Cecil Touchon

Cecil Touchon Born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Fort Worth, Texas. Co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group, Touchon is director of the group's Ontological Museum, Founder of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction and founder of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists. As a visual artist, Touchon's work is widely collected and shown through an international network of commercial art galleries.

Association with Post-Dogmatism

Touchon co-founded the International Post-Dogmatist Group (IPDG) in 1987. The IPDG boasts several hundred members from around the world. Primarily an alternative to a post-modernist view of the world, the group's writings suggest that creativity and artistic pursuits must be based in a recognition of the spiritual underpinnings of all human activities. The IPDG addresses itself to the art world through a presentation of itself as the 'official avant-garde' creating an elaborate bureaucratic structure of outlandish sounding offices through which the various members communicate simulating 'the establishment' as a form of parody.

Association with Fluxus

In 2005 an exhibition was held in Cuernavaca, Mexico entitled "Cecil Touchon - Thirty Years of Fluxing Around" in which art works and scores dating as early as 1975 were exhibited showing the fluxus tendency in Touchon's work over the last thirty years. Touchon has never been formally associated with the Fluxus group until the year 2000 with his participation in the Fluxlist - an email group where the current generation fluxus artists interact and collaborate. In 2002 Touchon, with a number of other artists from the Fluxlist established the Fluxnexus - a group of artists working together on various new Fluxus projects including a new fluxus performance workbook.

Fluxus Publications

Touchon was selected to publish an essay as one of eleven other contemporary "New Fluxus" artists who are seen to 'inhabit the site of Fluxus, developing and interpreting the Fluxus tradition in a new way.' in a special double issue of the journal "Visible Language" on Fluxus. The double issue was developed by Owen Smith and Ken Friedman and published through the Rhode Island School of Design The other artists included as representing New Fluxus artists: Alan Bowman, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, David-Baptiste Chirot, David Cologiovani, Eryk Salvaggio, Litsa Spathi, mIEKAL aND, MTAA, Ruud Janssen, Sol Nte, and Walter Cianciusi.

Association with Massurrealism

Touchon is a key figure among the Massurrealists. Sound collage works as well as poetry collage are the concepts explored he in his various forms of audio and literary techniques involve his theories related to what he calls the Massurreality - an overeaching popular culture mind world maintained by daily exposure to mass media.

elected Books

* Lantzen, Sean (2004). "Massurrealism: A Dossier (a.k.a Massurrealismus: Ein Dossier)". Zurich: Novus Haus. ISBN 0-9759923-0-9. Features Touchon's essay on massurrealism and includes examples of his poetry.
* Touchon, Cecil (2007). "Happy Shopping - Massurrealist Spam Poetry". Fort Worth: Ontological Museum Publications. ISBN 0-6151824-4-5.
* Friedman Ken, Smith Owen (2005). "Fluxus and Legacy. Visible Language 39.3". Providence, Rhode Island School of Design.
* Buchholz, K.A. (2007). " Fluxus Aint Dead " - Text for a public disturbance at the Contemporary Art Museum" St. Louis, Mo. Fluxus/St.Louis - Artfarm Publications
* On The Media - May 30, 2008 broadcast entitled: Space Odyssey- Touchon's collage work featured at onthemedia.org
* Elle Decor Magazine- Italian Version - October, 2008 Issue - Touchon's International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction featured.

External links

* [http://www.touchon.com Cecil Touchon's Official Website]
* [http://www.fluxnexus.com The FluxNexus]
* [http://www.fluxcase.com The FluxCase]
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fluxlist/ Fluxlist]
* [http://www.postdogmatist.com The International Post Dogmatist Group]
* [http://www.collagemuseum.com The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction]
* [http://www.ontologicalmuseum.org The Ontological Museum]
* [http://massurrealist.com Massurrealist.com]
* [http://www.searspeyton.com/ Sears-Peyton Gallery in New York]
* [http://www.marshallartsgallery.com/ The Marshall Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona]