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Plexus Forum News
05/07/2025

On 4 July 1987, at Sa Itria Sanctuary, in Gavoi, Sardinia, was held the Plexus art co-opera n 4,  Il Serpente di Pietra, stahed as the first international art slave market show in modern art history, with more 160 artists as art slaves coming from 23 different countries, working and living together with the community of Gavoi, for 4 days of arts and science from 1 to 4 July, experimenting digital art exchanges before Internet existed.

 

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On July 4, USA Independence Day, the remote Gavoi  became worldwide connected through many artists exchanges coming from Kassel, Sidney, Vancouver, Wien, Wales, New York, and many other places in the world, all celebrating and interpreting free deconstructions of metaphor of the Serpent of Stone, as a communal performance of art freedom and independence.

As scales of the Serpent broadcast slow-scam graphic interpretations of the theme linked artists and scientists around the world. Bruce Breland and Robert Dunn of the DAX Group in Pittsburgh established an interactive text/network, with Franco Meloni of the Department of Physics of the State University of Cagliari, bridging across the IP Sharp, Bitnet, E.A.R.N. Networks, connecting Gavoi, in Sardinia with the rest of the world. The DAX Group was represented in Gavoi by Philip and Marcia Rostek. In Pittsburgh, DAX acted as an editorial node for a text – images exchange, over computer communications links, weaving any converging international art contribution and forwarding it to the remote Sardinia event site during the co-opera.

In the night, in a ritualistic performance, Lorenzo Pace as the shaman moved around all installations followed by a serpentine artists parade to awake the spirit of art, then Willem Brugman read Miguel Algarin’s Body Bee Calling (from 21st Century) poem, with Alessandro Figurelli ,as second voice, translating it in Italian for the audience, while an old masquerade Sardinian sheep man, holding in his hand the green nuraghic warrior statuette, from the 1986 mythological attack at the EveArt Opera in New York, was moving around following a ritual Sardinian path.

As in a modern rite, dedicated to the Bruce Richard Nuggent’s Fire of Harlem 1926 and to the bronze mutant of Sardinia, Sandro Dernini, who was just arrived from being away for two days by a car breakdown, with Paolo Maltese and Assane M’Baye, who was chosen by Kre MBaye and Langouste Mbow in Dakar as their representative, ritually burned his clothes as ending of his image of Plexus artistic director, that he had played until then.

 

   

Il Serpente di Pietra was presented as four days of art and science, connected via a computer network by the Bruce Breland and Robert Dunn of the Dax Group of Carnegie Mellon and Franco Meloni of the University of Cagliari, as a multi-media fractal show dedicated to the Heinrich Hertz’s  100 years electromagnetic celebration and to Bruce Richard Nuggent, the black pope of the 1986 art slaves ship,  who died few months before.

13/06/2025

 

On 13 June 1982, 43 years ago, from a row 7000 sq. feet loft at 516 W. 25 St, in Chelsea area of New York, the Plexus project was launched  , with a modern sacrifice party dedicated to the modern gods of the modern cities,conceived by Sandro Dernini. The Plexus project, initiated by Sandro Dernini, R oberto Brambilla, Gianni Longo and Richard Flood, was at once an idea and a space.

 

PLEXUS is about the city - any city,  every city.  It is about the wonder of a skyline that won't stop climbing and a blanket of pollution that can't stop spreading. 

It's about an atmosphere that swell culture and swallows real estate.  It's about a dream that is as illogical as soft watches and as seductive as the promise of immortality. PLEXUS is dedicated to the preposition that all cities are not created equal,  only the people who inhabit them. It is further committed to the proposition that the people of cities are creative survivalists who refuse and acknowledge the laws of nature and who glory in adversity. 

There is, in the collective heart of the people of the cities, a wild, unremitting thirst for the impossible contradictions that make them simultaneous victims and victors. PLEXUS believes that the creative involvement of the individual can do more to enhance a responsive environment than all the bureaucratic machinations of infinity of public agencies. To this end PLEXUS is designed to foster an international network of urban dreamers and realists, theoreticians and pragmatists. PLEXUS means to proceed from observation through discussion and celebration. Its goals are the achievement of a heightened understanding of the possibilities of the city and the definition of alternatives which will accelerate the realization of those possibilities.

(Richard Floor, New York, 1982)

 

16/03/2025

 

Plexus International Archives Gallery has moved from Rome to Sorano, Maremma Tuscany, Italy, at the legal office the Plexus International Forum A.P.S.E.T.S., via Giovanni Pascoli 6 (GR), 58010.

The Archives meticulously document the events and activities of Plexus Internaional, from 1982 to 2024,  with a collection of original papers by Plexus artists and historical artworks, such as the Plexus Metr'Art, a monumental contemporary artwork measuring 390.94 meters, created from 2004 to 2019, including 935 contributions from 469 artists worldwide. The digital archive hosts a large collation of photographs and more than 170 videos, many of them posted on Plexus's YouTube channel. The complete list of Plexus events of Plexus International is reported chronologically on www.plexusinternational.org.

 

 

Plexus original documents can be consulted by appointment by email: info@plexusinternational.org. Possibility of overnight stay on site, at the DJOUR'S Guest House, upon reservation. 

 

Plexus International Archives si è trasferito da RomaSorano, nella Maremma Toscana, presso la sede legale dell'associazione Plexus International Forum A.P.S. E.T.S. ,  via Giovanni Pascoli 6, Sorano (GR), 58010

Plexus documenti sono consultabili previo appuntamento per email: info@plexusinternational.org. Possibilità di pernottamento in sede, presso la Djour's Guest House, su prenotazione.

 

 

10/12/2024

HUMAN USE OF HUMAN BEINGS - ALL HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL 

24/10/2024

Il viaggio di Plexus International riprende da Sorano (GR),Toscana, con l'installazione STOP AL PARCO EOLICO A SORANO - STOP INDIFFERENZA in occasione della manifestazione che la comunità di Sorano ha organizzato alla Rotonda di San Quirico (Sorano), Domenica, 27 Ottobre 2024, per fermare la creazione di un Parco Eolico a Sorano, in cima al monte Elmo.

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