Artists around the world celebrated January 17 – 1.000.048. the birthday of art - concerts and performances that were broadcast through the programs of the network of radio stations gathered around the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the Ars acoustics group, the SEE.cult portal reports.
The birthday of art is celebrated on the day when the French fluxus artist Robert Filu declared in 1963 that art was born a million years ago, when someone threw a dry sponge into water. Ten years later, Filu celebrated the one million and tenth birthday of art at the Neue Galerie in Aachen and proposed an official celebration of the date as a holiday of art.
According to that concept, art celebrated 1.000.048 the day before yesterday. birthday.
In memory of Filu's concept of the "eternal network" (La Fête permanente), after his death in 1987, some artists began to celebrate the birthday of art with email art, fax messages or low-budget TV recordings, and the event began to take on a global character over time. . Artists contributed gifts of art - works that were shared through the network.
The celebration of the birthday of art has never been a formal event, but is organized on an ad hoc basis, and the participants create them independently, whether it is friends in a private studio or a performance in a museum or a radio station. The only requirement is that the participant group is willing to send and receive a birthday gift for art.
Since 1994, this usually means the use of Interner in any form, and the EBU has designed a program of "sound gifts" for this international event this year.
Among the cities that celebrated the birthday of art are Berlin, Vienna, Antwerp, Brussels, Karlsruhe, Graz, Vancouver, Stockholm, Bratislava, Prague, Moscow, Madrid, Paris, Tallinn, Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana...
The site dedicated to the birthday of art is www.artsbirthday.net
In memory of Filu's concept of the "eternal network", after his death in 1987, some artists began to celebrate the birthday of art with email art, fax messages or low-budget TV recordings, and the event began to take on a global character over time.
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