in the email today ...
From: "Sally Timmis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:47:05 +0000
You asked to know a little bit about my Fluxus research. I've only just
started out really, but what I'm trying to find out more about is the
Japanese Fluxus people and their work - what sort of 'art' or not art was
going on in Japan at the time, what the Japanese Fluxus people were
involved with apart from Fluxus, what they might have been informed by,
artistic or non-artistic and how this fitted in to or with Fluxus as a
whole. I'm trying to find out some more about Hi-Red Center at the moment,
if anybody can tell me anything about their actual Fluxus involvement, I'd
be very glad to hear from them.
You might be wondering why I want to spend a lot of time thinking about
Fluxus? Ever since I discovered Fluxus through a Yoko Ono exhibition in
1996, I just loved how interactive the work could be, how I could be
involved with works like the Wish Tree where everyone just wrote a wish
and tied it to a tree, how I could make up my own versions of Events, how
the work was quite often funny and didn't seem to mind me laughing at
it. Since I found out more about other Fluxus people and their work, I
really liked the attitude of participation and non-exclusiveness. Even
though this didn't work with everyone all of the time, it seems to be an
attitude that most if not all Fluxus people aspired to at least in some
ways, and I like it a lot.
Does anybody know of any Fluxus performance things or get-togethers of
people that like Fluxus that are taking place anytime soon? It would be
really lovely to meet some other people that like Fluxus too.
Sally
Sally Kawamura
Glasgow University
Scotland
UK
