Art Action 1958-1998 Launching

[anna balint]

Performances | Launching of the book ArtAction 1958-1998
Inside the Quebec New York 2001 Event, Le Lieu, centre en art actuel
is hosting a performance evening to celebrate the launch of a book
recounting the Art Action developments between 1958 and 1998.

Friday, September 21, 2001 | 8:00 PM
Actions | Performances: William Pope.L, Carolee Schneemann, Martha Wilson,
Jean Claude Gagnon, Richard Martel, Martin Renaud, Julie Andrée T.

55 Washington Square South
New York, NY 100121
PHONE: 212 477-0351

Video Presentation:
Last Fluxus performances with the participation of Dick Higgins, in Quebec
city during the Art Action meeting of October 1998; Dick Higgins died the
final day of the meeting. The following artists will also be shown: Eric
Andersen, Larry Miller, Esther Ferrer, Charles Dreyfus and others.

Saturday, September 22, 2001| 2:00 PM
Launch party of Art Action 1958-1998 including appearances by artists who
performed the previous night at the Judson Memorial Church.

Printed Matter Inc.
535, West 22nd St.
New York, NY 10011
PHONE: 212 925-0325

Art Action 1958-1998
Art Action 1958-1998 covers four decades of Action Art practices.  It with
discussion about a meeting in Québec City (in October 1998) at which
historic protagonists of diverse forms of Action Art such as the Happening,
Fluxus, ZAJ, Body Art, Action Poetry, and Actionism examined the period
spanning 1958-1978.  As the book continues, Action Art specialists from
twenty-one different geographic zones recount the period from 1978 to 1998.
This is the first time that this period and these territories have been
brought together to be considered in a single volume.

Art Action 1958-1998 offers a broad range of discussion presented by the
following artists and historic proponents of the work: Eric Andersen,
Julien Blaine, Jacques Donguy, Charles Dreyfus, Esther Ferrer, Dick
Higgins, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Pierre Restany and Danièle Roussel.

The bulk of the commentaries published were initially presented at the same
October 1998 meeting in Québec City. This inventory of Action Art worldwide
was compiled by the following specialists: Felipe EHRENBERG (Mexico), Anne
MARSH (Australia), Victor MUÑOZ (Latin America), Seiji SHIMODA (Japan),
Laszlo BEKE (Hungary), Veronica DIESEN (Scandinavia), Lukasz GUZEK
(Poland), Elisabeth JAPPE (Germany, Austria, Holland). Bruce BARBER
(Canada), Alain-Martin RICHARD (Québec), Martha WILSON (East-coast, United
States), Bartolome FERRANDO (Spain), Giovanni FONTANA (Italy), Simon
HERBERT (England), Arnaud LABELLE-ROJOUX (France), Slavka SVERAKOVA
(Ireland), Fernando AGUIAR (Portugal), Gustav UTO (Transylvania), Gabor
Hushegyi  and Michael MURIN (Slovakia), Chumpon APISUK (Thailand), Balint
SZOMBATHY (former Yugoslavia).

Also included in this historic publication is documentation of the actions
presented during this international meeting in Québec City, made by
performance artists, on the theme of the sixties (Larry MILLER), the
seventies (Charlemagne PALESTINE), the eighties (Istvan KANTOR Monty
CANTSIN AMEN) and the nineties (Réparation de poésie).

The introduction is written by Richard MARTEL, who gives a synthesis of
Àction Art practice from Futurism to Situationism in a text entitled "The
Tissues of the Performative"!

This abundantly illustrated book is essential reading for the understanding
of the historical and international context of Action Art phenomena of the
second half of the Twentieth Century; it is the first publication for many
years to ask the central questions and to provide extensive information.
The volume is dedicated to Dick HIGGINS.