Original Historical Plexus Artists
Made in the 80's for the 90's
Arists listed by the year in which they joined Plexus
Giancarlo Schiaffini
1983, New York
"Plexus may be is one of the most complex, one of the most universal, in Plexus we find so many different kinds of performances of art, actions and exhibitions, which is important as a kind of summa of all works since the Living Theatre, Cage, all schools of improviser art."
Mitch Ross
1983, New York
"Plexus as an open artificial artform that offers the opportunity to many people to feel part of a cultural context, without knowing in advance the full picture of it and their reason for doing it."
Alfa Diallo
1984, New York
Definition: l am What you Don't think l am Which is what You don't Know
"The beauty of Plexus is that we were strong enough to be able to cross all conflicts, beside the fact that we have different origins, the feeling that we have, we were able to do what we had to do without to put in front our confrontations to block all the project and to go together and to move further the project to go on. There was a mystic force behind us to pass through all the economic difficulties and to answer to the question: for whom I am doing this?"
Arturo Lindsay
1984, New York
Leonard Horowitz
1985, New York
"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 has speed up and there is no time left for aesthetic distance between the artist as performer and the art observer.
In these simultaneous Plexus Co-Operas we have destroyed this distance, and they in turn interact, creating a new operatic form. We have extended the compass of vision to include the former observer as participant.
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."
Ray Kelly
1985, New York
"Art is a way of life, it is a way of understanding. Art is something else from money, and from what bullshit is presented usually. Art is the future which can't be controlled. It is in the air without wires. Art is free. The artists are part of the structure which the power system is trying to push out. Liquid forms vs. square lines."
George Chaikin
1985, New York
"The Plexus process is a not linear activity and less rationale, which the coherence appears only after the fact...and you will understand it only after you let yourself participating into it.
George Chaikin, New York 1985
Hadamard Matrix Why it is Art
...It's art because it is recursive. I'll bet you never heard this one before, but I'm sure you've encountered the concept. It means that drawing contains its own reiteration at a different scale – this is fundamental to its algorithm – that it is defined in terms of itself on a different scale..."
Kre MBaye
1986, Dakar
"Plexus is a tendency in direction of the universal of the civilization. It is a way to put together all people, it is a tendency to watch what happens in this planet with a consciousness of what happens, with no separation between the world and the human being. Plexus is not an organization, it is more about a philosophy, a thought, a proposition, a view on how we deal with the issue of the human being.
It is a tendency in direction of the unity, against any definitions or classifications which make separations. Without unity, in the respect of the diversity and quality of the human being, there is not democracy."
Plexus key historical artists, reported by the year in which they started to participate
Among more than 1000 artists who participated in the Plexus events following artists had a relevant presence in the Plexus International art journey:
1981 - Sandro Dernini, Cagliari, artist organizer
1981 - Giancarlo Schiaffini, Rome, musician.
1983 - Mitch Ross, New York, performer.
1983 - Lynne Kanter, New York, photographer.
1984 - Willem Brugman, Amsterdam, actor and theatre director
1984 - Alfa Diallo, New York, poet. Died in 2022.
1984 - Miguel Algarin, New York, poet, cofounder of the Nuyorican Poets Café in the Lower East Side. Died in 2020.
1984 - Stephen Di Lauro, New York, playwriter and poet
1984 - David Boyle, New York, activist and poet,
1984 - Arturo Lindsay, New York, artist
1984 - Lorenzo Pace, New York, artist.
1984 - William Parker, New York, musician.
1984 - Bruce Richard Nuggent, New York, artist, Harlem 1926 Renaissance Movement. Died in 1987.
1984 - Don Cherry, New York, musician. Died in 1995.
1984 - Raimondo De Muro, New York, writer, Died in early 2000
1984 - Rolando Politi, New York, artist.
1984 - Joanne Freedom, New York, activist, co-founder of the Rainbow Family of United Sates.
1985 - Garrick Beck, Santa Fe, activist, co-founder of the Rainbow Family of United States, president Living Theatre Board
1985 - Butch Morris, New York, musician. Died in 2013.
1985 - Ray Kelly, New York, artist, founder of Rivington School. Died in 2024
1985 - Leonard Horowitz, New York, art critic. Died in the 90's.
1985 - George Chaikin, Princeton, artist and scholar. Died in 2007
1985 - Paolo Maltese, Paris, intellectual. Died in 2000
1985 - Eve Vaterlaus, New York, artist.
1986 - Gianni Villella, Rome, activist. Died in 2018.
1987 - Langouste Mbow, Dakar, artist. Died in 1990.
1986 - Kre Mbaye, Dakar, artist. Died 2014.
1986 - Carlo Antonio "Cicci" Borghi, Cagliari, artist.
1986 - Gaetano Brundu, Cagliari, artist. Died in 2015.
1987 - Franco Meloni, Cagliari, scholar
1987 - Anna Saba, Cagliari, artist.
1987 - Antonello Dessi, Cagliari, artist.
1987 - Luigi Mazzarelli, Cagliari. artist. Died in 2006
1987 - Stefano Asili, Cagliari, artist. Died in 2021.
1987 - Assane MBaye, Dakar, artist and organizer. Died in 2017.
1987 - Youssouph Traore, Dakar, intellectual. Died in 2009.
1987 - Fabrizio Bertuccioli, Rome, artist.
1987 - Micaela Serino, Rome, artist.
1987 - Carlo Cusatelli, Rome, artist
1987 - Andrea Portas, Cagliari, artist
1988 - Roberto Federici, Rome, artist
1988 - Jose Rodriguez, New York, activist
1990 - David W. Ecker, New York, scholar. Died in 2013
1990 - Glauco Benigni, Rome, journalist and media expert, the Plexus telematic team
1990 - Frans Evers, Amsterdam, scholar. Died in 2010
1991 - Guido Pegna, Cagliari, artist and scholar
1993 - Alessandra Menesini, Cagliari, art critic.
1995 - Alberto Soi, Cagliari, artist
1996 - Raffaello Paiella, Rome, artist.
1996 - Giorgio Fiume, Rome, artist.
1997 - Silvana Mariniello, Rome, artist and theatre director.
2001 - Pilar Castel, Rome, artist.
2002 - Luisa Mazzullo, Rome, artist.
2002 - Seni MBaye, Dakar, artist. Died in 2019
2004 - Fatoumata Coulibaly, Dakar, president Kre Mbaye Atelier des Arts pour les Enfants de la Medina
2011 - Glaucia Coelho Demenjour, Rome, artist.
What is Plexus?
Plexus is open artPlexus is the artist in the first person
Plexus is an international adventure of independent artists
Plexus is compressionisme
Plexus is where it is, not what it is
Plexus is the interaction of art in everyday life
Plexus is time art
Che cos'è Plexus?
Plexus è arte apertaPlexus è l'artista in prima persona
Plexus è una avventura internazionale d'arte di artisti indipendenti
Plexus è compressionismo
Plexus è dov'é, non cos'é
Plexus è un'interazione dell'arte nella vita di tutti i giorni
Plexus è il tempo dell'arte