Wednesday, December 18, 2013

A city in a box

WEEK8 - DAY3

1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY


Amy Winehouse - You know I'm no good

2. PLACES TO KNOW


Wuppertal, Germany.

Not only does this city have the oldest monorail system in the world, it is floating in the air! A suspended monorail...


3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER

George Maciunas’s box - Maciunas was the one who conceived + triggered Fluxus, the international network of artists from the 1960s (which is in some extent, still active today).

George Maciunas - The Foundation

4. QUESTION OF THE DAY


5. INSPIRATION

John Cage? Fluxus was born mainly because of him, and the concepts he was developing with his 
experimental music...

Marcel Duchamp, known for his “readymades”, works based on objects found in the street.

Fluxus transformed the meaning of what art could be.

Piano Activities (1962)

Three special works from the Fluxus people:

- the Street Theatre

- the special white Chess Board

- Mapping Tokyo

Lots of things inside the box - here


Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works - book by Erik Spiekermann’s where 
you get to understand how type works, and why it is a language.

Some pages

“Anti-art is life, is nature, is true reality, it is one and all.” George Maciunas
Total Art Matchbox, Fluxus

Fluxkit, assembled by George Maciunas, Fluxus

6. Homework
You will create a box with objects taken from the city. You’ll set up a walk: where to go, a specific neighborhood or a random promenade. How long, how short, alone or with someone, directions, this 
and that. And then, you’ll record your exploration collecting some objects.

Events in flux you will select to be fixed in time.

- How to organize the box? Using these:

Tropes

- How to collect objects?

Using the adnomination trick.
Or you can use synecdoche. Analogy or archaism... Choose one of these schemes or tropes as a general rule.



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