Promote a revolutionary flood and tide in art – George Maciunas
Apartment House has been captivating audiences with performances of avant-garde and experimental music for more than 20 years. The group,created by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze in 1995, has performed all over Europe, from Oslo to Rome and from Barcelona to Vilnius. Recent performances further afield include a tour of Russia and a nine-concert series in Melbourne, Australia.
Unusually for a new music ensemble, Apartment House is equally at home at classical music venues (Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre), crossover venues (Cafe Oto), art galleries (Serpentine Galleries, Turner Contemporary, Whitechapel Gallery) and international festivals (HCMF, MaerzMusik, Wien Modern, Ultima, Witten New Music Days), demonstrating its appeal to a wide range of audiences.
At MADE Apartment House will perform a concert with music composed by George Maciunas. Maciunas was a Lithuanian American artist and a founding member and the central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. Other leading members brought together by this movement included Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and Wolf Vostell.
From 1966 to 1975, George Maciunas realized the social objectives of Fluxus towards a pragmatic and non-elitist conception of art in his work as an urban planner in the Fluxhouse Cooperatives. With $20,000 grants from the J. M. Kaplan Fund and the National Foundation for the Arts, Maciunas purchased his first building in 1966 and converted it into lofts which were used as live-work spaces appropriate for artists. ). With the Fluxhouse Cooperatives, SoHo may be regarded as Maciunas’s first realization of ‘Fluxcity’, a Kolkhoz or collective estate which offers the space for art to flourish.
