Steve Carr is participating in an online project called ‘GRAM IT’ which relates to American Fluxus artist, Ken Friedman’s 92 Events, installed in the Adam Art Gallery’s Upper Chartwell Gallery of the Adam Art Gallery. This exhibition brings together 92 of Friedman’s texts, conceived, written, and sometimes performed over four decades, as his contribution to Fluxus, the international movement that developed its anarchic and anti-materialist approach to art making in the 1950s.
Drawing on the ethos and modus operandi of Fluxus, and with the full approval of the artist, they have developed the idea of pairing Friedman’s texts with practitioners who they think would enjoy the opportunity of responding to his work.
Steve was invited to read the accompanying text work by Friedman and realise it in whichever way he saw fit, sending documentation to the Adam Art Gallery in a format they can share on Instagram.
They have matched each participant with a work and there was no requirement to re-enact the instruction; being open to interpret it in any way that wished.
12 invitations were sent, and one open call. This is now online via the Adam Art Gallery Facebook page, and Steve encourages all students to apply. Steve’s response will appear on the Adam Art Gallery Instagram and it will be archived on their website. His work response will also be published along with Friedman’s text so the relationship will be evident.
APPLICATION IFORMATION:
We’re launching ‘GRAM IT’, a series of responses to our current exhibition ‘Ken Friedman: 92 Events’ to be shared here on our Instagram account. We’ve paired select events with New Zealand practitioners and invited their responses, so stay tuned as we share these over the duration of the exhibition.
OPEN CALL:
As part of ‘GRAM IT’, we invite you, the public to send us your response to Ken Friedman’s event ‘Centre Piece’, image above.
The exhibition ‘Ken Friedman: 92 Events’ brings together 92 of Friedman’s texts, conceived, written, and sometimes performed over four decades, as his contribution to Fluxus, the international movement that developed its anarchic and anti-materialist approach to art making in the 1950s.
Drawing on the ethos and modus operandi of Fluxus, we invite you to read ‘Centre Piece’ and realise it in whichever way you see fit, sending documentation to us in a format we can share as a story on Instagram. Feel free to provide your Instagram handle so we can tag you in our post. Email responses to ann.gale@vuw.ac.nz.
Images: Ken Friedman, ‘Centre Piece’, 2003; Installation view of ‘Ken Friedman: 92 Events’, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi at Victoria University Wellington
