Dan Holmes wrote:
Both points are well represented here. Thank you for the objective point of view.I concede that Eric Andersen is (was) an influential fluxus artist, so it's silly (to me, at least) to continue to argue that point. But, in response to Mr. Andersen's earlier post, if fluxus truly doesn't have any definition or frame, how could anything possibly be excluded from it? Therefore, it stands to reason that Ken Friedman is, in fact, Fluxus. >From there, we can conclude that pigs will fly, cows will come home, the heavens will open up and devour us all, the apocalypse is upon us and only Maciunas will have been saved.
More accurately, I think Owen Smith had the right idea in his post providing a good explanation (if not a definition) of what fluxus was and how it came to be.
But enough; I talk too much.
Dan At 05:44 PM 2/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:
According to: 'fluxus, the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties' (harry ruhe, 1979):'Eric Andersen (Denmark, 1942) studied music, worked as a pianist and from 1962 performed his compositions during many fluxus manifestations, in Denmark as well as other countries. (...) Andersen, who produced many language and mail art pieces, may be considered as one of the leading conceptual artists in Denmark.'
Still, I think that everyone has the right to call themselves fluxus artists if they want to. It's so childish to go: nah nah, I'm a REAL fluxus person and you aren't!!!
xo maaike
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--- On Wed 02/27, Christopher J Mulder wrote:
> Since I am relatively new to FLUXUS and the FLUXLIST...could someone
> please explain who Eric Anderson is and what he did?...It would be
> greatly appreciated.
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> Christohpher
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