All 847 original digital art works by all 384 artists who participated in the Plexus Metr’ART from 2004 to 2018, are now accessible in the Plexus Digital Gallery (THE GALLERY) www.plexusinternational.org ,where also all new 2019 digital art contributions for SOS Terra Action Now will be shortly posted. Search your name or others and you will find all your Plexus contributions that are listed. Check it if they need to be updated and post it on Plexus facebook..
Plexus International is known for its multi-arts compressionist art co-operas: What you feel and see is your own creation…We are called PLEXUS. I am labelling it: “Mytho-Compressionism”. Here, we have compressed history, re-created mythology. Time speeds up and there is no time left for aesthetic distance between the artist as performer and the art observer. In these simultaneous Co-Operas we have destroyed this distance, and they in turn interact, creating a new operatic form…We are user friendly. Use us or lose us. We are all independent thinkers and dreamers collating our collective visions collaboratively. Please experience us wisely and with an open heart.This is open ART. (New York, 1986)
In the 1980s, a coalition of artists in New York City, Dakar, Sardinia, Rome and Amsterdam, formed Plexus International, which aimed to undermine the art world establishment. Plexus artists worked in a variety of media, including performance art, experimental music, theatre, poetry, visual arts, video makers and science —their goal was to remove the divide between art and the rest of life, and to make “art” accessible to all peoples. Over 38 years, Plexus International has realized and documented many global art events, Plexus Art Co-Operas, involving on some occasions hundreds of artists and scientists, coming from different parts of the world, fully financed by the participants themselves, without grants or art market support. In these art co-operas, up-today, more than 1000 artists from all over the world have participated .The ideas behind Plexus are alternative, community-based artists strategies for enhancing the advancement of art as a paramount resource for the well being of humankind.
Plexus Artists:
Miguel Algarin, Alessandra Menesini, Fabrizio Bertuccioli, Carlo Antonio (Cicci) Borghi, David Boyle, Willem Brugman, Gaetano Brundu, George Chaikin, Sandro Dernini, Antonello Dessi, Alfa Diallo, Stephen DiLauro, Alber DiMartimo David Ecker, Frans Evers, Giorgio Fiume, Leonard Horowitz, Ray Kelly, Arturo Lindsay, Paolo Maltese, Luigi Mazzerelli, Kre MBaye, Assane MBaye, Franco Meloni, Butch Morris, Paola Muzzi, Okechukwu Odita, William Parker, Frank Pio, Rolando Politi, Andrea Portas, Jose Rodriguez, Mitch Ross, Barnaby Ruhe, Micaela Serino, Frank Shefreen, Eve Vaterlaus
University dissertations and books
Ph.D. Dissertation on "A Multicultural Aesthetic Inquiry into the Plexus Black Box, an International Community-Based Art Project", by Sandro Dernini, Art Education Program, School of Education New York University, 1997
Plexus Black Box book by Sandro Dernini, published by University Press of Rome Sapienza, 2007
Art Slavery from Plexus 80s, book by Sandro Dernini, published by the University Press of Rome Sapienza, 2010
Papers by the artists in the first persons:
Fabrizio Bertuccioli
Antonio Carlo (Cicci) Borghi
David Boyle
Aldo Braibanti
Willem Brugman
Gaetano Brundu
George Chaikin
Glaucia Coelho Demenjour
Sandro Dernini
Antonello Dessi
Alfa Diallo
Steve DiLauro
Albert DiMartino
David Ecker
Franz Evers
Giorgio Fiume
Leonard Horowitz
Annamaria Janin
Ray Kelly
Lynne Kanter
Arturo Lindsay
Paolo Maltese
Maria Pia Marsala
Luigi Mazzarelli
Assane M'Baye
Kre MBaye
Silvana Mariniello
Franco Meloni
Alessandra Menesini
Miguel Algarin
Butch Morris
Paola Muzzi
Okechukwu E Odita
Lorenzo Pace
William Parker
Frank Pio
Rolando Politi
Andrea Portas
Josè Rodriguez
Mitch Ross
Barnaby Ruhe
Anna Saba
Giancarlo Schiaffini
Micaela Serino
Frank Shifreen
Eve Vaterlaus
Traore Youssouph
The METR'ART is a historical multi-perspective artwork, 2004-2017, made by 778 digital art contributions of 330 artists, reproduced in A3 photocopy format and united together into a 287,60 meters long rollmeter.