Dear Brad, > Nevermind: I found it: " Pathetic leeches. Just like you > feed on the corpse of FLUXUS." Same quote, same answer: you mean that Fluxus is dead? I thought it was still alive... Anyhow, I'm not earning my living on Fluxus by any ways: I'm teaching art and art history, and even not teaching on this period of time... Moreover, when I organize Fluxus events, I don't earn a single dime on it, while I always paid the artists, being very careful that the performance fees represent the larger part of the evening's budget. This, any of the artists with/for whom I've worked can tell to you (Emmett Williams, Ben Patterson, Ben Vautier, Eric Andersen, Takako Saito, Alison Knowles, Charles Dreyfus, Ken Friedman, Esther Ferrer, etc.-sorry to drop names) So, in fact, at my small level and scale, I more have the feeling to feed the Fluxus corps (without e) than the contrary, as far as, since we're organizing Fluxus evenings, French art centers and museums have suddenly "discovered" these artists, and more opportunities appeared for them to work in France by their own. And all this does not mean that I don't take something from what they bring : as any fluxus fan, I'm greatly fed by fluxus art, and my deep pleasure to see their work and attend/organize their concerts is still full and present. But you maybe right, may be I'm a pathetic leeche, this I can't tell: I don't know what a leeche is (I've enough to do to look for words in dictionnary, not to loose my time to look at what seems to be insulting).
Bertrand.
