Dear Friends & Fellow Workers--
i was wondering if any one else has read Stewart Home's book THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE From Letrrisme to Neoism and Class War
it has two very interesting chapters on Fluxus and then moves from there into Mail Art a bit
i first read it about fifteen years ago--is nice to read it now that am involved for some years with Fluxlist etc--
(though i do not really consider myself "fluxus" in the sense i don't care for labels as then one is stuck, limmited--)
i thought might be interesting for discussions--
he writes in avery aggressive tone--i have also read one of his novels written in a style i think borrowed quite a bit from Richard Allen's, whose work is brought up in ASSAULT--
also i have been going through some things at home re the Budhist aspects of Fluxus esp in the USA i think was more interest in this?
Geroge brecht/Dick Higgins' versionn of the T"SING HSIN MinH (sp, sorry don't have it with me)
also a few months ago i saw the film APOTHEOSIS that John Lennon and Yoko Ono did--it's a really good film! is a cmaera sent up in a hot air baloon, what it sees during its ascent, the views of land beloow--the sky--
the illusion of it being solely the camera aboard the balloon is shattered when a hand comes into view--so you know a human or two also aboard--
i thought it was very lovely fiilm, very meditative--and the views from the ballon made me thinkof the magnificewnt opening sequence with the balloon in Tarkovsky's film ANDREI RUBLEV--
if yu ever get a chance to see/rent/borrow etc this--i would recommend it--
onwo/ards! david-baptiste the sky here doina fluxus event: snowing! in powdery flakes--wind swept--
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