Re: FLUXLIST: Avant-Garde Festivals...

2000-03-26 Thread Reed Altemus
Davidson Thanks for this very interesting account. I'd never heard of Howard Wise. I'm curious, do you recall if there were other composers than Cage, Behrman, Varese, Brown, Feldman and Rzewski? I mean any of the people later to be associated with Fluxus? I'm thinking perhaps Maciunas had

Re: FLUXLIST: Avant-Garde Festivals...

2000-03-26 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Its very egalitarian nature told against it within the context of New York's artworld, which tended to view the Festivals as a "fringe" event, We never had an "Avant-Garde" Festival here, but there was the "christmas artfair" of the local "Kunstverein" (art club), more or less at the same