November 17, a six hour durational performative happening will take place from 3 PM to 9 PM at The Box, LA. SAVE THE NATURE - USE FLUXUS will include new actions and compositions from Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen, artist and founder of the HC Archive which houses a vast collection of compositions, scores and correspondence of the late Christiansen, and Mark Harwood, founder of the expansive experimental independent label Penultimate Press, archival sound from original actions will be incorporated. Bjørn Nørgaard, pioneering Danish artist and long time collaborator and friend of Henning Christiansen will present Homage to Henning and Joseph, as well as enact an iteration of Manresa, a piece he first collaborated on with Henning Christiansen and Joseph Beuys at Galleri Schmela in Düsseldorf in 1966. Mai Dengsøe Hansen will perform EURASIENSTAB fluxorum organum op. 39. Ursula Reuter Christiansen will make a live painting action as Two Brooms. Special guests from Los Angeles will also take part.
Part of the exhibition Ursula Reuter Christiansen & Henning Christiansen THEY WON’T SURVIVE WITHOUT THE BIRD SONGS at the Box, Los Angeles, USA.
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FLUXUS CAKE
If we don’t know where we came from, we don’t know where to go
On clay tablets 5000 years old you can read what they have harvested in Mesopotamia
In digital tablets you just have to press delete and your whole life disappears
The digital technologies are the largest memory loss in the history of mankind
We all become algorithms without a history and without a future
You have a choice between the flat screen and the deep forest
As Henning Christiansen gave a green ear, and also green eyes a green nose a green tongue and green feet
The world is a sculpture and we are all artists
Let us remodel the world together
The art is where dreams save the future
Our artistic method is aesthetic shocks
What is the use of heartless usefulness?
Growth at any cost is bad growth
Limits to growth and borderless love
Of all the inventions humanity created, money is the worst
Remember, the global reality is serious, but not hopeless
And the global reality is hopeless, but not serious
What is a home without a house? You have the free will until you use it
To live to work or to work to live, your choice
The meaning of society is the human being
Fight for democracy or die with dictatorship
You can choose between tax or corruption
Society is based on 3 pillars: art, science and justice
Self-driving cars and headless people
China has a 100-year plan without democracy
We have democracy without a plan
What you see is not what you see and what you think is not what you see
A culture that builds a wall around itself will die
The last bee
The bee, the air, the water, the earth we got for free
Without those 4, and much more, we are not here
In our economic system in which materialistic values dominate everything
It is all about the money and the amount earnt
The bee, the air, the water, the earth we got for free
It has no value on the market
The most valuable in life has is worthless In the economic systems of today
Our rather nice lifestyle depends on the use of chemicals, pesticides, fertilisers, coal, oil, cars and an unimaginable amount of meat,
this makes profit, it has value
We do not appreciate the gift we have received whereas the stems that systematically breaks down our life blood gets prized
The world is not going to end as
the Danish Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard predicted, with a huge smile, but as Albert Einstein predicted; ‘all the bees disappeared off the surface of the globe then man will
only have 4 years of life left’
However, the greatest strategy is you can’t miss what you don’t know
But the dreams remain, faith, hope and love
The greatest of these is love