Terrence writes;
What is really important is listening to the times and how and why the
groups responded to what was happening. How do we respond and how we act
out can set examples make changes answers to new needs. Opening doors
out of white walled rooms whose purity imprisons fertile minds and stops
seeds from growing to matuity. More creative individuals need greater
societal engagement now? maybe. New days, new ways. I think it's time.
What can be learned from dada and fluxus that can be of help now? You
might know.
terrence kosick
artnatural
Ken Friedman wrote:
> 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
>
> --
