1966
Image: Max Neuhaus Bi-Product Invite
AMERICAN CAN by Max Neuhaus. 1966-1967
-American Can and By-Product are two works which mark Neuhaus' transition from the performance arts to the plastic arts. Although both are events, they each also resulted in the production of objects.
-The instructions for the latter called for a large number of canned products (manufactured or distributed by the American Can company) to cover a ground conducive to sound as the participating crowd bounced, slid, and moved the cans to generate sounds
-Event known as American Can, staged during the winter of 1966-67 in Staten Island’s Cloves Lakes Park (New York) and other locations around the city.
-Bi-Product is a piece done during the course of any other concert. A manufacturing operation is set up in the hall. During the concert a product, made out of that situation, is produced, packaged, and distributed to the audience.
-Max Neuhaus, Bi-product Town Hall, New York City, September 13, 1966
© Copyright Neuhaus Estate
Four Pianos by Steve Reich, Three Evenings of Music by Steve Reich. Performed by Philip Corner - Jon Gibson - Arthur Murphy - Steve Reich - James Tenney, plus Max Neuhaus performing and distributing BI-PRODUCT, March 17th, 18th, & 19th, 1967, at Park Place Gallery.
The New York Times, Striking the gong around, By Theodore Strongin Diamond Point, N.Y. Richard Saunders-Scope, Sunday, August 25, 1963
BI-PRODUCT by Max Neuhaus (Gift No Value), June 1966© Copyright Neuhaus Estate
BI-Product, a little Sermon on the Performance of simultaneities by Jackson Mac Low, 1966
Locandina Bi-Product 1966. Max Neuhaus Estate Archive© Copyright Neuhaus Estate
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Image: Vetrine exhibition to Linz
Photo Courtesy: Kunstmusem Linz
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