subject:"FLUXLIST\: To Name \(Beuys and Fluxus\)"

Re: FLUXLIST: To Name (Beuys and Fluxus)

2000-12-06 Thread tartarugo

Eric Andersen wrote: . It is interesting that Beuys' pupil Henning Christiansen also in Germany is considered associated with the Flux network. He never was. Yes I know. I'm only pointing to the fact that maybe Beuys, from some date mid sixties, seems to only give "flux" names to the works

Re: FLUXLIST: To Name (Beuys and Fluxus)

2000-12-05 Thread Patricia

I noticed Ben Vautier has revamped his website check out... http://www.ben-vautier.com/ and click on ben/fluxus - lotso commentary on Beuys there...yes, indeedyand on just about every body.. PK

Re: FLUXLIST: To Name (Beuys and Fluxus)

2000-12-04 Thread tartarugo

Eric Andersen wrote: It is amazing how especially German art history has manipulated lots of people to believe that Joseph Beuys was a central figure in the Flux network. In fact, there was not much contact. And Beuys' Selbstdarstellung, Shamanism and metaphysics are really quite opposite

Re: FLUXLIST: To Name (Beuys and Fluxus)

2000-12-04 Thread Eric Andersen

It is my impression that a lot of people on the list consider him to be a key person in how they understand Fluxus to be. And the infamous traveling show "Fluxus in Germany" sponsored and organized by IFA in Stuttgart certainly states so. It is interesting that Beuys' pupil Henning Christiansen

Re: FLUXLIST: To Name (Beuys and Fluxus)

2000-12-04 Thread allen bukoff

I am certainly no Fluxus historian or scholar, but my own understanding of Beuys' relationship to Fluxus is that it was fairly brief and that this contact did not have a major influence on either him or on "Fluxus" (i.e., the other more central Fluxus participants). That may not be accurate,