Eric Andersen (born 1940 in

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

) is a Danish artist associated with the

Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus ...

art movement. He lives in

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Life and work

In 1962 Andersen first took part in one of the early concerts given by

held during the Festum Fluxorum in the Nikolai Kirke (Nicolas Church) in

. He soon took an early interest in

intermedia Intermedia is an art theory term coined in the mid-1960s by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe various interdisciplinarity art activities that occur between genres, beginning in the 1960s. It was also used by John Brockman to refer to work ...

l art. In his ''Opus'' works from the early 1960s, Andersen explored the open interaction between performer and public, developing open self-transforming works, such as ''arte strumentale''. Andersen’s performances depend very much on the public. This is true of not only his Fluxus actions but also his installations, to which the public may be prompted to contribute. From 1962 to 1966 he worked closely with Arthur Kopcke, turned in the late 1960s to

mail art Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is an artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the postal service. It initially developed out of what eventually became Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence Scho ...

and then in the 1970s was concerned with geographical space. His most eminent works include ''Hidden Paintings'', ''Crying Spaces'', ''Confession Kitchens'', ''Lawns that turn towards the Sun'' and ''Artificial Stars''. Andersen was often a guest in the former

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countries. In 1966, he held a three-day event in Prague with the Fluxus artists

Tomas Schmit Tomas Schmit (born 13 July 1943 in Thier, now part of Wipperfürth, died 4 October 2006 in Berlin, Germany) was an artist and author associated with the Fluxus movement of the early 1960s.

and Milan Knížák. Those were the first

events in

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. In

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he exhibited in Galeria Akumulatory 2 in

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and in the Galeria Potocka in

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. In 1996, the year in which Copenhagen was ''Europe’s cultural capital'', Andersen arranged a three-day inter-media event involving parachute-jumping, helicopters, mountaineering, live sheep and 500 singers walking on water. In 2017 the book The Glorious Way of Unproductivity was published by Per Brunskog. A textbook in inter-media, based exclusively on Eric Andersen's work.

Footnotes

References

* Owen Smith (1998)

: The History of an Attitude,

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Press * Block, René, ed. 1962 Wiesbaden Fluxus 1982. Wiesbaden (BRD): Harlekin Art; Wiesbaden: Museum Wiesbaden and Nassauischer Kunstverein; Kassel: Neue Galerie der Staatliche, 1982. * Friedman, Ken, ed. The Fluxus Reader. Chicester, West Sussex and New York: Academy Editions, 1998. * Gray, John. Action Art. A Bibliography of Artists’ Performance from

Futurism Futurism ( it, Futurismo, link=no) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such ...

to Fluxus and Beyond. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993. * Hendricks, Geoffrey, ed. Critical Mass,

Happenings A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow during the 1950s to describe a range of art-related events. History Origins Allan Kaprow first coined the term "happen ...

, Fluxus, performance,

and

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1958–1972. Mason Gross Art Galleries, Rutgers, and Mead Art Gallery, Amherst, 2003. Page 85 * Hendricks, Jon. Fluxus Codex. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1989. * Jon Hendricks, ed. Fluxus, etc.: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Cranbrook Museum of Art, 1982. * Higgins, Hannah. Fluxus Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. p. 150 * Kellein, Thomas. Fluxus. London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995. * Milman, Estera, ed. Fluxus: A Conceptual Country, 'Visible_Language'',_vol._26,_nos._1/2.html" ;"title="Visible_Language.html" ;"title="'Visible Language">'Visible Language'', vol. 26, nos. 1/2">Visible_Language.html" ;"title="'Visible Language">'Visible Language'', vol. 26, nos. 1/2Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1992. * Moren, Lisa. Intermedia. Baltimore, Maryland: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2003. * Paull, Silke and Hervé Würz, eds. ''How we met or a microdemystification''. Saarbrücken-Dudweiler (Germany) 1977, Engl.-German, AQ 16, Incl. a bibliography by Hanns Sohm. * Phillpot, Clive, and Jon Hendricks, eds. Fluxus: Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. New York:

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, 1988. * Schmidt-Burkhardt, Astrit. Maciunas’ Learning Machine from

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to a Chronology of Fluxus. Detroit, Michigan: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, 2005. * In the spirit of Fluxus by Elizabeth Armstrong, Janet Jenkins, Joan Rothfuss,

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. page 37 *

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Going with the Flow - 7 Mar 1983 - v. 16, no. 10, Page 104 * The invisible masterpiece by

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, Helen Atkins * Happenings and Other Acts (Worlds of Performance) by M. Sandford Page 77 * Fluxus: today and yesterday by Johan Pijnappel Page 28 * The readymade boomerang by René Block, Art Gallery of New South Wales Page 138, 147 * New art examiner by Chicago New Art Association, Pennsylvania New Art Association, Washington, D.C. New Art Association. v. 21 - 1993 page 21 * Philosophy and love by Linnell Secomb page 138 * Upheavals, manifestos, manifestations By Klaus Schrenk, Städitsche Kunsthalle Düsseldorf page 26, 27 * Modernism since Postmodernism By

Dick Higgins Dick Higgins (15 March 1938 – 25 October 1998) was an American artist, composer, art theorist, poet, publisher, printmaker, and a co-founder of the Fluxus international artistic movement (and community). Inspired by John Cage, Higgins was a ...

page 77,108 * Action art By John Gray page 106 * The cinema of Scandinavia By Tytti Soila page 225 * Networked Art By Craig J. Saper page 161 * The Fluxus constellation Sandra Solimano,

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, Villa Croce (Museum : Genoa, Italy) * Pop art Marco Livingstone,

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Page 234 * Neo-avant-garde By David Hopkins, Anna Katharina Schaffner Page 158 * A flexible history of Fluxus facts and fictions By

Emmett Williams Emmett Williams (4 April 1925 – 14 February 2007) was an American poet and visual artist. He was married to British visual artist Ann Noël. Williams was born in Greenville, South Carolina, grew up in Virginia, and lived in Europe from 1 ...

, Ann Noël Page 40,120 * Berlinart 1961-1987 By Kynaston McShine, René Block,

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Page 69 * Artistic Bedfellows By

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Page 159 * Not the other avant-garde By James Martin Harding, John Rouse Page 278 * Commentaries on the new media arts By

Robert C. Morgan Robert C. Morgan (born 1943) is an American art critic, art historian, curator, poet, and artist. Biography Robert C. Morgan received his M.F.A. in sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1975 and his Ph.D. in art education f ...

Page 5 * Annual Bibliography of Modern Art, 1991 By Museum Of Modern Art Library Page 176 * "The Computational Word Works of Eric Andersen and

" by

Hannah Higgins Hannah B. Higgins (born 1964) is an American writer and academic living in Chicago, Illinois. Higgins's research examines various post-conceptual art historical subjects (visual, musical, computational and material) in terms of two philosophicall ...

in H. Higgins, & D. Kahn (Eds.), Mainframe experimentalism: Early digital computing in the experimental arts, pp. 279–287

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