Dear Mark, Welcome, and yes, it's a bit of a lull. Things usually pick up a bit eventually--
I just went to the Arte Povera show at the Walker last weekend, and was a bit overwhelmed. One, the show is encyclopedic, huge, well-documented, thorough, it would take days to do it justice, days I am planning to spend. Also, I was seeing the show with a friend I hadn't seen in 15 years, and thus attention was rather divided. I was reminded how much I liked the AP folks for their lush use of simple materials, their material investedness. It's sorta like Fluxus for honest to god sculptors. Are fluxus artists then not honest to god sculptors? Well, there's a difference. Material investedness is much more intense for the AP . See Luciano Fabro, say, and his gorgeously carved weird bird feet things. AP seems to allow itself to lift off from the concept and follow sensuous form. This is very appealing to me. Does anyone else want to discuss Fluxus's differences from concurrent artmaking such as Arte Povera? To me this would be an interesting thread. AK "Mark L. Hepp" wrote: > Greetings, > I am new to this list. I just joined a few days ago and haven't noticed any > activity. I was wondering if this list is still active or could it be that I > joined during some sort of lull period. Anyways, I also wanted to > shamelessly plug the improv ensemble of which I am a member. My ensemble, > Robot vs. Rabbit, is an instrumental improv noise-psych ensemble. If you get > a chance check us out. There are cdrs and mp3s available for anyone > interested. > > Regards, > Mark Hepp > > http://www.robotvsrabbit.com > > http://www.mp3.com/rabbot
