Megan,
The trouble with being old enough to remember the sixties is you're also old
enough
to forget where you left your shoes. One of the reasons I regret ken's
departure from
this list is his ability to answer questions like this with scholarly,
lengthy, thoughtful
answers. I'll try to do that, but it will take a couple of days. It was flip
of me, though,
to suggest that rirkrit taravanija is just reproducing earlier fluxus work.
Food means
something different in a big-money artworld than it meant in the poor and
scrappy artworld
of the fluxus artists and the beats (see Ed Sanders' Tales of Beatnik Glory
for its constant
food references), or in the feasts of the early-seventies california
feminist performance world.
I realize now, thinking about it, that it's like saying you can't do a
painting because
Rembrandt already made a painting. My own version of creeping-old-fartism.
Still I'll
try to run up a list of Flux feasts. Didn't Ben Vautier briefly have a
restaurant? I know he does
wine labels, now. Anyway, i guess this won't be much help in preparing your
weekend Rirkrit interview, but
you/your prof could ask him in a general way about fluxus influence ( god
know ther might be some).
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: m. mcdonough [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 9:26 PM
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> Subject: FLUXLIST: fluxus dining
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>
> a fellow named timothy porges said:
> >My point is, everything is different now. old fluxus is: the cold war,
> >snailmail art (this one is subject to rediscovery, like lithography),
> >happy food fests (rirkrit has already rediscovered this one),
>
> i'm taking this college course in the 'emerging arts department' called
> 'external sources of inspiration'. and my proffessor was going to
> interview
> rirkrit this weekend. i'm curious about the fluxus happy food fests you
> site as rirkrit's rediscovery. has rirkrit ever stated a fluxus
> influence?
> could you tell me more about fluxus feasting of yore? i being young and
> curious would like to share in your fluxish knowledge.
>
> bunnies and fluff,
>
> megan
>
>
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