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backstory: Fluxus

What do you get when you bring together expertise and great space? You get a great collaboration. This Friday is the first of a two-part collaboration among the Neuberger, The Performing Arts Center, and the Purchase College School of Film and Media Studies to present a rare screening of film works by Yoko Ono and others in the Fluxus art movement.

Don’t know much about Fluxus? Maybe never even heard of it? No worries… that’s why we’re here. And I’m going to send you straight to Wikipedia for starters because it’s a pretty good description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus

The museum will be open until 6pm on Friday so you can see the YOKO ONO: Mend Piece (Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City version) exhibition before the screening if you haven’t already seen it. Then, at 6pm at The PAC, Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Film Joel Neville Anderson will introduce and screen 15 short films. Yes, yes, yes… I know… that sounds like a lot… but they’re short… like really short… some are only 10 seconds! All were produced in the 1960s around the same time that Mend Piece was first shown. All are B&W. Most are silent. It’s a really interesting way to see Mend Piece within the context of other examples of Ono’s practice alongside that of contemporaneous practitioners.

Part two will be screened Wednesday, December 14 at 7pm in the Center for Media, Film, and Theatre Screening Room. These events are free and open to the public thanks to the generous support of Bonnie and Robert Romano. No registration is required.

Tracy Fitzpatrick
Director, Neuberger Museum of Art

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