At 03:55 pm -0700 15/5/00, Robbin Neal Murphy wrote:
>I contend that the most engaging art tends to be created when the
>artist is working as closely as possible to a subsistance level, that is,
>with a minimum of "imported" raw material as possible so that the need to
>"export" (and be controlled by the market) is minimalized. Value is
>created in the "processing" stage using natural resources
>(eg: conceptualizing, craftsmanship). In other words, something like
>Thoreau's "Walden" model.
>Robbin
>
arts & economics?
yeah
like someone that passing through art whitout selling two cents
for therty years, very closely to subsistance level,
i found fluxlist & fluxus art & sold a piece for the very first time in my
life:
a copy of my contribution to fluxlistbox (flux-sud-listbox matchexbox
"ontherocks")
for five dollars (in an auction sale)
it happen that the being who bought the copy of the little multiple
was neighbor of allison knowles sometime in newyork (i think)
& enjoy fluxus art (she told me)
it turnme very happy
notwhitstanding i did not received my fluxlist box yet.
(the smell of newness, who care money?)
...pez
ps: the buyer was the auctionner!!!!!
...pez
ps: & the bucks don't come to me, they went to an auction cause.
...pez
