Fluxus and after

PERFORMANCES AT QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY (5-6 FEBRUARY 1994) This Does That 1993 (Chris Mann) Chris Mann, voice, simultaneously with a selection of early Fluxus and pre-Fluxus works by George PUBLISHER Brecht Takehisa Kosugi La Monte Young Emmett Williams, Robert Watts, Eric Andersen Roberto Queensland Art Gallery Bozzi, Ken Friedman, Dick Higgins, Bengt af Klintberg, Larry Miller, Yoko Ono, Jackson MacLow and Terry Jennings, performed by Warren Burt with piano, voice and props. Queensland Cultural Centre (15 minutes) South Brisbane This Does That is a series of twenty-six small statements for solo voice, performed at the rate of P0 Box 3686 one each thirty seconds. The Fluxus and pre-Fluxus pieces were selected from three separate South Brisbane sources: Michael Nyman's Experimental Music (Studio Vista, London, 1974); The Fluxus Queensland 4101 Performance Workbook, edited by Ken Friedman (El Djarida,Trondheim, 1990); and An Anthology, edited by La Monte Young (Heiner Friedrich, New York, 1970). The Fluxus pieces are the performance Australia equivalent of the 'one-liner'. Their juxtaposition with Mann's short statements is in the purest Cagean structural tradition. © Queensland Art Gallery 1993 Some Place, Later 1992 (Chris Mann and Warren Burl) Chris Mann, voice and live electronics; Warren Burt, live electronics and computer programming This work is copyright. Apart from use as permitted under the CopyrightAct 1968, no part may be (15 minutes) reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the publisher. Requests and Same Place, Lateruses 'state of the art' technology to allow a performer's gestures to electronically enquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the publisher. modify their own reading. While reading, Chris Mann wears two rings which generate invisible infra-red light. This light is detected by a device which responds to the gestures of his hands and Text: Anne Kirker, with assistance from Kirsty Grant gives outa series of electronic signals to a small synthesiser and sound effects unit. These produce Editor: Barbara Henson drum sounds, as well as altering the voice. This piece allows the inadvertent body gestures of the reader to act as a 'score' for the real time modification and accompaniment to his text. The whole Photography: Ray Fulton body of the poet, not just the voice, is the basis for this piece. Design: Anne Kirker The Very Idea 1993 ((hris Mann and Oskar Mann) Facilitation and Digital Direction: Malcolm Enright Chris Mann, amplified voice; Warren Burt, piano accordian and arrangementfor piano accordian Digital production: David Parry and The System (10 minutes) The Veryldea was first performed at Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne in July 1993 with spoken Published to coincide with the exhibition 'FLUXUS and after...', Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, text by Chris Mann and his son Oskar on saxophone. The idea was to juxtapose the different 23 December 1993-13 February 1994. acoustics (reverberant halls with saxophone, as opposed to close-miked and slightly amplified Exhibition curator: Anne Kirker voice) available in an art gallery. Atthe Queensland Art Gallery, Warren Burt plays an arrangement of the original saxophone part on piano accordian in juxtaposition with Chris Mann's voice. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data: Fluxus and after - ISBN 0 7242 5687 3. 1. Art, Modern - 20th century - Exhibitions. 2. Fluxus (Group of artists) - Exhibitions. I. Queensland Art Gallery. 709.040780749431