Owen-
When/how will this be published? I went to the Visible Language
website, but didn't find info about it.
Reid
Reid Wood (State of Being)
"Haven't-Garde Art"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://havent-gardeart.blogspot.com
On May 1, 2006, at 10:17 PM, Owen Smith wrote:
OK - I guess I have been lurking long enought and should respond to
the querry.
Ken Friedman and I just finished a double set of issues of the
journal Visible
Language. The first is Fluxus and Legacy. The second is Fluxus
after Fluxus.
This is the official version of the two issues:
Fluxus and Legacy examines the relationship between Fluxus and
a range of artistic and art historical concerns -- including the
question of historical consciousness in the work of specific artists.
Contributors include Bertrand Clavez on the relationship
of Fluxus to the artistic practice of recent decades, Ina Blom
on the historiographic dialectic of Ben Vautier's signature, and
a special collection of conversations and notes by children of the
Fluxus artists compiled by Hannah Higgins (herself a "Fluxkid").
Owen Smith examines Fluxus and learning strategies, and the issue
ends with an inquiry into historiography and legacy by Smith and
Ken Friedman.
Fluxus after Fluxus examines the relationship of younger artists
to the Fluxus work. Contributors include Anne Klefstad on the
difficult question of legacy, Celia Pearce on games as art and the
aesthetics of play, and a dozen contemporary artists on their view
of -- and relation to -- Fluxus. In addition, Lisa Moren has
organized a special collection of event scores titled Keep Walking
Intently, blending traditional Fluxus scores with parallel works
by other artists and an introduction by Ina Blom. Additionally there
is a selection 10 artists' statgements on the importnace of fluxus
for their work and ideas in contemporary practice. In the
introduction,
Friedmand and Smith discuss the dialectics of legacy, and Ken
problematizes
the question of legacy in a bibliographic essay on the literature of
Fluxus that accompanies a selective bibliography on Fluxus from
1961 to 2004.
Additionally if you Jelena (of anyone else) is interested I will be
happy to send yo and essay I wrote in the mid 90s about what I
called the fluxus world view (it was origianally published in the
catalog Fluxus Virus). Since it is long and amnot
sure that it is righ to send it to the list directly just send me
you email off list and I will send it as an attachment. Here is a
brief selection of the introduction of the essay:
Playing with Difference: Fluxus as a World View.
A consideration of Fluxus on the basis of identifiable visual
distinctions (the use of collage/assemblage, a design sensibility,
or a particular form of a work) or even seeming conceptual
coherencies fails to recognize the more fundamental change in
thinking: Fluxus no longer requires clarity of concept or purpose
as it relates to communication. This can be most generally seen in
the processes of creation in which Fluxus participates. These
processes illustrate and enact the diacritical
workings of communication (in art, language, music, etc); the
joining of disparate elements from within established meanings (and
in relation to expected actions) to create new and unexpected
meanings and awarenesses. In Fluxus, processes are
enacted to establish multiple possibilities and not set new
transcendent orders or associations and thus Fluxus might seem to
contain patterns of the absence or the ambiguity of meaning. To
more fully recognize the nature of past Fluxus actions and
even the possibilities for future actions I attempt to offer here a
series of related ideas that can inform one as to the conceptual
field in which Fluxus operates.1
Fluxus is by nature anti_reductivist, for it does not seek the
illumination of some end or fact but celebrates the participation
in a non_hierarchal density of experience. In this way Fluxus does
not refer to a style or even a procedure as such but
to the presence of a total of social activities. The attempt to
place Fluxus in history falls into the positivist (in the sense
that human knowledge derives from systematic study) as well as art
historical trap of defining the presence of something
by divining the presence of a core, whether it be of ideas, people
or activities. Thus as the debate rages as to who was part of
Fluxus and who wasn't, or when and where Fluxus existed, one of the
most central and crucial aspects of Fluxus is often
disregarded. Although some trace of Fluxus does exist in what was
done and who did it, such a narrow view obscures the key to Fluxus,
that which I call a world view.
Owen
FLUXLIST@scribble.com writes:
you can also check on Hannah Higgins books and/or Owen Smith.
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On 02/05/2006, at 0:26, Jelena Zoric wrote:
I need an essay on fluxus ideology, on fluxus movement in general.
