FLUXLIST: Letterism and Fluxus

[Bertrand et Claudia CLAVEZ]

Craig wrote: >I have  found some tangential connections between Fluxus folks and > Letterists (etc), but nothing really literal (any avtual > connections -- letters/collaborations/meetings? -- that anyone > might know about between Fluxus and CoBrA).   I remember some others very early contacts between the Fluxus bunch and the Letterists, Situationists happened at the Festum Fluxorum of the American Center of Paris in Dec. 1962. Fran�ois Dufr�ne, at that time in the Nouveau R�alistes group, interpreted his "Tombeau de Pierre Larousse", his masterwork of letterist concrete poetry. He used to be one of the very first participant of the Letterism with Isidore Isou, when he was still at school (at about 16, the manifest of the letterism he signed was printed in 1947), and took his distance with the movement in the early 5O's, and built the Internationale lettriste with Guy Debord, which was to become the Internationale Situationniste a bit later. He was the first in France to use a tape recorder to make his poetry, and developed the Megapneume concept with Wolman. And indeed, he participated to the Festum Fluxorum, with Daniel Spoerri, who later had his book published by Dick Higgins (anecdoted topography of chance, french version first published in Feb. 1962 by the gallery Lawrence in Paris)