+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Portable Hole 2006 by Allen Bukoff
This project by Allen Bukoff is absolutely fabulous!I have included one graphic and a bit of text, but you need to visit the site to get the whole picture.
The (w)hole story is can be found at: http://www.fluxus.org/FluxusMidwest/PortableHole/index.html
+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Allan Kaprow; 1927-2006
Memorial Picture
+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Fluxus Poetry - Can a Sonnet be Fluxus?
Fluxus is about spontaneity, chaos, and the inherent beauty in the accidental. The sonnet (or Haiku or other formal literary form) would thus seem to be anything besides fluxus. But fluxus is about more than just chaos and accidents. It has also concerned itself with "the accident within the box". By this I mean that while fluxus celebrates the accidental and the incidental it also celebrates the package in which the accidental is presented. So a sonnet can indeed be fluxus. For example:Red Henries
All along the midnight rambling
The samba crews were near
The sweet smell of herring gambling
Brought the night light still with fear
So whither walks the midland fairy
Whose quiver stuffed with rabbit fur
Eats long the whisky whiskers hairy
Or drinks with him as if with her
But far from fairies o’er the land
And near to Henry’s Henries’ ships
The view from there was ne’er grand
As to fill ones heart with pursing lips
Thus were all the kings of lore to die
Thus did the princes’ wives all lie
is a sonnet that I recently wrote.
It conforms very closely to the traditional sonnet form, but the content consists entirely of "stream of concioussness" literary imagery in the fluxus tradition.
John M. Bennett, a fluxus writer has written poems that also conform loosely to the fourteen line sonnet form. For example:
Lug gage, De traction
Lug gage
aut o ph age an dun cing c hopper you col
lapsed the steamwork tasty wrist .was t
hat yr lEg I gush ered nightly sweet ?fore
lap ,c lop meat ,tun lugg age b leathing sot
lector as h you c lick the me or s hiny
g lass my fin gers one by on e into yr mout
De traction
t ape my ling dex to yr shad ow aqua
tic s tone gut s pending d ust spotting ,fun
nel ectric s punner c loathe my sock you
orsinine re traction of yr dup eht ylf
.sh rug an di p an cr awl against the b lade
yr s haker f lopping on the floor .sneeze
This poem can be read as as a single fourteen line sonnet (1 plus 6 and 1 plus 6).
John may be pushing the form further in his example than I do in my own, but that is the beauty of fluxus. There is room for nearly anything, except for maybe the boring or ordinary ...unless of course the ordinary is being celebrated for being extraordinary!
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John Bennett Comments:
Very interesting that you saw those 2 poems (yes, to me, they were 2 separate poems!) as a sonnet, and of course you're quite right: there is a sonnet there. In fact, the previous form i had been working in i did see as a sonnet, in the pattern of 4-1-4-1-4 lines. So it's now clearer to me what i was doing with those 6-line things.John M. Bennett