Fluxus is well-known as an (anti-)artistic, international network with centres in the USA, Western Europe and Japan. But what about this "intermedia" art - art encompassing music, actions, poetry, objects and events - beyond the "Iron Curtain"? What echo did Fluxus find in the states of the former Eastern Bloc, and what parallel developments existed there?

FLUXUS EAST represents a first stocktaking of the diverse Fluxus activities in the former Eastern Bloc; the exhibition shows parallel developments and artistic practices inspired by Fluxus, which are still adopted by some young artists today. Besides the "classic" Fluxus objects, the display will include photographs, films, correspondence, secret police files, interviews and recordings of music that document the presence of Fluxus in the former Eastern Bloc. As an interactive exhibition, FLUXUS EAST aims to facilitate a profound encounter with ideas, works and texts. Visitors are invited to play at FLUX PING PONG, and to explore the POIPOIDROME by Robert Filliou.

Performances by Eric Andersen, Geoffrey Hendricks, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Larry Miller, Ben Patterson, Tamás St. Auby, Ben Vautier and others will take place at the opening on September 26, 2007.

FLUXUS EAST is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.



Artists:
Gábor Altorjay Eric Andersen Azorro Robert Filliou György Galántai Tibor Hajas Geoffrey Hendricks Dick Higgins Tadeusz Kantor Danius Kesminas Milan Knížák Alison Knowles Július Koller Jaroslaw Kozlowski Vytautas Landsbergis George Maciunas Jonas Mekas Larry Miller Ben Patterson Robert Rehfeldt Mieko Shiomi Slave Pianos Tamás St. Auby Endre Tót Gábor Toth Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas Jirí Valoch Ben Vautier Branko Vucicevic Emmett Williams and many others

For detailed information and the extensive Network Programme see www.fluxus-east.eu

Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe

27. September - 4. November 2007

The Canadian artist duo Hadley+Maxwell focus their work on themes within the conflicting spheres of politics and aesthetics, subjectivity and political experience. Here, they employ a wide range of media including video, photography and music, but also posters and slogans. "1+1-1" refers to Jean-Luc Godard's film "Sympathy for the Devil", made in 1968, which also employed interfused, collage-like film sequences from Rolling Stones? recording sessions in their London studio in order to highlight the zeitgeist and the social and political processes that led up to the revolts of 1968.
While Godard's key interest was in the processual and in creative interplay during the development of a work, the producer of the film acted independently and shifted the emphasis onto the "outcome" - the song that later became world famous. In "1+1-1", Hadley+Maxwell take up Godard's film again, transposing some of its aspects and elements into a new formal language that combines video, painting, drawings and music to create an extensive spatial installation.
Hadley+Maxwell's complex strategy aims to give back the unfinished, processual elements to the work and transfer Godard's original statement about the nature of the creative process to a modern artistic medium..

1+1-1

27th September - 14th October 2007

Studio 2

Art Forum

The faces in Adriana Molder's portrait drawings exercise an almost magical pull on the viewer's gaze. Molder executes her often larger-than-life ink drawings - most of them portraits or interiors - on gossamer-thin, transparent tracing paper. The depictions thus develop the translucent fragility and glow that characterise her work. Awakening an atmospheric echo of the famous "noirs" by the French Symbolist Odilon Redon (1840-1916), it seems they make the viewer into the confidant of a personal story, yet without entirely revealing their secrets. As in the work of Redon, whose artistic strategy started out from the unity of imagination and the dream, Molder's works also fire the viewer's imagination and offer projection surfaces and a depository for his emotions, dreams and fantasies. The exhibition "Der Traumdeuter" (The Dream Reader) consists of a series of works produced in 2007. They were obviously inspired by the chequered history of the former hospital Bethanien and the actual and imagined human stories and destinies associated with it.

Der Traumdeuter
27th September - 14th October 2007

Studio 3