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Thanks to Pierre for passing on news of Dick's 'passing' and saying why it matters. Odd, sat watching him on a live internet link-up from Art Action in Quebec only the week before. He was giving an interminably detailed, and it has to be said dull, account of the inception of Fluxus (i was wearing my grey flannel jacket that day - no, even that sounds too interesting) and the image, flickering in the corner frame of the browser (we were watching it projected onto a big screen) seemed as if it was coming down the wire from the dead. Part of the Fluxus industry still gathering value. The packaging of all our yesterdays and so forth. Dick was expected at a conference in Leicester this weekend along with Alison Knowles. (If anybody went ehere can you tell us about that please?) The thing about him was / is his ability to be a key moover and shaker by dint of making exceptionally seductive books and being a pioneer translocal networker. It's too often the strategists who go unrecognised. I'm writing this because I'm surprised at how little mention there has been here of his wake. I wonder how many people have a Something Else Press book on to their shelves. How many are aware of what Fluxus proposed (the extent to which it was achieved is another matter, although I'd mention the excellent new 'Fluxus Reader' edited by Ken Friedman from Academy Editions. What I remember of Dick is his generosity of energetic engagement, as practitioner and animator. love and love cris %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%