Food for Thought
U-TURNs satellite-exhibition in Stege, M�n
Food for Thought is an exhibition that points out the importance of Fluxus for contemporary art and its special connection to M�n, which has been a centre for experimental art in the last half of
the 20th century. It is often arts fleeing, playful and experimental character that is emphasised by Fluxus art.
In Food for Thought the exhibition examines the meal - as a picture of social and daily aspects that are framed by the art and plays with the forms and conventions of music. The exhibition consists of works that communicate directly with the audience's senses and appeals to them to join in. It pays a tribute to the playfulness of people, to poetry and our creative forces. With his work Flux Ping-Pong, George Machunas tongue-in-cheek invites to a game of ping-pong, and in his 1991 work Mozart Mix, John Cage leaves it up to the audience to sample their own compositions based on extracts from 25 works of Mozart.
With Food for Thought, the former sugar factory will be inaugurated as a new regional cultural centre in Denmark. The exhibition is an expression for U-TURN's desire to highlight the regional art world as well as the international network's importance.
The exhibition will also raise the question of how we historicise avant-garde heritage - not least the more fleeting and performing practices which nothing less than revolutionised the term which we use today.
A large number of the works originate from the collection of Ren� Block, a German curator and art collector, on M�n. The collection includes legendary, older Fluxus works and newer works, which in various ways take up the thread from Fluxus.
In Food for Thought the exhibition examines the meal - as a picture of social and daily aspects that are framed by the art and plays with the forms and conventions of music. The exhibition consists of works that communicate directly with the audience's senses and appeals to them to join in. It pays a tribute to the playfulness of people, to poetry and our creative forces. With his work Flux Ping-Pong, George Machunas tongue-in-cheek invites to a game of ping-pong, and in his 1991 work Mozart Mix, John Cage leaves it up to the audience to sample their own compositions based on extracts from 25 works of Mozart.
With Food for Thought, the former sugar factory will be inaugurated as a new regional cultural centre in Denmark. The exhibition is an expression for U-TURN's desire to highlight the regional art world as well as the international network's importance.
The exhibition will also raise the question of how we historicise avant-garde heritage - not least the more fleeting and performing practices which nothing less than revolutionised the term which we use today.
A large number of the works originate from the collection of Ren� Block, a German curator and art collector, on M�n. The collection includes legendary, older Fluxus works and newer works, which in various ways take up the thread from Fluxus.
George Maciunas,
Flux Ping-Pong
, 1976. Courtesy Ren� Block.