From: "alan bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: What's Fluxus. Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:15:07 +0200
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Drogy"
Geoff Hendricks > does he do different things now ??
nope! he's still the cloudsmith.
geoff's work and indeed his actual personality, perhaps don't smack of fluxus, initially. very much the macrobiotic hippy style, but closer inspection of geoff's works reveals a sensibilty akin to those producers of the early event scores etc.
perhaps it's easy to get sidetracked by the whimsicality, the jokes and the
irony of a lot of classic 'maciunas governed' fluxus, and to ignore the
rest. it's interesting that geoff often gets lumped into a 'not really very
fluxy' category yet alison knowles not- yet for me their is an air of
'similarity' (not sure if that is the best way to describe it) - at least in
the feel of their works.
is it not interesting that in, for want of a better term, 'group' so diverse
and so widely discussed, that often the 'everything is fluxus' or
'everything is open to interpretation as fluxus' that a common point of
discussion is 'just how fluxus was/is.....?'
if, for example, fluxus must be accepted due to historical definition as a
definite 'group' or even 'movement' as is often claimed. then, examination
of said group will reveal a gigantic, diverse range of activity (even among
the inner core of accepted fluxus artists). is it possble to have some sort
of scale within? there is the fluxus chart compiled by (filliou &
williams?/ - i don't remember - Bertrand?) which charts presence at
wiesbaden etc and forwm the beginnings of a fluxscale. but a new official
fluxometer could be good.
Geoff Hendricks - 4.7 on the Fluxscale
fun but doesn't make much sense
what i think i wanted to say was
yes geoff still does clouds and bits of wood and string etc
how can we judge the fluxusishness of someone/thing?
i think i have sunstroke
alan
Maybe it is not the something but the process of making and person who makes. there are some fluxus artifacts that look (and probably smell and taste) like other stuff from other movements, but are not because of the way they were presented or made. i dont know geoff or his clouds but maybe presenting something not very fluxy in a not very fluxy way and then calling it fluxus is a fluxus event in itself. or perhaps postfluxusism? luv zoe
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