Art Administrations' Birthday - (celebration started in the virtual world of Second Life, February 19th 2007)
International Current Art • Research & Development Institution (ICA•RDI) - Proposition for Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (est. 2002/inc. 2009)
THE VIRTUAL ARTISTS ALLIANCE GROUP Posted February 22, 2007 (below)
This post regarding a Second Life Friends of ICA•RDI action - February 19th 2007 - the first Art Administrations' Birthday celebration
Refer to link < http://virtualartistsalliance.blogspot.ca/2007/02/february-19th-is-art-administrations.html >
Art Administrations' Birthday... for Emmett Williams: "Little Fluxus People" Invade the Reuter's Building in Second Life (SL)
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VIRTUAL ARTISTS ALLIANCE
THE OFFICIAL BLOG FOR THE VIRTUAL ARTISTS ALLIANCE GROUP IN YOU-KNOW-WHERE
Published February 22, 2007
February 19th 2007 Art Administrations' Birthday...
for Emmett Williams: "Little Fluxus People" Invade the Reuter's Building in Second Life (SL)
Friends of ICA•RDI confered in the atrium of Reuters Building (Second Life) on February 19th, 2007 to acknowledge Art Administrations'
Birthday. A little over a month after “Art’s Birthday” (January 17th), just under a million years ago, the object (a sponge in a bucket of water) from the
“Birth of Art” was discovered, labeled artwork, acquistitioned, evaluated, documented, conserved/cared for, placed on exhibit and pedagogically interpreted.
PRESS RELEASE
BL Niven, Director of ICA•RDI in Second Life (SL), will confer with members of the art community and the press in the atrium of the Reuters SL Building, to designate February 19th as officially 'Art Administrations' Birthday'.
ACTION VS OBJECTS - "Art's Birthday" was the action - "the dropping of a dry sponge in a bucket of water" NOT what 'Art Administrations' Birthday' celebrates "the sponge in the bucket of water"
While "Art's Birthday" (http://artsbirthday.net/) is remembered by relatively underground artists' events, 'Art Administrations' Birthday', although indirectly pointing to the former, is expected to be its own highly promoted and financially supported celebration.
ICA•RDI is interested in the status of the artist in society.
Report from the event on Wirxli Flimflams blog HERE.
My Photoshop remix snapshot of the event, above & below.
Ok, let's try to crack the codes of this mysterious event...
Art's Birthday: 17th January, an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou, born 17th of January 1926, died 1987.
ICA•RDI: International Current Art Research & Developmentnt Institute
Director of ICA•RDI: BL Niven aka artist, curator, art administrator Brian L. MacNevin. ICA•RDI is his idea and vision for the development of the town Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he is from. This website presents his ideas or proposal: < icardi.ca >
(Old town Lunenburg has been on UNESCOs World Heritage list since 1995. Take a panographic tour HERE! )
MacNevin's proposal in short: Lunenburg hosting an international artist-in-resident program as well as a symposium on the status of the artist.
Brian L. MacNevin says: NSCAD (Nova Scotia Collage of Art and Design) has now set up an "artist in residence" in Lunenburg. ICA•RDI hasn't exactly "failed" there, it's become something else now... it's move on, it's mobile...
Well, ICA•RDI and mr. MacNevin has gone virtual, been born into Second Life, and already given us one more occation for having a party: Art Administrations' birthday.
And mr. BL Niven has founded a new Second Life group: Friends of ICA•RDI. "International Current Art Research & Development Institute (ICA•RDI) is interested in conferring with artists internationally regarding the status of the artist in society. ICA•RDI is establishing a presence, an "office", in Second Life to continue this R & D, by way of organizing symposia/conferences, exhibitions & presentations of current art and hosting an artist in residency program all of which focus on the role of the artist in their community."
BL Niven dedicated the event last Monday, 19th of February, to the late Emmett Willams, who died on February 14th. See a post on Jan Hermans blog: Emmett Williams, RIP
MacNevin's son is named after Emmett Williams. MacNevin's son is born on February 19th.
Well, we are very much looking forward to see all the wonderful ideas of BL Niven aka Brian Lee MacNevin come alive in Second Life!
Written by Plurabelle Posthorn
POSTED BY NINSVE AT 2/22/2007 01:36:00 PM
Published February 22, 2007
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Art Administrations' Birthday... for Emmett Williams on February 19th 2007 "Little Fluxus People" Invade the Reuter's Building in Second Life (Emmett Williams died February 14th 2007) Second Life Avatar BL Niven second from the left |
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Art Administrations' Birthday - February 19th Art administration deals mainly with art as a noun (i.e. the objects). A few years ago being involved in art administration I thought it would be a good idea to celebrate Art Administrations' Birthday (est. 2007). It of course occurs after "Art's Birthday". Robert Filliou suggested that art was a verb, the action word, and he gave it a birthday, he said that art was born on January 17th when a dry sponge was dropped in a bucket of water. So a little over a month after "Art's Birthday" on February 19th (my son Emmett's birthday) I declared was Art Administrations' Birthday, it was the day when that saturated sponge from the birth of art (about a month after the action, a million years ago according to Filliou) was found floating in a bucket of water by an art administrator. And so began the celebration of Art Administrations' Birthday, which celebrates art the noun (e.g. the saturated sponge floating in a bucket of water). Therefore a little over a month after “Art’s Birthday” (January 17th) just under a million years ago, the object (the saturated sponge in a bucket of water) from the birth of art was discovered, labeled artwork, acquistitioned, evaluated, documented, conserved/cared for, placed on exhibit, historically contextualized and pedagogically interpreted.
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Art Administrations' Birthday - February 19th Art administration deals mainly with art as a noun (i.e. the objects). A few years ago being involved in art administration I thought it would be a good idea to celebrate Art Administrations' Birthday (est. 2007). It of course occurs after "Art's Birthday". Robert Filliou suggested that art was a verb, the action word, and he gave it a birthday, he said that art was born on January 17th when a dry sponge was dropped in a bucket of water. So a little over a month after "Art's Birthday" on February 19th (my son Emmett's birthday) I declared was Art Administrations' Birthday, it was the day when that saturated sponge from the birth of art (about a month after the action, a million years ago according to Filliou) was found floating in a bucket of water by an art administrator. And so began the celebration of Art Administrations' Birthday, which celebrates art the noun (e.g. the saturated sponge floating in a bucket of water). Therefore a little over a month after “Art’s Birthday” (January 17th) just under a million years ago, the object (the saturated sponge in a bucket of water) from the birth of art was discovered, labeled artwork, acquistitioned, evaluated, documented, conserved/cared for, placed on exhibit, historically contextualized and pedagogically interpreted.
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Khyber ICA Artistic Director 2008 Takes A Stand
Exchange Agreement, BL MacNevin, 2008
Several stories regarding exchange.
January 17th is Art's Birthday - In 1963 Robert Filliou declared January 17th (Filliou's birthday) to be Art's Birthday as an annual exchange-art event. He stated that art began a million years ago when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water.
February 19th is Art Administrations' Birthday - In 2007 BL Niven, Director of ICA•RDI in Second Life declared February 19th to be Art Administrations' Birthday. He stated that a little over a month after "Art's Birthday", just under a million years ago, the object (the saturated sponge floating in a bucket of water) was discovered, labeled artwork, acquisitioned, evaluated, documented, conserved/cared for, placed on exhibit and pedagogically interpreted.
On display in the administrative office of the Khyber ICA from January 17th to February 19th, 2008 is a work by BL MacNevin entitled Exchange Agreement. The piece consists of two buckets linked together, a bucket of dirt linked to a saturated sponge floating in a bucket of water.
Several stories regarding exchange.
January 17th is Art's Birthday - In 1963 Robert Filliou declared January 17th (Filliou's birthday) to be Art's Birthday as an annual exchange-art event. He stated that art began a million years ago when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water.
February 19th is Art Administrations' Birthday - In 2007 BL Niven, Director of ICA•RDI in Second Life declared February 19th to be Art Administrations' Birthday. He stated that a little over a month after "Art's Birthday", just under a million years ago, the object (the saturated sponge floating in a bucket of water) was discovered, labeled artwork, acquisitioned, evaluated, documented, conserved/cared for, placed on exhibit and pedagogically interpreted.
On display in the administrative office of the Khyber ICA from January 17th to February 19th, 2008 is a work by BL MacNevin entitled Exchange Agreement. The piece consists of two buckets linked together, a bucket of dirt linked to a saturated sponge floating in a bucket of water.
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Khyber ICA Condos Proposition, 2008
(opposed diminished expectations) Khyber ICA letterhead & business cards, 2008 Design by Mike Hanlon Hanlon Marketing Design Inc, Halifax, NS |
The bucket of dirt refers to the work by Allan Kaprow in which he exchanged the dirt in his bucket, i.e. he offered you his bucket of dirt to be replaced by your dirt, each new dirt held a story, the bucket functioned as a container for exchange like an art gallery.
The dirt in this bucket comes from the basement of the Khyber Building, from the base of the old brick basement walls, this dirt has bits & pieces of brick in it that fell off the Khyber Building's basement walls, part of the building's very old foundation. This bucket of dirt is a representation of Allan Kaprow's bucket of dirt and is linked to a representation of Robert Filliou's art object from the birth of art. As fundraiser for the Khyber Arts Society, this work is entitled Exchange Agreement, the value required for this work is $10,000, the amount now (February 2008) needed by the society to cover a deficit in this year's budget. The Khyber Arts Society can offer a non-profit association charitable status tax receipt for the patronage. The Exchange Agreement (sponge in a bucket of water linked to a bucket of dirt from the Khyber Building basement) is still for sale, sale price of this work still stands, the funds will go to the Khyber Art Society towards their exhibition programming budget. |
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Working Late (above) - BL cleans up an artist run centre (Khyber ICA) on Art's Birthday, January 17th, 2009 as a public service, later he had tea and cake.
February 19th, 2009 Art Administrations' Birthday (right) - BL files the photo documentation at the Khyber Arts Society of him cleaning up the artist run centre (Khyber ICA) on Art's Birthday, January 17th, 2009, later he had tea and cake. |
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White Shirt & Tie Wall (for Garry)
ICA•RDI Dawson House studio, 2009 (as wall art insulation) I use to work at the Khyber Arts Society as Artistic Director (plus Khyber Building Manager and Khyber Building Superintendent for HRM), to give a sense of professionalism to the position I wore a white shirt and tie. So every time I visited a 2nd hand clothing store I would purchase one or two 100% cotton white shirts and ties. The White Shirt & Tie Wall (for Garry) is 27 of the purchases that I made and wore while working at the Khyber ICA. ICA•RDI Superintendent Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19th, 2010 ICA•RDI office/studio Dawson House, winter 2009/2010 |
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Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19th, 2010
History A little over a month after Art’s Birthday (January 17th, Art's Birthday celebrates art, the action, the verb, i.e. according to Filliou, the birth of art occurred “when someone dropped a dry sponge in a bucket of water”), then just over a million years ago, the object (the saturated sponge in a bucket of water) from the “Birth of Art” was discovered, labeled artwork, acquistitioned, evaluated, documented, conserved/cared for, placed on exhibit and pedagogically interpreted = Art Administrations' Birthday. Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19th, celebrates art, the object, the noun, e.g. like the saturated sponge floating in a bucket of water... or the ancient cave paintings in Altair and Lascaux considered the beginning of art history. Happy Birthday Emmett! |
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Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19th, 2011 destroyed academic art administration office |
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Artists can place their focus on idea, or materials, or process/technique, but the best art product occur when the three are inextricably linked...
we reference what we like of the past.
we reference what we like of the past.
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ICA•RDI Strike - One man parade, Lunenburg Waterfront, 2011
ICA•RDI Strike - One man parade, Revolution Square, Cuba, 2012
ICA•RDI studio, King Street, Bridgewater, Art's Birthday, January 17, 2012
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King Street, Bridgewater, Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19, 2012
Art's Birthday, January 17th 2013
Reversed Panorama of Lunenburg Waterfront
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Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19th, 2013 Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19th, 2014
Untitled Photo The Blue Boy (out standing in his yard):
The ICA•RDI Ambassador Status of the Artist Advocate
Untitled Photo The Blue Boy (out standing in his yard):
The ICA•RDI Ambassador Status of the Artist Advocate
He said he was a "contextual/situational aesthetics institutional critique artist", and she said, “Can you draw?". Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19th 2015 Snow job drawing (with camera lucida) later he had tea and cake |
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Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19th 2016
Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19th 2016
ICA•RDI Ambassador installs a pile of a Centre for Art tapes administrative document as gallery handouts (the two-sided document below*) on the art gallery’s “FREE” documents table in the middle of the Centre for Art tapes archive exhibition at Dalhousie Art Gallery entitled “Why are we saving All these publications + Other Galleries stuff? - The Emergence of Artist-run Culture in Halifax”, January 22 to April 17, 2016, later he had tea and cake.
(*Note: "U-Talk-Too-Much-Art", I like the expression of this photo, given this exhibition context, should I have even bothered to create this document? There are others, who were not there, that are now writing the history of artist-run culture in Halifax, Nova Scotia.)
ICA•RDI Ambassador installs a pile of a Centre for Art tapes administrative document as gallery handouts (the two-sided document below*) on the art gallery’s “FREE” documents table in the middle of the Centre for Art tapes archive exhibition at Dalhousie Art Gallery entitled “Why are we saving All these publications + Other Galleries stuff? - The Emergence of Artist-run Culture in Halifax”, January 22 to April 17, 2016, later he had tea and cake.
(*Note: "U-Talk-Too-Much-Art", I like the expression of this photo, given this exhibition context, should I have even bothered to create this document? There are others, who were not there, that are now writing the history of artist-run culture in Halifax, Nova Scotia.)
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Each administrative two-sided document (above) is initialled and dated for Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19, 2016 and is created for the Centre for Art tapes archive exhibition at Dalhousie Art Gallery entitled “Why are we saving All these publications + Other Galleries stuff? - The Emergence of Artist-run Culture in Halifax”, January 22 to April 17, 2016. Above right: BL MacNevin, Centre for Art tapes, Founding Director, 1978, photos by Chris Reardon.
Straightening Nails, January/February 2017
Straightening Nails, January/February 2017
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Straightening Nails - Between Art’s Birthday (January 17th) and Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19th 2017, the ICA•RDI Ambassador 1. examined, 2. categorized & labeled, 3. straightened, Heritage Square Nails, South Shore Nova Scotia, Canada. Long winters spent on the South Shore of Nova Scotia straightening the heritage home renovation square nails from the ICA•RDI inventory priceless collection.
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Levitating Heritage Nail
(Nail # L-024 from the ICA•RDI heritage home renovation square nail inventory collection)
(Nail # L-024 from the ICA•RDI heritage home renovation square nail inventory collection)
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Sweeping Man, 2018 
Sweeping Man Working The Icing, Art's Birthday, January 17, 2018
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ICA•RDI Patronage - The Twin Brothers
Lunenburg Waterfront Development 
Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19th 2018
Public Art Administration - ‘Re/presentation of South Shore Signage’ (2018, after a 2016 artifact)), installed on the front lawn at the ICA•RDI Residence for Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19th 2018. ICA•RDI has an ongoing interest in pointing to "heritage" artifacts and their re/presentation as current art that relate to cultural, social, economic & political issues (Current Art Vs. Heritage Dialectic) on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. |
PAN-PAN SHOW - Weekly - Thursdays @ 6pm (AST)
Live 'Friends of ICA•RDI' Facebook broadcast, January 17, 2019 at 6pm (AST) ‘HAPPY ART’S BIRTHDAY, JANUARY 17, 2019' - Audio by Robert Filliou (17 January 1926 - 2 December 1987) - This recording of Robert Filliou giving his lecture a ‘Whispered History of Art’ was recorded at New Wilderness Studio in New York by Ondine Fiore in December 1977. Robert Filliou was a French Fluxus, actions, performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, as well as art theorist and pedagogue. 'a career more interested in the backstory than the visual appearance of the artwork - turning artifacts into art’ https://www.facebook.com/blmacnevin/videos/10156010234280980/ |
'Happy Art Administrations’ Birthday', February 19th 2019 Sponge in a bucket of water linked to a bucket of dirt installed in front of ‘Farley Mowat Name Memorial Public Sculpture With Heritage House, 2013-2018’ ICA•RDI Ambassador documents the 'Exchange Agreement' (2008) placed in front of the Farley Mowat sculpture on Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19th, 2019, later he had tea and cake. |
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Happy Art's Birthday, January 17th 2020
Inside/Outside - Inhibition Exhibition, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia 
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Happy Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19th 2020
ICA•RDI support postsecondary pedagogy as 'an exchange of ideas' rather than the teaching of art as 'a series of traditional disciplined departmentalized prerequisite credit structured vocational trades or guilds for craft based skills' which our art colleges have become. Post 2020 pandemic, there has to be a 'current art versus heritage dialectic’... how does art presentation function? 
Drawing In Space Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19th 2020
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2021 Art's Birthday, January 17th - Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Art's Birthday Notice
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HAPPY ART'S BIRTHDAY 2021
ICA•RDI Ambassador on Art's Birthday, January 17, 2021 (early morning) with a piece of the Berlin Wall installed in front of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch No. 23, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. ICA•RDI Conferral 
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...with a piece of the Berlin Wall
Art's Birthday, January 17th 2021, Lunenburg |
ICA•RDI Art Administrations' Birthday 2021
ICA•RDI Art Administrations' Birthday 2021
ICA•RDI Spill
Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19th 2021 |
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Art's Birthday, January 17, 2022 - another year rolls around...
"and so on and so soon" - Robert Filliou
“grand idea, need grand victim, sorry... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work" - Jan Swidzinski
Art's Birthday, January 17, 2022 - another year rolls around...
"and so on and so soon" - Robert Filliou
“grand idea, need grand victim, sorry... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work" - Jan Swidzinski
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The January 17th Manifesto - In the manner of Robert Filliou - 'Art is a Verb' - because Art after February 19th was/is often used as a national currency.
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Guardian Angel Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19, 2022 and carry on... "...he came to a broombush. He sat down underneath. He wanted to die and said: 'It is too much for me, my lord; let me die for I am no better than my forefathers.' Then he lay down under the broombush and fell asleep. But suddenly an angel nudged him and said to him: 'Get up and eat.' He looked up and saw at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a pitcher of water." Later the ICA•RDI Ambassador had tea and cake... 
Seagull As Guardian Angel, 2022
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Faded Angel, in memory of Dan Graham (March 31, 1942 - February 19, 2022) - Dan died on Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19, 2022 - "...he came to a broombush. He sat down underneath. He wanted to die and said: 'It is too much for me, my lord; let me die for I am no better than my forefathers.' Then he lay down under the broombush and fell asleep. But suddenly an angel nudged him and said to him: 'Get up and eat.' He looked up and saw at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a pitcher of water."
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Happy Art's Birthday 2023 from ICA•RDI 
The Oak Broom Tree By The River For Joseph Beuys, 2022
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Where ICA•RDI came from… I never really know what’s going to happen on this day, what I’ll feel like, what serendipity may occur, what the weather will be like, etc., however, I feel the need to create some image, something, as a remembrance of the day... After the 1970s, came “Post Modernism” or as some suggested “The End of Art History”… in my opinion it was just the end of Art Administrations’ promotion of "interesting art". This “interesting art” hasn’t gone away, it just was no longer given the attention, as Art Administrations’ primary focus turned towards art market driven art. My suggestion to young artists on this day is to reflect on the work of the 1970s, e.g. to revisit the works of Robert Filliou, Allan Kaprow, Jan Swidzinski, Joseph Beuys and Michael Asher, as possible starting points - Happy Art's Birthday, January 17, 2023 
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Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19th 2023
Gold Pants Tutorial - Point of View
Gold Pants Tutorial - Point of View
Arthur Mole & John Thomas, “Living Photographs” 1915-1920
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Jan Dibbets, “Perspective Corrections” 1967-1969
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Gold Pants Tutorial - Point of View - Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19th 2023
2024 Art's Birthday & Art Administrations' Birthday
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Art’s Birthday & Art Administrations’ Birthday 2024 The Tribalism of Art’s Birthday & Art Administrations’ Birthday These celebration propositions in part are about birth and death within an art tribe. - Robert Filliou chose his birthday, January 17th, as Art’s Birthday, while Art Administrations’ Birthday is my son’s birthday, February 19th. Emmett MacNevin was named after Emmett Williams who died on February 14th, 2007 and in his memory “little Fluxus People” invaded the Reuters Building in Second Life (SL) on February 19th, 2007, becoming the first Art Administrations’ Birthday annual celebration. Porta Filliou "A video work jointly produced by Robert Filliou and Clive Robertson and mystery guest, Marcella Bienvenue, during Robert Filliou's artist-in-residency (October 1st-21st, 1977) at the artist-run centre Arton's in Calgary, Canada. "Porta Filliou" was made as a video supplement to Robert Filliou's book "Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts", 1970. "Porta Filliou" includes "The Gong Show", a performance Robert Filliou made with Brian Dyson, and earlier Fluxus films including a joint performance with Emmett Williams ("What's Happening?") and a non-continuity film made with George Brecht, Marianne Staffels-Filliou, and Donna Jo-Jones. Robert Filliou's work and ideas were the catalyst for the founding of the artist-run centre movement in Canada and Quebec." |
Happy Art Administrations’ Birthday, February 19th 2024 Art Administrations’ Birthday Cake
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Halftime (Tribal Fusion)
Art Administrations’ Birthday Cake 2024
('Musical Ride' 32 horses & riders, Canadian law & order, my Group of Seven Joyce Wieland work)
Art Administrations’ Birthday Cake 2024
('Musical Ride' 32 horses & riders, Canadian law & order, my Group of Seven Joyce Wieland work)
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Art Administrations’ Birthday Conferral, February 19th, 2024
Breakfast Conferral with ICA•RDI advisers, Chris Reardon, Duncan Harper & Ulrich Lobsiger at the Bluenose restaurant in Halifax. Also, on this day, I would like to acknowledge three other important ICA•RDI supporters/advisers, Wanda Kushner, Emily Jones & Ian Murray.
Breakfast Conferral with ICA•RDI advisers, Chris Reardon, Duncan Harper & Ulrich Lobsiger at the Bluenose restaurant in Halifax. Also, on this day, I would like to acknowledge three other important ICA•RDI supporters/advisers, Wanda Kushner, Emily Jones & Ian Murray.
ART ADMINISTRATION ART
In 'Canadian Art Administration’, what is seen as the possible pinnacle for one’s career, would it be at the National Art Gallery, or at the Canada Council? What is the ultimate aspiration of the Art Administrator? In 'Canadian Art’, what is seen as the possible pinnacle for one’s career, would it be an exhibition at the National Art Gallery, or a major award from the Canada Council? What is the ultimate aspiration of the Artist?
ART TEACHING & ART ADMINISTRATION CONTEXTUAL ART
Artists tend to support other artists, their peers, who create art in a similar manner.
ART TEACHING & ART ADMINISTRATION CONTEXTUAL ART represents artists who work as 'professional art educators' and/or artists who work as 'professional art administrators' and have found a way to integrate the actual context of their 'art education' and 'art administration' careers directly into their art making practice. We are talking about an ‘art form’ that is an intrinsic part of the 'art teaching' and 'art administration' contextual framework, i.e. the context of 'art teaching' and/or 'art administration' drives the work, this does not include artists who complete their 'art teaching' or 'art administration' day job and go home to a studio art practice that is perceived as separate.
ART TEACHING & ART ADMINISTRATION CONTEXTUAL ART
Artists tend to support other artists, their peers, who create art in a similar manner.
ART TEACHING & ART ADMINISTRATION CONTEXTUAL ART represents artists who work as 'professional art educators' and/or artists who work as 'professional art administrators' and have found a way to integrate the actual context of their 'art education' and 'art administration' careers directly into their art making practice. We are talking about an ‘art form’ that is an intrinsic part of the 'art teaching' and 'art administration' contextual framework, i.e. the context of 'art teaching' and/or 'art administration' drives the work, this does not include artists who complete their 'art teaching' or 'art administration' day job and go home to a studio art practice that is perceived as separate.
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To be a teacher is my greatest work of art. - Joseph Beuys |
