Dear Colleagues,
Thanks to the journal Visible Language, you will now find a copy of the second special issue on Fluxus that Owen Smith and I edited in 2005 on my Academia page at:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
It is located in the section of materials and documents on Fluxus and Intermedia. With a comprehensive bibliography on Fluxus from the beginning through 2005, this issue is especially useful to historians, librarians, archivists, and bibliographers.
Friedman & Smith, eds. 2005. Fluxus After Fluxus. Visible Language 40.1.
Abstract: Legacy involves difficulties for those who inherit and for those who do not. History is both a gift and a burden when it involves art. It is equally problematic when it involves the Fluxus intermedia forms that hover between art and life. This special issue of Visible Language — Fluxus After Fluxus — explores the challenging questions of Fluxus legacy. This includes the right to participate in a discourse network, canon formation, literature development, and the work of younger artists toward a heritage that some demand and others reject. These issues particularly trouble the legacy of Fluxus. Fluxus was an invisible college, created by the artists, composers, designers, and architects who took part. It functioned as a laboratory of experimental ideas. Fluxus challenged art and the art world on political and economic grounds using artistic means and philosophical principles. The perception of Fluxus has changed in recent years. The shift in standing and status has been bound up with and transformed by the institutions that collect, preserve, and interpret historical artifacts and documents. These artifacts and documents once told different versions of the Fluxus story to an uninterested world. Today, they tell a complex and often misunderstood story to a world that is interested in Fluxus for the wrong reasons. This situation defeats Fluxus with the trappings of success. This special journal issue on Fluxus After Fluxus explores the dialectical and hermeneutical work of recovery. It addresses the challenge of legacy by examining different aspects of the Fluxus legacy through multiple views.
Yours,
Ken Friedman
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