Yeah, I was there and met her. Actually, she and I are having a
discussion now
which is appropriate for FLUXLIST. She sent me a letter which had a
rubber
stamp on it which said "FLUXPOST: JUST A BUNCH OF DEAD GUYS
NO WOMEN OR MINORITIES OR WOMEN ALLOWED". Well, this
got my dander up and I shot back how that while I agreed that Fluxus was
quite a few dead guys (granted), I thot that, as Dick Higgins said in
Modernism
after Postmodernism, that Fluxus was one of the few forums/groups in
which
women and minorities *were* actually represented, and that I thot she
was
trying to be cute but was actually being inaccurate. I mean there was
Alison
Knowles, Yoko Ono, Ch. Shiomi, etc. and for African Americans (which
Higgins
admits there were less) there was Ben Patterson and Norman Brown.
Yet another interesting bit of info comes from the "Fluxus Etc."
catalogue:
p. 37 Kate Millet writes "Fluxus is even I, Kate Millet, one of the
founding
members, (art worker aged forty-six, sculptor of 24 years, painter,
filmmaker,
author, doctor of language and literature, also a feminist sexual
politician,
though- like Yoko- never mentioned in the official masculine communiques
of Flux commercialization and ideological formulation."
What are other people's perceptions of Fluxus being another "old boys"
phenomenon? Was Fluxus sexist and racist?
Anyone care to comment (particularly those who were there?
RA
Patricia wrote:
> Check out Dragonfly Dream's website - especially under "what's
> new" "Call for Cyberstamps" for all the artistamp folks. It's a
> great site altogether, lots of information and visuals and has
> photos from the Fake Ray Johnson weekend. I do believe Reed
> Altemus is in there.
>
> Http://www.dragonflydream.com/
>
> Best,
> PK
