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De : Eric Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
� : Fluxlist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Envoy� : jeudi 30 novembre 2000 01:27
Objet : FLUXLIST: To Name
> Dear Heiko,
>
> I wasn't concerned about naming things. And didn't deal with what could
> be called Fluxus or not. I objected to your statement that Fluxus
> started in Cage classes. It certainly did not. And it certainly did not
> originate in New York.
Dear Eric
That's true, but some of the people that made Fluxus were in Cage or
Maxfield's class (Dick Higgins, Maciunas, George Brecht, for example were
there,AND in Wiesbaden), and Maciunas himself said that he was making
something very next to Fluxus in New York in 1960/1961 with the AG Gallery.
And parallely he began to use the term Fluxus for those activities (see the
transcription of the videotaped interview with G.M. by Larry Miller of March
24,1978, published in FLUXUS Etc, Addenda 1. INK &New York ed. 1983,
excerpts also in A VTRE EXTRA n�11, 1979).
The problem is to decide what acception of the term FLUXUS one uses, and
what historical point of view one chooses towards this phenomenon. It is
obvious that Maciunas did had this word in head long before Wiesbaden to
designate his activities with avant-garde art, it is also clear that what it
became after 1962 is wider and broader than the single activism of Maciunas
.
Best regards.
Bertrand
