NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PH.D. DISSERTATION, New York, 1997

 

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

 

BOOKS

Plexus Black Box by Sandro Dernini, published by University Press of Rome Sapienza, 2007

Plexus Art Slavery, by Sandro Dernini, published by the University Press of Rome Sapienza, 2010

 

BOOKLETS

Plexus Art Slavery Mini book in Italiano by Sandro Dernini, 2010

 

PLEXUS MANIFESTO BRING YOUR LIGHT, 2012

Testo redatto con testi di Fabrizio Bertuccioli, Carlo Antonio Borghi, Gaetano Brundu Sandro Dernini,  Leonard Horowitz, Paolo Maltese, Luigi Mazzarelli,  Franco Meloni, Alessandra Menesini, Paola Muzzi, Micaela Serino.

 

Passport for Plexus Serpent, 1987, con testi di Gaetano Brundu, Sandro Dernini, Franco Meloni, Stefano Asili, Paolo Maltese, Assane MBaye, e con contributi artistici di Antonello Dessi, Anna Saba,  Gaetano Brundu, foto di Stefano Grassi, Celt Editions, tipografia di Franco Girina, Cagliari

ACCADEMIA DELLE BELLE ART DISSERTATIONS

 

 

 

PAPERS BY ARTISTS (in alphabetical order):

Fabrizio Bertuccioli

• l'Artista in prima persona, Roma, 1988
• Riflessioni sull'evento "Salva il Cibo e la Biodiversità del Mondo con l'Arte", Centro Culturale Elsa Morante, Roma, 2011
• The artist in the first person, Rome, 1988
• 1991 Bertuccioli a G. Brundu 
• 1991 bertuccioli caravella
• 1994 Bertuccioli recollaction
• 1994 Bertuccioli sulla mia partecipazione
• 1995 Bertuccioli Dalla Porta di Goree a Plexus Int
• 1998 bertuccioli arte e well being
• 1998 bertuccioli ripensare plexus
• 2000 bertuccioli continuando il viaggio
• 2001 bertuccioli a prposito del G8, 2001
• 2005 bertuccioli foresta
• 2012  Fabrizio Bertuccioli Diario di Bordo 21 settembre 2012
• 2012 bertuccioli stralci sulla percezione
• 2012 English Fabrizio Bertuccioli Diario di Bordo 
• 2012 Riflessioni sull Evento Salva il Cibo
• bertuccioli 2000
• bertuccioli papers dal plexus ph.d

Antonio Carlo (Cicci) Borghi

• 2012 Bring your Plexus by Carlo Antonio Borghi
• 2013 give me five
• Sillabando Aldo ovvero Si

 David Boyle

• Boyle 2000
• From David Boyle a strong message
• In the first person by David Boyle
• La scatola nera David Boyle
• Recollaction Boyle

Aldo Braibanti

• aldo braibanti evoluzione
  

Willem Brugman

• Dear Sandro Dernini
• Recollaction Brugman
• Willem

Gaetano Brundu

• Risposta di Gaetano Brundu a Luigi Mazzarelli, Cagliari,  Maggio 1992
• Intervista su Plexus, Cagliari, 1994
• Announcement Plexus Storage Calls NYC, Cagliari, 1992.
• 1994 Gaetano Brundu

George Chaikin

• Transcript of the interview made at Angiola Churchill's loft,  New York, November 1994. Chaikin

Glaucia Coelho Demenjour

• Plexus un onde di trasformazioni Revisione ottobre 2013
• Glaucia Onde di TRasformazione Inglese

Sandro Dernini

• La metafora è una fabrica viaggiante, Dakar, 1986
• The artist in the first person, Cagliari, 1987
• Introduzione tematiche well being 1998
• Introduzione Art Slavery book, Roma, 2011
• 1985 Dernini text Time a Way to Fly
• 1985 the artist in the first person by 23s
• 1986 Dernini metafora come cibo
• 1989 Plexus Solar
• 2012 sandro per blog e facebook
• dernini metafora libretto nero
• Dernini Plexus progetto artistico complessivo 1986
• Mephistopheles, published in Plexus Newsletter by Plexus International Art Urban Forum 1988.
• Paper A Plexus of Serpents, published in the Plexus Newsletter by Plexus International Art Urban Forum, New York, 1988.
• Paper Art Slavery, published in Passport for Plexus Serpent, Celt Edition, Cagliari, 1987.
• Paper Plexus Multi-Lateral Recall Network Project, 1985-1990, published in Passport for Plexus Serpent, Celt Editions, Cagliari, 1987.
• Paper The Metaphor as a Travelling Factory, published in Passport for Plexus Serpent, Celt Editions, Cagliari, 1987.
• presentazione Plexus dal libro
• stralci dernini sulla percezione
• The campbell soup can journey by_sandro
• Transcript from Cultural Navigation and Community  The Lower East Side,” the first round table of the Summer Institute of Living Traditions of New York

Antonello Dessi

• Text Multiples Of Black, Cagliari,1992
  

Alfa Diallo

• One on One
• Recollaction Diallo
• Human Rights  poem by Alfa Diallo
  

Steve DiLauro

• 1986 Eve art opera drammarturgy by Steve Di Lauro
• 2009 Steve DiLauro, Plexus Part 1
• Unpublished paper “A Note about the Plexus Art Operas,” in PLEXUS Recall 1, Passport for Purgatorio, New York,  1986.

Albert DiMartino

• Unpublished paper “Statement of Purpose”, in PLEXUS Recall 1, Passport for Purgatorio, New York, 1986. DImartino

David Ecker

• Art, the Community and Global Well Being, By David Ecker, 1998, Sardinia
• cultural navigation by David Ecker, 1992
• David Ecker updated bibliography
• How to Think in Other Categories The Problem of Alternative Conceptions of Aesthetic Education by David Ecker
• Navigating Global Cultures A Phenomenological Aesthetics for Well-Being in the Twenty-first Century
• Teaching Art Criticism as Aesthetic Inquiry by David Ecker
• THE ARTIST AS RESEARCHER THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST IN ADVANCING LIVING TRADITIONS IN ART
• The Artistic Process as Qualitative Problem Solving  by David Ecker
• TOWARD A PHENOMENOLOGY OF ARTISTIC PROCESSES ANDTHE EXPANSION OF LIVING TRADITIONS IN ART
• Transcript of the interview made at Angiola Churchill's loft in New York on November 1994. Ecker

Franz Evers

• Frans Ever-Culture Lab
• Transcript of the interview made by the researcher, in Amsterdam, in 1995 Evers
  

Giorgio Fiume

• Cave Canem 2003
• Giorgio Fiume 2000
  

Leonard Horowitz

• Introduction to the Plexus Mytho-Compressionism
• 1986 italiano introduzione compressionisme Lenny Horowitz
• Eve by Lenny Horowitz
• Plexus Art Redefinition of a Campbell Soup Can,
• plexus compressionisme 1989
  

Annamaria Janin

• Nota di Annamaria Janin a Luigi Mazzarelli, Gaetano Brundu, e a cari Plexoniani, Cagliari, Giugno 1992.

 

Ray Kelly

• Kellyt of his recollection as  interview, New York,  1994.

Lynne Kanter

• Recollaction Kanter
  

Arturo Lindsay

• Artist Contemplating  by Arturo 2008
• Recollaction Linsday
• Unpublished paper “The Ancestral Messenger’s Conference Report

Paolo Maltese

• Viaggio nel Pianeta Arte, 1989
• Paper ' An Infinite Serpent', Milano October 1987

Maria Pia Marsala

• Maria  Marsala made of the interview, Rome, 1995
  

Luigi Mazzarelli

• Lettera Aperta a Sandro Dernini, Cagliari, 1988

• A Plexus-Sardegna, Cagliari, Aprile 1992

Assane M'Baye

• Le Triangle de l'Art 2014 lettre par assane
• Recollaction, Dakar, 1994 Assane

Kre MBaye

• Kre of his recollection as interview, Dakar, 1996.

Silvana Mariniello

• Artista in prima persona by Silvana

Franco Meloni

• Risposta di Franco Meloni a Luigi Mazzarelli, Cagliari, Giugno 1992
• Fedro, Cagliari 1989
• Plexus TAO, Cagliari 2005
• In difesa di Plexus, Cagliari 1988
• Plexus Mail Computer Art, Gavoi, 1987

Alessandra Menesini

• Plexus Goree World Art Bank: dal WELFARE al WELL BEING nel XXI° Secolo, Cagliari, 1998
• Dall'isola di San Pietro all'isola di Gorèe sull'arca del well being, Cagliari 1998 
• Plexus. Pensare un sogno, Cagliari, 2004
• Plexus Metr'Art, 2012

Miguel Algarin

• Recollaction Algarin

Butch Morris

• 1994 Transcript of the interview to Butch Morris made by Sandro Dernini in New York
• found logic
• Recollaction Morris

Paola Muzzi

• 1989 Paola Muzzi una scattola da regalare alla storia
• 1998 Paola Muzzi progetto tovaglia magica
• 1998 Paola Muzzi sono ciò che mangio
• 1998 Paola Muzzi sulla mia adesione a Plexus

Okechukwu E Odita

• “ A Guide to Odita’s Map pf Knowledge-360°, Study Research Practice on Traditional  Contemporary African Art”, Columbus, Ohio, 1991.
  

Lorenzo Pace

• Lorenzo pace recollection as  interview, New York, 1994.
  

 William Parker

• 1984 Open Call In Order To Survive
• Paper “Introduction,” from the Bill Collector Newsletter, republished in the Plexus Passport, New York, 1992,by José Rodriguez.

Frank Pio

• Transcript of the interview made by the researcher in New York, in 1994. It is approved by Frank Pio.
  

Rolando Politi

• KAPPINI FOR GOOD FOOD   and  KAPPO HEALTHY DIET
• Unpublished paper “Plexus Art Cartel”, New York, May 1987.

Andrea Portas

• Andrea Portas 1994 Alcune riflessioni

Josè Rodriguez

• Plexus The Voyage of the Elisabeth: Cultural Navigation and Community, Art, Reconciliation and Well Being, 1993/94, New York
• Appraisal Letter for Jose Rodriguez
• Artist inThe First Person as praxis by Jose
• Cultural Navigation and the Community  The Lower East Side
• jose march 2003
• the artist in first person jose rodriguez
• Recollation by Jose Rodriguez
• Rodriguez February 2003

Mitch Ross

• Recollaction MItch
  

Barnaby Ruhe

• Paper “PLEXUS”, published in the Plexus Passport,  1992, New York.
  

Anna Saba

• Written recollection, Cagliari, 1994. Anna Saba
  

Giancarlo Schiaffini

• Recallation by Giancarlo Schiaffini
  

Micaela Serino

• Perchè Plexus, Roma, 2002
• Appunti di viaggio di mIcaela
• riflessioni di Micaela dopo Dakar
• Written recollection, Rome, 1994.Serino

 

Frank Shifreen

• Paper “Modern Art & Commodity Exchange,” published in Plexus Newsletter 1988, New York, by Plexus International Art Urban Forum, Inc.
  

Eve Vaterlaus

• Recollaction Vaterlaus
  

Traore Youssouph

• Translation from French by the researcher of the paper presented as opening presentation of Plexus International in Dakar, December 23, 1987.
• TRaore_Appello

 

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