John M. Armleder
John M. Armleder Untitled, 2009 Mehdi Chouakri John Armleder (born 1948, in Geneva ) is a Swiss performance artist, painter, sculptor, critic, and curator. His work is based on his involvement with Fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s, when he created performance art pieces, installations and collective art activities that were strongly influenced by John Cage . However, Armleder's position throughout his career has been to avoid associating his artistic practice with any type of manifesto. Armleder was born as the son of a hotelier (owners of Le Richemond ). He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Geneva (1966-7) and at the Glamorgan Summer School, Britain (1969). In 1969, with Patrick Lucchini and Claude Rychner, Armleder founded the Groupe Ecart in Geneva, from which stemmed the Galerie Ecart and its associated performance group and publications. The Groupe Ecart was particularly ...