Alan, I really don't think it matters whether you acknowledge the Fluxus banner or not. If you're working in an area which was passed down from the original Fluxus concepts, attitudes(see Ken Friedman's list of characteristics) and works then what difference does it make? What, so you can go to vernisages and schmooze with the elderly show them how clever you are? I guess some people like that kind of thing. I think that tradition is important but after a time it really developed beyond that. Stewart Home wrote about using Fluxus like a ladder until you got to a point where the ladder could be thrown away. What started for me with feeling a real affinity with Fluxus and being encouraged by Ken ended up just being another approach. Maybe to get where I am now I had to go through Fluxus country and I kept what I saw and learned on the way.
Reed
