You know, Jesse, you're right. I haven't been posting much because 1) yeah, the
level of discussion is a little mundane 2) I've been fiendishly busy doing a
really really big public sculpture project and a lot of reviews and stuff as
well as a series of more private works, and doing some fundraising work for a
much beloved nonprofit and all the usual stuff too. It's been a very interesting
summer, but perhaps not in fluxus terms--or is it just that the art fits into
the life so smoothly, it doesn't seem a matter to discuss?
The Tshirts are still a real possibility. I'm developing the rest of the
text/design. When I get it right, I'll post an image to the web and people can
order (reorder) if they wish.
A new public project is in the works and I'm messing around with redoing grad
school, looking at the role of process and temporality in American art, you
know, Ryder, Melville, Whitman, all the way to Ray Johnson, Pollack, Language
poets, etc. Most interested in precursor/19th cent stuff at the moment. So
likely it will be another overrun year. Please, someone, come up with something
I can respond to. I'm too overworked to come up with anything myself, but I can
always converse.
Just another parasite,
AK
jesse glass wrote:
> Woah that Fluxis Feeling
> We lost that Fluuuucksis Feeling
> Now it's gone, gone, gone
> Woahwoahhhh! Duh duh duh.
>
> I love John M. Bennett (none of the below applies to him) and whatever's
> been happening between the Waka Tooka man and the fellow who everybody
> thought was gone, but is still trapped clawing his way through the
> electronic "Get Me The Hell OUttta here" process, that fellow did speak (in
> his last post) a few true words. This list is a bit like a private card
> game with crazy things happening on the T.V. once in a while, but the
> sound's turned down. Instead intense Wal-Mart code conversations are being
> bandied about in fragments and sometimes whole sentences and sometimes even
> a paragrah or two. Truly, the giants are gone and we're all eating Tyson's
> frozen T.V. chicken snacks because of it. (Where are you Alison Knowles?)
> There's some great news cracking across the ether once in a while, but most
> of what's happening here is--how shall we put this--a bit yawnable. Is that
> what Fluxus has come to? Man, someone should change the name of this list
> to "Evening T.V. Potato Chip Heartburn and Let's All Get Together For Some
> Club Sandwiches and I'll Post Pictures of Us Eating" and get it over with.
>
> I'm sure someone still in curlers will want to fry my stones because I just
> said that, and perhaps the domestic drones are flying low over the hedge
> rows to zap my secret hide-away with XY and Z rays. But I tend to think
> not. Nothing so exciting will happen. Instead people will talk about yet
> another chance to post photographs of everybody looking up.
>
> Are there people actually DOING THINGS on this list? I mean FLUX ACTIONS,
> FLUX ART? FLUX MUSIC? FLUX ASSEMBLAGES? FLUX BOXES? FLUX PUBLICATIONS? Or
> how about just ACTIONS, ART, ASSEMBLAGES, MUSIC, BOXES, and PUBLICATIONS?
> If so, why has none (or almost none this side of Roger Stevens) of this been
> apparent since I've been scanning this list?
>
> But oh well, I'm JUST ANOTHER WRITER*, as one of you put it. BUT WHAT THE
> (S*M*I*L*I*N*G) HECK ARE YOU? (in a general YOU sense there.)
>
> Is FLUXUS already dead and is this list a place for boring little worms to
> congregate in the name of something that once was rather cool? (Please
> don't feel that I'm referring to you personally when I mention worms, I just
> thought it would be fun to throw that in.)
>
> So here's to plastic hobby horses. Everyone should collect at least half a
> dozen (but let's not (S*M*I*L*I*N*G) kid ourselves and call it FLUXIS.)
>
> Half in jest, and half in earnest,
>
> Jesse (is this what Fluxus has come to ? (S*M*I*L*I*N*G*) I hope the hell
> not) Glass
>
> *Not
>
> About Jesse Glass. How to order his books.
> http://www.letterwriter.net/html/jesse-glass.html
