NUMBER ZERO OF THE 100 PLEXUS CAMPBOLL'S SOUP CANS LIMITED EDITIONS

After 37 years, since when in 1988 I conceived the 100 Plexus labels,

I placed myself inside of the number zero of my 100 Plexus Camboll's Soup Cans Limited Editions, only by Art Love, as a birthday homage, for Glaucia Coelho DemenjourIn the number zero for Glaucia Coelho Demenjour.

PLEXUS onde di trasformazioni…

Un tuffo in Plexus, aaaa!bruuu!humm!rido!mi guardo intorno, ritorno sulla riva, un sguardo e, mi rituffo, ripresa da una ondata che ti fa sbattere contro la sua corrente forte, debole, che si trasforma e, poi si calma, profitto!salgo a galla un po’ d’aria respiro, la testa si gira e si rigira, lo sguardo è verso l’orizzonte e dintorno, si vedano gli altri, per fortuna!no sono sola! che ondata, tutti li a  raccontare il loro “tuffo”. Mi ributto in questa onda che si trasforma e, ti lasci portare nelle sue dolce carezza, aspre, fredda, caldo, lasci il corpo e l’anima pronta, non proprio pronta! mah! ti prende…sono li per caso? Mah!per caso? Si per caso! e va bene! invece anch’io ero li a raccontare ben poco, ma ero li! anche per imparare, come per andare a scuola. All’interno tante porte, finestre, tunnel, pilastri, muri e tante storie; starci dentro ci si passa per piccoli ostacoli, codice, scritti, storia, giochi da montare e costruire.

Storie vissute, documentante, artisti in prima persone, opere, lettere, fotografie, oggetti, racconti, umani, terra, cibo, animale, musica, viaggi, notizie, fame, luce, amore, famiglia, amici, arte, fobie, dolore, guerra, schiavitu, cinema, insomma si parla di tutto e di tutto si parla. Ci si condivide con  complicita’ e spontanea liberta’di espressione.  Quale Plexus, con il suoi 30° Aniversario, meriterebbero l’onore d’essere una materia da studiare.

Semplicemente una piccola metafora di questo piccolo diagramma per il quale poi ci fa parte d’essere. Sei dentro, meno male che si scivola pure, in un’ altalena grande, tutti vogliamo e possiamo scivolare insieme, sono tanti percorsi belli

                                       Glaucia Coelho Demenjour, Roma, Dicembre 2012 

PLEXUS wave of transformations ...


A dip in Plexus , aaaa ! Bruuu ! Humm ! Laugh ! I look around, return to the shore, a glance, and I dip  back , picked up by a wave that makes you bump into its current strong, weak , which is transforming itself and, then it calms ,  I profit!  ascend to the surface, a little ' breathing air , the head turns and re-turns , my eyes are toward the horizon and surroundings, see the others , thankfully!  I am not alone ! What wave , all  theew, all to tell their " dip " . I throw them back in this wave which is transforming itself and you go with in her gentle caress , harsh , cold , hot, leave the body and soul ready , not quite ready! mah ! with you ... are there by chance ? Mah ! By chance? It is by chance! and that's okay ! instead I was there to tell very little, but I was there ! also to learn , like to go to school . Inside, many doors , windows , tunnels , pillars , walls and many stories ; fit  inside one passes  through small obstacles , codes, writings, history , games to assemble and build .

Truth Stories, documented, artists in the first person, artworks, letters, photographs, objects, stories, humans, earth, food, animals, music, voyages, news, hunger, light, love, family, friends, art, phobias, pain, war, slavery, cinema, in short, we talk about anything and everything talks. We share with complicity  and free spontaneous expression. Plexus , with its 30 ° Aniversario , would deserve to be a subject to be studied.

Just a small metaphor of this little diagram for which, then,   it makes us being part of it.  We are in , luckily it slide as well, in a big swing . All we want and  we can slide together  there are many beautiful routes.
 

Glaucia Coelho Demenjour, Rome , December 2012

In August 2025, I placed myself  inside the number zero of the 100 Plexus Campboll's Soup Cans Limited Editions, watching myself, subject and object at the same time. as  a vivisected body of art. 

 packaged my zero number Can inside a wicker basket handmade by Fabrizio Perini,  the basket maker of Sorano, Tuscany Maremma, where it is now located Plexus International Archives. I was inspired by my 1993 NYU course on "Living Traditions in Arts" by prof. David W. Ecker.

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What does a

the zero number Plexus Campboll’s Soup Can contain?

Plexus Interpretation is not static.  It is formed by the momentum of the rhythm of our experience and of its correlations. Each reader has his/her own angle of interpretation depending upon his/her personality, education, and culture. No method can transcend the interpreter's own historicity.  The content of a Plexus Campboll's Soup Can changes from Can to Can. 

On the internal side of the number zero Plexus Can, I glued one cent coin, painted in yellow, as money art RECALL of the 1986 Plexus art opera n.3 "EVE, Escape for Donna Purgatorio from Anno Domini", held in New York Lower East Side Civic Cultutal Center CUANDO.

I glued the coin next to the cover brochure of the 1987 Dematerialization of Art Symposium at New York University. 

Next, I glued a collage of a middle ages vivisected body of an alive prisoner opened by the medical school, with different faces of myself glued on the faces of the academics watching the opening of a living body to undestand its funzionament.

 Inside the can, on the bottom,  I placed an original 1981 photo of me made by Lynne Kanter, as my ZERO  1981 TIME CAPSULE

 In 1981,  I created  the Center for Italian Contemporary Culture of the New York University. As executive director, I organized the programme "THE ARTIST IN THE FIRST PERSON", with Italian independent artists, managening their own presentations.

 After, in 1982/83 I opened Plexus International performace space, in Chelsea.

Then, 1984 I was forced to close the Plexus performance space and I opened the Shuttle Theatre/Lab in the Lower East Side. 

Then Plexus art journey departed and...... I am still  traveling on board. 

I started to fill my zero number with the Plexus history, from where they come, in which I WAS in the first person living the experience, in which I AM right now, and in which  I WILL BE forever, an insider as well as an outsider.

EATING THE NUMBER ZERO OF THE 100 PLEXUS CAMPBOLL'S SOUP CANS LIMITED EDITION IS

EATING THE HISTORY OF PLEXUS ART JOURNEY 1982-2024

 ingredients is my 

 PHD NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AESTETIC INQUIRY INTO THE PLEXUS BLACK BOX

This number zero allowed me to make progress in the challenge of moving in filling the number 1 of my 100 Plexus Campboll's Soup Cans Limited Editions,  an original intentional contemporary artist attempt , with the ambition to have a long shelf life in contemporary art history.