The Fluxus Brothers Present: Good Art Bad Art - Philadelphia Fringe Festival

The Fluxus Brothers Present: Good Art Bad Art

The Fluxus Brothers

Theater

"PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD IN ART. PROMOTE living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY." George Maciunas (1963)

Witness vintage Fluxus scores from Brecht, Cage, Knowles, Ono, Paik, and others alongside Fluxus Brothers originals. Decide: Is this good? Is this bad? Is this art?

Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews and Mason Rosenthal have been collaborating since 2012 as the Medium Theater Company, directing each others solo shows "Nobodys Home" (2013) and "Cones" (2015) and making many site-specific plays and interactive experiences. Check out their quirky Q&A podcast "Nobody Knows" (2018) where listeners send in questions and Nobody answers. Mason Rosenthal and Benjamin Rosenthal have been collaborating since 1987. They are brothers.

Fluxus works that may appear include: "Not 4:33" by Flux Bros. (2023), "The History of Fluxus" by Ken Friedman (1993), "Proposition: Make a Salad" by Alison Knowles (1962), "Wall Piece for Orchestra" by Yoko Ono (1962), "Drip Music" by George Brecht (1959), "Stack" by Flux Bro. 1 (2023), "Solo for Rich Man" by George Maciunas (1962), "Solo for Topless Cellist" by Nam June Paik (1965), "BANG" by Flux Bro. 2 (2023), "For a Drummer" by George Brecht (1966), "Maybe 4:33" by Flux Bros. (2024), "Cut Piece" by Yoko Ono (1962), "Danger Music Number Nine" for Nam June Paik by Dick Higgins (1962), "Nude Descending a Staircase" by Shigeko Kubota and Nam June Paik (1973) "Ceiling Painting (Yes Piece)" by Yoko Ono (1966), "No Piece" by Flux Bros. (2024), "I Will be Back in Ten Minutes" by Ben Vautier (1963), "Which Flux Bros Armpits Smell Best?" by Flux Bro. 2 (2024), "4'33"" by John Cage (1952)

Photo by John Muse

With over 100 offerings from rebellious circus, delicious dance, fearless theater and activist art to workshops, parties, and more Cannonball pushes the boundaries of live performance at four different venues this Fringe. Come as you are and stay past bedtime. Blaze your own trail at cannonballfestival.org.

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Details

Run Time: 60 mins

Ticket Price: $25

Venue: MAAS Studio
Dates: September 13, 2024 - September 27, 2024

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September 13, 2024 6.30pm

1320 N 5th St

General Admission: $25

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September 18, 2024 5.00pm

1320 N 5th St

General Admission: $25

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September 27, 2024 6.30pm

1320 N 5th St

General Admission: $25

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About the Artist

MORGAN FITZPATRICK ANDREWS (creator/performer) has been making music, theater, and banana bread in Philadelphia and beyond for over 25 years. Recent accomplishments include: orchestrating a cardboard pinball arcade, launching a 100-person carnival into outer space, and teaching a shiba inu to play the piano. In the before times, Morgan professored performance at Tufts University, taught Socially Engaged Art for Goddard College, and led community workshops through Philadelphia Theater of the Oppressed. Now that so many institutions of higher learning are imploding, Morgan contents himself with mastering the craft of Performative Lecture with the Fluxus Brothers and curates other Fringe Festival shows at Studio 34, a yoga and arts space in West Philly. www.morganfitzp.org

MASON ROSENTHAL (creator/performer) is a performance maker, director, actor, and teacher raised in Skokie, Illinois. He is a founding member of the award-winning Philadelphia-based company Lightning Rod Special. LRS' recent work includes "Nosejob" (part of this years Fringe Festival at Theater Exile), "SPEECH" (Fringe 22), "The Appointment" (NYT' "Best Theater of 19") and "Underground Railroad Game" (16 Obie Award for "Best New American Theater Work"). With Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews, Mason is also a founding member of The Medium Theater Company, and one half of the famous performance art duo Ben and Ben's Brother. www.masonrosenthal.weebly.com

BENJAMIN ROSENTHAL (creator/performer) is a performance and visual artist, credit card churner, and professional gambler whose recent work "The Self Portrait Series" was presented clandestinely in the rooms of Hilton Hotels, at The University of Texas (supported by Austin Arts Council), and in NYCs Exponential Festival. He is one half of the famous performance art duo Ben and Ben's Brother (see the brothers' other Cannonball Festival project "Sohrab is Bumbling Foriegner" [sic] with Sohrab Haghverdi at Christ Church). www.benandbrother.horse

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This event is appropriate for ages 13+

Nudity

Violent Content

Audience Interaction

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