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Diving Deep into the Creative Process, with Cecil Touchon
Cecil Touchon Born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group, Touchon is director of the group's Ontological Museum, Founder of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction and founder of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists.
Contents
- Diving Deep into the Creative Process with Cecil Touchon
- Private conversations cecil touchon
- Association with Post Dogmatism
- Association with Fluxus
- Fluxus Publications
- Association with Massurrealism
- Selected Books
- Publications
- Pop Culture Movies
- References
Private conversations cecil touchon
Association with Post-Dogmatism
Touchon co-founded the International Post-Dogmatist Group (IPDG) in 1987. Primarily an alternative to a post-modernist view of the world, the group's writings suggest that creativity and artistic pursuits must be based in a recognition of the spiritual underpinnings of all human activities. The IPDG addresses itself to the art world through a presentation of itself as the 'official avant-garde' creating an elaborate bureaucratic structure of outlandish sounding offices through which the various members communicate simulating 'the establishment' as a form of parody.
Association with Fluxus
In 2005 an exhibition was held in Cuernavaca, Mexico entitled "Cecil Touchon - Thirty Years of Fluxing Around" in which art works and scores dating as early as 1975 were exhibited showing the fluxus tendency in Touchon's work over the last thirty years. Touchon has never been formally associated with the Fluxus group until the year 2000 with his participation in the Fluxlist - an email group where the current generation fluxus artists interact and collaborate. In 2002 Touchon, with a number of other artists from the Fluxlist established the Fluxnexus - a group of artists working together on various new Fluxus projects including a new Fluxus performance workbook. In 2006 Touchon established the FluxMuseum in order to assemble and archive samples of works by contemporary 21st Century Fluxus artists. The central focus of the Fluxmuseum has been the creation of Fluxus related publications and curating and mounting international exhibitions of Fluxus art called Fluxhibitions.
Fluxus Publications
Touchon was selected to publish an essay as one of eleven other contemporary "New Fluxus" artists who are seen to 'inhabit the site of Fluxus, developing and interpreting the Fluxus tradition in a new way.' in a special double issue of the journal Visible Language on Fluxus. The double issue was developed by Owen Smith and Ken Friedman and published through the Rhode Island School of Design The other artists included as representing New Fluxus artists: Alan Bowman, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, David-Baptiste Chirot, David Cologiovani, Eryk Salvaggio, Litsa Spathi, mIEKAL aND, MTAA, Ruud Janssen, Sol Nte, and Walter Cianciusi.
Association with Massurrealism
Touchon has been involved with Massurrealism with his sound collage works as well as poetry collage are the concepts explored in his various forms of audio and literary techniques involve his theories related to what he calls the Massurreality – an overreaching popular culture mind world maintained by daily exposure to mass media.
Selected Books
Dada Centennial: Day of the Dead ISBN9781365877308 Copyright Cecil Touchon (Standard Copyright License)EditionFirst EditionPublisherOntological Museum PublicationsPublished April 20, 2017 LanguageEnglishPages276BindingPerfect-bound Paperback The 275 page full color catalog for the "Dada Centennial / Day of the Dead" exhibition
Collage and assemblage artists from all over the world sent works for the exciting exhibition. The exhibition was held Nov. 4, 2016 through January 31, 2017 at the archives of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction. Also included in the catalog are a variety of original texts by dada artists as well as two new essays by Drager Meurtant and John Andrew Dixon.
Dada Centennial Participants Gary A. Bibb, Picasso Gaglione, Rosetta De Berardinis, Reid Wood, Marian Hoffman Ting, Kurt Schwitters, John M. Bennett, Daniel de Culla, Maryann J. Riker, David Hickman, Isolde Kille, Kurtiss Lofstrom, Mongobì, Jane Wang, Jurgen O. Olbrich, Buz Blurr, Ed Giecik, Thelma Mathias, Jennifer Kosharek, Lori Dorn, Tara Verhiede, Jaromir Svozilik, Pere Saguer, Felicia Perzynska, Jonathan Stangroom, Scrappy Boy: Christopher Lopa, Frips, Sabine Remy, Betty Klaasse, Suzanna Lakner, Christopher Reynolds, C. Mehrl Bennett, Tania Blanco, Josaphine Lazarus, Randy Thurman, Linda Dubose, Franko Busic, Simone Gad, Hayley Kirkman, Norman A. Kary, James White, Gerard Rutteman/Drager Meurtant, Susan Ringler, Brittany Ellis, Costis, Jacqueline Dee Parker, Ruth Lozner, Frederick Epistola, Jeanne Marie Aurnague, Alex Mena¸ Walter Pacanuny, Phil Carney, Kelly Gorman, Deluxe Unlimited, Erin Case, J. Weaver, Andrew Oleksiuk, Elizabeth Bogard, Marsha Balian, Heather Bentz, Michael Wagner, Noémie Faligant, Hope Kroll, Kathleen McHugh, Willie Marlowe, John Andrew Dixon, Peter Dowker, Marci Katz, Alison Keenan, Jack Frankel, Mark Martin, Nancy Crouch, Lance Crouch , Roger Abraham, Cynthia Abraham, William and Karen Evertson, Keith Hollingworth , Rosalie Gancie, Karlyn Atkinson Berg, Bryan Hiveley, Nancy Lamb, W. Friesen, Martyna Benedyka, Aleksandra Perzynska, Judith Berk King, Ramona Palmisani, Lawrence Charles Miller, Sam Dodson, Jim Ford, Kerith Lisi, Loretta Luzajic, Mikel Untzilla, Mojo Mediola, A. Sleep, Lita Kenyon, R.F. Cote, Antonio Occulto, Noelle Maline, Melinda Silver, Marlies Oakley, Suzanne Blaustein, Nikki Soppelsa, David Powell, Clive Knights, Mary Ann Graddisher, Elizabeth Concannon, Keiichi Nakamura, Danielle O'Brien, Denise Enck, Roberts D'Amelio, Marula Di'Como, Lynn Gall, Helilee, Denton McCabe, Cedar Waxwing, Claire Robinson Houghton, Gavin Jones, Philippe LeMaire, Natalie Ciccoricco, Andrew Stys, Ben Brierre, Beatrez Albuquerque, Bob Rizzo, Flora Georgiou, Claire Dinsmore, Craig Deppen Auge, Michael Arata, P. Carter, Roberta Masciarelli, Mary Campbell, Goran Petmil, Justin Pollmann, Virginia Milici, Steven Schreiber, Lu Ellen Joy Giera, Sukarma Rani Thareja, Nancy Dominique, Claudia Mercadier, Art Tucker, Darla McKenna, Peter Swann, Mark Block, Lynn Skordal, A. Niko Pol, Catherine Amanda Schwalbe, M. May, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Ruby Cicero, Maria Elisa Quiaro, Tim Flynn, Jodi Buea, Angela Holland, Star Trauth, Melinda Tidwell, Pedro Bericat, R.M., Nina Tichava, Cordula Kagerman, Boo Lynn Walsh, Peter Quinnen, Larkin Higgins, Elena Massucco, Horst Tress, Ed Varney, Tulio Restrepo, Lance Carlson, Roberto Cardinale, Peter T. Kuttner, Secret Sender, Alexander Limarev, Pal Csaba, Claudia Gerry, R. R. Vagnini, Olga Lupi, Patrick S. Ford, Arthur Panaro, Hannah Dowdy, Oneall Fiobhan, Hannah Joudi, Dilar Pereira, Nisa Touchon, Jennifer Weigel, Marie Stockhill, Roberto Scala, Andrew Maximillian Niss, Shivkumar K.V, Bruno Corra, Dorothee Mesander, Merry Rozzelle, Ginnie Gardiner, Evan Clayton Horback, Dennis Parlante, Jonathan Whitfill, Zach Colins, Sherry Parker, Frank Whipple, Pier Roberto Bassi, Kelsey Irwin, Rosalia Touchon, Christine Blackwell, Lis Gundlach Sell, Janet Jones, Katrien De Blauwer, Bernie Stephanus, Eva Eun-Sil Han, Keith Pace, Patrick O'Kelly, Jacque Parsley, Andrew Topel, Joel Lambeth
Countries represented USA, Spain, Italy, Germany, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands, Croatia, Greece, Philippines, The United Kingdom, Mexico, France, Columbia, Canada, Poland, Japan, India, Austria, Siberia, Russia, Hungary, Hong Kong, Portugal, Denmark, Switzerland, Australia