘Horizontal rain’, Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh
1972
1. 26-30 May
Between Sculpture and Performance (Sculpture Events Take Over From Objects)
Alistair Park
Tom Marioni
Tony Hepburn
2. 3-28 July
Drawing workshop with Edinburgh arts Participants at Greyfriars Churchyard by Paul Neagu
4. 20 August – 9 September
‘Atelier ‘72’ (contemporary Polish art)
Zbigniew Warpechowski’s performance (in audience: Paul Neagu)
1973
1. August
‘Eight Yugoslavian Artist’ RDG
Marina Abramovic ‘Rythym 10’
Gergely Urkom
Rasa Todosijevic
2. 19 August -30 September
The Austrian Exhibition at RDG (19 August – 9 September) and at the ICA, London (12-30 September)
Edinburgh Arts 1973
23 artists incl: Ernst Schmidt Jr., Gunter Brus; Herman Nitsch; Peter Weibel
Arnulf Rainer, Gottfried Bechtold, Hans Hollein
27-29 August – Film Screenings event – Kurt Kren Peter Kubelka, Valie Export, Marc Adrian
3. August / September
Lowelies and Dowdies
Cricot 2 Performance
Forrest Hill Poorhouse
Edinburgh Arts 1973
Photo: Eduardo Paolozzi in the audience
1975
1. April
Paul Neagu: ‘Gradually Going Tornado’
Performance at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
With his Generative Art Group (founded in 1972) (+ participation of Anish Kapoor)
Also performed in Arnolfini in 1969
This performance was televised and broadcasted on 18 November 1974, as one of Grampian Television’s ‘Images’ series of television programmes (broadcasted between 21 October – 16 December 1974), devised and introduced by R Demarco. (photo in RD Archive under Neagu)
Transcript of RD’s introduction to ‘Images’ from 1974 is in the RD archive (under Neagu)
2. 26-27 July
‘To Callanish from Hagar Qim’ exhibition
Photo: Special Unit, Barlennie Prison, Glasgow
(Page from Edinburgh Arts 1975 catalogue)
Six inmates of the prison at the time: jimmy Boyle, Jimmy Lindsay, Larry Winters, Dave Mathers, Rab Wallace and J.C.Smith. Ed. David Bellman, publ.RDG
3. 29 September – 25 October
Aspects ’75 (Contemporary Yugoslav Art)
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
RDG in collaboration with the City Art Gallery, Zagreb
Exhibition toured: Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Leigh
1976
1. 12 July
Rigel Rolfe: The Table: Open Hand, Closed Fist
Performance
National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Edinburgh Arts 1976 (RD archive)
Photo: 11 July Neagu and Rolfe in R’s studio in Dublin
Photo: 6-24 September 1977, Rolfe and Neagu in an exhibition in Air Gallery, London (Edinburgh Arts Europe 1977 related project)
2. 4-24 December
A Journey from hagar Qim to the Ring of Brodgar (also referred to as Edinburgh Arts – Europe ’76)
Fruitmarket Gallery
Presented by RDG
Part: Nigel Rolfe: Mound Manas performance
1979
20 August-9 September
Awangarda Polska, 1910-1979
1. Exhibition presented by RDG and the Polish Ministry of Culture at 3 places: 179 Canongate (‘Ten Contemporary polish artist from the collection of Museum Sztuki, Lodz,’), The Fruitmarket gallery and at the RDG (Atelier ’72)
Edinburgh International Festival
2. September-October
S.I.Witkiewich (1885-1939) exhibition
Third Eye Centre
Part of Awangarda Polska
Jerzy Beres performance!
1980
1. 1 pm 29- 1 pm 30 March
Alastair MacLennan ‘To Walk A Stone’
24 hour performance at RDG Monteith House
2. 25 August – 6 September
‘Alernative Policies and the Work of The Free International University’ event
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh Arts 1980
1. Photos: Beuys lecture / event
2. Photos: Beuys making Art=Kapital /Jimmy Boyle Days blackboards !!!
3. Photo of Beuys and Boyle meeting in 1981, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
4. Photo: 5 September - Press cutting from The Scottsman on Beuys’ hunger strike during the Jimmy Boyle Days against the transferral of Boyle from the Special Unit to a closed prison.
5. Photo: Petition and Press Statement by Beyus’
1984
3-14 August
Art and the Human Environment conference/event
Part of the programme for Demarcation ’84 for Edinburgh International Festival.
Jimmy Boyle was speaking
Other performances / events:
1970s and 1980s Cricot2 theatre (Kantor)
Paul Neagu 1972, Going Tornado performance at the Forrest Hill poorhouse in 1974 (well documented in the Archive); Action at Deeside, Aberdeenshire and at Roslin Glen, Calanais (Callanish) – 1975, 1976, 1978
Joseph Beuys – Twelve Hour Lecture 1973; Lecture at the ‘Oil Conference’ – 1974, = capital / Jimmy Boyle Days – 1980, Lecture event 1980
Tadeusz Kantor (Crocot 2) – The Water Hen 1972, Lovelies and Dowdies 1973 (Beuys’ was in it); 1973 lecture / workshop at Forrest Hill Poorhouse (archive Photos), 1976 The Dead Class
Paula Andreson – Clothes Event – 1973
Andrew Drummond – Event – 1975
Articles / Manifestos / letters / info
Paul Neagu-sculptor: Personal general report of observations regarding Edinburgh Arts 1977, London, September 1977. Talking about the necessity of ‘being together’, of meetings and journeys. (RD Archive under Neagu)
Letter from Marina Abramovic, 5 November, 1975 to Anne Goring (RDG assistant). She is talking about being in London. Thanks Anne to arranged her to meet Neagu. Says that the director of Garage Gallery invited her to do a performance in January, 1976. And that she got a letter from Jimmy Boyle.
9 May 1970 – Photo of Beuys, Seth Siegelaub, George Jappe and Peter Townsend (editor of Studio International) meeting in London (before Stategy Gets Arts)
21 February 1975. Press cutting from the TIMES Educational Suplement. Review by Emilio Coia on Neagu’s Generative Art Group Exhibition at the Compass Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland (RD Archive under Neagu). The group was formed in 1972.
28 October 1975 – Invitation letter from Paul Neagu’s Generative Art Gallery, office and studio, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, London (invitation letter/mail art work to Richard Demarco in the RD archive under Neagu)
22 March – 10 April 1976 – Bits and Pieces, Exhibition of works by Joseph Beuys from the collection of Caroline Tisdall. Show at Paul Neagu’s Generative Art Gallery, London (photo of exhibition invitation card in the Demarco Archive, under Neagu). Neagu was part time lecturer at Hornsey College of Art.
22 September – 31 October 1976 – Emballages 1960-76. Tadeusz Kantor exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery, London (director then: Nicolas Serota) Photo: RD archive under Serota
August 1977
A week long International Programme of Performance Art curated by Caroline Tisdall and Timothy Emlyn Jones for the Free International University
Wrexham, Wales
Artists: Joseph Beuys, Mario and Marisa Merz, Jannis kounellis, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Nigel Rolfe, Tine Keane and Timoth Emlyn Jones
Photo: under Rolfe in the Archive
This event is archived in the What’s Welsh for Performance Archive as: How the Past Perishes – How the Future Becomes/ Fel y darfu’r gorffennol - fel y del y dyfodol, 1-6 August 1977, Wrexham: National Eisteddfod field. Also mentions other artists: John Latham, Brian O’Doherty
Traverse Theatre (1963)
Richard Demarco Gallery (1966)
Demarco European Art Foundation (since early 1990s)
Events / exhibitions
1964
15 August – 5 September
Traverse Festival Exhibition of International Contemporary Art
Presented by the Traverse Art Gallery in the Bank of Scotland Offices, 97-99 George Street, Edinburgh.
Artists: Mark Boyle, Xavier Corbero, Olivier Herdies, William Featherson, Esther Gentle, Abraham Rattner, Allen Leepa + text by Pierre Restany. Exhibition cat. Text by Douglas Hall (Curator of Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.) (archive photo)
1968
18 August – 7 September
22 Canadian artists’ exhibition at ECA
Presented by RDG and Canada Council
Edinburgh International Festival
Incl. Michael Morris!
1969
1. 10 March – 4 April
‘Four Romanian Artist’ at RDG
Paul Neagu
Ion Bitzan
Peter Jacobi
Ritzi Jacobi
2. 22 August – 13 September
Six One-Man Shows: William Scott, William Crozier, Rory McEwen, James Howie, Paul Neagu, Yago Pericot
Edinburgh Festival
Photo: Acompanying to Neagu’s Palpable Art exhibition was his Palpable Art Manifesto! 4 pages (in the RD archive under Neagu)
Photo: Exhibition card showing Neagu’s temporary structure to be erected round the statue of Lord Melville, Edinburgh
Photo: Exhibition invitation
1970
1. 21 August – 12 September
‘New Directions’ exhibition at RDG
2. 23 August -12 September
Edinburgh International Festival
3 exhibitions by the RDG:
a, Strategy: Get Arts (Contemporary Art from Dusseldorf)
RDG at ECA, Lauriston Place
in association with Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
Organisers: Richard Demarco
Georg Jappe
Jurgen Harten
Jennifer Gough-Cooper
Karl Ruhrberg
35 artists living and working in Dusseldorf. Including: George Brecht, Joseph Beuys, Robert Filliou, Gerhard Richter, Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Rot, Klaus Rinke, Gunther Weseler, Henning Christiansen, Monika Baumgartl, Blinky Palermoetc.
The title of the exhibition: a palindrome by Andre Thomkins.
Initiative: by RD after his visit to West Germany. 27 January – 7 February: Demarco’s tour of West German Arts Centre’s. Daily report: 28th February: called Beuys. Agreed on Beuys taking part in Dusseldorf in Edinburgh exhibition (later entitled Strategy: Get Arts). Later in a letter to the German Embassy he says Beuys will arrive on 6 may with Georg Jappe.
Documents / information sheets / press release: RD Archive (under publications)
The press release says: “The Richard Demarco Gallery considers that the Exhibitions it will be involved during the 1970 Festival … will help redefine the role of the artist in this new decade and re-define the very nature of Art Exhibitions” …. ” This will be the first major exhibition of Contemporary German Art in Britain since the war and no fewer than 20 artists will be invited over to help create the Exhibition which will make the installation an art-form in itself.”
Filliou’s letter to Jappe explaining his proposed work: working on the spot that he would leave behing as an intention to demonstrate what he called The Principle of Equivalence (Bier Fait, Mal Fait, Pas Fait). That Vocational Thing is a concept that within the Festival will combine performance, action, audience participation, spontaneous creation of work etc.
Filliou’s statement of the Vocational Thing, that was hung on the wall. (Maybe we could transcribe it?).
Photos from the Archive:
1. Photos of Robert Filliou’s work: The Vocational Game
2.Photo: catalogue page with George Brecht’s work
3. Photo: Press cuttings
4. Photo: Adran Henri with Gunther Weseler’s installation. Henri also wrote a review in the Scottish International magazine!
5. Photo: Blinky Palermo making his wall painting Blue/Yellow/White/Red ECA
Rainer Ruthenbeck
6. Photo: 26-30 August. Beuys Celtic (Kinloch Rannoch) Scottish Symphoni performance event with Henning Cristiansen (under Alistair Park)
7. Photos of the show under Klaus Rinke in the RD Archive
b, Sound in Space
ECA
A sound environment by Keith Critchlow and Alan Hacker
4 late-night performances between 25-29 August
c, Exhibition of seven artists (4 Scot, 3 Romanian)
RDG, 8 Melville Crescent, edinburgh
Rory McEwen, Patricia Douthwaite, Alistair Park, Michael Docherty, Paul Neagu, Horia Bernea, Ilie Pavel
1971
23 August – 11 September
‘Romanian Art Today’
RDG
Edinburgh International Festival
Artists: Paul Neagu, Vladimir Setran, Pavel Ilie, Ovidiu Maitec, Horia Bernea, Radu Dragomirescu (goog photos under Rado D’s name)
Performance by Neagu: ‘Horizontal rain’, Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh
1972
1. 26-30 May
Between Sculpture and Performance (Sculpture Events Take Over From Objects)
Alistair Park
Tom Marioni
Tony Hepburn
2. 3-28 July
Drawing workshop with Edinburgh arts Participants at Greyfriars Churchyard by Paul Neagu
4. 20 August – 9 September
‘Atelier ‘72’ (contemporary Polish art)
Zbigniew Warpechowski’s performance (in audience: Paul Neagu)
1973
1. August
‘Eight Yugoslavian Artist’ RDG
Marina Abramovic ‘Rythym 10’
Gergely Urkom
Rasa Todosijevic
2. 19 August -30 September
The Austrian Exhibition at RDG (19 August – 9 September) and at the ICA, London (12-30 September)
Edinburgh Arts 1973
23 artists incl: Ernst Schmidt Jr., Gunter Brus; Herman Nitsch; Peter Weibel
Arnulf Rainer, Gottfried Bechtold, Hans Hollein
27-29 August – Film Screenings event – Kurt Kren Peter Kubelka, Valie Export, Marc Adrian
3. August / September
Lowelies and Dowdies
Cricot 2 Performance
Forrest Hill Poorhouse
Edinburgh Arts 1973
Photo: Eduardo Paolozzi in the audience
1975
1. April
Paul Neagu: ‘Gradually Going Tornado’
Performance at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
With his Generative Art Group (founded in 1972) (+ participation of Anish Kapoor)
Also performed in Arnolfini in 1969
This performance was televised and broadcasted on 18 November 1974, as one of Grampian Television’s ‘Images’ series of television programmes (broadcasted between 21 October – 16 December 1974), devised and introduced by R Demarco. (photo in RD Archive under Neagu)
Transcript of RD’s introduction to ‘Images’ from 1974 is in the RD archive (under Neagu)
2. 26-27 July
‘To Callanish from Hagar Qim’ exhibition
Photo: Special Unit, Barlennie Prison, Glasgow
(Page from Edinburgh Arts 1975 catalogue)
Six inmates of the prison at the time: jimmy Boyle, Jimmy Lindsay, Larry Winters, Dave Mathers, Rab Wallace and J.C.Smith. Ed. David Bellman, publ.RDG
3. 29 September – 25 October
Aspects ’75 (Contemporary Yugoslav Art)
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
RDG in collaboration with the City Art Gallery, Zagreb
Exhibition toured: Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Leigh
1976
1. 12 July
Rigel Rolfe: The Table: Open Hand, Closed Fist
Performance
National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Edinburgh Arts 1976 (RD archive)
Photo: 11 July Neagu and Rolfe in R’s studio in Dublin
Photo: 6-24 September 1977, Rolfe and Neagu in an exhibition in Air Gallery, London (Edinburgh Arts Europe 1977 related project)
2. 4-24 December
A Journey from hagar Qim to the Ring of Brodgar (also referred to as Edinburgh Arts – Europe ’76)
Fruitmarket Gallery
Presented by RDG
Part: Nigel Rolfe: Mound Manas performance
1979
20 August-9 September
Awangarda Polska, 1910-1979
1. Exhibition presented by RDG and the Polish Ministry of Culture at 3 places: 179 Canongate (‘Ten Contemporary polish artist from the collection of Museum Sztuki, Lodz,’), The Fruitmarket gallery and at the RDG (Atelier ’72)
Edinburgh International Festival
2. September-October
S.I.Witkiewich (1885-1939) exhibition
Third Eye Centre
Part of Awangarda Polska
Jerzy Beres performance!
1980
1. 1 pm 29- 1 pm 30 March
Alastair MacLennan ‘To Walk A Stone’
24 hour performance at RDG Monteith House
2. 25 August – 6 September
‘Alernative Policies and the Work of The Free International University’ event
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh Arts 1980
1. Photos: Beuys lecture / event
2. Photos: Beuys making Art=Kapital /Jimmy Boyle Days blackboards !!!
3. Photo of Beuys and Boyle meeting in 1981, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
4. Photo: 5 September - Press cutting from The Scottsman on Beuys’ hunger strike during the Jimmy Boyle Days against the transferral of Boyle from the Special Unit to a closed prison.
5. Photo: Petition and Press Statement by Beyus’
1984
3-14 August
Art and the Human Environment conference/event
Part of the programme for Demarcation ’84 for Edinburgh International Festival.
Jimmy Boyle was speaking
Other performances / events:
1970s and 1980s Cricot2 theatre (Kantor)
Paul Neagu 1972, Going Tornado performance at the Forrest Hill poorhouse in 1974 (well documented in the Archive); Action at Deeside, Aberdeenshire and at Roslin Glen, Calanais (Callanish) – 1975, 1976, 1978
Joseph Beuys – Twelve Hour Lecture 1973; Lecture at the ‘Oil Conference’ – 1974, = capital / Jimmy Boyle Days – 1980, Lecture event 1980
Tadeusz Kantor (Crocot 2) – The Water Hen 1972, Lovelies and Dowdies 1973 (Beuys’ was in it); 1973 lecture / workshop at Forrest Hill Poorhouse (archive Photos), 1976 The Dead Class
Paula Andreson – Clothes Event – 1973
Andrew Drummond – Event – 1975
Articles / Manifestos / letters / info
Paul Neagu-sculptor: Personal general report of observations regarding Edinburgh Arts 1977, London, September 1977. Talking about the necessity of ‘being together’, of meetings and journeys. (RD Archive under Neagu)
Letter from Marina Abramovic, 5 November, 1975 to Anne Goring (RDG assistant). She is talking about being in London. Thanks Anne to arranged her to meet Neagu. Says that the director of Garage Gallery invited her to do a performance in January, 1976. And that she got a letter from Jimmy Boyle.
9 May 1970 – Photo of Beuys, Seth Siegelaub, George Jappe and Peter Townsend (editor of Studio International) meeting in London (before Stategy Gets Arts)
21 February 1975. Press cutting from the TIMES Educational Suplement. Review by Emilio Coia on Neagu’s Generative Art Group Exhibition at the Compass Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland (RD Archive under Neagu). The group was formed in 1972.
28 October 1975 – Invitation letter from Paul Neagu’s Generative Art Gallery, office and studio, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, London (invitation letter/mail art work to Richard Demarco in the RD archive under Neagu)
22 March – 10 April 1976 – Bits and Pieces, Exhibition of works by Joseph Beuys from the collection of Caroline Tisdall. Show at Paul Neagu’s Generative Art Gallery, London (photo of exhibition invitation card in the Demarco Archive, under Neagu). Neagu was part time lecturer at Hornsey College of Art.
22 September – 31 October 1976 – Emballages 1960-76. Tadeusz Kantor exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery, London (director then: Nicolas Serota) Photo: RD archive under Serota
August 1977
A week long International Programme of Performance Art curated by Caroline Tisdall and Timothy Emlyn Jones for the Free International University
Wrexham, Wales
Artists: Joseph Beuys, Mario and Marisa Merz, Jannis kounellis, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Nigel Rolfe, Tine Keane and Timoth Emlyn Jones
Photo: under Rolfe in the Archive
This event is archived in the What’s Welsh for Performance Archive as: How the Past Perishes – How the Future Becomes/ Fel y darfu’r gorffennol - fel y del y dyfodol, 1-6 August 1977, Wrexham: National Eisteddfod field. Also mentions other artists: John Latham, Brian O’Doherty
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