This quote by Dick Higgins is from Allen Bukoff's Fluxus Portal site at http://www.fluxus.org/.
Fluxus means change among other things. The Fluxus of 1992 is not the Fluxus of 1962 and if it pretends to be - then it is fake. The real Fluxus moves out from its old center into many directions, and the paths are not easy to recognize without lining up new pieces, middle pieces and old pieces together.
Higgins seems to infer that Fluxus is both dead AND alive. Of course his argument could also be restated as, "The Fluxus of 1972 was not the Fluxus of 1962", or for that matter that the "Fluxus of 1963 was not the Fluxus of 1962" - so it would be hard to conclude that Higgins had the final word on the matter.
 
Allan Revich
http://www.digitalsalon.com/weblog/
 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allan Revich
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 7:31 PM
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Subject: RE: FLUXLIST: Fluxus: Dead or Alive

"...any definition of Fluxus, which is both necessary and dangerous to its very existence"
Exactly!

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Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 7:12 PM
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Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus: Dead or Alive

you have to be reeeeaaaaaal careful how you answer that one or else Fluxus dies in more ways than the Hegelian death of content and meaning. history, or historicity (if you prefer), is the number one killer of anything that can be labelled as a "movement." so any definition of Fluxus, which is both necessary and dangerous to its very existence, better start out with some sort of "loose collaboration of artists" or some other escape from commodification and reduction.

kraig.



Quoting Madawg Painterofdark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

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> Allan Revich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:        Is Fluxus dead
> or alive?
>  I call Fluxus an art practice. Since you brought it up --just WHAT IS
> FLUXUS???
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>  by Madawg
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