Slave Pianos, Never Forever: Fluxus Was a Sajudis Trick!, Programme Text
Panel Discussion
Networks between West and East
House of World Cultures | John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 | 10557 Berlin | Art Forum Berlin | Messedamm 22 | 14055 Berlin | 27 – 29 Sept 2007 | In English | Free admission, if not stated otherwise
Panel III: Fluxus is not dead, it just smells funny – Fluxus Strategies in Contemporary Art?
Sat 29 Sept | 3 pm | Art Forum Berlin | admission Art Forum 15/10 €
Presentations and discussion:
- Azorro (PL)
- Nomeda + Gediminas Urbonas (LT)
- Slave Pianos (AUS)
The conference is a joint event of Künstlerhaus Bethanien and House of World Cultures in cooperation with Art Forum Berlin, the Polish Institute in Berlin, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Czech Centre Czechpoint, the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania.
Slave Pianos, Never Forever: Fluxus Was a Sajudis Trick!, Programme Text
NEVER FOREVER: Fluxus Was A Sajudis Trick!* or:
CheckMate / FluxWake for Rimvydas Survila / George Maciunas or:
Chairman George Maciunas & President Vytautas Landsbergis
| 1. | d4 Nf6 | George Brecht | Comb Music (Comb Event) (1960–63) |
| choir | |||
| 2. | Nc3 d5 | Larry Miller | Fluxus Vortex (1994) |
| narrator I should perhaps start… | |||
| Larry Miller | Fruit and Vegetable Chess (Preliminary, Date Unknown) | ||
| 3. | Bg5Nbd7 | Claudio Monteverdi | Lidia Spina Del Mio Core (1607) |
| choir Lydia, thorn in my heart… | |||
| 4. | e3 c5 | M.K.Ciurlionis | Vienam Kiemely (1905) |
| harpsichord | |||
| 5. | Nf3 Qa5 | Nam June Paik | 2 x Mini Giant(1991) |
| narrator The East European revolution produced… | |||
| Vytautas Landsbergis | Spatial Poem No. 5 Chess (1972) | ||
| 6. | Bxf6 Nxf6 | Claudio Monteverdi | Lidia Spina Del Mio Core (1607) |
| 7. | Bb5+ Bd7 | Philip Corner | Carrot Chew Performance (1964) |
| choir | |||
| 8. | Bxd7+ Nxd7 | Eric Anderson | Fax-Letter to Emmett Williams (1993) |
| narrator There was also a copy of a letter… | |||
| George Maciunas | Color Balls in Bottle Board Chess (1966) | ||
| 9. | O-O e6 | Henry Purcell | Pavan in G minor Z751 (c.1680) |
| violin, violin, ’cello, harpsichord | |||
| 10. | e4 dxe4 | Nam June Paik | A Short Trip on the Electronic Superhighway with Nam June Paik (1993) |
| narrator Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania… | |||
| Vytautas Landsbergis | Spatial Poem No. 5 Chess (1972) | ||
| 11. | Nxe4 Be7 | M.K.Ciurlionis | Ar Vejai Pute (1905) |
| harpsichord | |||
| 12. | d5 exd5 | Giovanni Gabrieli | Donna Leggiadra e Bella (1595) |
| choir | |||
| 13. | Qxd5 Qc7 | Vytautas Landsbergis | Spatial Poem No.3 (1966) |
| choir | |||
| 14. | Rad1 Nb6 | Geoffrey Hendricks | Manuscript, New York (1994) |
| narrator He also devised… | |||
| Takako Saito | Nut and Bolt Chess (1965) | ||
| 15. | Qf5 O-O | Henry Purcell | Sonata [Chacony] in G minor Z730 (c.1680) |
| violin, violin, ’cello, harpsichord | |||
| 16. | Nfg 5g6 | Jean de Macque | Consonanze Stravaganti (1610) |
| harpsichord | |||
| 17. | Qh3 h5 | Vytautas Landsbergis | Correspondence and Manifesto (1962–1966) |
| narrator New music is non-music and anti-art… | |||
| Vytautas Landsbergis | Spatial Poem No. 5 Chess (1972) | ||
| 18. | f4 Rad8 | M.K.Ciurlionis | Vienam Kiemely (1905) |
| 19. | Qf3 Rxd1 | Claudio Monteverdi | Deh Chi Tace Il Bel Pensero(1607) |
| choir Alas, now silent… | |||
| 20. | Rxd1 Rd8 | Alison Knowles | Nivea Cream Piece (1962) |
| choir | |||
| 21. | g3 Nc4 | Alison Knowles | Manuscript (1980) |
| narrator This was truly a Fluxus vehicle… | |||
| Takako Saito | Weight Chess (1965) | ||
| 22. | b3 Nd6 | Claudio Monteverdi | Deh Chi Tace Il Bel Pensero (1607) |
| 23. | Nxd6 Rxd6 | M.K.Ciurlionis | Ar Vejai Pute (1905) |
| 24. | Ne4 Rxd1+ | SLAVE PIANOS | Never Forever: Fluxus was a Sajudis Trick!(2007) |
| narrator With the assistance of his childhood friend… | |||
| Vytautas Landsbergis | Spatial Poem No. 5 Chess (1972) | ||
| 25. | Qxd1 Qc6 | Claudio Monteverdi | Zefiro Torna (1632) |
| violin,violin,’cello,harpsichord The west wind returns… | |||
| 26. | Qd3 Bf6 | Henry Purcell | Pavan in G minor Z751 (c.1680) |
| 27. | c3 b6 | Nam June Paik | One for Violin Solo (1962) |
| violin | |||
| 28. | Qd5 Bd4+ | Tamas St. Auby | Fluxus-Art-Life-Politics (2007) |
| narrator This unattainability of Fluxus… | |||
| Henry Flynt & George Maciunas | Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Chess (1966) | ||
| 29. | cxd4 Qb5 | Slave Pianos | Chorale, Two Lives In Flux: & Vice Versa(2004) |
| harpsichord Since Monteverdi, nothing of great interest… | |||
| 30. | Qe5 | Henry Purcell | Funeral Sentences (1695) |
| mezzo-soprano and ’cello Suffer us not at out last hour… | |||
| Black resigns |