FALL2003 RUTGERS EVENTS UNIVERSITY SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1, 2003 exhibition concert 5 PM: OCTOBER 1– NOVEMBER 5, 2003 SATURDAY OCTOBER 4, 2003 CRITICAL MASS: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, 8 PM: closing Intermedia and Rutgers University, 1958-1972 (World Premier) selections from reception Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square The Thousand for the exhibition 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Symphonies 1968. Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square. Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday: 10am–4pm by Dick Higgins Telephone: (732) 932-2222 ext. 798 Philip Corner, conductor ongoing Sur), co-curators of the exhibition • Nicholas Music Center, Douglass Campus. OCTOBER 1–NOVEMBER 5 Dick Higgins, Danger Music #12, “Write a Thousand FILM AND VIDEO SHOWINGS IN THE GALLERY including Mass Symphonies” (1962), was the genesis for this work in which Mass work of Joe Jones, Jonas Mekas, Larry Miller, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, and Keith Sonnier, amongst others. WATCH FOR LISTINGS of guest lectures, panel discussion and other special events. artists y Barbara Moore/ Bound & Unbound, New York • Yoko Ono • Raphael Montañez • Yoko y Barbara Moore/ Bound & Unbound, New York in the exhibition include: Letty Lou Eisenhauer • Nye Ffarrabas Estate of Ray Johnson, Courtesy Richard George Brecht, Philip Corner, Nye Ffarrabas, Al Hansen, • William S. Wilson er and Sara Seagull, New York Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, [4] Allan Kaprow, Milan Kníˇzak, Alison Knowles, Roy Lichtenstein, the musical scores were [5] George Maciunas, Larry Miller, Charlotte Moorman. Hermann created in 1968 by machine- Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Nam June Paik, [1] gunning one thousand sheets Helen Henning Palmer, Ben Patterson, Ely Raman, Takako of orchestral paper. Although Saito, Carolee Schneemann, Mimi Smith, Keith Sonnier, related a modest performance of Jerry Vis, Yoshi Wada, Robert Watts, and Robert Whitman. events & some of the symphonies with photographers: took place in conjunction Julie Abeles, Steven Balkin, Francesco Conz, Das Anudas, programs with the Douglass Art Gallery Alfred Eisenstaedt, Rolf Jährling, George Maciunas, Babette lenders: exhibition SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2003 Gun Show that year, this will Mangolte, Robert R. McElroy, Peter Moore, Susan Elizabeth 3 PM: be the first full-scale concert of this important work. Ryan, and Lawrence Shustak. The orchestra is composed of musicians from Mason Gross Flux-Sports School of the Arts /Rutgers University and members of the events Directed by Larry Miller Downtown Ensemble, New York. Also on the program with Loree Gym and environs, Douglass Campus. this world premier is Dick Higgins, Haydn in the Forest, for documented Come and compete as Flux-Olympians in a return of the Hannah and Jessie, 1979, Paul Hoffman, piano. in the exhibition include: celebrated games from 1970 at Douglass College. Join in Allan Kaprow: early Happenings, 1958 to 1960.Charlotte the extraordinary athletics of Stilt Soccer, Team Ski Run, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2003 Moorman’s Avant Garde Festivals.Carolee Schneemann: Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA • Rina Carvajal, Curator, Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square • Geoffrey Hendricks & Sur Rodney ( MASON MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS PRESENTS THE EXHIBITION 3 PM: Overloaded Race, Slow Speed Cycle Contest, Balloon Dash, Meat Joy,1964.Al Hansen and the New York Audio Visual CRITICAL CRITICAL Zen Sprint, Metronome Run and more. Test your skill in Flux-Mass track and field events! Team up! Win a trophy! of George Maciunas Yoshi Wada, Flux-Priest; Carolee Schneemann, Flux-Bishop Directed by Geoffrey Hendricks Voorhees Chapel, Douglass College. First performed on February 17, 1970 in Voorhees Chapel, the Flux-Mass was recreated for the 40th Anniversary of Fluxus in Wiesbaden, Germany (September 21, 2002), and icks • Judson Memorial Church, New York • Alison Knowles • Dorothy Lichtenstein • Larry • Alison Knowles Dorothy Lichtenstein Moore, Courtes Miller • Estate of Peter New York icks • Judson Memorial Church, at Johnson Chapel, Amherst College (February 16, 2003) in rts • Students of graduate class: Media in Flux Mason Gross Department of Music. conjunction with the exhibition CRITICAL MASS: Happenings, Courtesy • Estate of Robert Courtesy Wada, Emily Harvey Watts, Larry Gallery, Mill New York Mimi Smith • Keith Sonnier Yoshi Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University, 1958-1972 installed at the Mead Art Museum. This secular event now returns to its original location. [8] [2] Group.Alison Knowles: Identical Lunch. Dick Higgins: The SATURDAY OCTOBER 4, 2003 . 5 PM: Thousand Symphonies,1968 George Brecht: Chemistry of Music, 1968.Milan Kníˇzak: Lying Down Ceremony, Decem- opening ber 17, 1968.George Maciunas: Flux-Mass and Flux-Sports, February 17, 1970.Hermann Nitsch: Orgies Mysteries Theater reception (Action 33), 1970.Flux Divorce of Geoff & Bici, June 24, for the exhibition 1971.Flux Wedding of George & Billie, February 25,1978 CRITICAL MASS: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University, 1958-1972. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY from 1958 to 1972, was Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square at the center of many new developments in the art world. Artists connected with Happenings and This is the exhibition’s second venue. It was originally [6] Fluxus created works that had a major impact in installed at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA, February New York and abroad. A dozen years after Allan 1–June 1, 2003. A companion 220 page fully illustrated Kaprow’s first happening on Rutgers University’s catalog edited by Geoffrey Hendricks, with scores and texts Douglass campus in 1958, George Maciunas by artists including George Brecht, Philip Corner, Al Hansen, (Mr. Fluxus) created his major late composition, George B. Stauffer, of the Arts Dean of Mason Gross School • Carmen Ambar, Dean of Douglass College Jill Meredith, Director, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Milan Kníˇzak, Hermann Nitsch, the Flux-Mass, in the same space, and Hermann and RUTGERS UNIVERSITY 1958–1972 Carolee Schneemann, and Robert Watts; and critical essays Nitsch, the Viennese Actionist, presented his by Hannah Higgins, Larry Miller and Sara Seagull, Barbara controversial Orgies-Mysteries-Theater. These radical shifts in art paralleled calls to rethink attitudes Moore, Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Kristine Stiles and others will about race, sex, gender, and war during turbulent be available. It is distributed by Rutgers University Press. [7] times in American history. Illustrations: 1. Flux-Show poster (detail), design: George Maciunas, 1970, Art Gallery, Douglass College. 2. Flux-Sports poster (detail), design: George Maciunas, 1970, Old Gym, Douglass College. 3. Sky Boots #2, 1980 (1965), Geoffrey Hendricks 4. Officer shooting the score The Thousand Symphonies by Dick Higgins, South Brunswick Police Rifle Range, photo: Das Anudas. 5. Sample of the shot paper from The Thousand Symphonies by Dick Higgins, collection: Geoffrey Hendricks. 6. Flux-Mass poster (detail), design: George Maciunas, 1970. 7. Yoshi Wada, Flux Priest at Flux-Mass, Voorhees Chapel, Douglass College, February 17, 1970, photo: Susan Yoko Ono • Gilbert Zimmerli Art NJ • Mason Gross Department & Lila Silverman • Jane Voorhees Museum. New Brunswick, of Visual A Yoko acknowledgements: acknowledgements: Elizabeth Ryan. 8. Allan Kaprow, An Apple Shrine Environment at Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, NYC, 1960. Photo: Robert R. Hendricks • Eléonore Hendricks • Geoffrey Hendricks • Jon & Joanne Hendr • Aurora Hendricks • Bracken & Co., New York L. Feigen Ortiz • Helen Henning Palmer • Gilbert • Carolee Schneemann Rockland & Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Detroit, MI Michael • • McElroy/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Outside panel: (clockwise from upper left) Yoshi Wada, Flux Priest with gorilla acolytes, HAPPENINGS, FLUXUS, PERFORMANCE, INTERMEDIA Flux-Mass, Voorhees Chapel, February 17, 1970; Philip Corner conducting The Thousand Symphonies, Hickman Auditorium, Douglass College, December 9, 1968; photos: Das Anudas. Flux-Sports poster (detail), design: George Maciunas, 1970. Detail of title page of An Anthology, edited by La Monte Young & Jackson Mac Low, design: George Maciunas, 1963, NYC. Mailing panel: Detail of [3] Flux Post 17-17, stamps by Robert Watts, 1964. Flyer design: Sara Seagull, Imprint Graphic Design, NYC.