Ironically enough, it was me talking about making a "pilgramage" to Germany.
I thought I was making a little jokule, but some of my jokes don't come
across without the accompanying hand gestures and burbling noises.
The most inspiring thing I find these days is the wonderful garbage my
overpaid, underimaginative, yuppie neigbors toss out twice weekly. If you
work with junk and/or refuse, these are high and palmy days indeed.
sniff/cough
BadgerGirl
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Beuys
>Date: Tue, Dec 5, 2000, 8:28 PM
>
> Dear Fluxers,
>
> I have to agree with Badgergirl. I've been following all the discussion
> about who is and who isn't Fluxus, who started it and who didn't, etc. I'm
> reminded of the wrangling between Richard Huelsenbeck and Tristan Tzara, when
> they were old men, about who came up with the name Dada! As if it matters.
> Dada and Fluxus for that matter are ways of thinking and creating, to my way
> of thinking! And, with anything & everything, I take what I like from this
> and that (Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, Situationism, William Burroughs, etc.)
> and throw out what I don't like. Let's not get all carried away with
> following prescriptions and "toeing the line" of any one movement or artist.
> I find nothing more discouraging than contemporary artists foaming at the
> mouth in adoration of some cult figure artist(s) (like Beuys). Did I read
> recently about somebody fantasizing about making a "pilgrimage" to visit
> Beuys sites fer chrissakes?! We all have our sources of inspiration, for
> sure, but let's remember that our work here and now is what's really
> happening, or should be. What we're doing now had better be living and
> breathing. Now I will climb down off my soap box -- but carefully, because
> it's very tall.
>
> Hal McGee
>
> P.S. I recently found the Beuys book published by Barron's.
>
> In a message dated 12/05/2000 7:48:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << Carol,
> Yeah, that's a great book! And I was in NYC at the time too but
> unfortunately, I was too out of it (all fucked up in art school, ironically)
> back then to have been aware of those goings on. I'd also recommend (if you
> haven't already read 'em) the Beuys bio. by Heiner Stachelhaus published by
> Abbeville press, a small paperback life and works published (years ago) by
> Barron's, and The Felt Hat, Joseph Beuys a Life Told, by Lucrezia DeDomizio
> Durini published by Charta. I've only just skimmed that last one, but
> there's not a lot published in English (nothing text heavy, anyway) so I
> rather grab anything that shows up.
>
> My, my, all these discussions of who's FLUXUS and who's not really, truly,
> FLUXUS. Does it matter? Should I care? As long as the work
> produced...uh...you know...works, isn't that enough? Clearly there were
> many overlapping themes in the work of Beuys, "genuine" Flux talent, and
> other artists who might not have actually met REAL flux artists but were
> clearly drawing from the same well.
>
> Don't ask if it's real, ask if it works.
> (then sign it, copy it, and send out documention--hee-hee)
>
> out of mind/out of time
>
> BadgerGirl
> >>
>
