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Art's Birthday 2023 Art Performance GATHER (for Michael Morris), 2023 by Lam Wong The Western Front and ABC:V celebrate Art's Birthday 2023, the 1,000,060th Anniversary of Art. Featuring Cake and Tea with artists: Celebrating Art's Birthday is a tradition started by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou who declared, on January 17th 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years ago 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". Lam Wong’s performance work ’GATHER (for Michael Morris)’ (2023) involved a sponge, a tea table, a tea ceremony using exclusively Puerh teas and a teapot by Michael Henry (the same teapot used by Robert Filliou during his 1979 Video Breakfasting performance), various teaware and art objects, background images projected on the wall featuring historical photos from the Western Front archive and Wong’s personal collection, and a tea painting with names of Western Front founders and associated artists scribed on the table alphabetically. Viewers were invited and encouraged to participate in co-creating the tea painting.
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