This exhibition
started out as a call to assemblage artists from the International
Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction when I happened onto a
large stash of cigar boxes. I then invited artists to contribute a box
assemblage - possibly using one of these collected boxes - to the
Museum's permanent collection for the exhibition entitled Thinking
Inside of the Box. Then there was the
bright idea to continue the thought by focusing the FluxMuseum's Fluxhibition
#3 around
the idea of Boxes, Cases, Kits and Containers. Thus, Fluxhibition
#3: Thinking Inside of the Box -
Boxes, Cases, Kits and Containers is a combination of
these two exhibitions to make one very full and interesting survey of
Box Assemblage. Box Assemblage has been a part of Fluxus since its
earliest days inspired by both Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell who
happen to be heroes to many assemblage and collage artists as well for
it seems a good fit to bring these different artists together around
the idea of the box and what to do with one. Boxes and containers in general have been a fascination to many over the course of history and an opportunity for artists to embed artistry into the box design. Human beings always seem to have a lot of stuff and have always needed ways to drag that stuff around and there has always been the need of containers to store stuff in. The history of the container is so far reaching that I don't suppose anyone has ever written a book on the topic or at least I have never seen one. History aside, the boxes in this exhibition are a fasinating cross section of ideas in box assemblage from all over the world - well, except Asia. So far I have not made that many artist friends in the Orient and so the calls for these shows has not seemed to have extended into those networks. But represented in this show are artists from the all over the USA, the UK, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Greece, and Germany. Contributions are still being accepted through June 30 2009. The show will open at The Gallery in the E.H. Hereford University Center at the University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, Texas for the month of July (1-31) with a little get together on Friday July 10 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. If you plan to attend please call 817-944-4000 or email touchon @ gmail.com for more details. A catalog will be available once completed. Thank you to all of the wonderful and generous artists whose contributions made this into the amazing show that it is. Please enjoy the show. Cecil Touchon |
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3-Body Problem Bernd Reichert - Brussels, Belgium plastic box with plastic fork, black marble, matchbox with with small papers with holes punched in then cover with hole puch reenforcers, the holes are annoted with a number/letter system On the outside of the box is a printed paper attached that says: PROBLEME DES TROIS CORPS - par des iterations integrales convergentes reelles |
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Q & A Box - Mounted in shadow box 6" x 6" x 1.25" |
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Wag
More, Bark Less
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Costis - Athens,
Greece Alpha-Lightning-Omega - 1979 Pewter pot with letters Alpha and Omega attached to the interior of the pot and the lid. on the bottom is inscribed the letter Alpha, a symbol of lightning, Omega. Signed 'Costis 1979' |
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copy of First published collage in the revue Lotos, Athens 1969 Costis - Athens, Greece |
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Ed
Blackburn - Fort Worth Romeo and Juliet altered cigar box with ball |
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Possibilities Kathryn Uster - Lake Havasu City, AZ ‘Possibilities’
was inspired by watching a short film on Gaudi and his love for the
organic. He knew he would not succeed in completion of his dream, but
the struggle to work and create inspires and keeps others working on
it, still, today. Feelings of being boxed in and compartmentalized can,
sometimes, stifle the creative spirit. Artists will drill away at
their own, or society's cubicles. Just as a seedling will find its way
to the light, budding from seed, growing around and through barriers,
the spirit of possibilities will reach for new heights or
directions.
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Tissue Box to Bird House Bleu
By Kate Robinson
Collage
both illustrates and communicates my life story and helps me determine
where I am, where I have been, and to imagine where I may go.
Disparate images and incongruent juxtapositions require the viewer to
“think inside the box.” Collage is a medium that allows for
cross-language, cross-cultural and individual interpretation.
With Tissue Box to Bird House Bleu, I honor the ultimate
thinker-inside-the-box, Joseph Cornell.
Cornell is known for his box assemblages, his love of nature, nostalgia
for childhood and an affinity for shades of blue reminiscent of the
star-studded night sky. This tissue box cover becomes a
celestially
imagined bird house with treasures Cornell would appreciate: a tin with
fabric tucked inside, a jar with blue yarn, blue buttons and beads, a
crayon, a muscle shell with a white egg-like stone, and a dragon fly.
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Not Another Drop Stephanie Forsyth - Putney, NSW, Australia |
FluxMedicine for a person who has lost his marbles. Cecil Touchon sardine can with antique marbles |
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Lisa Caroll - Oakland, California | |
Kelly Gorman - Farnham, Surrey, UK | |
Tiny Box -
Josh Ronson, Austin Texas and various artists who contributed tiny works (1x1inch) for the box |
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Discarded
Brush for
George Maciunas Jorge Artajo Madrid, Spain |
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Fluxus
Cut-in for
Cecil Touchon Jorge Artajo Madrid, Spain Plastic media box with names of fluxus artists and pieces of video tape with numbers collages to them |
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Share
the Air Gary Bibb Denver, Colorado USA |
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Sapphire
Box Gary Bibb Denver, Colorado USA |
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Cigar
Box Fluxkit
with misc items. Allan Revich Toronto, Canada |
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Roem Pax #1 35 mm film tube filled with paper items and one color photographic frame Nico Vassilakis |
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Babies
Neopolitan Elizabeth K. Bogard - Dallas, Texas a
clear
drinking glass shaped like a female,
coaster
is
made from plaster to resemble a dollie, and collaged with bits of paper
cherry
is a found object (a knob off something)
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Bibiana Maltos Padilla - Mexico | |
Optical
Geometric Game Dilar Pereira - Lisbon, Portugal blue box, small colored plastic pieces and letter-press 9x9x2.5 cm |
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Play
Your Destination Dilar Pereira - Lisbon, Portugal blue box, map collage, little plasic color pieces and one die 21x17x3.2 CM |
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Visual
Literature Dilar Pereira - Lisbon, Portugal Transparent box and printed strips of paper |
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Blur John M. Bennett - Columbus, Ohio Found Objects in an old plasic box |
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Poetry Kits (3) John M. Bennett - Columbus, Ohio |
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Organ
F Ride an Organ, Burn an Organ Rebecca Cunningham - Brisbane, Australia Artifacts from a Fluxus Performance in which an organ was completely destroyed and burned. 2006 |
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Holiday Memories No.54 "For Life-Like Snaps" Peter Swann - U.K. "This box is from a series for which the starting point was holiday chalets. These were common on the coast of England during the the 1950's and painted with different bright colours. So these boxes are intended as 'holiday memories'. I would call this particular one simply No.54 as the number on the dice could represent the number of the chalet." vintage photograph, die, checker,key, button and other found objects in a wooden box with a Kodak film label on the side inscribed: 'reload with Kodak Film for life-like snaps.' 2.75x2.75x1 inches |
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"Shelf Life - Homage to Hannalore
Baron."
2008 Marianne Lettieri - assemblage with pods on little shelves cover with encuastic in a box frame |
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Music
Box for John Cage - 2009 Jorge Artajo Madrid, Spain Box made of card material with a figure playing a lute inside. |
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Secrets Box (for Yoko Ono) Jorge Artajo Madrid, Spain |
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Fluxbox Reid Wood Oberlin, Ohio wooden crate with a box containing objects that make sound when shaken. |
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Stone Ellipsis (2) w/
case (may also be used for aposiopesis) Jamie Newton - Portland, Oregon |
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Lis Gundlach Sell - Denmark |
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The Geography
Lesson Cecil Touchon - Fort Worth, Texas Box with geography lessons in Spanish from an antique journal. contents are various sized balls found on the streets of Mexico City. |
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Stack Blocks Cecil Touchon - Fort Worth, Texas box full of antique English ceramic building blocks Instruction: Remove blocks from box, stack blocks into a sculptural form using the box as a base. |
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Mysterious
Fluxobject Cecil Touchon - Fort Worth, Texas box with hand carved art object made of wood inscribed '1831' cerca 1830s |
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La Ronde - 2009 Sam Tan Malden, MA USA Wooden box with cut scraps of magazine illustrations the color of skin |
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Chance
Operation Jorge Artajo Madrid, Spain |
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Yoko
Ono Jorge Artajo Madrid, Spain handmade postcard |
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Inside/Out
- 2009 Matthew Rose - Paris, France Wooden box, painted, rubber stamped, with painted water color bottle also rubber stamped and string. 4 cm x 4 cm x 1.5 cm |
Art About
Art - 1991 Evelyn Eller - New York City , New York plastic box with collage elements containing a hand made envelope and booklet |
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Fluxtoybox - 2009 with ephemera Luc Fierens - Belgium |
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Vortextus Gary Bibb - Denver, Colorado USA Mixed Media Construction |
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Fluxassignments
#43, #58 #65 combined into one (assuming he loves me or I am the boss) Aluminum clip board/box with calculator, collaged with dry trash collected during a day’s time.
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Whisper
Bag Jorge Artajo Madrid, Spain |
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Amus-i-Kit
- 7 Piece Orchestra in a Box Judith Stadler New York, New York |
Fluxus Entertainment - 2008 Cecil Touchon popcorn container with styrofoam popcorn packing material in a plexiglass vitrine |
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Abrasion Test - Fluxus Laboratories - 2008 Cecil Touchon vitrine with an artifact (playing card) from Abrasion Test #1 - a deck of cards were sanded until all of the ink came off. |
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"This
is a Test" print test - Fluxus Laboratories - 2008 vitrine with paper business cards showing front and back of card - stamped and signed limited edition print |
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"Tear
Test - Results Pending" Fluxus Laboratories - 2008 Vitrine with torn bits of wax paper (that was packing material from Fluxus Saint Louis) stamped, signed and dated September 11 2008 |
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Fluxus
Laboratories Taste Test Kit #1 - Cecil Touchon - 2008 Pungent/White/Particulated, Pungent/Black/Ground, Pungent/Yellow/Mixed, Tart/Yellow/Squeezed packets of salt, peper, mustard and lemon juice, serving sample spoons, round box with velveteen lining and tray |
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Fluxvision glasses -
Cecil Touchon - 2008 Vintage glasses with original case with lenses sanded down so that, when worn the center of one's vision is blinded leaving only peripheral vision. Instruction: Use to look at an art exhibition |
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Card Game
#1 - Cecil Touchon - 2008 box of chopped up playing cards Instructions Players divide card parts from a pile in center of table players arrange their own pile of card parts to reassemble cards players trade pieces with each other till all cards are reassemble everybody wins when cards are reassembled. |
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Theater
Piece #1 - Cecil Touchon - 2008 Title: Under Tension - a Suspense Thriller! box filled with rubberbands and a ceramic hand around which are streched rubberbands facing a round mirror in the lid of the box. Instruction: Watch hand until a rubberband breaks. |
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Chewed Drawing - Larry Miller 1968 instruction: Chew a nice piece of drawing or notebook paper. Performed by Cecil Touchon for Fluxhibition #2 - 2008 |
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Poetry Fluxkit - 2008
(museum delux version) Cecil Touchon vintage box lined with satin conraining a metal jar filled with paste, a brush, a vintage pair of scissors and scraps of paper to make collage poetry with. |
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Jurassi-fluxkit - 2008 Cecil Touchon Case with red alegator skin and interior fold out shelves filled with plastic dinosaurs and implements |
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Fluxus
Poetry Kit - 2008 Cecil Touchon vintage box with velvet lining covered on the exterior with small sea shells. Inside a set of vintage child flash cards |
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Fluxscape
Kit - 2008 Cecil Touchon - Fort Worth, Texas wooden box with metal political pins with the name/word: HILL |
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Artifact from Fluxusignment #58 - 2008
by Neil Horsky as performed by Allan Revich - Toranto Canada plexibox filled with ephemera |
Roll 13 and Win! Fluxkit Keith Buchholz plastic box with printed matter and dice |
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Fix Piece Fluxkit (for Yoko Ono) Keith Buchholz plastic box with printed matter, instructions and sewing kit |
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FLUXKIT Vol 1 Issue 1 Keith Buchholz - Fluxus Saint Louis some of the elements from the fluxkit - Keith Buchholz - Fluxus Saint Louis |
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Game Fluxkit Keith Buchholz - Fluxus Saint Louis |
'Jack
of Fluxus' - 2007 Norman Sherfield 4x3 inches - Plastic box with found objects |
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Posession
- 2009 Liz Yates - U.K. shadow box assemblage - 3x3 inches |
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A
Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush - 2009 Stephanie Forsyth - Australia box assemblage |
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Spectators Caroline Waite - Louisville, Kentucky Altered Cigar Box with the lid made into a stage upon it is a plastic barerina figurine surrounded by doll arms, in the background three swanns above them a line of doll eyeballs (stage lights) that open and close. Attached to the top of the stage is an ornate facade the the whole stage lined with gold colored filigree. |
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The
Essence of Life Kit Michelle N. Ary wood box, pencil/charcoal sketches done by the artist, piece of distressed wood found on a bench, cancles, turquoise beads, garnet beads, fresh water pearl beads, abalone bead, guage cover, burnt out vacuum tube, vine, three viles, nails, black lentils, bailing wire, handmade paper. |
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"Can You See What I See?" Erica James - Houston, Texas wooden box with printed paper attached to the interior. 2x2x3 inches |
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Guess Clint Chadsey - Melrose, Mass. wooden box with vintage photograph and various found objects including keyboard keys spelling the word: Guess |
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Behave Nancy Keeling - Cypress, Texas Cigar box with found objects some of them spelling the word 'behave' on the lid |
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Boxed Division 2009 Robert Tucker Rancho Mirage, California pocelian-wood-steel |
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Cage Box – Homage
to
John Cage Dilar Pereira - Lisbon, Portugal Small black card box with a mirror and a black card inscribed: “This Box Contains 4’33” of Silence.” |
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Kiss
the End - 2007 (from the White on White exhibition) Benoit Piret - Seattle, Washington USA white paint and collage on video tape box |
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White
Texture - 2007 (from the White on White exhibition) Litsa Spathi - Fluxus Heidelberg, Germany 9x7-1.5 inches - box with acrylic paint, wires |
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Untitled
- 2007 (from the White on White exhibition) Cordula Kagemann - Bremen, Germany 7x7x1 inches paper assemblage |