On January 2 of 1990, David Ecker, member of the 1992 CCC
(Christopher Columbus Consortium), arrived in Rome. He was also Sandro’s Ph.D.
adviser at New York University and director of ISALTA (International Society for
the Advancement of Living Traditions in Art), a non profit established in 1981 in New York to sponsor
inquiry into creative, critical, and theoretical aspects of art traditions
world-wide for the purpose of advancing living traditions in art...
On
February 3 of 1990, at Metateatro, on the occasion of Loreto Papadia’s birthday
party, it was staged the happening 1992
Christopher Columbus Voyage in the Planet of Art, Act 2, featuring
the departure to the San Pietro Island of a long fax made by hundred faces
of artists to launch the open call 500 Names for 500 Years. It was organized by Cast in
collaboration with Art&Mix, Flash Music, Futuro Telematico, Limbo, Tempo
Reale, McLuhan & Co, Metateatro, Plexus 23 and the Columbus Consortium.
On May 1
of 1990, in
Amsterdam, at the Leidse Bosje Park,
Willem Brugman and Frans Evers staged The Black Box: Ethnoreality:
Plexus: Amsterdam, a graffiti piece/plastic theatre. Then, in June at the
Polanen Theater, Willem Brugman presented The Hole Box: Amsterdam: Ethnoreality:
Plexus, a theatrical performance with Scott Rollins, Jeroen Heuvel, Nadine
Lavern and Regina Willense.Then, the Ethnoreality's records were in Rome
by Sandro Dernini
and Maria Pia Marsala symbolically de-materialised into the Plexus Black Box to travel in Sardinia
on board...
On June 30 of 1990, in Rome, at the
theatre Ridotto del Colosseo, it was staged 1992 Christopher Columbus Voyage
in the Planet of Art, act III: Plexus Black Box. It was organized by
Maria Pia Marsala, Sandro
Dernini, Giancarlo Schiaffini and Micaela Serino. It was planned as a three days TV theatre laboratory, with no
public, to package the Plexus Black Box to
be delivered to the anatomy table of the Academy to be open as an alive creature, like a Golem
or Frankenstein. It was presented as the departure of a fractal of individual
contributions travelling...
On December 29 of 1990, in Rome, at the
Teatro in Trastevere, Sandro
Dernini presented to
Mons. Balboni, director of the Vatican High institute for Sacred Art, the
historical documentation of Plexus activities, from 1992 to 1990, organized
chronologically and divided in single folders per year, as the primary source
for his Ph.D. dissertation on Plexus Black Box at the Art and Arts
Professions Department of New York University. The Plexus Black Boxas was carried with a short parade from the near
house of Sandro...