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3 STAR A LA CARTE (1992). An art piece by Knud Pedersen
The 3 STAR A LA CARTE is a way of presenting FLUXUS art pieces, invented by Knud Pedersen.

Preformed first time 1992 in "Nikolaj kirke", today known as "Kunsthallen Nikolaj" Copenhagen.

Performed at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art 2009

Description of the piece by BALTIC Center for Contemporary art: ''To mark the end of The Dream of Fluxus and to provide our audience with a true flavour of the diversity and absurdity of Fluxus, BALTIC will be staging a rare performance of Knud Pedersen’s Three Star À La Carte. The guests will be invited to compose their own Fluxus meal from the menu-card and will be served performance pieces at dining tables. Historic and contemporary Fluxus works by over fifteen artists adopt the framework and selection offered by a conventional café. A pay bar is also available to compliment your Fluxus meal.'' (BALTIC 2009)

The A LA CARTE 2009 consisted of following FLUXUS art pieces:

Final List of Proposals. a) Title, b) Instruction, c)Material list, d) Notes to the waiter, e) comments from us to you

George Brecht

a) Piano piece b) A vase of flowers on (to) a piano –1962 c) A vase of flowers (a piano) d) Inform the guest to go to the piano and place the vase of flowers on the piano-Make a bow and return to your table

a) Solo for violin b) Polishing 1962 c) A violin a polishing clothe and polishing crème d) Inform the guest to very carefully polish the violin. Estimated duration: 20 minutes

a) Dance music b) Gunshot 1962 c) A pistol with 6 bullets d) Inform the guest that there are 6 loose bullets in the pistol and ask him or her to pull the trigger fast after each other pointing around the audience but not against the guests.

a) Drip music b) From a tall ladder pour water from a pitcher very slowly into an empty vessel 1959 c) A tall ladder, a pitcher filled with water, a vessel, microphone connected to the vessel and a loudspeaker. d) Ask the guest to perform and assist if necessary. (Numbers of prerequisites prepared for simultaneous performances)

Bengt af Klintberg

a) Calls Canto 6 (letter) b) Open an empty envelope with both hands and talk loudly into it Then close the envelope quickly and post it to anyone whom it may concern - December 1965-June 1966 c) An empty envelope, a pencil and a stamp. d) Ask the guest to read the text and perform accordingly. Ask the guest thereafter to add the address on the letter, put a stamp on and leave the table to go and mail the letter in a post box. The waiter should inform the guest where the nearest post box is to be found.

a) From 25 orange events b) Transform a Globe into a straight line c) An Orange d) Instruct the guest to separate an orange into segments and place them in a straight line

a) Canto 2 Calls (Rop) b) At the beginning of the piece one performer stands in the left back corner, the other in the right back corner of the hall. Calling out loudly to each other, they advance towards each other. Desirable development: from simple calls to very complex calls. The piece is over when they meet. c) Nothing d) Inform the guest that you and the waiter are the performers and decide together where to start and how to perform according to the instructions.

a) Blind mice ballet b) Put on the masks and dance the ballet c) Mouse mask d) If necessary help the guest with the mask

Robert Filliou

a) Relique anticipé b) Items for a future-relique collection c) Wedding ring, fountain pen, ash tray, pair of skies a.o d) Serve the items piece by piece at the table on a plate. e) Please check for the correct list of items in the Robert Fillious biography

a) Gong show b) Bien fait, mal fait, rien fait c) DVD-player, ear phones, DVD d) The waiter places the DVD in the player and starts it. Explain to the guest that it is in English when ordering e) the DVD will be send from Copenhagen no. 548

a) Whispered Art History b) Whispered Art History in 12 verses in English c) A CD-player with good loudspeakers (so everybody at the table can hear the piece) d) The waiter places the CD in the CD-player and starts it. (duration: 21.14 min) e) the CD will be send from Copenhagen.

George Maciunas

a) in Memoriam of Adriano Olivetti b) Performers use old adding machine tape as a score. Each number on the tape represents a metronome beat. Each performer is assigned a number. When his number appears, he performs upon the beat. Performance can consist of actions (raising and replacing hat, shaking fist, making faces etc.)or sounds (tongue click, pops, smacks, lip farts, etc)Performers may all perform same action or different, or all perform same sound or different. Performers should practice their assigned sound or action so that each can perform clearly –sharp, defined action or sound, loud if sound, in time with beat1962 c) Metronome and a bowler hat to each participant and a number of adding machine tapes d) Give the guests instructions about the performance. They can raise their bowler hats when their number appears. Advanced guests can decide to perform the piece otherwise following Maciunas text i.e. with sounds or otherwise. Ping-ball a) b) c) d) e) please check with Jon Hendricks how to perform one of Maciunas ping- pong rackets pieces or ping pong table pieces. (see also index p. 376)

Tomas Schmit

a) Piano piece No 1 b) Performer places various objects – toys, chess pieces, concrete blocks, wood blocks, bricks, glass vases, rubber balls, etc. – on the closed lid of a grand piano. He may arrange these objects very carefully and with deliberation. He may construct a building out of blocks, or arrange the chess pieces, or arrange the various toys ect. When he completed his arrangement, he lifts the great lid suddenly. The piano must be placed so that when the lid opens, the objects slide toward the audience. 1962 c) Building blocks, various objects, a grand piano. d) The waiter instructs the guests to choose what kind of objects he or she wishes to use.

a) Zyklus b) Water pails or bottles are placed around the perimeter of a circle. Only one is filled with water. Performer inside the circle picks the filled vessel and pours it into the one on the right, then picks the one on the right and pours it into the next one on the right, etc., till all the water is spilled or evaporated. c) 12 beer-bottles –One filled with water d) Place the bottles in a large circle on the table or on the floor.

a) Sanitas No. 79 (Dessert. Minimum 4 guests preferable more) b) Follow the waiters instructions c) A taxi or minibus where the driver is informed beforehand and is instructed to deliver the guests to a specific place and at the end give the guests an envelope with the written text A bus “or a taxi” carries the guests a good distance, deposits them in a desolate location and returns empty d) e) Knud would like this to be the “Todays special”

Mieko Shiomi

a) Air event b) Inflate a small rubber balloon in one deep breath and sign your name on the surface of the balloon (this is your lung) c) A small rubber balloon, a filt pen d) e) The instruction ends with “You can buy the lungs of other performers at an auction.” But we have taken this bit out, since it doesn’t make sense at Baltic.

a) Balance Poem b) Prepare a balance (scale) and many cards of various sizes and weights. Ask the audience to write on each card a name of an object or material and its quantity (for example,2 gallons of wine,4 elephants, etc.)After collecting the cards from the audience, place them one by one on both balance pans so that they will keep balance. Cards of equal weight are balanced and their contents announced. 1966 c) A balance with pans, many cards of various size and weights. A few pencils d) The waiter instructs the guest to go to the other tables asking people to write a name of an object or material and its quantity. Later the guest collects the cards, following Mieko Shiomis instruction.

Ben Vautier

a) Hens b) Three hens are released and then caught c) Three alive hens in a cage, and an open box d) The waiter release the hens form the cage and asks the guest to collect them in the open box.

a) The postman’s choice b) c) The postcard (printed after the copy send from Copenhagen), pen, two stamps d) The waiter instructs the guest to write two different names and addresses one on each side and gives the postcard to the waiter who will then mail it. e) see photocopy send from Copenhagen

Emmett Williams

a) Counting songs b) Audience is counted by various means. For example, performer gives a small gift (coin, cough drop, cookie, toothpick, matchstick, etc) to every member of the audience, counting each as he does so, or marks audience members with a chalk, or keeps track by pointing finger, etc. 1962 c) Chalk, cookies or cough drop, or others following the text. d) The guest performs by counting with loud voice e) Note this is the correct version

Alison Knowles

a) Nivea Cream Piece f. Oscar Williams (minimum 2 guests) b) Large quantities of Nivea Cream must be available at least one large jar per person. Each performer lathers up his arms and face in a fragrant pig pile. c) 2 jars of Nivea Cream. Microphone and loudspeaker. Towel d) Place the microphone appropriate for the sound from the Nivea Crème e) see also photo send from Copenhagen.

Takehisa Kosugi

a) Mikro 1 b) Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a tight bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. c) A very large sheet of paper. A microphone and a loudspeaker d) Explain to the guest that this sound-piece is one of the most classic Fluxus pieces which has been performed all over the world by almost all Fluxus artists (Note think about what paper is suitable)

Willem De Ridder

The Walk a) b) c) d) For four persons with earphones listening to different instruction on a cd. e) Missing details please contact Willem de Ridder and ask him to describe the title and the work, where four performers are equipped with headphones and each with different instructions. Is this “the walk”? And then ask him to send the instructions on cd.

Warm up cards a) b) c) d) e) Missing details please contact Willem de Ridder and ask him to selections of ”Warm up cards”. Please also invite him to be the head waiter.

Arthur Køpcke

a) Work reading piece No. 27 b) glue a stump of a candle on the bottom of a dish then poor water in it but leave the top of the candle free now light the wick c) candle stump, match box, water, dish d) if necessary help the guest

a) Work reading piece b) Do you know what a football looks like? if yes draw one! c) 10 sheets of paper A4 with the text a place for a drawing and pencil d) The guest has to draw on one paper and circled the other sheets of paper to other guests who then have to draw their version of a football. e) see also photocopy send from Copenhagen

a) Piece No. 110 b) Choose a text and try to find it in an optical matter i.e. picture, photo landscape &c. as you take the first letters of conditions, colors, situations, objects &c. and put them together c) photo d) The waiter has to explain the text to the guest e) if you find the text is unclear, please contact us for further information. The photo should be similar to the one we send from Copenhagen.

Yoko Ono

a) In white b) Chess game (call Jon Hendricks for the correct instruction) c) White chessboards all in white and all the chess pieces in white

Ay-O

a) Tactile Mystery box b) Finger box c) Tactile Mystery box send to you from Copenhagen d) The guest may share the pleasure of testing the finger box piece with other guests. e) remember to repair them before use

a) Fry piece b) Follow the waiters instructions c) Fondue with hot oil prepared at the table, salt pepper and lemon, plate knife and fork, match box d) Ask the guest for a 5-pound note put it in the fondue fry it and serve it with salt, pepper and lemon.

Nam June Paik

a) TV programme b) Light the candle and watch. c) Empty TV cabinet with a candle inside, matchbox d) The waiter places the candle inside the cabinet

Eric Andersen

a) I have confidence in you b) I have confidence in you c) Notes, a table easel and a music instrument d) The waiter asks the guest to play the instrument after the note given. e) print the notes after the photocopy send from Copenhagen same size.

Sources / External links

 * FLUXUS A LA CARTE Article on Flashartonline.com
 * Copenhagen Museum of Moder Art: Video from Three Star a La Carte” at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead