1960 Fluxus Work "Paper Piece" to be Performed by Clifford Owens in New York

 Fluxus work "Paper Piece"  by Benjamin Patterson will be performed by Clifford Owens in connection with the launch of a new publication by the extravagantly cool New York festival and organization PERFORMA. The score for "Paper Piece" can be found here: it involves ripping, crumpling, puffing and otherwise destroying a pile of paper until all the paper is gone.

event details: "Fluxus Score by Benjamin Patterson (2006)
Performed by Clifford Owens
Clifford Owens will be joined by four performers in a reconstruction of “Paper Piece” (1960), originally created by artist and double bass virtuoso Benjamin Patterson, the only African-American member of the Fluxus movement originating in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Clifford Owens is an artist working in photography, video, live action, and text. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions: “Performa05” New York, NY; “Greater New York 2005” P.S.1/MoMA, Queens, NY; “Influence, Anxiety, Gratitude” List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA; and “Sticky Fingers” Para-site Art Space, Hong Kong, China; and “Freestyle” The Studio Museum in Harlem. Clifford studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rutgers University, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Clifford was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and he lives and works in New York City."