COLLECTION NAME:
University Art Galleries (UMassD)
Record
exhibition_title:
I Am A Bird (Io Am En Vogel)
exhibition_dates:
September 19 - October 24, 1992
exhibition_year:
1992
exhibition_location:
University Art Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)
exhibition_curator:
Presented in Collaboration with the Emily Harvey Gallery, New York
exhibition_note:
An installation by the composer and Fluxus artist, Henning Christiansen. The installation consisted of building around live carnaries, the composer's "Carnary Symphony," and the vocal music of "io am en vogel."
exhibition_genre:
installation
resourceID:
12009_006
resource_type:
ephemera - poster
copyright notice:
COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
credit line:
UMass Dartmouth Art Galleries
artist name:
Henning Christiansen
artist_nationality:
Danish
artist_vital dates:
May 28, 1932 - December 10, 2008
artist_biographical note:
Henning Christiansen was a composer, artist and one of the central figures of the Danish branch of the Fluxus movement. Having studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Copenhagen, in the early 1950s, he attended the Darmstadt Summer School in 1962, where he became involved with the Fluxus movement and was aligned with the radical Danish art movement Ex School. Christiansen was prolific in producing music for film and television and highly regarded for his collaborative work with Joseph Beuys between 1964 and 1985. He worked with artists such as Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik, as well as with his wife Ursula Reuter Christiansen. Other collaborators include Bjørn Nørgaard, Carlo Quartucci, Carla Tato, Ernst Kretzer, Ben Patterson, David Moss, Ute Wassermann, Andreas Oldörp, Christophe Charles, Bernd Jasper, Henrik Kiel, Vilem Wagner, Vladimir Tarasov, Niko Tenten, and many others. His overall goal was to work collaboratively and to trespass conventional boundaries. He resented the idea of an isolated artistic genius and his entire production can be seen as a subsequent and vibrant example of praxis in a constant flux. He believed in the need to trespass conventional boundaries between artistic disciplines. This is visible from his engagement in Fluxus, over numerous collaborative performances to his position as a professor at the Art Academy in Hamburg (Hochschule für Bildende Künste - HfBK). Christiansen lived almost 40 years on the Danish Island Møn. He presented a retrospective exhibition in Copenhagen and participated in the music festival Wundergrund shortly before his death.
date_of_ record:
11/06/13
name_cataloger:
jtrinh
