Ben Patterson
Ben Patterson, maiden name Benjamin Patterson, (* May 29, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) is an American artist and musician and co-founder of the Fluxus movement in the 60s.
Life
Born in Pittsburgh in 1934 artists and musicians made in 1956 with a Bachelor of Music at the University of Michigan. In 1951, a solo concert double bass player was televised. Until the 1960s, he was known as a member of several symphony orchestras in Canada, the U.S. and Germany. In 1960 he moved to Cologne and devoted himself to the contemporary music scene. By 1962, Patterson stepped beside Cologne, among others in Vienna, Venice and Paris.
After he had organized in 1962 with George Maciunas, the Wiesbaden Festival of Very New Music, later known as the first Fluxus Festival in Wiesbaden Municipal Museum, the first Fluxus -related newspaper articles by Emmett Williams in the journal The Stars and Stripes was published. That same year, Patterson moved his residence to Paris, where he published the book Methods and Process itself, among other things, and published by the collaboration with Robert Filliou puzzle poems in Filliou Gallery Légitime. In 1963 he moved to New York and retired from the avant-garde art, to lead a " civil life ".
His work the next two decades included the director of the orchestra Symphony of the New World, the management of the institute of cultural relations in New York and the management for the development of Negro Ensemble Company and management of the foundation Pro Musica Inc. His artistic work was uncommonly based on performances in appearance. In the years 1982 and 1983, he participated in the São Paulo Biennial and his works have been presented in various exhibitions of the Silverman Collection in the United States. Opened in 1988, Patterson his first solo exhibition, An Ordinary Life with new assemblages and installations at the Emily Harvey Gallery, New York. Its in relation to politics and society ironic and cryptic works are continuous part of Fluxus festivals and group exhibitions.
Awards
- 2012: Wiesbaden Culture Award