Stieglitz had 291
Picabia had 391
Flomm has 423
FLOMM 423 follows the DADA concept of an unpredictable soirée –
art, art making, printing, dress-up, mor art making, mor entertainment – as part of the FLOMM movement. and it just sort of happened. Like everything else that is FLOMM. Inspired by history • • •
In stories of Berlin Cabaret,
the salons of the DADAists (this book irreverently explains how to do DADA),
unexpected evenings in NY as part of the great PERFORMA series,
and
LOCALLY in the incredible ARTHOTEL and ARTSTREET that changed the SACRAMENTO creative landscape forever!
So that's WAT 423 is. A hands-on fête in an out-of-the-way locale where participants can EXPERIENCE and CREATE ART using a few supplied materials. A spontaneous FLOMM experience.
“Being a FLOMMIST means learning my emersion.
It’s saying yes to art forms that you haven’t mastered yet … It’s evoking the spirit of Marcel Duchamp and pissing off your betters by using a Sharpie in a museum …
And we’re all volunteering to make this happen.”
—Louis Hernandez, from the promo for the first FLOMM 423 evént, 2016
423 locales + streams have included
stockton
sacramento
north highlands
paris
antwerp
mexico city
san francisco
san jose
los angeles
pasadena
las vegas
cincinnati
new jersey
the pacific trash vortex +
the pancake circus parking lot
up next
cameron park
hands on LETTERPRESS, MONOPRINTING + MOR
live PAINTING and ILLUSTRATION
an overview of YELLOW IN ART
live entertainment, MÚSIK, POETRY, PERFORMANCE ART
join and chill
buy buy buy buy
3 gallery shows: vigon, résistance, web new wave
make art: spray paint, hydrodipping + mor
historic talks: french new wave, lavender heights + mor
80s new wave v. noise: live + loud
to keep you going
between the things, we may require gloves