>Marc asks:
>
>>for such a long time i'm thinking about the question, what the difference
>between
>DADA and FLUXUS is?<
>
>But Dada and Fluxus are often linked in the mind, perhaps Duchamp is the
>glue that binds them together?
To me Duchamp figures largely in the connection between Dada and Fluxus-
his formulation of the ready-made. This idea was important to Fluxus. Ben
Vautier has been quoted as saying "Without Cage and Duchamp, Fluxus would
have been impossible." or something to that effect.
>
>Most importantly Dada did not possess the democracy of Fluxus. Dada retained
>class distinctions which Fluxus ignored. Fluxus is open to all, Dada was
>not.
>
>Dada was more politicised than Fluxus although Maciunas(but not Fluxus as a
>whole) had similar (communist) political leanings.
>
>Dada was not concerned with intermedia. Fluxus was.
Here I disagree. What about Dada poetry and collage which is an intermedial
form?
The simultaneous use of words and pictures in visual art is something we
can attribute to Dada and this is intermedial.
Reed
