peter mcpartlan writes:
>> Josh writes:
>
>> As for Anti-art I think it's a fairly daft term in many ways because one
>> needs to practice art in order to practice anti-art.
Ack. I did not write this. I think Jason Pierce did. I would never use the word "daft"
unless I was making fun of the English.
Here is another quote on our topic (anti-art, not making fun of the English):
"As was the case for historical Dada, Fluxus served as an interface among subsets of
geographically dispersed international art cultures. Despite their aggressively
anti-art personae, both the Dada collective and its paradigmatic neo-Dada counterpart
were distinguishable from majority culture communities because of their (sometimes
veiled, yet recurrent) self-identification as alternative art cultures. As a result,
it can be convincingly argued that not only were both fully fledged movements (albeit
of the anarchic variety), but that both were heir to a number of other primary
defining principles of the twentieth-century avant-garde."
-Estera Milman, http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/atca/subjugated/one_2.htm
(note: http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/atca/subjugated/cover.htm contains articles by Ken
Friedman and our very own Owen Smith)
-Josh Ronsen
http://www.nd.org/jronsen
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