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Question:
A while back I began making labels that said "Fluxus Free
Zone" and then applied them in public spaces. I continue to do so. Part of the
Fluxusness of this was the Intermedia aspect via the interface between
art/design/technology/literature/high-art-low-art/etc. But as I began
experimenting with the "Red Circle with Nothing in it" project I began to
realize that another more challenging theme was running through my Fluxworks.
That is the theme of changing a space by defining it. In the case
of the Fluxus Free Zones the space is public and is defined by the time that the
label remains in affixed to its substrate and by its visibility within the
public space. The Red Circle project defines a smaller physical space - the page
on which it appears - but the red circle with nothing in it also defines a much
larger metaphysical space through the implicit existential questions it
raises.
Anyway, what I'm wondering, is how pervasive this theme is
within the Fluxus/Intermedia oeuvre? It seems that the idea of transformative
space is implicit in much of Fluxus; there is the the space contained in a
Fluxkit/Fluxbox which is temporally modified when the objects are removed and
played with; there is the temporal aspect in the Event Scores and Event
Performances too. But how deeply is the idea of transformed space embedded into
Fluxus?
Allan