Developing Exhibition Publication Idea

Images to be shown in Exhibition:

Alison Knowles - Make a Salad (1962)
Knowles prepares a salad for a large number of people by chopping the vegetables to the beat of live music, mixing the ingredients by tossing it in the air, then serving the salad to the audience.

Chris Burden - Shoot (1971)He asked a friend to shoot him with a .22 rifle from a distance of 15 feet. The bullet was originally supposed to nick the side of Burden’s arm, but the shooter was slightly off target and the bullet went through the arm instead. 

Ay-O - Exit No.8 (1994)
The audience must pass through a vestibule where the floor has been covered in balloon prepared to burst on contact.

Ay-O - Exit No.8 (1994)
The audience must pass through a vestibule where the floor has been covered in balloon prepared to burst on contact.

Ay-O - Rainbow No.1 for Orchestra (1992–2011)Soap bubbles are blown out of various wind instruments. The conductor breaks the bubbles with his baton.

Benjamin Patterson - Licking Piece (1964)
Cover shapely female with whipped cream, lick, topping of chopped nuts and cherries is optional.

Nam Paik - Fluxus Champion Contest (1963)Nam June Paik’s Fluxus Champion Contest, performed during Festym Fluxorum, Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf.

Nam Paik - Zen for film (1965According to Cage, the film—devoid of images—opens itself up to the nuances of its surrounding environment, “and what you see is the dust that has collected on the film.”

Flux Wedding - Billie Hutching and George Maciunas (1978)

Yoko Ono - Wall Piece for Orchestra to Yoko Ono (1962)
Hit a wall with your head. 

Yves Klein - Leap into the Void (1960)Photomontage by Shunk–Kender of a performance by Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses.

Sky Piece to Jesus Christ - Yoko Ono (1965)Members of the Fluxorchestra were wrapped in gauze as they performed. Eventually they were no longer able to operate as a unified body. When all the music was stilled, the musicians, bound together, left the stage together.

Cut Piece - Yoko Ono (1963)The audience had been instructed that they could take turns approaching Ono and use the scissors to cut off a small piece of her clothing.

George Maciunas - Fluxus Manifesto (1963)

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Development:

Designing exhibition catalogue incorporating the photos seen above.

1. Developing with fold idea
- Translated one earlier test to suit the images and text that will be exhibited in the exhibition.
The page of the publication have to be folded over the the spine of the next page in order to see the full picture. Then you can see the picture and read the text that goes with it allowing the book to make sense.

Full spread:

Being used:

> The page layouts really work when folding over to see the full image. It makes the text make more sense as the only text you can see when it's folded is the text relating to the image.
- Really forces you to interact with the publication and figure out how to use it. Definitely controls the audience making them aware of their body. 
- Highlights the way we normally look at books as this way is different. 
- Without being told how it works it's tricky to figure out, I gave it to my stepmum and she struggled but got there in the end. I quite like this, you have to persevere.

2. Developing fold with colour



^ Taking colour palette inspiration

Previous book experiment but incorporating colour into the works, having the some of the images be purple and orange others remaining black and white.
- Provides a sense of structure for the catalogue people know to match up colours so fewer simply black and white images.
- Don't know if I like the effect it has, feel like the colours should be separate to the images as part of the intervention (like circles over the top, or as cut outs etc).
- Adding colour does bring light to the publication though. In peer research many people thought the fluxus images were about war or struggle.