Happening Seminars AN-88, AN-89 (1988 – 1989)
The Happening Seminars AN-88, AN-89 took place at the end of the 1980s. Young composers, musicologists, actors and artists were collectively searching for an alternative way of expression by experimenting with the ideas of FLUXUS, George Maciunas and Dada. The rebirth of Lithuania was clearly reflected in the works that they created.
BAZA GAZA (1988)
Multimedia performance. 35 mm film reel (first projection). Tape recorder (audio). Video (second projection). Scents transmitted live.
“Fluxus & Maciunas ’92”
In 1992, the exhibition-event Fluxus & Maciunas opened at the Youth Center. Organizer of the event was composer Gintaras Sodeika who had earlier organized the Anykščiai Happening Festivals in 1988–1990 at which the idea of Fluxus had already been introduced along with art lover Modestas Saukaitis, who was interested in the genesis of Fluxus and was living in Germany at the time. Rimante Sodeikienė and Arvydas Baltrūnas also contributed towards the exhibition/event. The project was opened and closed with activities, happenings with the main part of the show composed of improvised installations, Fluxus books, xeroxed documentary material (with permission to copy gained from Gilbert and Lila Silverman) about the Fluxus movement.
Kęstutis Šapoka
FLUXUS REQUIEM (2018)
Chorus, brass wind quintet, carillon, actor in movement and electronics.
2018 was the fortieth anniversary of the death of George Maciunas (1931-1978), the founder of the FLUXUS movement. The REQUIEM FOR FLUXUS is dedicated to his memory. The piece is a (non)funereal (non)Mass for mixed choir, wind quintet, solist (voice and movement), carillon, birds, bugs and worms.
