Re: FLUXLIST: Name the Band

2000-09-14 Thread Patricia
To All, Well, I offered up Nora Barnacle for the nom de group, but nobody listened. However, Baroque, Bothered and Bewildered is right up there in the top 3. Ms. Lila Woolman says, "Thanks!" for all the clever names. Since she does possess a $10,000 violin, but does not possess a computer,

Re: FLUXLIST: scant last bit of molly bloom's sigh

2000-09-14 Thread Patricia
Absolutely!!! Yet one could not consider your remarks repititiously redundant - especially in an election year. Dam!! I am all over lusting for one of those Surrealist Papoon for President buttons, yet it seems they are to surreal to be for sale. Guess I'll just have to whip one up. In my

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-14 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
yes, it was-- On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, meryl wrote: Wasn't "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift? BadgerGirl I might suggest also the lecture of "a Modest Proposal", an actual speech of Sterne at the Lord Chamber in which he denounces the starvation in Ireland by proposing

Re: FLUXLIST: Name the Band

2000-09-14 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
there are too many great band names to go into but a few that come immediately to mind Alvin Cash and the Registers Barry and the Remains Question Mark and the Mysterians Link Wray and the Wraymen Billy Lee Riley and His Litte Green

FLUXLIST: response to Bertrand

2000-09-14 Thread Sol Nte
Bertrand wrote: I kept a long silent those last weeks, because I was moving to the west of France, in Bretagne, and also because my first baby is born the 23 rd of august, and this has (and is still) occupied me a LOT. Congratulations Bertrand...boy or girl? THat's why I needed some time to

FLUXLIST: Fluxus, of course

2000-09-14 Thread Sol Nte
and so, I looked at my last post and thought well I'm complaining about the lack of Fluxus chat but what am I doing to encourage it so, what things interest me, well many but in regard to Fluxus I'm fascinated by Something Else Press publicationsI have my own small collection of them

Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus, of course

2000-09-14 Thread ddyment
hi sol, i am in agreement more fluxus on the fluxlist would be nice. re: something else press: art metropole in toronto is exhibiting the complete publications (books, great bear pamphlets, ephemera) on the 26th of October (2nd anniversary of the death of Dick Higgins). most (many?) items will

Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus, of course

2000-09-14 Thread Sol Nte
Hi Dave, You wrote: art metropole in toronto is exhibiting the complete publications (books, great bear pamphlets, ephemera) on the 26th of October (2nd anniversary of the death of Dick Higgins). most (many?) items will be available for sale. Will there be a catalogue of this exhibition? Will

Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus, of course

2000-09-14 Thread Reed Altemus
Sol When I think the wurds "printer" "art" I always think Hansjorg Mayer the German printer who produced many editions of the original group of concrete poets in Europe (E. Williams, D. Rot, etc.). I have but one book printed by HM which is Emmett Williams' _Schemes Variations_ My copy has the

Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus, of course

2000-09-14 Thread ddyment
thre will be some sort of catalogue - might be minor. a list will be up on the website and yes, books can be ordered mail-order. does anyone have the robert filliou 'ample food' box set? dave -Original Message- From: Sol Nte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FLUXLIST: response to Bertrand

2000-09-14 Thread Reed Altemus
Sol Nte wrote: Andersen and Tamas, but because of the poor interest for Fluxus we demonstrated. And this is why I dont think of this list -which I liked a lot- as the Fluxlist anymore. Sol, I agree with this 100%. As you know, I have at various times pointed out that the multilogue on

Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus, of course

2000-09-14 Thread Sol Nte
Dave wrote: thre will be some sort of catalogue - might be minor. a list will be up on the website please let me and the rest of the list know when the list is up. thanks, Sol.

FLUXLIST: The Paper Snake

2000-09-14 Thread Sol Nte
Reed wrote: I have been trying to get a copy of _The Paper Snake_ lately. I had a copy but gave it to someone years ago when I was not so selfish about the books I own. Thanks to the internet it's easier to track down copies of Something Else Press titles...especially for those outside the US.

FLUXLIST: Hansjorg Mayer

2000-09-14 Thread Sol Nte
Reed wrote: When I think the wurds "printer" "art" I always think Hansjorg Mayer the German printer who produced many editions of the original group of concrete poets in Europe (E. Williams, D. Rot, etc.). I have but one book printed by HM which is Emmett Williams' _Schemes Variations_ My copy

FLUXLIST: Tired of Fluxus?

2000-09-14 Thread Sol Nte
Reed wrote: Personally, I would like to see more discussion on the topics specified in the info email which comes when you subscribe to the list. You know we spent a while drafting that but I don't think anyone saves it or reads it. Ken and Dick Higgins always left Fluxus as an open project-

FLUXLIST: [Fwd: Convocatoria comprimida] (fwd)

2000-09-14 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:14:06 +0200 From: boek861 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: *Elias Adasme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: Convocatoria comprimida] Convocatoria de Mail Art Organiza: Amnistía Internacional Sección Puerto Rico y AU+MA

Re: FLUXLIST: Tired of Fluxus?

2000-09-14 Thread Patricia
What is Flux, George? My favorite definitions http://www.fluxus.org/FLUXLIST/maciunas/real.html Sol Nte wrote: Reed wrote: Personally, I would like to see more discussion on the topics specified in the info email which comes when you subscribe to the list. You know we spent a

FLUXLIST: Pop etc...

2000-09-14 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
But what seems to be missing is a serious critical discussion of what it means to be a Fluxist now- Ken and Dick Higgins always left I wouldnt put Ken and Dick to much into the same basket. I think Ken was sometimes to Fluxish, to Maciunas centered, whereas Dick was more openminded, playfull

Re: FLUXLIST: response Sol

2000-09-14 Thread Owen Smith
Sol, Patricia, Disco and any and all other Fluxlister - Over the last few years as I have explored Fluxus I have become increasingly dissatisfied with traditional scholarly or historical approaches to the subject of Fluxus (mine included). I have to say that one of the things that bothers me

Re: FLUXLIST: Pop etc...

2000-09-14 Thread Patricia
From the 1974 Something Else Yearbook "A Worldful of Delirium" by Kurt Schwitters (translated by Dick Higgins) Are we playing? Are we living? We You Them Heiko Recktenwald wrote: But what seems to be missing is a serious critical discussion of what it means to be a Fluxist now- Ken and

FLUXLIST: thoughts on Fluxus part 1

2000-09-14 Thread Owen Smith
Hearing no cries to the contrary, here we go "thoughts on Fluxus Part 1" At the end of his 1953 "Manifesto for Concrete Poetry" Ovid Fahlstrom wrote: ". . . what I have called concrete literature is not a style, any more than concrete music or non-figurative art is. It is partly a way for the

FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-digest V1 #462

2000-09-14 Thread Sirlewis69
Fluxus = the avant-garde that didnt want to be the avant-garde = the flux paradox

FLUXLIST: Fwd: The Missing Gene Project

2000-09-14 Thread allen bukoff
in the email today... Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:03:18 +0100 Subject: The Missing Gene Project From: "cuckoo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Invitation After the acclaimed success of The Pinocchio Files The Somniloquy Institute's

FLUXLIST: gummed and perforated

2000-09-14 Thread daniel constien
HI with all this talk to stamps as of late...i was wondering, anyone know where you can get some gummed perforated paper for stamp making? dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Anarchy. Chaos. Chickens? -Get it all at Racetrack Road dot org! -The Ford Escort of comic strip sites.

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-14 Thread Bertrand et Claudia CLAVEZ
Sterne at the Lord Chamber in which he denounces the starvation in Ireland by proposing various way of cooking babies to fight the lack of food. Isnt this by Swift ? Who is much faster and much more readable IMHO. You're absolutely right...I'd better sleep more, it's good for memory

Re: FLUXLIST: response to Bertrand

2000-09-14 Thread Bertrand et Claudia CLAVEZ
De : Sol Nte [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : jeudi 14 septembre 2000 11:09 Objet : FLUXLIST: response to Bertrand Bertrand wrote: I kept a long silent those last weeks, because I was moving to the west of France, in Bretagne, and also because my first baby is born the 23 rd

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-14 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Isnt this by Swift ? Who is much faster and much more readable IMHO. You're absolutely right...I'd better sleep more, it's good for memory (and take my books out of the boxes that remain) Btw, I have the first french translation of TS ;-) Or the second, somewhere in the boxes..

Re: FLUXLIST: Tired of Fluxus?

2000-09-14 Thread Reed Altemus
Sol Nte wrote: Now, there's an interesting point about Fluxus it'll continue until people tire of it. I wonder how many of the original fluxus artists are tired of it? One problem for Fluxus today is that if new people interested in Fluxus ideas are not able to make contact with and

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-14 Thread meryl
There's an area of Brooklyn, NY called Gravesend. Of course New Jersey is full of odd names like Nutley, Little Silver, and Leonia. -- From: Heiko Recktenwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy Date: Thu, Sep 14, 2000, 6:25 PM Its a great

Re: FLUXLIST: gummed and perforated

2000-09-14 Thread Patricia
Anna Banana has blank gummed perforated pages for sale, as well as printing services: See: http://www.vis-soft.com/banana/iap.htm Best, PK daniel constien wrote: HI with all this talk to stamps as of late...i was wondering, anyone know where you can get some gummed perforated paper for

FLUXLIST: fluxus dining

2000-09-14 Thread m. mcdonough
a fellow named timothy porges said: My point is, everything is different now. old fluxus is: the cold war, snailmail art (this one is subject to rediscovery, like lithography), happy food fests (rirkrit has already rediscovered this one), i'm taking this college course in the 'emerging arts

Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus, of course

2000-09-14 Thread { brad brace }
Fluxus is all that is not Fluxus. There's a nifty simulated process-printing technique involving two PMS (red and blue) colors -- do a search for Powertone/Silvertone; based in Vancouver B.C. -- brad brace [EMAIL PROTECTED] prepress specialist wired magazine, sfo \|/ \|/ @~/ Oo

Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus, of course

2000-09-14 Thread ddyment
hi reed (and all), i am thrilled that there is at least an interest in returning this board to discussions of fluxus. i lost all hope after someone claimed they were more fluxus than either ken or eric. perhaps it was a joke that i didn't get. i also delete most of the fluxlist messages without

FLUXLIST: Fluxus: fun vs. non-fun

2000-09-14 Thread Josh Ronsen
Timothy Porges writes: i think the point i'm missing here has to do with fun. old fluxus had a lot to do with fun, though it was often twee, Unitarian-church-basement fun. but that was probably just me. So what's fun now? But Fluxus wasn't 100% fun, there was also the element of boredom,