Bukoff, Klefstad, and Vautier
On Ben Vautier's web site there is an interesting discussion about the state of contemporary Fluxus. Ann Klefstad has an excellent description of what Fluxus today is about. A portion of her letter is quoted here:...Shows of Fluxus artifacts, like the one at the Walker Art Center a couple of years ago, are an incredible yawn, heaps of paper in vitrines. They are evidence of the end of the thing.The full letter, along with an open letter to the first generation of Fluxus, written by Allan Bukoff can be read at http://www.ben-vautier.com/2005/2005.php3?id_sujet=flux
Fluxus isn't meant to be an archive, it's meant to be a practice, and such practices cannot be owned. The current discourse around the idea of copyright that has been sparked by the internet illuminates this as well. There is a potential in the net for great and radical changes in the notion of the creative practice and its relation to the individual and to the culture at large. This potential is intimately related to the possibilities that Fluxus opened.
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