Arthur Is Fantastic

Arthur Is Fantastic is a bw Fluxus film that portraits Arthur Indenbaum and turns him into a work of art by obliterating the boundaries between art and life Arthur Indenbaum was the son of an American diamond dealer who had come to Antwerp in the late 1960s to be trained in his fathers business Soon however Arthur found his way into the lively art and music scene of Antwerp of the period where he liked to get high hang out with friends and play music with his band Live At the time Gallery Vacuum was an art space run by artists and musicians Luc Deleu Filip Francis and George Smits who were an integral part of Antwerps alternative scene On 6 May 1970 Arthur with his extraordinarily big physical build and fuzzy hair was exhibited as a live sculpture in Gallery Vacuum during a onenight show in which Ludo Mich took part as well