(39) 21st
Century Fluxus Artists Jigsaw Puzzle Book, unique artist book, 11 1/2 x
15 1/2 inches, inkjet printed, 10 jigsawed portraits with ellipses, in
black portfolio, 2009
Created
for Fluxhibition #4, project of Cecil Touchon, USA
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The
Emperor's Scepter is a Perdicious Amusement - Gary Bibb - 2010 - USA
enhanced found object
(37)
Zen and
Then - Zentient Beings Inc. - liketelevisionsnow -
USA
printed
matter, zippered plastic bag, instructions
(36)
Computer
Game - Antonio Sassu - Italy
(35)
Flux
Vowel Recital - Christine Blackwell - USA
10x15
inches - cardboard, plastic and paper with ink
(32, 33, 34)
Three
Photo Collages on Paper - Miguel
Jimenez - Seville, Spain
6x8
inches each
(31)
Tourist
Set Game - Lubomyr Tymkiv - Ukraine
6x8
inches - plywood, wood, tape, paper
(30)
Natural
Diversion - Patrick Anderson-McQuoid - Ireland
plastic
case with feather and thread - 4 x 2.5 x 2
(29)
Angel Air
Game - Dorthe Grum-Schwensen -
Denmark
14x26
inches - assemblage of thick paper, various paper materials, wood,
rubber, cord and cloth
(28)
Joker
- Pal Csaba - 2010 -
Budapest, Hungary
hand
painted joker playing card glued atop 10 other cards
2.25 x
3.5 x .4 inches
(27) 1.TERROR IS THE BEST
WARDEN - Jorge Artajo
- Madrid, Spain
(Cat arm
is in constant waving motion)
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2.THIS IS NOT A GAME.
THIS NOT A RUSSIAN ROULETTE
(25)
3.ARTIST’S
BOOK: Fill it with body fluids - Jorge Artajo - Madrid, Spain
(24) 4.JIGSAW
PARCEL
Jorge Artajo 2010, winter - Madrid, Spain
(The following text is
included on the surface of the wrapped parcel along with several
addresses of friends) :
Please Mr Postman,
This parcel contains a
precious object Yoko Ono sent
me sometime ago that I would like to share with some of the people I
love, but I'm unable to decide with whom. Could you please help me by
picking one of these addresses at random and deliver to it?
Thank you.
(23) 5.COLOURED
CHESS-SET Jorge Artajo 2010,
winter - Madrid, Spain
This is a Piece inspired by Yoko Ono’s "White
Chess-Set"
The
basis is the same, but where Yoko says "Play It by Trust", I add "Yes,
Play It by Trust and Joy". We should have always in mind that respect
is the best way to end with our fears and enjoy others. Admitting
the differences, we are not as different as we are told. We are all in
the same game, despite our anger or hate. We all have the choice of
transforming life in a game of love and togetherness, or in a game of
death and rejection.
When
I was a child of about ten, I used to hate playing chess, because one
of
my brothers - who was 5 years older than me - used it to humiliate me.
He
always won, of course, and he had the feeling of being stronger and
more clever than me, and he would show off treating me like an inferior
and insulting me. That raised a lot of resentment in me towards him.
However, when I was alone, I used to find something fascination in that
black and white cardboard and all those different pieces, so I enjoyed
very much playing chess alone, with my own rules. The cardboard could
become a huge golden room, a palace, a desert, a country, a planet, or
a
universe and there were lots of love and war stories, but
there were always happy endings with balls and parties where the pieces
got to know to each other, dancing and talking.
So
with all this in mind, I made this Colored Chess-Set, as a way of
adding
a personal layer to Yoko's piece. Maybe if I had had this kind of chess
set
when I was 10, my older brother and I wouldn’t have stopped talking to
each other when grown ups.
(22) 6.TRIPTYCH
– THE GAME OF OPENING DOORS
TO THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS Jorge Artajo 2010,
winter - Madrid, Spain
Description and Instructions:
There
are 248 different fluids in each and all of the 248 bubbles in this
Triptych. 247 of them are filled with gasses that when released, it
will bring joy, prosperity, health richness, wealth, love, pleasure,
luxury, comfort, no guilty lust and hundred of other extremely good
sensations and feelings to the whole wide world, but there is one, just
one bubble that contains an extremely toxic fume that will destroy all
living things on Planet Earth, bringing all kind of illness, torments,
horrors and everything bad and wicked that you cannot even imagine.
The only object able to burst all these
bubbles is the silver needle tied to a golden thread that is provided
with the game.
Do you wanna play?
(21) 7.TRANSFIGURATION
GAMES Jorge Artajo 2010, winter
This
whole Game of Transfigurations has been inspired by Christians and
their ability to remind the existence of a one person that they love
called Jesus by his representation in bread and wine. They use it to
have a sense of family or solidarity and to reach out to bring to the
banquet any who want to joint the love that they have found in that.
I
think that all of us can feed ourselves and others spiritual hunger in
a pagan manner. These games works pretend to be a kind of sharing fun
moments as a contribution to end cultural starvation and malnutrition,
and all the prejudices that cause it: poverty, greed, ineptitude, hate,
violence, among many others.
(20) TRANSFIGURATION GAME-
TRANFORMER #1: ME Jorge Artajo 2010, winter - Madrid, Spain
“Once I
was a bomb”
This
Piece has been inspired by Yoko Ono’s short story “Crystal Ball” that
was published in the inside liner notes of the album “Every man Has A
Woman“(9 October 1984). She has published it again in internet,so you
can read it here:
http://imaginepeace.com/archives/2575
(19) TRANSFIGURATION
GAME- TRANFORMER #2:
YOU AND I Jorge Artajo 2010, winter - Spain
as Family Dressing. (For Rose Alone)
(18) TRANSFIGURATION GAME –
TRANSFORMER #3: YOKO ONO Jorge Artajo 2010,
winter - Madrid, Spain
as Wish Tree for Haiti.
(17) TRANSFIGURATION GAME –
TRANSFORMER #4: GEORGE MACIUNAS as
Starburst Galaxy Jorge Artajo 2010,
winter - Madrid, Spain
(16) TRANSFIGURATION GAME –
TRANSFORMER #5: GEOFF HENDRICKS as
Sky Shaver Jorge Artajo 2010, winter - Madrid, Spain
I
want to pass this Sky Brush Shaver from Amador Sola (1920 somewhere in
the South of Spain – 2005 Olesa de Montserrat, Spain) to Geoff
Hendricks (1931 Littletown, New Hampshire USA- Present)
Amador
Sola used this shaver brush every day during the three years he was
interned in a Franco’s labour camp after Spanish civil war (1936-1939).
He wanted to be nice and clean because he always had in mind that
“that“ day could be the one of his liberation. That shaver brush was a
means for freedom. Years ago Geoff Hendricks he also did an act of
liberation by shaving all the hair on his body. This Sky Shaver Brush
its a symbol of their connection to me.
(15) TRANSFIGURATION GAME –
TRANSFORMER #9: YOKO ONO
as Nutopia's Map - Jorge Artajo 2010,
winter. - Madrid, Spain
