Wow! All I did was not check my email for a couple of days and the list exploded with a flurry of posts. As I read through them what struck me was regardless of the nature and direction - what has beeen generated is a really interesting series of statements about fluxus, history, art, theory and the connections between them, so for a reader point of view thank you all.
As some of you know I am currently editing a special issue of Visible Language on Fluxus, but not the usual historical stuff, more on fluxus as an ongoing aesthetic/cultural phenomena. I am planing/hopeing to include materials by artists who are not necessarily fluxus in the historical sense but have been influenced by or see their work and iideas in relation to fluxus - so all the posted comments have been very interesting for me to read and I have quite enjoyed all the variety of issues and statements. And in the end, I guess what it says to me is that fluxus is still alive, at least in relivance, otherwise not so many of you would feel the way you do, and that is a good thing. . . . I am also working on a piece for the issue that might be relivant to these discussions so I am sending it along. It is in rough draft format and I intend to expand it with more current practices/examples, but none-the-less I will include it here for your consisderation, and if you are not interested please just ignore the rest of this post. Owen Owen
