Les Gilles de Binche - Belgique
Les Gilles de Binche - City of Binche, Belgium
Photo courtesy of Le carnaval de Binche vu par
30 photographes par 30 photographes et Patrick Haumont
I began a project several years ago entitled, Substitution, that never saw the light of day until now. I asked several artists to complete a sentence “Instead of Making Art I... .” (Au lieu de faire de l'art) which was taken from a 1970’s conceptual project by the artist Frederick Barthelme. Via the fax machine and letters posted to various artists and friends, Barthelme cast his message in a bottle into an ocean of responses. I’ve always had a great interest in conceptual art, a soft spot for Dada & Surrealism, word/text “art” in general, and so liked the simplicity of Barthelme’s project. I realized then that I wanted to do a cover, so to speak of his project by bringing it into the 21st century using the technology of today – email. I encouraged the artists participating, to incorporate digital images, animations, graphics etc. within their responses or by a simple text if so desired. You'll discover I believe, a variety of responses often times surprising, often times very blunt, often times quite funny that are nonetheless worthy of further discussion and investigation of what artists do with their "FREE" time when not making art.
I also welcome you to openly submit your response to "Instead of making art I ... ." by making a comment below. Please include your name, the date and choose a number of the response - i.e. Substitution # ___ between 1 and 100. Thank you.
hi. it's me. maura vazakas. artist, pianist, poet, and writer....whew.... oh, and former new yorker, i mean i grew up there from birth to 22 years - you know the formative ones, lasting impression ones - the best years of my life ones - i kinda still have an accent.
i live to paint and to explore the fundamentals of creativity. i like things that challenge the mind. i'm at my best in the studio, listening to classical music (hands down, prokofiev is my fave. next in line is rachmaninov followed very closely by mr. genius himself, tchaikovsky. funny, they are all russian composers - i'm 1/4 russian), and creating. my paintings have been shown in galleries and museums in san diego, scottsdale, san francisco, los angeles, chicago, dallas and boston. i began drawing at an early age, inspired by my artist mother. museums and galleries of new york were frequent weekend visits, checking out favorite artists such as dali, picasso, and hans hal. i soaked up everything. life was exciting. i pursued a career in music, attending the juillard school and going on to get a masters in piano performance. but my love of art always reigned. in recent years i have written poetry and started on 3 novels. i love reading nabakov, updike, and capote.
i also love architecture. interesting buildings, old ones. history. which brings me to my next point, and i welcome feedback form you guys out there in computer land. i am concerned about how this country tears down old buildings, replacing them with new ones, leveling old barns to build monstrous malls. where is our history, our
heritage going? mozart's cafe in salzburg (he recently celebrated his 250th birthday) is still in existence. the cathedral, where he played organ and conducted his music, is still standing. i am tired of history being lost forever.
i guess that's about it.....oh yeah, i have a website mauravazakas.com check
it out!
Maura also has a dog that plays the piano... K.F.
a light on linden street
was always luminous,
except one night
when i slipped my correspondence
into a mail chute,
i noticed an uneven
flickering of light,
a giant shadow
making painterly gestures
across the walls.
a nurse buzzed,
holding a teacup and a lighted candle,
wearing a dress with bare shoulders.
she whistled for her
slightly scandalous entourage
of six venetian dancers
and costumed animals.
soon the building shook,
puffs of purple smoke
escaped from a row of six chimneys
and odd-shaped peepholes.
i crouched down,
peeked through a padlocked window,
my jaw dropped in amazement.
the world is old.
london is inventing an audience.
by maura vazakas
from "when travel was affordable
"Heart Worn Thin"
"The Abduction"
"Trace"
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This is my good friend Ron DeLegge and myself. Great guy even greater artist. Go see some of Ron's work and other artists I've had the good fortune to deal with at www.H-O-u-s-eH-O-m-e.com
Korean-born (Seoul) video artist Nam June Paik passed away at the age of 73, Sunday January 29, 2006 in Miami. Paik was widely considered the Father of video art. Often outspoken on the arts, Paik was inevitably mis-quoted at times. One of the more notable was during an interview with a Korean journal in saying, " Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before. " A more serious side of Paik revealed this in saying - in his constant belief and pursuit of combining art and technology - that it was " Not how to make another scientific toy, but how to humanize the technology and the electronic medium. "
My friend in Brussels, Michel Cleempoel, has this to say:
Je vous propose d'éteindre votre tv une minute en guise d'hommage.
For those of you who would like to learn and see more of Nam June Paik's artwork, check out his website:
www.paikstudios.com
"Et celle des artistes Fluxus? A-t-elle eu une grande importance pour vous?".
"Une très grande. Pour tout le monde d'ailleurs. Fluxus est une expérience communautaire. Il ne faut pas exagérer mon rôle; chacun a contribué à
"Pour vous, Fluxus, est-ce un concept artistique?".
"Non, c'est un mode de vie. Et puis, on ne peut jamais tout à fait cesser de penser Fluxus"...
From an interview by Dany Bloch with Nam June Paik, Les Nouvelles Littéraires, December 1978, n° 2664.
