The Day de Dada art nurses had a great weekend at Fluxfest Chicago. Our performance went well and was appreciated by the audience. We met a lot of wonderful Fluxus artists and saw a lot of other interesting work too. We were excited that Yoko Ono liked what we were doing and added it to her web site.
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I learned that in 1967 Charlotte Moorman organized the "5th Annual Avant Garde Festival" on the Staten Island ferryboat- John F. Kennedy with approximately a hundred artists' kinetic-light artworks, sculptures, videotape recorder compositions, environments, and computer compositions as well as jazz, poetry, electronic music, Happenings, chamber music, and dance. It was a 24-hour event and participants included Christo, Al Hansen, Geoffrey & Bici Hendricks, Ray Johnson, Moorman, Nam June Paik, Sun Ra, Carolee Schneemann, and Bob Watts. Ken Dewey got the fire-department boats which shoot huge streams of water, to shoot their water over the harbor. The festival began with that piece and a piece by Allan Kaprow in which all the cars on the ferry and various people with foghorns blew their horns in unison.
Moorman estimated that forty thousand people came to see the festival in a
twenty- four-hour period, and said "When we finished, Staten Island wasn't any the worse for it." Wonder if any Staten Islander who were around then remember it?
And so April 11 - 16 is Fluxfest NYC and Saturday April 16 the Fluxus artist will once again venture onto the ferry and this time into Staten Island. What will happen that day?
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