Re: FLUXLIST: curious...

2000-03-18 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Interesting question. On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, scott rigby wrote: Fluxus work demonstrably influenced many of the conceptual, performance, and video artists of the 1960s and 1970s. For many complex reasons, those influences were rarely acknowledged. I'm half joking but I am curious why the

Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus as an obscure(d) influence

2000-03-18 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Having read it, I think this is funny: one would purposely wish to overlook prior work that provided part of the foundation of intellectual development on which one built one's own work. Rather, the richer and more comprehensive one can make one's foundation, the stronger one's own

Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus as an obscure(d) influence

2000-03-18 Thread George Free
With all due respect, "traditional artworld terms" I would think would imply interpretation and sales of art in the fluxus genre as commodities, and while sales of objects in the conceptual vein IS now done, many contemporary galleries do promote conceptual art sans sales for the love of showing