New Responses to Fluxus History
Responses to a statement made recently to the effect that nobody creating Fluxus related work today should "give a rat's ass" about the first generation of Fluxus artists:I GIVE A RATS ASS>>>
about the old fluxus people what about Don [Boyd]?
Talk about someone from the old days of fluxus..
He has been at it for like 30 years.
History is important... where would we be without it?
Marinetti - wanted us to burn the librarys. I would be upset
if that had happened. I use the library very very often. ~ Crispin
[I] didn't mean to bite - I kind of give a rat's ass in that I do look back to see what happened before for some type of context. But Fluxus is a deal where you either get it or you don't. If you get it, your work is automatically Fluxus because your work reflects you. To say that one is into Fluxus but doesn't do Fluxus work would seem to me impossible. In the same way artists get rejected their whole lives yet they continue to do their work - it's impossible to hide who you are in your work. Art's spiritual properties lie in this fact. Fluxus is MINE now it has little to do with Yoko or Joseph or Don. ~ Madawg
It is an interesting problem, and one that we will probably continue to grapple with.
I believe that Fluxus owes its existence to the first generation Fluxus group.
I think that what that group started continues to exist independently of them.
Like Crispin, I think we should honour the efforts of the first Fluxus group.
Like Madawg, I don't think that we should worry about whether or not the remaining members of the first Fluxus group approve of our activities. ~ Allan
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