Dear Mr. Clavez,
We have a question about your note to the list.
Did you mean to say that Yoko Ono Piano Drop is actually the correct title of Al Hansen�s piano drop work?
Did he give it a new title long after first performing the piece?
We know about Emily Harvey. Ken Friedman long ago told us about her. He places her among the central figures responsible for presenting Fluxus artists and their work, along with George Maciunas and Dick Higgins among the artists, and Hanns Sohm or Jean Brown among the museum-builders. Mr. Friedman describes Ms. Harvey as a museum-builder and benefactor than a dealer. Even though she only recently opened an association, he says her gallery has always been as much a museum as a sales gallery. He says that Ms. Harvey, like Higgins and Maciunas, often used her own money to support the Fluxus artists and their work. According to Mr. Friedman, Ms. Harvey sells work when she can, but she always supports the artists. In this, he argues that she differs from the supportive dealers who help artists by selling work but don�t support Fluxus beyond their engagement with their own stable of sellable artists.
Anyhow � we�ll see what else we can learn.
We are happy that you, too, seem to have confused the Al(l)(a)(e)ns.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:12:43 +0200 From: �Bertrand Clavez� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Lord Russell�s Pair of Dogs
Dear Secret FLuxus,
Your lasts posts are the best Fluxus and the most fluxian contributions you�ve ever made to the list, please keep on, I really loved the whole mixud-up of confusion about the apologies to the wrong people for having mispelled their names sent to the wrong person about the necessity to be clear when attributing a work to an artist by contesting wrongly a correct title.
If this make sense to anyone, we�re on Fluxlist.
There is one category Alan B. forgot in his list:
Histrionicians of Art
Maybe the most common one among Fluxus followers, theoreticians and practicioneers.
Welcome aboard folks!!
Bests,
Bertrand
PS: I�m not sure that Alan noted that anywhere in the posts he sent you, but he has been for years the assistant of Emily Harvey (ask to Ken for more details about her if you need) and has worked, lived, drunk, performed, eaten, talked, etc. with ALL the living (surviving?) Fluxus Artists longer than we did altogether. One can say that he has breathed Fluxus for years, and hanged to its mammals to get any little drip (music) of Fluxus milk. However, it never prevented him from having his own work (and a pretty good one), and I can tell you it�s not so easy with such monsters around (not to crocodiles in the same lake). (at that very moment I�m sure he his very upset with me sayong all that, but...-Alan just send me the address for one of your very well found definitions). Anyway, I hope you�ll find you�re place on FLuxlist, because I�m very interested by your interpretation of the conservation of Fluxus, beyond the pointless polemics. Emmett Williams often works with a german group of professionnal Fluxus interprets (Die Maulwerker I think or something approaching ) and he�s used to say that they perform the pieces better than any Fluxus artists ever did. This may be an interesting track for your group (even though you seem to develop you�re interpretations of the performing of the scores).
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