being a poet is very easy workmost of the timeyou can do nothing at allsometimeswhen you feel inspiredyou write things down being a poet does not pay very wellbeing a poet pays next to nothingbeing a poet often pays nothing at all © Allan Revich 2006
Month: April 2006
Allan Revich Does Circles
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Alan Bowman Does Dots
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Things That Matter
Her Mom: A Found Poem She’d spent most of her time in factoriesor in kitchens, stocking shelves or making beds in hotelsShe’d never had health insuranceHer $11,000 a year paycheck was too much for Medicaidso she had to quit her jobapply for disabilityand pay the first hospital bills with her savings F–k, I’m so sick…
For and Against Anti-Art
The following URLs link to various articles about anti-art. Some dispute the opinion that I offer in my previous posting.Making art out of anti-art by Travis Hugh Culley(a very well written article) Anti-Art Is Not Art by Michelle Marder KamhiThe “stuckist” argument against anti-art(The “stuckists” are an interesting phenomenom of their own – a bit…
A Bit About Anti-Art
What is anti-art anyway? Can anti-art even exist? Isn’t anti-art still art? These are all good questions. Anti-art is obviously still art. It exists within the cultural context of the art world and it cannot exist without art. Before one is tempted to be smugly dismissive of the anti-art movement though, one needs to consider…
Fluxlist Blog
On April 3rd of this year (2006) the members of Fluxlist established a collaborative community Blog. Incredibly, in less than two weeks the Fluxlist Blog has 36 members and has agathered more than 120 posts. All of these posts incorporate the Fluxus spirit of intermedia and collaboration. I recomend a visit by anybody interested in…
Fluxus: The Persistence of Flow
A great article about Fluxus and the Fluxlist by Kamen Nedev posted on his emit Blog. [[image:flux-die.gif:Fluxus: The Persistence of Flow:left: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. [[image:bukoff-hole.gif:Portable Hole by Allen Bukoff:left:0]] The (w)hole story is can be found at: http://www.fluxus.org/FluxusMidwest/PortableHole/index.html
Allan Kaprow; 1927-2006
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