Wouldn't it be great if at least one or two senior fluxmeisters put some funds up for the sites and one or two fluxlings helped to keep them going-- ah from the naive Suse lurking, thanks for the coffee, and the tea Ching!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:50 PM Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Events for Allen Bukoff > I'm going to crawl out from under my rock to give my take on the Allen > quitting thing. Allen obviously felt that his dedication was going > unappecriated by the artists he revered, and to maintain/pay for/be > associated with an online compendium of these artists would indeed be a > bitter pill to swallow, with the already bad taste that Fluxus appears to > have left in his mouth. > > Still, I wish the sites were still up, since I found them invaluable and > lively and informative. But online publishing is an ongoing, often > thankless, effort. Unlike beling able to disavaow a book one wrote earlier > in one's career, sites disappear if you don't keep them going. It sucks it > came to this, but he is perfectly entited to let the whole affair go if the > love is gone for him. > > I have a good hippy friend who corresponded with the Allman Brothers fan > club. offering his services to them in whatever they needed, eventually > uprooting and moving to Macon, GA just to be more involved. He helped > promote concerts, lick envelopes, etc etc, happily being involved in > something he loved until one day, one of the band members came through the > fan club headquartes and proceeded to make fun of the hippy pants he was > wearing, and make fun of him in general, souring him on the whole deal. It > was devistating to him that people who he spent a lot of his free time > devoted to would callously disregard him like that, enough to make him wahnt > nothing to do with the band and their music. So, though this is not the > exact same situation, I can see how Allen felt. Granted, the artists are > under no obligation to history or the fans, but basically the flowers in > your garden you ignore, tend to shrivel up. > > Alex V. Cook > > >From: "Sol Nte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >Hi all, > > > >I have to say that the more I think about it all I really feel that Allen > >Bukoff has done by withdraw his Fluxus websites is penalise members of > >Fluxlist and students interested in Fluxus. Those Fluxus artists he > >addresses more than likely don't care one way or the other whether > >fluxus.org or fluxlist exists.......certainly they've never taken part so > >the only people that have taken part in collaborative Fluxus works on the > >web now get to see their work disappear (e.g Shoe Days etc.). > > > >I can appreciate Allen's point of view but don't really feel that anything > >has been achieved by closing the websites. > > > >As to the future of Fluxlist - I think it's as healthy as ever, > >interestingly the number of members is around the same as it was 5 years > >ago. The list will still provide the virtual forum it always has done. > > > > > > > >cheers, > > > >Sol. > > > > > > > > > > >
