FLUXLIST: Why?

2000-03-24 Thread Davidson Gigliotti
Another element that contributed to Fluxus's lack of acknowledged influence in the arts (and the same lack might apply to other distinct art groups as well: Judson to some extent, the early New York video artists, the Living Theater, the Wooster Group, the various "body" artists, the avant-garde

FLUXLIST: Avant-Garde Festivals...

2000-03-26 Thread Davidson Gigliotti
New York Annual Avant-Garde Festival (1963--1980). In 1978 the Festival was held in Cambridge, Mass. There was no Avant-Garde Festival in 1979. The last Festival was held in 1980 at the Passenger Ship Terminal, pier 92. All the Festivals were staged and curated by Charlotte Moorman, sometimes

Re: FLUXLIST: query

2000-03-28 Thread Davidson Gigliotti
Oh yes, I remember Sun Ra. A friend of my past used to sing in his Solar Arkestra sometimes. He was very far out, too far for most jazz musicians of his day. He wasn't into hard bop so much, but something quite different. I have no CDs or records of his music, only dimly remembered images and

Re: FLUXLIST: weather report

2000-04-27 Thread Davidson Gigliotti
Sarasota, Florida 12:20pm 77 degrees, full sun, light breeze. Davidson

FLUXLIST: The Early Video Project

2000-05-05 Thread Davidson Gigliotti
The Early Video Project is pleased to announce the opening of the Early Video Project web site at: http://208.55.137.252/index.html We will have a proper domain name when it gets transferred from Internic. It is text intensive and opens a discussion of early video history. There is material of

Re: FLUXLIST: Trial by e-jury

2000-06-23 Thread Davidson Gigliotti
I hope I'm not intruding, but trials in absentia are not usually considered the most democratically just way of doing justice. If you propose a trial, then you ought to give the defendant an opportunity to defend himself. That would mean, at the least, reinstating him to the list for the duration