Fluxsweet

From Artist Organized Art

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

"Fluxsweet" full article:
http://www.artistorganizedart.org/commons/2005/02/f-l-u-x-s-w-e-e-t-taketo-shimada-larry.html

Taketo Shimada, Larry Miller and Alison Knowles with co-performers from Goonkins and Higgins families (12 year old Beckett Gookin, 5 year old Zora Gookin, 4 1/2 year old Clara Joy Selman (Dick Higgins' Granddaughter) as well as Kirby Gookin, Robin Kahn and Jessica Higgins, plus Kirby's student Noura Al-Salem, artists Nancy Hwang and Nelson / Electric Chaircut did vintage pieces plus Alison's new piece "Play Paper" featuring her bean instruments and a toy.The standing room only crowd was jammed in to the Harvestworks recording studio on a rainy Valentine's evening in SOHO NYC to celebrate performance art in its refined and vulger forms!

Nivea Cream ruined two microphone (which later were repaired) and splattered all over the floor, Alison's glasses and made a general musical mess! The Joe Jones' piece "Flux Music Box" worked well because of personalities of two 5 year old girls with Taketo's elegant turntable magic which included drilling holes into vinyl LP to achieve strange wobbly sounds. Children speaking during the performance was priceless.

Larry Miller's "Finger Exercises" included such activities as Knuckle Cracking, Tooth Plucking, Snapping Fingers and Drumming the floor. Who could guess our fingers were by themselves musical instruments...

Fluxsweet, Taketo Shimada, Larry Miller, Alison Knowles, Beckett Gookin, Zora Gookin, Clara Joy Selman, Kirby Gookin, Robin Kahn, Jessica Higgins, Noura Al-Salem, Nancy Hwang, Nelson / Electric Chaircut, One of the amazing visual in this concert was provided by Nelson / Electric Chaircut, "Flux Music Box", Joe Jones, Larry Miller, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center