Art's Birthday

Description:

Art’s Birthday was a tradition started by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou who declared, on January 17, 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years prior when somebody dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Over many decades, artists have continued to organize annual celebrations in the spirit of Filliou’s “Eternal Network” or “La Fête permanente.”

Western Front presented a web-cast with a performance by Steve Heimbecker, and Sutrisno Haratana and Heri Dono performing Indonesian puppetry, followed by a lavish dinner with performative interruptions. The streaming program, .. devolve into II .., was also launched. 

External event programming was presented by CiTR Radio, Vancouver; Kunstradio, Vienna; and streams from Australia, Taiwan, Canada, United Kingdom, Austria, and Italy.

Video documentation is available upon request.