Message from Christine Tarantino

FLUX-USA / NEW NEW ART welcomes visitors from over 30 countries daily. Artists, curators, and other arts leaders who want to contribute to this blog, please contact me. tarantinochristine@yahoo.com

The art movement called FLUXUS (1961/2 - 1978) ended a long time ago, but the spirit of 'flowing change' can never end. --Christine Tarantino

Fluxus 50th Anniversary is 2012!

TARANTINO NewNew NEWS

February 2012
Christine Tarantino, "Better Together: Harmony; Radiance; Consciousness; Evolution",
International Mother Language Day Art Exhibit, Kathmandu, NEPAL, by invitation of Rafique Sulayman, Curator.
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-412-better-together-harmony-radiance.html

Christine Tarantino, "Flux-USA Gallery of Stars with Lucy Chew Intervention" http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2011/12/no-403-flux-usa-galaxy.html
exhibited in Group Show: Fluxfest Chicago 2012 (Chicago, USA) FROM THE ARCHIVE Mailart and Fluxus from the archives of Fluxus/St. Louis. Opening reception Chicago Art Institute, Joan Flasch Library.

February online art exhibits from 'The Christine Tarantino Collection' features Belgian artists Guido Vermeulen and Gerson Wenglinski. http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/01/guido-vermeulen-and-gerson-wenglinski.html

January
Christine Tarantino, "RED-BERRY Series" published in "Franticham's Fluxus Assembling Box Nr 17", Redfoxpress, IRELAND.
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-377-red-berry-stained-series.html http://www.redfoxpress.com/ass.box17.html

FAX Exhibit, The DeVos Art Museum, Michigan, USA, curated by Ribas; organized by The Drawing Center and ICI, NYC. TARANTINO "I of the EYE-FAX", asemic writing series: http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-416-i-of-eye-fax.html

Wooden Postcard Exhibit, Stehekin Post Office, Stehekin, Washington, USA. Work by Christine Tarantino: http://christinetarantino.blogspot.com/2012/01/outgoing-wooden-postcards-mail-art.html
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-417-american-women-artists-as-tree.html

Christine Tarantino, "PhotoBooth" work published in new book, "Photobooth Performances" by Ginny Lloyd.
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2011/07/no-379-photobooth-book-performance.html
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/photobooth-performances-by-ginny-lloyd.html

Christine Tarantino, Mail Art and Video Performance at Galleriea Terre Rare, Bologna, Italy, January 28 - February 8, 2012. Project of Maurizio Follin, Italia. http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-commercial-potential-phaze-ii-show.html
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-commercial-potential-phaze-ii-show_29.htm

Christine Tarantino, RED LIPS for Dalai Lama, collage exhibited at Venice Biennial Tibet Pavilion – Palazzo delle Esposizioni Sala Nervi - Torino, project of Ruggero Maggi, Milan, Italy.
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-409-red-lips-for-dalai-llama.html

Christine Tarantino exhibited at Foundation IK New Year Celebration Exhibit "I WISH", The Netherlands, by invitation of Ko de Jonge.
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2011/12/no-406-ik-wens-i-wish.html

The Christine Tarantino Collection, newest Christine Tarantino art blog started on January 1, 2012. Showcasing selected works from my 20 year collection of works on paper from artists around the globe.
http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/

Christine Tarantino-Hjuler BROTKATZE Collaboration exhibited at GALERIE "Offenes Atelier D.U. Design", Austria, Barbara Rapp, Curator.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/brotkatze-catalogue-hjuler.html
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/hjuler-brotkatze-exhibit-austria.html
http://www.offenesatelier.com/kommissar-hjulers-brotkatze-kollaborationen-1401-01022012/
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/austrian-exhibit-tarantino-and-mamabaer.html

31.1.09

A little more humanity please!

Oh Art, have mercy on artless souls!

Chestnut Dream sequel


I baked my box of chestnuts

and they tasted awful

I boiled my box of chestnuts

they tasted worse
I fed my box of chestnuts
to the green finches
-Christine Tarantino

Buddha Cats


video

ART ATTAKS ART!

Suzy launched the twin hot dogs

30.1.09

Snow Poems




Three Snow Poems: Remembering LITTLE SPIRIT , collaboration by Christine Tarantino, birds, & Dawson(photos)

'Closeout'

Postcard collage by Christine Tarantino

FREED*OM by Christine Tarantino

FREED*OM, 2009, Collage, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in / 26 x 19.7 cm, signed and dated, entitled on back
Created for International Mother Language Day Art Exhibition, 2009 , Bangladesh
Sent to Ambassador Waliur Rahman in Dhaka
(by invitation of Rafique Sulayman, Curator)

Street art, Budapest, No.2.

I make this foto today.

unintended street art


street in Montague MA, winter storm newspaper photo

Fishes

Art attacks art!

Praise the medium and pass the paint! Someone told me long ago "If you want to be a masochist, try being an artist".

apparition of joseph beuys on my kitchen wall in 1992


29.1.09

Fluxus Burnout T-shirt

click photo to enter contest

Controle

Joseph Beuys

"Only on condition of a radical widening of definitions will it be possible for art and activities related to art [to] provide evidence that art is now the only evolutionary-revolutionary power. Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build ‘A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART’… EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST who – from his state of freedom – the position of freedom that he experiences at first-hand – learns to determine the other positions of the TOTAL ART WORK OF THE FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER.”
--Joseph Beuys

...writing...

Collaboration with Jakubik Réka.

un nommé Josef Beuys



7 Ways + 1 To Support Artists : "imaginer c'est vivre ; à des degrés divers , tout homme est artiste "

Arts News

7 Ways To Support Artists
In Ireland, artists pay no income tax on earnings below 250,000 euros. In Scandinavian countries, artists deemed to have made significant contributions over the course of a lifetime receive special recognition – and income support – from the government. In Australia, legislation allows artists to average income over a five-year span, protecting them from the highs and lows of chosen careers that promise personal fulfilment at the cost of long-term security. In Canada, we have a lot to learn about how to nurture the people who help us define ourselves, say artists and experts who have studied their economic well-being." Bruce Demara offers seven ideas, ranging from income averaging for tax purposes to affordable live/work space to easier access to credit.
Toronto Star (Canada) 01/19/2009


01/28/2009NEA In Recovery Package
The vast $825-billion economic recovery package unveiled by congressional Democrats on Jan. 15, 2009, does have a tiny little boon for the arts: a $50-million budgetary boost for the National Endowment for the Arts. Despite the modesty of the request -- about 3/500ths of one percent of the total -- some Republicans have already taken issue with the allocation.
artnet 01/20/2009

Walt Whitman


28.1.09

For Belli, by Guido Vermeulen, BELGIUM

Received today from dear friend, Guido Vermeulen

Sitaram oldest avant guard art

in their librairies the Sitarams have the same book with one word , they made like olympic games how many more you'll write sitaram , all copies are collected in their museum temple

Part To Whole: The Art of Reid Wood, 1973-2008



PART TO WHOLE: The Art of Reid Wood, 1973-2008


February 19 - March 25, 2009





Reception: February 19 from 4 to 8 PM
The Beth K. Stocker Gallery
Lorain County Community College
1005 N. Abbe Rd.
Elyria, OH 44035
(Show announcement from Reid Wood/State of Being)

24.1.09

Muffins

Muffins are delicious. Selfmade are best, when they're still warm and slightly sticky.
Paper constellations can be constructed after consumption.
Those paper constellations bear the memory of the moment of delight.

i feed the birds this afternoon

"la poetica del fare"

iced-silence




Chestnut Dream


chestnut dream


i brought my box of chestnuts to a neighborhood party.

everybody ate them.

but the one chestnut someone handed me

had a solid chocolate star in it.




awakening from the 'nether region' this morning

iced sounds of ice

http://audioblog.sonatura.com/?p=73

22.1.09

John Crouse & Jim Leftwich

ACT FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE


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!!! 100 Surprises!!!

I invite all artists to send me a bit of their hair for my !!!100 SURPRISES!!! Mail Art Project.
(I have lots of clear cellophane wrappers)
Send to: Christine Tarantino, POB 121, Wendell MA 01379 USA

cavellinisme

Cavellini looking at a machine to detect cavellini's works

d-icehouses at Art Shanty 2009

Includes "Art on Ice," the first mail art show held in a shanty!