A Salon at the Providence Athenaeum Friday, 4/30, 5-7pm co-sponsored by the AS220 Project Space
Providence-based artist Madolin Maxey gathered 15 artists to work in the Fluxus tradition to produce 16 unique books, each consisting of 15 envelope pages, with each envelope containing a work by one of the artists. Each book contains the collective works of the following artists: Madolin Maxey, Bob Rizzo, Kenneth Speiser, Norma Anderson, Regina Partridge, Marjory Dalenius, Christine Tillman, Garry Cerrone, Susan Clausen, Richard Harrington, David Hazlett, Paula Martiesian, Ken Carpenter, Eric Miller, and Craig Masten. So put down your Kindles for an evening! Join us for a conversation with artists making books to hold, explore slowly, and savor.
Each book contains 15 works, one by each artist. Individual covers will be created and bound to the pages randomly. Each time a unique book is encountered, it can be viewed differently. In the spirit of Fluxus, a reader can explore the contents of an envelope page fully or partially, as in a state of continual change. The books will be on display at The Athenaeum for the evening and then in June at the AS220 Project Space Reading Room.
The history of Fluxus as an organized art form began in the early 1960's when several New York artists, poets, musicians, and performers created works that were contradictory, metaphysical in tone, and never presented in the same order or with the same performers, thus keeping their nature "in flux."
The Providence Athenaeum is located at 251 Benefit St. in Providence, RI. A beautiful temple to the book. Learn more here. The AS220 Project Space is usually found 93 Mathewson St. in heart of downtown