In France, PhD is PhD, in arts or in biology, it's the same diploma, which opens the same qualification and the same salary when teaching... it's only that there is far less money for the arts research, than for biological research. Regarding Religions, I guess it's another matter...Christians have been renamed, and renamed themselves a lot in history (catholics, protestants, othodox, + all the tiny christian sects, as adventists, jehovah witnesses, +all the "heresies", monotonous, manicheists, cathares, etc., + all the different orders in the catholic church -which sometimes had genuine wars between them, as franciscans and dominicans, jesuits and jansenists, benedictans and cistercians etc. For sure all where Christians, and had wars altogether for a couple a centuries (and I don't speak about the Boers wars, and the situation in Ulster until today). Besides, Mr Bush is currently discovering that there are some deep and huge and bloody differences between sunnits and wahabits, chiits and hachemits...exactely the same that he is discovering that it's not so easy to control the loubavitchs in Israel.
All this shows that it's not so easy to compare Fluxus to the religious situation (BTW Ken did a very good communication about the relationship between Fluxus and Theology when we did that symposium and concert in the Le Corbusier's dominican convent near Lyon back in March 2003, didn't you Ken?). May be could we compare the whole experimental art to the monotheism, with all the small sects and great trends, illuminated and genuine prophets, and regarding this situation-i.e. the same god for everyone- one DID changed the names!!! Bests, Bertrand ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:33 PM Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus vs fluxus > Anne, Another analogy or perhaps two. > 1 Analogy to academia; In the visual arts there is resistance on granting > equal stature to the Master of Fine Arts degree with the PhD. Same amount of > years of study, etc. The difference is one is VERBAL the other is Visual. > (Like the difference between women doing the same work as men- they don't > get equal pay. (Visual artists don't get equal pay with PhD's) I proposed a > solution- > Grant all practicing MFA's an honorary PhD. Do you think that will ever > happen? After 35 years of teaching I finally arrived at a school that gives > equal pay, but now I'm an adjunct. Ha! > > 2 Analogy to religion. Did we rename Christians anywhere in history? Are the > disiciples ranked higher in heaven? (Maybe by we left here on earth, but not > in heaven! This applies to all religions I think) -Don > > _________________________________________________________________ > Our best dial-up offer is back. Get MSN Dial-up Internet Service for 6 > months @ $9.95/month now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup > > >
