An InterStitial Art Show

!!April Last Thursday!! 4.30.09

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Live Art Happening
A 2 block long art exhibition installation and collaborative, interactive performance
sandwiched between 2 galleries : at :

EnterBeing Spiritual Community Center
1603 NE Alberta Street
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The Fuel Cafe
1452 NE Alberta Street

According to Wikipedia, Interstitial Art is a term first coined in the 1990s, and increasingly popularized in the early 2000s, that refers to any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or media, thus making the work difficult to easily categorize or describe within a single artistic discipline.

The concept of interstitiality

The word interstitial means "between spaces," and is commonly used to denote "in-betweenness" in several different cultural contexts. Architects refer to the leftover gaps between building walls as "interstitial space," being neither inside any room nor outside the building. Medical doctors have used the term for hundreds of years to refer to a space within the human body that lies in between blood vessels and organs, or in between individual cells. Television station programmers refer to any short piece of content that is neither a show nor a commercial, but is sandwiched between them, as "an interstitial."

Mandala by Adriane Enns: visit her website The Creative Instinct in·ter·stice \in-ˈtər-stəs\ a: a space that intervenes between things ; especially : one between closely spaced things <interstices of a wall> b: a gap or break in something generally continuous interstices of society> 2: a short space of time between events

The Interstitial Arts Foundation is a not–for–profit organization dedicated to the study, support, and promotion of interstitial art: literature, music, visual and performance art found in between categories and genres — art that crosses borders.
"These paintings will not last.

They will fade.
They will curl.
They will eat themselves.
They will not make a good investment.
They are beautiful.

All are mixed media on cereal boxes."

~Painted collage and words by Alex Myers

Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning, architecture, and design. Fluxus is often described as intermedia, a term coined by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins in a famous 1966 essay.

Read more about the Fluxus Movement at Wikipedia

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90x144 cm, Staatliche Museum, Berlin.

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922.^[1] The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-warart through anti-art cultural works. Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals; passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture were topics often discussed in a variety of media. The movement influenced later styles like the avant-garde and downtown musicsurrealism, Nouveau Réalisme, pop art, Fluxus and punk rock.

Read more at wikipedia