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WHAT IS PLEXUS?
THE PLEXUS STORY FROM 1982 TO 2025, WITH A SHORT PRE-HISTORY
Since its beginnings in 1982, in New York, Plexus International has played a seminal role in the conception and realization of numerous cross-cultural experimental art projects, involving on some occasions hundreds of artists and scientists, around the world, which are still an unexamined part of the contemporary art history. It would be very difficult to try to label Plexus International activities under existing art categories because, even today, Plexus continues to resist against any definition of art.
"PLEXUS" BY DEFINITION:
A network of intersecting nerves or blood/lymph vessels (e.g., brachial plexus, solar plexus).
Plexus may be is one of the most complex, one of the most universal, in Plexus we find so many different kinds of performances of art, actions and exhibitions, which is important as a kind of summa of all works since the Living Theatre, Cage, all schools of improviser art.
Giancarlo Schiaffini, Rome/New York, 1981
Plexus is a tendency in direction of the universal of the civilization. It is a way to put together all people, it is a tendency to watch what happens in this planet with a consciousness of what happens, with no separation between the world and the human being. Plexus is not an organization, it is more about a philosophy, a thought, a proposition, a view on how we deal with the issue of the human being. It is a tendency in direction of the unity, against any definitions or classifications which make separations.
Kre MBaye, Dakar, 1987
What you feel and see is your own creation…
We are called PLEXUS
I am labelling it:
“Mytho-Compressionism”.
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Here, we have compressed history, re-created mythology.
Time has speed up and there is no time left for aesthetic distance between the artist as performer and the art observer.
In these simultaneous Plexus Co-Operas we have destroyed this distance, and they in turn interact, creating a new operatic form. We have extended the compass of vision to include the former observer as participant. We are user friendly. Use us or lose us.
We are all independent thinkers and dreamers collating our collective visions collaboratively.
Please experience us wisely and with an open heart. This is open ART.
Leonard Horowitz, New York, 1986
Leonard Horowitz, New York 1986 PLEXUS COMPRESSIONISM
PLEXUS is beautiful chaos
Stephen DiLauro, Lower East Side New York, 1988
See and You See. Now the Space between You and Me Disappears.
But I Still Despair because I Don’t Know whether You Did what I Did….
in order to See what You See.
Miguel Algarin, Lower East Side, New York
Art is a way of life, it is a way of understanding. Art is something else from money, and from what bullshit is presented usually. Art is the future which can't be controlled. It is in the air without wires. Art is free. The artists are part of the structure which the power system is trying to push out. Liquid forms vs. square lines.
Ray Kelly, New York, 1985
The Plexus process is a not linear activity and less rationale, which the coherence appears only after the fact....and you will understand it only after you let yourself participating into it.
George Chaikin, New York, 1992
DEFINITION
l am
What you
Don't think
l am
Which is what
You don't
Know
The beauty of Plexus is that we were strong enough to be able to cross all conflicts, beside the fact that we have different origins, the feeling that we have, we were able to do what we had to do without to put in front our confrontations to block all the project and to go together and to move further the project to go on. There was a mystic force behind us to pass through all the economic difficulties and to answer to the question: for whom I am doing this?
Alfa Diallo, Lower East Side, New York
Long distance lies between virtual realities and actual living, breathing realities.
Willem Brugman, Cairns, Australia
PLEXUS IS WHAT YOU THINK, THAT IS.
PLEXUS is the shaman journey along the lines of Van Gennep's Rites of Passage's format.
Barnaby Ruhe, New York, 1986
Plexus Black Box has not a defined definition. It does not work in definition terms. It is a fluid thought which grows, changes, moves differently for each of us. It is made to not be framed. it is a fluid idea, with a lot concerns, it is a radical democracy, it is chaos.
"ENTROPY"
PLEXUS = kBlnW
PLEXUS as entropy and therefore as information
We needed greater synthesis efforts in order to define PLEXUS
Piero della Francesca as vision of Global Human.
Plexus as an open artificial artform that offers the opportunity to many people to feel part of a cultural context, without knowing in advance the full picture of it and their reason for doing it.
Mitch Ross, New York, 1983
From 1983 to 2023, Plexus has carried out numerous collaborative projects and events in various parts of the world, bringing together musicians, visual artists, performers, poets, theatre actors, dancers, playwrights, scholars, and community activists. These projects have involved both established names and emerging artists. These events, which have characterized Plexus's journey and included over 1,000 artists, remain an unexplored part of contemporary art history.
With over 1,000 artists from around the world participating in its initiatives, Plexus International stands as a testament to the enduring power of collaboration and creativity in art.
Plexus Art Journey continues...
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