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CRYsis

2011-12-10T10:08:00.000-08:00

Desperately Seeking Capital €U-Zone Debt CRYsis/positiv
Luxus Artistamps 2011 by Litsa Spathi

Desperately Seeking Capital €U-Zone Debt CRYsis/negativ
Luxus Artistamps 2011 by Litsa Spathi

40 Poems to be written

2011-09-07T10:45:00.000-07:00

Nobody @ sky

2011-04-17T23:44:00.001-07:00

TRUE Or : April Fool's Day 2011?

2011-04-01T00:37:00.001-07:00

Revealed: Gaddafi envoy in Britain for secret talks
Exclusive: Contact with senior aide believed to be one of a number between Libyan officials and west amid signs regime may be looking for exit strategy
# The Guardian, Friday 1 April 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/31/gaddaf-envoy-britain-secret-talks-exit-strategy
-visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Battle for Libya

2011-03-12T06:49:00.000-08:00

6 March 2011 Last updated at 04:23 GMT
Battle for Libya: Gaddafi troops engage Zawiya rebels
Col Gaddafi's heavy armour is poised outside the town of Zawiya
* Eyewitness: Tripoli in fear
* Global diplomacy

Fierce fighting has rocked Libya's Zawiya, 50km (30 miles) west of Tripoli, as rebels repelled government efforts to retake the key city.

Pro-government forces were pushed out of the city centre in heavy fighting on Saturday morning, but regrouped for a fresh assault.

Early on Sunday, heavy gunfire was heard in the capital.

Rebels fighting Col Muammar Gaddafi have taken control of the port of Ras Lanuf to the east of Tripoli.

The rebels have pushed further west towards Sirte, Col Gaddafi's heavily guarded hometown, and captured the town of Bin Jawad, 160km (100 miles) from Sirte.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12654670
-visual poem by Litsa Spathi

He Is no Longer One of Us'l

2011-02-28T09:39:00.000-08:00

He Is no Longer One of Us'
Post-Gadhafi Era Begins in Eastern Libya2011/02/28
As opposition forces put Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi under increasing pressure, the post-Gadhafi era has already begun in the eastern part of the country. Victorious rebels are turning to the task of governing, but no one knows what will replace the despot...'s system. By SPIEGEL Staff.

A young man named Hussam, a 26-year-old with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, controls access to liberated Libya. Passports? What for? Hussam is more interested in finding out how someone entering the country feels about this enormously important event in his life. "What do you think about our revolution?" he asks.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,748033,00.html
- visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Silvio Berlusconi to be tried by female judge

2011-02-15T10:03:00.001-08:00

"Silvio BERlustCONI to be tried by female judge" - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Congratulations to the people of Egypt!

2011-02-11T09:45:00.001-08:00

Der Rücktitt"or
"Joy as Mubarak stands down"
February FREEday evening 11/2011

a few ours after the

"Army calls for protest to end"
B&W Version
a day after the

"Thriller in Cairo and Fury on the streets as Mubarak clings on" Speech of Mubarak on Friday evening, febr. 10 a few ours after the

i"Egypt live: Mubarak ‘on verge of quitting’"
Febr. 10, 201
a few ours after the

"Frühe Ostereier" or
"Early easter eggs" or Exclusive:
" Saudis told Obama to back Mubarak"
February 10 2011 12:01AM
a week after 4. Febr, 2011"the ‘day of departure!?’ - Ultimatum"
visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Early Easter Eggs?

2011-02-10T07:38:00.001-08:00

"Frühe Ostereier" or
"Early easter eggs" or Exclusive:
"Saudis told Obama to back Mubarak"
February 10 2011 12:01AM
a week after 4. Febr, 2011"the ‘day of departure!?’ - Ultimatum"

CMubarak quits as Egypt ruling party head -
a few ours after the

US signal to President Mubarak: get out now -
February 5 2011 12:01AM

a day after Friday 4. Febr, 2011"the ‘day of departure!?’ - Ultimatum" - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Trial for Berlusconi ?

2011-02-10T00:09:00.000-08:00

"February 9, 2011: Fast-track sex trial for Berlusconi" - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

‘day of departure!?’- Ultimatum : 4. Febr. 2011

2011-02-04T09:04:00.000-08:00

"Cairo on brink for ‘day of departure!?’-Ultimatum 4. Febr. 2011" - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

win the future

2011-01-26T10:18:00.000-08:00

With a little help from the space race and the story of the Chilean miners, President Obama appealed to Americans last night to “win the future” with the wholesale reinvention of their economy for the age of global competition.

Moscow

2011-01-26T10:05:00.000-08:00

"Moscow 24 january 2011" visual event poem by Litsa Spathi

Happy Birthday Poetry

2011-01-23T09:35:00.001-08:00

Happy Birthday Visual Poetry by Litsa Spathi

Robot Troy - Flux-object

2011-01-03T20:44:00.000-08:00

Robot Troy: (Flux)-object book by Litsa Spathi for MuBe Brasil

Robot Troy

2011-01-03T10:36:00.000-08:00

Robot Troy by Litsa Spathi for MuBe/Brasil

loading a sinfony

2010-12-28T00:59:00.001-08:00

on your status.
loading a sinfony..in 28 minute

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__ ____ ___ _____ • _༎།___
_____ • __ ____ ___ _____ • _༎།___
_____ • __ ____ ___
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• _༎།A̫̳̲̫̍͊̓ͧͣͮͨ̓҉̖̓҉̖̓҉̖A̫̳̲̫̍͊̓ͧͣͮͨ̓҉̖̓҉̖̓҉̖.,'.,.:Se_..A̫̳̲̫̍͊̓ͧͣͮͨ̓҉̖̓҉̖̓҉̖2...8 minute
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_༎།___ _____ • __ • _༎།A̫̳̲̫̍͊̓ͧͣͮͨ̓҉̖̓҉̖̓҉̖A̫̳̲̫̍͊̓ͧͣͮͨ̓҉̖̓҉̖̓҉̖_ ____ ___ _____
• _༎།___ _____ • __ ____ ___ _____ • _༎།___ _____ • __ ____ ___ _____
• _༎།___ _____ • __ ____ ___ _____ •
_༎།___ _____ • __ ____ ___ _____ • _༎།A̫̳̲̫̍͊̓ͧͣͮͨ̓҉̖̓҉̖̓҉̖A̫̳̲̫̍͊̓ͧͣͮͨ̓҉̖̓҉̖̓҉̖.,'.,.:Se_minute
--See more wrote "i try to minut
e ---¶¶¶¶---- ¶¶¶---¶¶¶A̫̳̲̫̍͊̓ͧͣͮͨ̓҉̖̓҉̖̓҉̖A̫̳̲̫̍͊̓ͧͣͮͨ̓҉̖̓҉̖̓҉̖___ _____ • __ ____ ___ _____ • _༎།___ _____ • __ ____ ___
_____ • _༎།___ _____ • __ ____ ___ ___8 a minute ---¶¶.................28 minute transload / late that"
loading a sinfony by Litsa Spathi

Nipples of Venus - Venusbrüstchen

2010-12-19T10:45:00.001-08:00

Nipples of Venus - Venusbrüstchen New Fluxus Pralines Ludwig Rigaud, furthermore, vevived the tradition of the delicisous "Capezzoli di Venere", freely translated Nipples of Venus. This sweet speciality (based on a modern recipe) - tempting chestnut and nougat paste in white or dark chocolate-, which is said to have been enjoyed by Antonio Salieri already in Mozart's time according to the Mozart researcher, Prof. Rudolph Angemüller. was newly developed by Litsa Spathi/Nobody (while she was playing with Allen Bukoff's Fluxus Play Set) for the Fluxus year 2011
Fluxus 50th anniversary

No Joke

2010-10-01T23:28:00.000-07:00

"No Joke" visual Luxus poem by Litsa Spathi

After Fluxus follows LUXUS

2010-09-21T23:51:00.001-07:00

"After Fluxus follows LUXUS - Flux is over--->it is time for LUXUS" by Litsa Spathi

Street Poetry in Athens

2010-07-31T22:03:00.001-07:00

Kρίσις Krisis Krise Crisis Krizo etc

2010-07-31T05:25:00.001-07:00

Purchase Crisis Stamps Now
Kρίσις Krisis Krise Crisis Krizo etc

Das Narrenschiff - Ship of Fools

2010-07-20T08:05:00.000-07:00

Das Narrenschiff - Ship of Fools -(c) by Litsa Spathi
Art object in a small wooden case in order to build the perfect EU-Ship of Fools

Avant Vispo 3

2010-07-18T22:57:00.000-07:00

Avant Vispo part 3 - by Litsa Spathi for Skylab Gallery in Ohio

Avant Vispo 2

2010-07-18T22:49:00.001-07:00

Avant Vispo part 2- by Litsa Spathi for Skylab Gallery in Ohio

Avant Vispo 1

2010-07-18T21:52:00.000-07:00

Avant Vispo part 1 - by Litsa Spathi for Skylab Gallery in Ohio

Nobody's interventions on the Art Detox Body Patches

2010-07-06T23:01:00.000-07:00

Nobody's interventions on the Art Detox Body Patches - Fluxus Poetry by Litsa Spathi

Nobody's interventions on the Art Detox Body Patches

2010-07-06T22:47:00.001-07:00

Nobody's interventions on the Art Detox Body Patches - Fluxus Poetry by Litsa Spathi

Don't be a Fluxus Qlaquer - Fluxus Manifesto

2010-05-31T09:22:00.001-07:00

"No money for Fluxus claquers
-demanded by Litsa Spathi
-burnout syndrome" :
Respect the old Fluxus
do not clap, leave the old Fluxus people alone
Be yourself New Fluxus !

Nobody's name

2010-05-24T23:17:00.000-07:00

Nobody's names written down on the wall - visual photo poems by Litsa Spathi

...unterwegs...

2010-04-13T09:39:00.001-07:00

Crisis situation in Fluxus

2010-02-18T04:40:00.000-08:00

"Crisis situation in Fluxus" visual fluxus manifesto & poem by Litsa Spathi

gezONde keuze

2010-02-01T10:00:00.001-08:00

"gezONde keuzes" or secrets can be a heavy weight that is difficult to carry - a burden_ visual poem by Litsa Spathi...

gezONde keuze

2010-02-01T04:31:00.001-08:00

"gezONde keuze" visual poem by Litsa Spathi

permutation

2009-10-23T09:25:00.000-07:00

"permutation" - visual poem by Litsa Spathi

oXoX LA CARD

2009-10-19T10:17:00.001-07:00

"oXoX LA CARD"- visual poem by Litsa Spathi

uyluy poem no zero

2009-10-18T05:07:00.001-07:00

"uyluy poem no zero" - Uyluy & Co - Haltlose Abfolge von Formen und visuellen Strukturen/visual ugly poetry by Litsa Spathi

A new book of visual poetry by Litsa Spathi

2009-03-14T10:39:00.000-07:00

LITSA SPATHI (GERMANY)
"Oxid"
2009, 40 pages, 15 euro / 20 US $ / 13 UK Sterling

A new book of visual poetry by Litsa Spathi from the Fluxus Heidelberg Center,
the 27th in our collection "C'est mon dada"
http://www.redfoxpress.com/dada-spathi.html
order by email at info@redfoxpress.com

Since this month the complete collection is also available at MoMa, New York and ICA, London

The name of the collection "c'est mon dada" is a french saying
meaning it's my favourite thing, it's my hobby.
Dada in french children language means horse.
That's apparently where the dadaists got their name from.

This book collection is available in following bookshops
>> Printed Matter, New York
>> MoMa, New York
>> Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam
>> ICA, London
>> Bookartbookshop, London
>> Regard Moderne, Paris
>> Librairie le Lievre de Mars, Marseille
>> Kenny's Bookshop - US export, Galway
>> Gibbon's Bookshop, Westport
>> On Sundays, Tokyo
>> Post poetics, Seoul

REDFOXPRESS
Francis Van Maele
Dugort, Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland

Untitled Post

2009-03-14T10:01:00.000-07:00

"Untitled Post"- visual mourning poem by Litsa Spathi - For Jos Janssen

Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

2009-01-31T23:01:00.001-08:00

"FLUX[ing] Letter/woman"- visual &Fluxus Poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

2009-01-17T22:35:00.000-08:00

Rail Track: Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

2009-01-17T22:32:00.001-08:00

Rail Track: Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

2009-01-17T22:30:00.001-08:00

Rail Track: Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

2009-01-17T22:24:00.002-08:00

Rail Track: Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

2009-01-17T22:24:00.001-08:00

Rail Track: Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

..E & E & mad...

2009-01-17T22:17:00.001-08:00

"..E& E & mad..." visual poem & Fluxus Poetry by Litsa Spathi

it had no color

2009-01-15T01:38:00.001-08:00

...nokeingeenkanéna color?...

"it had no color"- visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

2009-01-11T21:43:00.001-08:00

Rail Track: Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

2009-01-11T21:38:00.000-08:00

Rail Track: Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

2009-01-11T21:35:00.000-08:00

Rail Track: Fluxus Poetry by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

2009-01-11T21:31:00.001-08:00

Rail Track: Fluxus Poetry by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

2009-01-11T21:27:00.000-08:00

Rail Track:Fluxus Poetry - by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus-BILD-Vermessung :"Zahnrad der Zeit"

2009-01-09T21:49:00.000-08:00

Fluxus action from the present/present=today=What about
Measuring the "Zahnrad der Zeit" of The Fluxus-BILD-Vermessung 10 Jan. 2009

Fluxus-BILD-Vermessung :"Zahnrad der Zeit" - visual poem & visible thought by & from Litsa Spathi alias Nobody
w.w.w.(=with warm wishes)
Litsa Spathi

Measuring the "A" of The Fluxus Suite

2009-01-08T22:26:00.000-08:00

Fluxus action from the present=today=What about
Measuring the "A" of The Fluxus Suite - 9 Jan. 2009 - visual poem & visible thought by & from Litsa Spathi aka Nobody.
w.w.w.(=with warm wishes)
Litsa Spathi

Measuring the "E" of The Fluxus Suite

2009-01-07T23:17:00.000-08:00

Measuring the "E" of The Fluxus Suite 8. Jan. 2009

"Measuring the "E" of The Fluxus Suite" - w.w.w.(with warm wishes) visual poem & visible thought by & from Litsa Spathi

FLUXUS INTELLIGENCE game

2009-01-06T22:22:00.000-08:00

Fluxus Holes MuSEArement Game 7 Jan. 2009

FLUXUS INTELLIGENCE Game = 2,345 cm
w.w.w.(with warm wishes)
Litsa Spathi

Fluxus as Measurement (Performance)

2009-01-06T22:21:00.000-08:00

Why Fluxus Measure?! 6 Jan. 2009

Why Really: Well, we measure because we need to know if Fluxus will fit through the door, for example. But we can just try to get the or a Fluxus BlackOut through the door without measuring. Or we can use a unique rope to try against Fluxus and the BlackOut to know. Why do we need a Fluxus ruler? Or have standard units such as Meters (or Ladders), Grams (or Red Circles)?AND how to measure the Intelligence of Fluxus!?
w.w.w.(with warm wishes)
Litsa Spathi

Fluxus action: "FluXus Embassy Bll with Ladder"

2009-01-06T22:05:00.000-08:00

"Fluxus action: "FluXus Embassy Ball with Ladder"visual poem & Fluxus Performance by Litsa Spathi
1. Create a Fluxus Embassy Group by IUOMA-Ning
2. organise a Embassy Ball
3. Everyone has to wear a ladder and a paper dress

Fluxus as Measurement

2009-01-06T22:03:00.000-08:00

How heavy and how tall is Fluxus? And and how long is the Fluxus ladder? Or is the ladder removed or maybe stolen?
"Fluxus as Measurement"- visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus action: "Ice Measurement"

2009-01-06T21:46:00.000-08:00

Why Measure?!
Why: We all know measuring is useful. It tells us how tall we are, how heavy we are, and how long a ladder is, and so on. But think for a moment about why and how we measure. Here an example, Fluxus action: "Ice Measurement"
w.w.w.(=with warm wishes) Litsa Spathi

Vorelution (Re)Mix

2009-01-04T10:20:00.001-08:00

"Vorelution (Re)Mix" - visual & fluxus poem by Litsa Spathi

Five Seconds of Blurness

2009-01-03T08:35:00.000-08:00

"Five Seconds of Blurness"-visual poem by Litsa Spathi

About OverHead

2009-01-02T00:28:00.001-08:00

"About OverHead"- visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Happy New Art!

2008-12-25T09:55:00.001-08:00

Merry X-mas & a happy new (y) ear!

2008-12-22T11:05:00.001-08:00

"Merry X-mas & a happy new (y) ear!"- Fluxus and visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Remixe Event- Babylon Constructions

2008-12-20T00:00:00.000-08:00

Remixe Event - Babylon Constructions A

Remixe Event - Babylon Constructions B

Remixe Event - Babylon Constructions C

"Remixe Event- Babylon Constructions A"- Visual Poems/ Constructions & Greetings from Babylon by Litsa Spathi (for State of Being & Mick Boyle)

Litsa Spathi Wishes All Merry Christmas

2008-12-17T22:58:00.001-08:00

4 X 6 = 24 = a whole day (unique numbers for Ervin Zsubori)

2008-12-17T10:26:00.000-08:00

"4 X 6 = 24 = a whole day" by Litsa Spathi for Ervin Zsubori's Unique numbers project

(w)ORT (w)UN.....SCH (WIScH)Event

2008-12-16T10:41:00.001-08:00

"(w)ORT (w)UN.....SCH (WIScH) Event"- Visual Christmas Poetry & Wish by Litsa Spathi

FLUX-ME at 3 event-Fluxus Performance: “Alles wird Gut!” by Litsa Spathi

2008-11-23T05:30:00.001-08:00

Fluxus Performance: “Alles wird Gut!”
You need:
1. a Laurier Leaf
2. Matches
3. Pincette
4. Candles
5. Labels
6. Cord
7. Rubberstamps
8. Mirror
The wish: “I wish that not everybody would ignore nobody”

Athens Ktel Fluxus

2008-11-09T10:05:00.000-08:00

" Athens Ktel Fluxus/ oder Ordnung ist das halbe Leben" - Photo taken by Litsa Spathi for Fluxus Heidelberg Center Archive (Oct. 2008)

New Fluxus Flag :New Hope

2008-11-08T23:49:00.000-08:00

FLUXUS New Hope New Hope New Hope New Hope
FLUXUS FLEECE VEST SKIRTN WT Girls
FLUXUS FPatagonia wmns fleece vest XS BROWN
FLUXUS JCREW womans fleece vest BLACK M
FLUXUS ReversibleGreen Quilted Puffer Fleece Vest
FLUXUS Patagonia Fleece Vest Kids
FLUXUS Breast Cancer Pink Ribbon Fleece Vest
FLUXUS New Hope New Hope New Hope New Hope

"New Fluxus Flag :New Hope " - visual & Fluxus poem by Litsa Spathi

...every day a piece of blurrness...

2008-11-06T23:01:00.000-08:00

"...every day a piece of blurrness..." - Fluxus Poem by Litsa Spathi

Perfect no 2

2008-11-03T04:00:00.000-08:00

"Perfect no 2" - Fluxus & visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Flesh Power - New Book

2008-11-02T06:57:00.000-08:00

Available at: http://www.lulu.com/content/4730867

or see: http://stores.lulu.com/fluxusheidelberg

FLUXUS FLESH POWER - Fluxus Poetry by Litsa Spathi.

Paperback book €14.99

Printed: 102 pages, 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm, perfect binding, black and white interior ink

Description:

Fluxus Flesh Power is a unique publication with FLuxus Poetry where computer generated anagrams are presented both in text format as visual format. The book also includes a biography of the artist

Covers FHC Performances Book

2008-09-17T11:21:00.001-07:00

http://www.lulu.com/content/3996203

http://www.lulu.com/content/4108181

New Book FHC

2008-09-15T10:30:00.001-07:00

Dear Fluxus Friends. The Fluxus Heidelberg Center proudly presents their first overview of performances done in the years 2003 till 2005. Besides the complete texts of the scores also a load of visuals are in the full colour book.

You are able to see how we use the digital cameras and Internet as part of these early performances.

Details:

Title: Performances Fluxus Heidelberg 2003-2005

ID: 3996203

Category: Arts & Photography

Description: An overview of the Fluxus Performances done for the Fluxus Heidelberg Center by Litsa Spathi and Ruud Janssen. This publication contains an overview of the first performances done from 2003 till 2005. The texts of the scores and many full colour photos are published in this book.

Copyright Year: © 2008
Language: English

Available directly at: http://www.lulu.com/content/3996203

Paperback book €49.99

Printed: 273 pages , 6" x 9", perfect binding , white interior paper (80# weight) , full-colour interior ink , white exterior paper (100# weight), full-colour exterior ink

With warm wishes,

Litsa Spathi & Ruud Janssen
Fluxus Heidelberg
www.fluxusheidelberg.org

oXidpap for idealists'

2008-09-06T23:23:00.000-07:00

"oXidpap for idealists'- Fluxus poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus dream

2008-09-05T23:39:00.000-07:00

Nobody Cares......................................about your first book
Nobody Cares..............................about the novel inside you
Nobody Cares.....................................about your book club
Nobody Cares.................................about your dreams - visual & Fluxus poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus situation: Fluxus poetry image f

2008-09-02T08:05:00.000-07:00

"Fluxus situation: Fluxus poetry image f" -Visual & Fluxus poem by Litsa Spathi

Perhaps - Fluxus Poetry

2008-06-29T09:41:00.000-07:00

Perhaps is a Video with Fluxus Poetry by Litsa Spathi from the Fluxus Heidelberg Center. Recorded June 2008.

Hallo Welt

2008-06-22T23:14:00.000-07:00

"Hallo Welt" visual poem by Litsa Spathi

New Trilogy by Litsa Spathi

2008-06-22T06:04:00.000-07:00

Litsa Spathi published a new set of three books today. The complete set is part of the Performance with title "Balla Balla". The performance itself resulted in a collection of visual poetry that is published as part of the performance.

The books are available for others as well at the link: http://stores.lulu.com/fluxusheidelberg.

A colour-version is to be published as well.

New Trilogy by Litsa Spathi

2008-06-22T05:12:00.000-07:00

-o-oho-o-o-o-oho-Fluxus Poem

2008-06-16T22:53:00.000-07:00

"-o-oho-o-o-o-oho-" : Visual and Fluxus poem by Litsa Spathi

Rail Track - Version 2 - Book by Litsa Spathi

2008-06-15T08:21:00.000-07:00

Litsa's new book is available in two variations. This is the second version with a special designed cover that has a front and back side that are mirrorviews.

This book available at LuLu too:

http://www.lulu.com/content/2717313

Printed: 77 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink

Description:

Rail Track - Variation 2 has the same content as the first edition. It contains Visual Poetry and Fluxus Performance by Litsa Spathi. A Journey from Breda to Munich that is presented in a visual way. Only the cover is different.

Rail Track - visual Poesie & Fluxus Performance

2008-06-14T23:02:00.000-07:00

New Cover for the Rail Track Second Edition

...das Cover bei der First Edition ist eins von Lulu selbst.Wenn man ein eigenes liefert, so muss die Resolution sehr hoch sein und zunaechst streikte mein Computer. Aber ich gab nicht auf.
Mit diesem Cover hier bei der Second Edition von Rail Track spiele ich mit den Empfindlichkeiten der offiziellen Kunstszene.Darum noArt auf dem Cover, wobei die Betonung auf Art gelegt ist.
Wichtig war es mir, selbst das Cover digital zu gestalten, da auch das visuelle poem Rail Track auch vollkommen digital ertellt wurde. So ist es komplett ein digitales Produkt und auch (er-)Zeugnis unserer Zeit...

Litsa Spathi

Rail Track

2008-06-14T11:55:00.000-07:00

Litsa Spathi published her book "Rail Track" - Visual Poetry and Fluxus Performance, which is now available at LuLu through the folowing link:

http://www.lulu.com/content/2714161

A Journey from Breda to Munich described in a visual way.

Conceptual Poetics

2008-06-08T09:06:00.000-07:00

Conceptual Poetics: An Editorial Pause by Kenneth Goldsmith

On a recent radio interview, Language poet Bruce Andrews talked about how, back in the early 70s, using a paper cutter radically changed his work, breaking up his writing into a modular process. It was the correct response for the time. Today, we have immense information moving capabilities at our fingertips and new movements like Conceptual Writing or Flarf are the correct responses for our time. If writing is not taking these new conditions into its poetics, it simply cannot be considered contemporary. If nothing else, what the Conceptual Poetry and Its Others conference did was codify this tendency for the record.

The other significant notion that emerged from the conference was that conceptual poetics is a many-headed monster, showing itself wildly adaptable to a wide variety of interests and agendas, the baseline of the practices being floated by technology. In a sense, what the conference did was to bring the field of poetics up to date and in line with other art forms and long-established cultural trends. Words like "sampling," "appropriation," "cut-and-paste," "mixing" and "remixing" were in constant use as were frequent references to technology, globalization and multi-lingualism. The papers and discussions were very much focused on the concept of poetry off the page, bleeding into galleries, performances, sound installation, on the airwaves, interventionist strategies, websites and blogs, all of these not being the traditional spaces where poetry happens. Yet all the poets got up and "read," and all have published numerous books. Conceptual poetry is a poetry that, in fact, knows no bounds; in this, its wildly contemporary. As respondent Brian Reed put it, "Genres don't evolve, they get more confused over time." Reed claimed that the poet is now a post-production studio, enabling new notions of collaboration fueled by distributed agencies and sites of production.

During one of the discussions, an audience member queried one of the panelists on the use of the term "avant-garde," a term that the audience member claimed was retrograde. The respondents countered this claim by saying that perhaps a reclamation of the avant-garde was possible as the interdisciplinary spaces reintroduced by technology made it possible for poetry to inhabit them comfortably; where poetry meets technology, its hard to keep poetry in its box as only "poetry" and only "poetry."

Notions of what constitutes subjectivity were discussed. Following my theory of "unboring boring," Marie Smart introduced the idea of "unsubjective subjectivity," as a reversal of the creative process. Rather than perceive this as a negation, Smart suggested that we think of this as a "canned subjectivity." In conceptual writing, choices are made by the writer, denying its machine-like tendencies, suggesting instead a non-robotic unsubjective subjectivity. Most everyone agreed that subjectivity is impossible to erase in this writing. Similarly, Jesper Olsson of Sweden's OEI magazine introduced the idea of an "editorial poetics," claiming that the actions of massive tendencies these days toward archiving could, in itself be construed as a poetic act.
Translation and multi-lingualism were frequently discussed topics. Several of the respondents claimed that the act of translation and moving between languages could be construed as a forms and methods of conceptual writing. Both Charles Alexander and Jonathan Stalling cited procedural and conceptual ancient Chinese poetry as antecedents to current conceptual practices.

Laynie Brown had audience members read the results of her survey asking dozens of women what they thought conceptual poetry was. The results were varied and claimed up a heretofore absent space for a feminist conceptual poetics. Vanessa Place, in her respondent paper, read such a text -- conceptual, procedural and bodily -- instructions on how to insert a tampon. Place and Rob Fitterman both proposed that a genre of post-conceptual poetics was already in place, allowing for more explicit political agendas as well as an opening up conceptual poetics to an absorption of more conventional formal and subjective tropes.

Throughout the weekend, hundreds of audience members, panelists and respondents were in accord as to the general principles of conceptual poetics. Only one respondent, Graca Capinha, expressed contempt for the genre, claiming that words shouldn't be made into "objects" or "commodities" for a hungry market, something she felt was swiftly happening. She lamented the fact that these writers have not made active political change as poets in Portugal (her country) did during the dictatorship where they were instrumental in change. She refuted the idea of an "unsubjective subjectivity," suggesting that by abandoning subjectivity, poetry was in danger of losing its function.

The last notes of the conference were sounded by various audience members who suggested that conceptual poetics is a contemporary way of writing that can be adopted almost any variant. Christian Bök seconded that notion by saying that the genre has evolved from something invented by three guys drinking beer in a bar in Buffalo a decade ago to widespread way of writing poetry today, reiterating that conceptual poetics is, in fact, the right poetry for the right time.

Source:Conceptual Poetics: An Editorial Pause by Kenneth Goldsmith
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Richard Kooyman - Writing on Art

2008-06-08T08:40:00.000-07:00

Letter to Students June 8, 2008

What makes a good landscape painting? What are we trying to do out here in the sun and wind? What is it we are trying to capture with paint? What makes a painting beautiful? These questions and more define the landscape painters quest. Hans Hoffman in one of his famous classes summarized the problem by saying, “The artists technical problem is how to transform the material with which he works back into the sphere of the spirit” The most interesting word of that statement is ‘transform’. The focus is on transformation. What he is talking about here is poetry. Visual poetry. Technique is only the important first half of “the picture.” Frederick Von Schelling the 18th century philosopher said that art is made by two processes.

“ Art is brought to completion by two thoroughly different activities…one part of art,namely, the part that is practiced with consciousness, deliberation ,and reflection, which can also be taught and learned..on the other hand, we must seek in the unconscious,which also enters into art,for that in art that cannot be learned, cannot be attained by practice or in any other way, but can only be inborn by the free gift of nature, and which is what we may call in one word the poetry in art”

How do we combine the two processes? After we have studied the masters and watch the way our peers tackle certain problems there comes a time where we have to add something of ourselves into the equation. We have to add our own poetry to the mix. Easier said than done in a world where poetry is hardly ever taught.

That is not to say you just willy nilly start slopping paint around hoping that its being controlled by some inner poetic genie. The American Painter Wolf Kahn early on in his career said

“ ..accidental process are often superior to willed ones, but the framework in which one works is formal intentionality”. We have to be intentional in what we do. We have to use our experience and our technical knowledge but at the same time stay open to what is happening on the canvas that our conscious mind hasn’t intended. This is the door to the poetic. Think of it as a part of your subconsciousness. That little voice that so often gets shoved aside. Ask yourself often while painting,”What mark is this brush I have in my hand making?” Is there something great happening on the painting that you hadn’t planned on? This is why I love using brushes that really seem bigger than they should be for the job. You just never know what its going to do. It makes you not expect everything you are doing. The act of painting is a relationship, a dance between what you are thinking that you’d like to see happen and what does happen. Be direct in your intentions but leave the window open to the unexpected. The unexpected is also what makes oil paining so wonderfully special. Oil paint can stain a canvas. It leaves tracks where the artists has been and what he/she has changed and gone over with a new idea or passage. Oil paint drips, smudges, runs ,bleeds into the color next to it on the surface. It can be gone over with a heavier thicker coat of a different color or veiled with a wash of transparency. It lends itself to the unexpected. It can be a tool to the poetic.

Take the time to look at what is happening. Step back often from the canvas. Walk around it. Look at it from the side angles. Squint at it. Look away from the canvas and then sneak a quick look at it as you walk by it. This way you see things differently or what you might have missed when you are standing right in front of the canvas. The obvious is sometimes the most obscured. When you do see what you need to do, do it with conviction and great intention. Take that brush full of paint and make that mark. Make it like you mean it. And if its wrong don’t be afraid to change it. I can’t tell you how many times I have spent hours diddling around trying to carefully fix a little part of a problem on the canvas when in my heart I knew what I should do is grab a big rag, wipe it off and start over. Better to start fresh and build on what you now know what not to do.

Don’t put off the hard parts till later. If possible do them first. The painter Fairfield Porter said, “I made the mistake of thinking that I could do everything later instead of at the beginning.” Each painting is a record of a moment, a time and a place. What and how you do something is recorded on the canvas for that moment of time.

Don’t get buried in the details. Try not to get too caught up in all the descriptive incidentals of the scene. You don’t need to paint every leaf of the tree. we tend not to even see them in real life anyway. Instead focus on the shape of the tree. Its better to be suggestive than too descriptive. Its more poetic to be connotative(suggestive) than denotative(specific).

No one can really teach you how to paint. They can teach you how they paint but whats the point in that? We can talk about art, the reason for making it, the different styles of art and how others make art, but each person contains their own seed for making original wonderful art. Its that seed you really want to work at. The ways may be individually many and seem confusing in scope at times but there are great possibilities. I think it was Jim Harrison who said that “Life is short but wide”.

So how does one become a good painter? The million dollar question. I think it takes two simple things. The first is that you have to align yourself with what good painting is really about. Its not about making decoration. Its not about recording what is in front of you like a camera would record it. Painting is an act, like in”action”. The result of your action,(what color went first, which big or small sized tools did you use, what did you leave out, what did you put in) is the painting. If your action is hesitant,fearful, confused, you are going to produce a painting that has those qualities. If you paint willfully and boldly you going to produce that type of paintings.

I’m not saying you should paint like me. All of the painters I mention above are very different in STYLE of painting but they all share what it is that makes a good painting.

The second thing you have to do is paint. It’s as simple as that. You have to make a place for your work ,a studio or extra room, where you can treat painting seriously and then…paint. Look at painters, buy books, go to exhibitions, museums, immerse yourself in the art world. Its an educational quest just like learning a new language. You are learning the language of paint. You have to invest your time to learn anything in the world. Painting is no different. And if you do invest the time, create a space for your art in your life not only can it be rewarding it can be your livelihood. It can be your life.

Source: Richard Kooyman 2007

Blue Power

2008-06-07T10:32:00.000-07:00

"Blue Power": visual & Fluxus poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Post poem to "lies"

2008-06-06T21:39:00.001-07:00

Fluxus Post poem to "lies": visual & Fluxus Poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Ypsilon

2008-06-04T10:54:00.001-07:00

"Fluxus Ypsilon": visual & Fluxus poem by Litsa Spathi

Finnegans Wake & Sorrow Pillow

2008-06-03T22:21:00.000-07:00

Finnegans Wake & Sorrow Pillow - visual & Fluxus poem by Litsa Spathi

Fluxus Poetry :Timeline

2008-02-24T08:59:00.001-08:00

Same unredded circle with something in it

2008-02-21T22:32:00.000-08:00

Fluxus Pills

2008-02-19T22:40:00.000-08:00

Icarus - Fluxus Poetry

2008-01-27T04:36:00.000-08:00

Icarus - Fluxus Poetry by Litsa Spathi
(c) 2008 by Fluxus Heidelberg Center

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2008-01-25T08:02:00.000-08:00

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Drink DaDaCol

2008-01-19T02:35:00.000-08:00