Index Plexus Black Box

CONTENTS FOREWORD by David W. Ecker

v

PREFACE

vi

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ix

CHAPTERS I

THE ORGANIZATION OF THE INQUIRY Introduction Need for the Inquiry Statement of the Problem Delimitations Definitions Method

1 1 2 6 7 7 9

II

STRATEGIES OF INTERPRETATION The Artist as Researcher Glossary Field Research Procedures of Interpretation

19 19 24 26 33

III

DOUBLE WRITING AND DOUBLE READING “Insider” Narratives Giancarlo Schiaffini Mitch Ross Lynne Kanter Willem Brugman Miguel Algarin Alfa Diallo Arturo Lindsay Butch Morris David Boyle Eve Vaterlaus

39 40 40 42 42 43 47 48 49 51 52 54

IV

HISTORICAL EMIC ACCOUNT BY THE ARTIST AS RESEARCHER The Narrative “in the First Person” by Plexus 23s

59 59

V

A CLOSE READING OF PLEXUS BLACK BOX 133 A Strategic Survival by Art Withdrawing 139 Repatriation of Art into the Community:The Artist in the First Person 143 An Open Social Ritual Multi-Arts Form: The Plexus Art Co-opera 154 Plexus Compressionist Art Process 163 Against the Slavery of Art "Isms" 168 Eating Art 173 Well Being in the XXI Century 182 Final Remarks 186

VI

RELATED LITERATURE Aesthetics, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction Artworld and Contemporary Changes

189 189 200

APPENDICES A

PLEXUS “INSIDER” TEXTS Aaron Barr Fabrizio Bertuccioli David Boyle Gaetano Brundu George Chaikin Sandro Dernini Antonello Dessi Stephen DiLauro Albert DiMartino David W. Ecker Frans Evers Leonard Horowitz Ray Kelly Arturo Lindsay Paolo Maltese Maria Pia Marsala Luigi Mazzarelli Assane MBaye Kre MBaye Franco Meloni Okechukwu E. Odita Lorenzo Pace William Parker Frank Pio Rolando Politi Andrea Portas Josè Rodriguez

211 211 212 214 215 218 219 227 228 229 230 232 235 238 239 240 240 241 243 245 245 249 250 250 253 254 255 257

Barnaby Ruhe Anna Saba Micaela Serino Frank Shifreen Youssouph Traorè

261 262 262 263 264

B

PLEXUS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

265

C

CHRONOLOGY OF PLEXUS ACTIVITIES: 1982-2006

271

BIOGRAPHIC NOTE

289

BIBLIOGRAPHY

291