āTube-O-Nauts 24ā by me.
I found the artwork Tube-o-Nautsā Travels in the Tate Britains archive collection upon my first visit. The 1970s work by Felipe Ehrenberg stood out to me as Londonās tube network fascinated me as a child, and Ehrenbergās work resonated with me. I loved the 70s feel about the pictures Rodolfo āLausā Alcaraz took to accompany Ehrenbergās experimental analysis of the underground system. Observing as a modern-day audience member, I felt I was being transported back to the 70s, comparing and contrasting the tube network to now. The original text has two mediums which make it a visual artwork, consisting of 6 photographs and a printed document. The document outlines an āexperimentā where Ehrenberg & Laus take the first train from a designated station, and remain in the tube system until the last train to the station which was the point of departure. Tube-O-Nautsā Travels debuted as a part of the FLUXSHOE exhibitions run by David Major throughout England in the 1970s. This worldwide movement called Fluxus, saw artists such as Yoko Ono, George Maciunas, Yayoi Kusama & Nam June Paik join the collective and draw from Dadaist and Futurist inspiration. Major helped unlock the English movement, initiating a festival of exhibitions for emerging Fluxus artists to convey their work, one being Ehrenberg himself.
This is my remediation, and homage to the work and Felipe Ehrenberg.
