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Special events – The Perennials
Screening night at WASP Working Art Space and Production
Date: November 13, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM
Opening within The Perennials exhibition
13th November – 15th December, 2024
The Misfits – 30 Years of Fluxus
This documentary is an unconventional video portrait of the Fluxus movement, an international group of artists who since the early 1960s have challenged and disrupted our ideas of what art can be. The tape was produced largely in Venice at the 1990 reunion, when many of the original Fluxus artists met for a major exhibition in connection with the Biennale, almost thirty years after the first iconoclastic Fluxus concerts were held in cities around the world. Employing layered manipulations of video technology, this portrait includes interviews with leading Fluxus artists, documentation of their works, and historic archival footage from thirty years of groundbreaking performances, films, and video tapes.
Fluxfilm Anthology
Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi, John Cavanaugh, James Riddle, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Yoko Ono, Pieter Vanderbeck, Joe Jones, Erik Andersen, George Maciunas, Jeff Perkins, Wolf Vostell, Albert Fine, George Landow, Paul Sharits, John Cale, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr, and Ben Vautier
1962-1970, 120 min, b&w and color, sound
Dating from the sixties and compiled by George Maciunas (1931-1978, founder of Fluxus), Fluxfilm Anthology is a document consisting of 37 short films ranging from 10 seconds to 10 minutes in length. These films (some of which were meant to be screened as continuous loops) were shown as part of the events and happenings of the New York avant-garde. Made by the artists ranging from Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell to Yoko Ono, they celebrate the ephemeral humor of the Fluxus movement.
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
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Event part of The Perennials, produced by 4Culture Association.
The Perennials is a cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how the project results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding beneficiary.
Dan Mussett (1988, BE/UK) is a dancer and choreographer based in Brussels. He graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in 2017, having previously studied at the Conservatorio Profesional de Danza Reina Sofía in Granada. As a dancer, he has performed in the work of Jan Martens (RULE OF THREE, 2017, and any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones, 2021) and Ayelen Parolin (WEG, 2019).
As a maker he created ddddddddduettttttttttttttt (2019), together with Laurent Delom, and THE DATING PROJECT (2022), with its many iterations. His work has been shown in Belgium and abroad, at venues and festivals such as Jonge Harten, Europalia, Beyond the Black Box, De Brakke Grond, DANSAND! and WUK. Between 2020-2022 he was an artistic researcher in the research groups CREATIE and MAXLab at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. Between 2017-2020, he set-up and organised Murmur, a reading and discussion group for artists and artworkers in Antwerp. The impact of technology on our bodies and minds features heavily in his work. Joy and pleasure are guiding principles to his art and life.
