Re: FLUXLIST: More ideas about the box

[N BURR]

theme of CONTAINERS would be great!       with all the definitions/suggestions of "contain"  "containment"  .....    conceptual art of "no enclosure"          etc

nbb 

 

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From: allen bukoff

Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 11:38 AM

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Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: More ideas about the box

 

I'm enjoying this box discussion so much I'm thinking it might be
interesting to make "containers" the theme of this project.  Lots of little
individual-contributed containers, packed nicely together, holding only
themselves.  Well...okay...I'll just go back to lurking.

>John:
>
>As a librarian are you opposed to degradable in any form, for instance a
>print printed with toner which is not fused, that slowly rubs off the more
>that you handle it?  Or mycelium which might fruit given the proper
>humidity. Two examples off the top of my head. I see the reason not to
>have the "container" degrade for archival reasons, but in true Fluxus
>spirit (whatever that is) not static art seems core.
>
>One of my pieces that is in a number of collection is "To Be Filled" which
>is a book which is hollowed out on the inside.  When you open the cover,
>there are instructions to put something inside.  When the cavity inside
>the book is filled completely the book is to be nailed shut.
>
>This is an interesting question to me because Ive been working in the
>computer medium for the last five years, making dynamic art is inherent in
>the medium to a large degree.
>
>mIEKAL
>
>(who still has not added water to a piece of handmade paper with seeds
>inside which Alison gave me many years ago)