h'lo,
toronto panel discussion was not so bad. the four participants included:
wayne baerwaldt (sp?) works at the plug-in gallery in winnipeg and currated
the al/beck show. gave a brief over-view of fluxus and happenings.
terrance davis (?) has a show on ciut and did a great job of connecting
fluxus to pop music (and this is an area of expertise of mine - if i indeed
have one). followed the nam june paik smashing of the violin (which is not
very exciting 30 years later) by smashing an electric guitar and pointed out
that pete townsend was an art student who attended the destruction of art
symposium.
michael snow was funny and smart and had many ties to fluxus in the sixties
whilst living in nyc. i think he contributed a film to a fluxus festival
actually.
sook yin lee admittedly did not speak much about fluxus but she is much more
than a vj. i was listening to her music in bobsyouruncle 15 years ago. her
role was mostly to riff on the 'fun' and 'chance' elements of fluxus. and
the rapper was introduced, obviously, to tie together the collage work of al
hansen with the cut-n-paste music of beck hansen.
toronto does not offer much to a fluxus fan so having three events in the
space of a month (playing with matches, yoko ono project and this panel) is
something to be thankful for.
yers,
dd
-----Original Message-----
From: joshua thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: February 9, 2000 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: toronto panel
>sol,
>
>> Go to
>>
>> http://www.nutscape.com/fluxus/homepage/
>>
>> Click on the link for The Fluxus Performance Workbook.
>
>of course, thank you - i remembered this page after i sent my email. i
>should say that i am specifically interested in scores which actually have
>a sonic component, such as some of maciunas' pieces. his piano piece #13
>(the one on the sonic youth cd) isn't on the above page for instance.
>
>
>!!!!!!!!!!also, anyone with richard maxfield scores: please contact
>me!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>thanks for your good help sol, i'll check out that higgins book fo sure.
>
>> I read the 'playing with matches' book last year and I have to say I
>> thoroughly enjoyed it. I think it's a shame if this panel did not do
>justice
>> to the exhibit. Could you please say a little more about what the panel
>> said, issues raised etc. as I would be interested to know what exactly it
>> was that you found disappointing, also who was on the panel? Thanks.
>
>well, i'd rather not list names - in fact i don't remember all of the
>names. but the playing with matches curator for toronto was there, the
>power plant gallery director, an academic, a semi-famous local
>composer/artist, and a muchmusic vj. the academic was the only guy who was
>at ease with the history of fluxus and related art, and even he said
>something to the effect that 'the avant garde is rock and roll'. there are
>people in this town who really could have said some interesting things, but
>they were not included, probably they were just not thought of. the vj
>didn't even know what fluxus was, she just demoed a bunch of songs she's
>been working on. someone probably told her that fluxus today is about
>sampling or something. then a rapper got up on stage and did some hip hop.
> i like hip hop, but it's no longer anything close to fringe performance
>art. the panel was the result of carelessness: only the one guy seemed to
>give a shit about art, the rest were schmoozing.
>
>
