Good discourse between Sol and Reed.
Many fine points.
Multiple intersections between art ideas of
Dada and Fluxus.
At same time, Dada intention quite different.
Maciunas was at one point of the opinion
that Fluxus was a kind of neo-Dada. One of
the important early festivals included neo-Dada
in the title.
Robert Filliou felt Fluxus and Dada quite
different. Wrote eloquent, concise letter on
the point. Don't have letter at hand, but
quoted in in full in my 1972 book The
Aesthetics.
Dick Higgins touched on relations between
Fluxus and Dada -- and more deeply between
Fluxus and Surrealism -- in his essay "Fluxus
Theory and Reception." Essay published in
Lund Art Press Fluxus Research issue, again
in slightly modified version in Fluxus Reader,
and in a last version in Dick's last book,
Modernism after Postmodernism.
Nicholas Zurbrugg also discussed in excellent
essay "Fluxus and Dada at Two Speeds" in
Brisbane cataogue of Francesco Conz collection,
also reprinted in Fluxus Reader.
-- Ken Friedman
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