Re: FLUXLIST: test x

[Reed Altemus]

Hey Eric,

members that none of the original artists from the Flux festivals

considered Ken

Friedman to be an artist. We all saw him as an agent and promoter. And

most of

 

Did it ever occur to you that some people on the list don't give a flying fuck

what "the original artists from the Flux festivals" think?  In addition, what the hell have

the original aritstsfrom the Flux festivals ever done for me (besides, in your case,

parading a kind of juvenile popularity contest on this list which I find very amusing

considering that it was Ken and Dick Higgins who, with others, started the list)

So Ken Friedman is a sociologist and not an artist, what's the big deal? Since I've found 

his past activities under the Fluxus banner interesting, why should I feel a need for

your or anyone else's "Fluxus" seal of approval. Besides, Eric, it was Maciunas who

said that the artist should eventually be replaced by the Fluxworker, someone who has

employment in another field (like sociology or folklorism or whatever) but who does Fluxus as

an avocation. Artists were to be retrained for socially constructive rather than parasitic work.

 

RA

--- Reed Altemus

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