"Artworks are the virtual traces of a ceaseless process of becoming." -- Henri Focillon


"THESE HANDS" call for entries

"THESE HANDS" call for entries
Click photo to view details of newest CHRISTINE TARANTINO project.

FLUX-USA welcomes visitors from over 40 countries daily. Artists, curators, and other arts leaders who wish to contribute to this blog, please contact me. tarantinochristine@yahoo.com

CHRISTINE A. TARANTINO ART NEWS

September 2012

Christine A. Tarantino - Hjuler BROTKATZE collaborations on exhibit at FzKKe Gallery, Germany, Sept. 1 - 30, 2012. http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/09/brotkatzen-exhibit-opens-sept-1.html

With the Blood of a Daylily - Poems & Drawings by the Homeless Poet by Christine A. Tarantino, published by Words of Light:
http://wordsoflightbooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/with-blood-of-daylily-poems-drawings-by.html

THESE HANDS PRAY FOR GERONIMO, a visual poem of American Indians, by Christine A. Tarantino, published by Words of Light:
http://wordsoflightbooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/these-hands-pray-for-geronimo-by.html

Christine A. Tarantino's ECDYSIS, snake skin artist book exhibited with 99 other book artists in Italy, curated by Maddalena Castegnaro. http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/09/mirabilibrimostra-internazionale-di.html

August
Christine A. Tarantino, Sign and Language Group Exhibit, Open Stal, The Netherlands.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/08/christine-tarantino-sign-language-group.html

Christine A. Tarantino series of 40,"Being Human" published by Redfoxpress, Assembling Box #20, Ireland.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/08/assembling-box-20-christine-tarantino.html

RED LIPS - What is Your Version for Me? by Christine Tarantino is published by Words of Light now available in print or eBook formats. New version includes ALL 42 artists from 13 countries plus additional text and images by Christine Tarantino.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-red-lips-book-available-at-lulucom.html

August internet art exhibit @ CHRISTINE TARANTINO COLLECTION features artist STEVE RANDOM. http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/08/steve-random-usa.html

July
WORDS OF LIGHT BOOKS, Art Publications By Contemporary Artists, new blog offering various format books published by Christine A. Tarantino. www.wordsoflightbooks.blogspot.com

Christine A. Tarantino/Words of Light publishes THE SKY EMBRACES THE GREAT WORLD by Walter Festuccia. http://www.lulu.com/shop/walter-festuccia/the-sky-embraces-the-great-world/paperback/product-20294750.html

Christine Tarantino, "Instant Person 1 & 2", self-portraits with Polaroid Camera for POLAROID MADNESS, project of Franticham, Ireland. On-line exhibit and exhibition Kassel, Germany during the DOCUMENTA 2012.http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2012/02/no-426-instant-person-1-2.html
Exhibition "INSTANT PEOPLE"250 polaroid self-portraits by 175 artists from 22 countries.11.– 23. Juli 2012 Zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung am Mittwoch, dem 11. Juli 2012 ab 19 Uhr möchten wir Sie und Ihre Freunde herzlich in denKasseler KunstvereinWerner-Hilpert-Straße 2334117 Kassel, einladen.

Christine A. TARANTINO, "Ecdysis" artist book exhibited at Villa Excelsa, Sannicola, Italia. Curator, Maddalena Castegnaro
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/06/christine-tarantino-anna-boschi-alfonso.html
Opening night: http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/07/naturalia-animalia-artist-book-exhibit.html

July internet art exhibit @ Christine Tarantino Collection features Anna Banana, Darlene Altschul, & John Mountain.
http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/07/anna-banana-darlene-altschul-john.html

June
"THESE HANDS" call for entries, newest project from Christine TARANTINO.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/06/these-hands-newest-christine-tarantino.html

June internet art exhibit @ Christine Tarantino Collection features Antoni Miró.
http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/06/antoni-miro.html

May
"Fear No NewNew Art" artist book published by Redfoxpress, Assembling Box #19, Ireland.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/fluxus-assembling-box-19-redfoxpress.html

"E-mail Between the Artist & Her Lover" artist book exhibited Villa Giulia, Italia. Curator Marisa Cortese.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/tarantino-artist-book-villa-giulia.html

"WHO AM I?" artist book exhibited Mostra Internazionale, Italia. Curator Virginia Milici.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/tarantino-artist-book-who-am-i-in.html

"RED LIPS of Christine Tarantino", art booklet by Bruno Chiarlone published in Italy. http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/red-lips-of-christine-tarantino-by.html

May internet art exhibit @ CHRISTINE TARANTINO COLLECTION features artist RYOSUKE COHEN.
http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/05/ryosuke-cohen-japan.html

April
Christine TARANTINO, "RED LIPS FOR DALAI LAMA" exhibition @ INviso, Padiglione TIBET, Associazione
Sal Viana frazione Saliana Pianello del Lario (CO)curated by Ruggero Maggi. http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/04/inviso-padiglione-tibet-cura-di-ruggero.html

April internet art exhibit @ CHRISTINE TARANTINO COLLECTION features artists Daniel C. Boyer and Richard Canard. http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/2012/04/daniel-c-boyer-richard-canard.html

March
Christine Tarantino, "NEWNEW ART Mono-Prints" published in
"Franticham's Fluxus Assembling Box Nr 18", Redfoxpress, IRELAND.
http://wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/2011/11/no-402-newnew-mono-print-series.html
http://www.redfoxpress.com/ass.box18.html


DODODADIANI featured this month in internet art exhibit at
Christine Tarantino Collection. Dododadiani internet art exhibit.
http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2012/03/dododadiani-christine-tarantino.html

February
RED LIPS Project: What is your version for me? Send to:
tarantinochristine@yahoo.com or RED LIPS, Box 121, Wendell, MA 01379 USA
"Sometimes I need red apple. Sometimes I need red
lips."--
Nam June Paik
Your RED LIPS art modification will yield online documentation, mailed
documentation, and potential publication. Please include a mailing address with
your submission.

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

27.10.09

Alison Knowles

announcements@sararanchouse.comALISON KNOWLES PERFORMANCE AND BOOK RELEASE
PRINTED MATTER, INC.
195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd), NYC

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009, 5-7PM

Please join Sara Ranchouse Publishing at Printed Matter, Inc.,
195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd), NYC, on Friday,
November 6 from 5-7pm, for the publication release of "Plah
Plah Pli Plah" by artist Alison Knowles. Knowles will be present
to sign copies of her book.

"Plah Plah Pli Plah" documents the sounds, performance and
material of Knowles’ handmade paper and dried bean instrument
“Bean Turners.” It includes transcriptions of the instruments’
sounds, images of Knowles performing, scores, and a “bean page
instrument,” fabricated especially for this project at the Columbia
College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago.

Knowles and others of her Bean Turner Ensemble will perform her
instruments throughout the evening. Don’t miss this opportunity
to see and hear Alison’s amazing instruments live and to support
the publication of "Plah Plah Pli Plah."

If you won’t be in New York, you can purchase "Plah Plah Pli Plah"
and other of Knowles’ books online at: www.sararanchouse.com.
Shipping is free within the US (mention this email) if you place your
order before November 30, 2009.

ALISON KNOWLES is a visual artist known for her soundworks,
installations, performances, publications and association with Fluxus,
the experimental avant-garde group formally founded in 1962. Since
the early 1960s, she has traveled and performed throughout Europe,
Asia and United States. Some of her seminal book projects include
"Notations," a book of experimental composition that she designed
and co-edited with John Cage (1968, Something Else Press), and "The
Big Book" (1967), a walk-in book comprised of 8 ft. pages around a
center spine, permitting the spectator/reader to physically go inside
of the book. "Bean Rolls," a canned book, appeared in the Whitney
Museum exhibition The American Century (2000), and in 1968, "The
House of Dust," programmed with the help of composer Jim Tenney,
was recognized as the first computer poem on record, winning her a
Guggenheim Fellowship. For more information about Alison Knowles,
please visit: www.aknowles.com.

SARA RANCHOUSE PUBLISHING was founded in 1993 to promote printed
matter, especially the book, as a space in which to make and read visual
art and unconventional texts. We are interested in found, rearranged and
recontextualized texts, images and materials; in the significance of the
physical make-up and production requirements of a publication in relation
both to its content and to its subsequent functional and economic life; and
in the pursuit of collaborative projects, especially those that resuscitate
material that has been under acknowledged. Alison Knowles’ early score
and publication, "The Identical Lunch" (1969), is one of our favorite books
of all time and we are so pleased to be able to offer a Knowles title
ourselves, forty years later! For more information about Sara Ranchouse
Publishing, visit: www.sararanchouse.com or write info@sararanchouse.com.

PRINTED MATTER INC. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the
appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and other
artists’ publications. Printed Matter maintains a public reading room where
over 15,000 titles by 5,000 international artists are available for viewing
and purchase. For more information about Printed Matter, Inc., please
visit: http://printedmatter.org.

PLANET MANUAL, Chapt. 2 Critical Advances in Knowledge


from Mariano Bellarosa


from D.C. Spaulding


25.10.09

postcard


non siamo artisti siamo ferrovieri, I Santini del Prete

(kindness of Santini del Prete)

Words of Light, artist book by Tarantino




Words of Light, 2009, box assemblage artist book, 12 x 16 x 16 cm., wood box with words, containing gold foil scroll with handwritten words, nestled in red tissue paper, signed and dated, Christine Tarantino 2009.
Created for 2009 Artist Book Competition, CULTURAL ASSOCIATION PRESIDIUM VERBAMANENT_BOOK, Italia; additionally to be used for traveling exhibitions of books and to become part of Archive of Book Artists DROSOS.

24.10.09

call for submissions, mail art, ITALIA


(kindness of Tiziana Baracchi)

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presents John Cage and Ray Johnson, e-flux




Concert for Piano and Orchestra,1957-58Page 9 Print on paper 32.5 x 23 cm Copyright © 1960, 1988 by Henmar Press, Inc.
Used by permission of C.F. Peters Corporation. All rights reserved
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)Plaça dels Àngels, 108001 Barcelonahttp://www.macba.cat MACBA forthcoming exhibitions:A major retrospective of the works, thoughts and influences of John Cage, as well as an extensive presentation of the work of Ray Johnson, are two major features of the autumn programme at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA). Cage and Johnson, both American artists, knew each other during their lifetimes. Although independently curated, the decision to show the two exhibitions in the Museum at the same time highlights the fact that both artists were concerned with inventing a language that addressed the ascendency of the contemporary versus the modern. They shared a common attempt to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of the modern project, that is, the ways in which we know what constitutes culture and what does not. Language cannot be reflected in the transparency of signs, therefore through their work we are forced to invent, to create new methods to recall the world.--e-flux

PLANET MANUAL Part 1 Tools, Causality


20.10.09

Wood You Rock Me @ 3?





Sent to contributing artists
Video, two versions; 25 minutes & 10 minute YouTube; artists' contributions

Documentation

MAURIZIO FOLLIN, Italia

JENNIFER ZOELLNER, USA



Wood Event for Christine Tarantino 1
simple paper envelope
secret object
fire

Wood Event for Christine Tarantino 2
The performance area is swept in ever diminishing concentric circles.
The sweepings are folded into a paper construction of the performers choice.
This may include a simple sheet of paper folded in two.
The paper is burned.

Wood Event for Christine Tarantino 3
Fire?
Fire.
Fire!



ALAN BOWMAN, ITALIA




BILL EVERTSON, USA


MELISSA McCARTHY, USA

DON BOYD, USA

BRUNO CHIARLONE, ITALIA


FRED WILDER, USA
ALFONSO CACCAVALE, ITALIA


YVES MARAUX, FRANCE

PIERPAOLO LIMONGELLI, ITALIA

WOLFGANG SKODD, GERMANY

ROLAND HALBRITTER, GERMANY


CHRISTINE TARANTINO, USA


PETER DOWKER, CANADA

DOMENICO SEVERINO, ITALIA

JONATHAN STANGROOM, USA

MARCI KATZ, CANADA

JOHN M. BENNETT, USA

BILL THOMSON, CANADA


KEITH BUCHHOLZ, USA

DAWSON, USA



ELISA LINDSTEDT, FINLAND

JONATHAN STANGROOM, USA

REID WOOD, USA

What? Send a piece of wood by December 3rd, 2009
Where? Christine Tarantino
P.O. Box 121
Wendell, MA 01379 USA
Why? I will create a structure from all the pieces of wood you send me.
Then I will build a totem using rocks with participants' initials.
The wooden structure will be burned and the ashes will be sent to you as part of the project documentation.
The rock totem will stand as long as it wants to.