Superflex receive the George Maciunas Award
Who is betting on 47? / The George Maciunas Award.
The Nassauische Kunstverein Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden Art Association) proudly presents WHO IS BETTING ON 47?
The show combines all awardees of the George-Maciunas-Award. Maria Eichhorn (1992) / Romuald Hazoume (1996) / Mona Hatoum (2000) / Dan Perjovschi - Nevin Aladag (2004) / SUPERFLEX George Maciunas Award 2009 - Driton Hajredini Career Grant 2008
Exhibition: January 18th - March 1st 2009
Finissage: FREE BEER, March 1st 2009 3-6 p.m.
Press release from NKV:
The George Maciunas Award
The award is sponsored by the Wiesbaden based Fluxus collectors Ute and Michael Berger, Juror is Rene Block and given to artist of the second generation of Fluxus. The aim is to support young international artists whose works suggest ideas inherent to the Fluxus art movement in order to keep the art current alive. The first award received Maria Eichhorn in 1992, during a show she had at the NKV at the same time as John Cage was honored there with a retrospective show during FLUXUS DA CAPO. Since then, the award has been assigned every 47 months - in honour to George Maciunas, founder of FLUXUS, who died early in the age of 47. FLUXUS has been officially founded at the "Fluxus Festival of Very New Music" which took place in Wiesbaden in 1962. This Fluxus event provided the first real broad impact for this new art movement.
Previous awardees have been:
Maria Eichhorn 1992
Romuald Hazoume 1996
Mona Hatoum 2000
Dan Perjovschi 2004 and Career Grant to Nevin Aladag
In 2009 the George Maciunas Award has been given to the Danish artist group SUPERFLEX:
Bjørnstjerne R Christiansen (*1969, Copenhagen, Danmark),
Rasmus Nielsen (*1969, Copenhagen, Danmark),
Jakob Fenger (*1968, Copenhagen, Danmark)
Since 1993, the Danish artists group SUPERFLEX has been working together on a series of projects examining economic issues, democratic production conditions, and self-organization. The artists have examined alternative energy production methods and commodity production in Brazil, Thailand and Europe. In Wiesbaden they present a few of their works with one subject in common - copy. SUPERFLEX has been working for some years now on projects that all try to challenge and re-define the system of rights (copy-right, intellectual property rights, trademarks and the patent system).
On show is:
FREE BEER/ Counter-game strategies/ Anti-piracy machine
FREE BEER/ Brewing Kit
Supercopy/Lacoste (blackout)
Copy Right (Single chair, White version)
The George Maciunas Career Grant 2009 is given to Kosovo based artist DRITON HAJREDINI, showing his installation WHO KILLED THE PAINTING? and the Video THE SIN.
Images:
for Images please download http://www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de/presse/47.zip
Contact:
for further questions please contact NKV at
presse@kunstverein-wiesbaden.de
Address:
II NKV
Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
Wilhelm Str. 15
65185 Wiesbaden / Germany