Re: FLUXLIST: re: "higher artistic impulses"

2000-09-04 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
I heartily second Reed's use and attention with copy art--(i call it xollage as i do xeroxed collage as main part of my xeroxed works) of course there is always the play (LUDENS) aspect of "the work" that is from vocation to vacation and

Re: FLUXLIST: re: "higher artistic impulses"

2000-09-04 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
Estimados: myself i have found is often very good and useful and direct as one so well says here-- to go with "lower artistic impulses" i.e. what myself and alex cook are interested in and have thought to think of as "wreckcreation"

Re: FLUXLIST: re: "higher artistic impulses"

2000-09-02 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
> Who is Thomas Bernhard, if you don't mind me asking? Austrian writer. "Half a sentence of Thomas Bernhard", Goetz once wrote.. A lot of his play were performed by Bernhard Minetti, rather unique... And the subject reminds to Sigmar Polke.

Re: FLUXLIST: re: "higher artistic impulses"

2000-09-01 Thread Reed Altemus
Actually, I have nothing against artists and the art world per se my activity just falls along a different line- the sort of post-punk DIY "say you're an artist and you are" school validated by Joseph Beuys' ideas and much Fluxus as formulated by Maciunas. My chosen field of work xerigraphy (or co

Re: FLUXLIST: re: "higher artistic impulses"

2000-09-01 Thread Reed Altemus
Josh Ronsen wrote: > Reed Altemus wrote: > > >Please elaborate on what you mean by a "higher artistic impulse". You mean like an >aesthetic innovation or just doing what is called "right work". > > I don't know if I can describe exactly what I am talking about. Everytime I try to >define it,

FLUXLIST: re: "higher artistic impulses"

2000-08-31 Thread Josh Ronsen
Reed Altemus wrote: >Please elaborate on what you mean by a "higher artistic impulse". You mean like an >aesthetic innovation or just doing what is called "right work". I don't know if I can describe exactly what I am talking about. Everytime I try to define it, I come up with a contradictory