Brief Talk on Be Kind Rewind, Social Practice Art and Fluxus

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Be Kind Rewind , Fluxus,

and a people-based,

post-object art practice

Sunday, April 10, 2011



what is social practice art?




It is a community art approach that is

concept-based but still tangible — with real-

world goals, processes and outcomes. Itisnʼt off putting, esoteric, or intentionally

pointless like some conceptual art (I really

like that kind of stuff too, by the way).




Made for Each Other, Pictures of You 2009Sunday, April 10, 2011



Social practice art tends to be positive,hopeful, helpful in small and big ways,

and involves non-art people as

participants in the process. The processis the art product as objects arenʼt

always created. When objects are part

of it, they tend to be temporary andephemeral — and are secondary to the

process and its social outcomes.




Made for Each Other, collage creatures 2010Sunday, April 10, 2011



Made for Each Other,

collage creatures 2010Sunday, April 10, 2011



Art about other

people (besides

the artist) iseasier for other

people to enjoy.

above: ThriftStore Music;left: SevenSimultaneousLectures atCentral Library2010




who are you and what do you wantat Big Car, 2008




collage party at Big Car, 2009Sunday, April 10, 2011



Be Kind Rewind

The movie is about creativity, community andlifeʼs intermingled truths and falsehoods.

Inspired by making the film with non-actors onlocation, director Michel Gondry decided totake things a step further and do a project in2008 that allowed people to make movies inan art space (at Deitch Projects in New York)where he built really cool movie sets.



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"'Professional artists' are not encouraging 'ordinary'people to be creative. Recently, someone from acreative field approached me and said, 'It's amazing, Isaw my best friend from school the other day, and hetold me he had just worked with you. It's such a smallworld.' 'Yes, it is a small world because we don't shareit,' I answered. I believe that those, like myself, whohave the privilege to make a living with their hobby relyon the rest of the world to buy our product and occupy

themselves in their spare time instead of making theirown entertainment." — Michel Gondry




so he decided to share




Text

People signed up for times, gathered in teams andfollowed Gondryʼs specific protocol for writing,storyboarding, and shooting a short film. Then theyshot it in order — creating a film without any editing.




Then it went in the video store for people to watch.




next stop: Service Center in 2012




A minute for Fluxus

Itʼs more along the lines of the intentionallypointless conceptual art I mentioned earlier.Sure, there were clearly social aspects — and

some political ones — to the Fluxusperformances created in the 1960s. But most ofthese brief “event scores” are small expressionsof creativity that work like poems or songs thatrequire a performer — and often an audience —to do things with their bodies.




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Lukas Schooler eating an orange with the peel on

as part of our 2011 Fluxus events in 2011Sunday, April 10, 2011

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BREATH PIECEBreathe. 1966

FLY

Fly.

1963




MOVIE TIME!

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