i read all three bits!
a lull in my ADD or something else? i learned something allan = 48 alan = 38 therefore l = 10 tadaaaaa!!!! perhaps...... anyway, thanks cecil for the full text and allan for your take on it. it's a very interesting area indeed. however, (oh mercy, here he goes agaian..!), i still think that it is important that we define fluxus 'now'. i am not a fluxus artist but i learned this the difficult way. i don't wish to be a fluxus artist, but i do wish to be considered as one who works in a way which can be likened to that thing called fluxus. i no longer feel the need to want to be associated with Fluxus, which i once did. i have had the great fortune to hang out with ay-o, emmett, alison, ben etc. i don't KNOW them, they're not my friends - i know i have the respect of at least ay-o and emmett because of time we have spent NOT talking about fluxus (short times!), the times we spent drinking red wine, the times i helped emmett cross roads in new york, the times ay-o went for coffee and always brought me a cookie! those time are so very special to me, and i namedrop blatantly here and proudly for someone who usually cannot tolerate such a thing. but the fact is that because of the time spent in fluxcompany i came to realise that i was not a fluxus artist, my work is not fluxus. it is heavily inspired by and borrows from 'fluxus' pieces, it has been criticised and praised by 'Fluxus' artists. but it is not fluxus. try to imagine being in a room with ben vautier, emmett williams, ay-o, jean dupuy, philip corner, yoko ono, nam june paik, takako saito, serge III, ken friedman, dick higgins, alison knowles, yoshi wada, geoff hendricks,larry miller, george brecht, etc, etc, etc. work out from there what fluxus is! and then look at your on work - what's the criteria? i still think we have to work on defining/redefining fluxus, at least to get a Fluxlist definition of Fluxus. pain i know! but noone ever gets back on this. you can't all be searching to be a bit 'fluxus' for the cool factor. that much is very obvious - what is fluxus???? Oh Odin's Underpants its a B(owman)LOG http://bowmansramblings.blogspot.com/
