+ 3 - 2 | § ¶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.
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.
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
