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+ 1 - 0 | § ¶Bukoff is Back!

It is nice to see that one of my favourite Fluxus personalities is back in full swing again with a wonderful updated website at www.fluxus.org

Allen Bukoff has been active in Fluxus for many years. Like many of us who are serious about our Fluxus Allen has been furiously making sure that the world knows that Fluxus is alive and well and definately did not die with George Maciunas, despite the importance to the early days of Fluxus of Mr. Maciunas.

Allan quotes DIck Higgins, one of the first generation of Fluxus, who said, "Fluxus means change among other things. The Fluxus of 1992 is not the Fluxus of 1962 and if it pretends to be - then it is fake. The real Fluxus moves out from its old center into many directions, and the paths are not easy to recognize without lining up new pieces, middle pieces and old pieces together." Dick Higgins was right when he said this in 1992, and Allen Bukoff is right when he restates it in 2006.

+ 1 - 1 | § ¶Fluxus: To George With Love

[George] Maciunas coined the term "Fluxus" in 1961 from a Latin etymological root meaning "flow," in order to describe a movement with origins in Futurist performance, Dada, silent film, comedy, vaudeville, and gaming. Fluxus set out to question time-worn notions of authorship and value, and challenge ostensibly firm distinctions between artistic genres. Influenced by the work of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp, the Fluxus group shifted the emphasis from what an artist makes to the artist's personality, actions and opinions.