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+ 1 - 2 | § ¶New Responses to Fluxus History

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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+ 2 - 0 | § ¶A Child's History of Fluxus

Long long ago, back when the world was young - that is, sometime around the year 1958 - a lot of artists and composers and other people who wanted to do beautiful things began to look at the world around them in a new way (for them).

They said: "Hey! - coffee cups can be more beautiful than fancy sculptures. A kiss in the morning can be more dramatic than a drama by Mr. Fancypants. The sloshing of my foot in my wet boot sounds more beautiful than fancy organ music."

And though Fluxus is almost twenty years old now - or maybe more than twenty, depending on when you want to say it began - there are still new Fluxus people coming along, joining the group. Why? Because Fluxus has a life of its own, apart from the old people in it. It is simple things, taking things for themselves and not just as part of bigger things. It is something that many of us must do, at least part of the time. So Fluxus is inside you, is part of how you are. It isn't just a bunch of things and dramas but is part of how you live. It is beyond words.

When you grow up, do you want to be part of Fluxus? I do.

+ 1 - 2 | § ¶A Few Ideas About Fluxus

"...it was meant to be a long-lasting idea or tradition with continuing converts and practitioners. That is the way I look at it and that is the way I deal with it." [Don Boyd]

"I think what makes Fluxus so dynamic and interesting to me is that there is no definition - I wish people would just accept that. The appealing idea is that Fluxus is inclusive. Artists spend most of their careers being rejected which is why Fluxus is so refreshing..." [Dawg]

"Fluxus is not a moment in history, or an art movement. Fluxus is a way of doing things, a tradition, and a way of life and death." [Dick Higgins]

"Fluxus is more valuable as an idea and a potential for social change than as a specific group of people or a collection of objects." [Ken Friedman]

And three of my ideas about Fluxus:

1) Fluxus makes the mundane magical.
2) Fluxus happens when one feels that life and art must be taken so
seriously, that it becomes impossible to take life or art seriously.
3) Ordinary acts and ordinary objects perceived in extraordinary ways.

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