will put out a note sooner or
later.
For now, we intend to remain
Secret Fluxus
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:19:17 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST:Secret Fluxus
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hey where
Dear Don,
We love your site. Your activities inspire us.
Cheers!
Osman Bey
Secretary
Secret Fluxus
I didn't see your whining, Madawg, but do you know what I say to
whinershere's the crayons. Let me see what you can do. (on your
website)-Don
Madawg,
I was speaking for myself, not for Secret Fluxus. Your comment suggest that
Don has been whining on his site.
I didn't think you were whining. I thought you were being bitchy. It has
been my impression that many of your comments to Fluxlist are complaints
about the projects
C'mon, Madawg.
It's a nice site. period.
No whining on Don Boyd's web site.
Osman Bey
Secretary Pro Tempore of Secret Fluxus
* From: ArtnAnts
* Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Doneboyd site
* Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 15:36:07 -0700
Dear Friends,
There are six Fs in the sentence. They appear in the words
_F_inished _F_iles are the result o_F_ years o_F_ scienti_F_ic study
combined with the experience o_F_ years
F inished
F iles
o F
o F
scienti F ic
o F
Yours,
The Man Without a Name
Dear David-Baptiste,
Not all of the eight Secret Fluxus participants are using my current
no-name, only me.
I must admit, though, that I am aware of and playing on several famous
no-names of the past. Eastwood is one. But his character is also based on
earlier heroes, including the character
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: more names for secret fluxus
Bob
Zsoosz
Lulul
Scnencs
Geeg
Hutuh
Foof
by Madawg Painter of Dark (yall at SF headquarters are welcome to my last
name)
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Dear Jif,
As Crispin does. I stand still and walk around both.
In this way, I and I can form a plural but distinctly non-royal we.
Sincerely,
The Man Without a Name
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:42:38 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FLUXLIST: To The Man Without A Name...
when you brush your
Dear Suse,
We are boiled, jellied oatmeal indeed. We nevertheless hope that there is
more substance to us than flummery.
Sincerely,
The Man Without a Name
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:40:12 -0400
From: suse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Flummery
Oh secret fluxus,
You certainly set
choose one for yourself .
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:04:41 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: From Secret Fluxus:we need names
hey I'll help.
Bilge
Yok
Crableg
Dingle
Sprunt
Pugwash
by Madawg (and Marc Snydor)
, secret fluxus wrote:
We are boiled, jellied oatmeal indeed. We nevertheless hope that there is
more substance to us than flummery.
This is what is confusing. You write with a singular voice, mostly not a
royal 'We', yet are theoretically eight autonomous individuals. It also
lends a sense
Dear Suse,
The Danger Music piece we have been performing is Danger Music Fifteen. The
score calls only for eggs and butter. Dick Higgins performance recipe
contains no flour, sugar, sweeteners, or starch. Flummery is any of several
desserts made of boiled, jellied oatmeal or wheatmeal. It can
Dear Ray,
Secret Fluxus had a short dinner meeting last night in the intervals between
different holiday schedules.
I had a chance to collect our email before the meeting, and Ill respond to
the questions that have popped up over the past week.
Weve been thinking about the comments on our
more.
We are even happy to see people use the Secret Fluxus name as long as they
abide by the basic principles we established concerning the way we realize
work as an anonymous group crediting the artists who create the scores.
Anyone who is willing to be a Secret Fluxus group in this way
Dear Mssrs. Revich and Clavez,
Thank you for your notes.
I am off on a brief vacation for the next week.
I will respond when I return.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
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Individuals among us have met and know some of the individuals with whom we
correspond. As Secret Fluxus, we do not know anyone and no one knows us.
We decided to adopt a formal style. If you knew us and we knew you, perhaps
this would be inappropriate. As it is, you know none of us and none
views. I
respect your opinion on these issues, and I respectfully disagree.
We do not demand that anyone adopt our position or view on any specific
issue. We do feel uncomfortable when people say things like, Secret Fluxus
is in fact guilty of attempting to kill Fluxus, by relegating
Dear Ms. Klefstad,
Thank you for your letter yesterday. I passed it on to my colleagues in
Secret Fluxus. Weve been talking about it by telephone and sharing emails
all day.
Well continue to reflect on this for a while. I want to share a few
immediate responses.
As I wrote yesterday, we
Dear Madawg,
As the current secretary for Secret Fluxus, Ill try to answer your question
as I see it. Ill be meeting the others next week, and if they disagree with
my answer, Ill report back. While Im only speaking for myself for now, my
guess is that the others will take a similar view
.
They are also composers. We are not reproducing their visual art. We are
performing their music.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
From: ArtnAnts
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Kitsch
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 09:44:34 -0700
In a message dated 7/2/04 6:52:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To make something kitsch
Dear Ms. Klefstad,
Thank you for this thoughtful critique. We often consider questions like
this. We have never managed to state the problem as clearly as you do. This
requires reflection. Ive passed this on to all the others.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
From: Ann Klefstad
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST
Dear Madawg,
Could you please define what you mean by kitsch?
We can't tell you if we feel we are doing kitsch until
we know what you mean by kitsch.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:30:40 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FLUXLIST: question for secret fluxus
do you feel
for more work. We hope this answers the question
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
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An accident on our way to see Alison Knowles perform in Newcastle led us to
several weeks of reflection and dialogue on the nature of Secret Fluxus as a
performance group. The result is a change in our method of organizing and
realizing performances.
Until now, we have performed as a full
learn.
We are happy that you, too, seem to have confused the Al(l)(a)(e)ns.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:12:43 +0200
From: Bertrand Clavez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Lord Russells Pair of Dogs
Dear Secret FLuxus,
Your lasts posts are the best Fluxus
Dear Fluxlisters,
We took Mr. Clavez advice to learn more about Maulwekrer.
Here is material from their web site.
The URL is
http://www.maulwerker.de/
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
F L U X U S
Die Fluxuskonzerte der Maulwerker beinhalten jeweils ca. 20 Stücke aus
untenstehender Liste und dauern
with a stiff, high collar and bowler hat.
We tip our hats to you, all eight of us, to the beat of a Fluxus metronome.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
Dear S.F.,
A breif answer to your question:
Did you mean to say that Yoko Ono Piano Drop is actually the correct title
of Al Hansen's piano drop work?
I meant to do
Fellow Fluxlisters,
We announce the New Fab Four:
Alan
Allan
Allen
Al Hansen
Suggestively,
Secret Fluxus
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Dear Ms. Forer,
We don't recall whether Allan Revich signed one of his messages as Secret
Fluxus, but he is not one of us.
We have made the astonished discovery that artists in several places now
claim to be members of Secret Fluxus. There is a simple way to tell who is
NOT a member of Secret
are killjoys, pompous little twerps, little children with big
mouths etc.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:49:55 +0200
From: Alan Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Get into the spirit ?
Unless you claim some special standing as a Fluxus artist, we can't see
why
your
,
there are better ways to avoid giving offence than by asking whether we are
killjoys, pompous little twerps, little children with big mouths etc.'
Your long list of pejoratives is designed to offend. So is your manner of
addressing us as Mr. and Mrs. Secret Fluxus, and the like when you know we
of labels.
Sorry.
Secret Fluxus
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Fluxlist Friends,
Misattributions of Al Hansen's work aside, we have enjoyed the piano pieces.
We forwarded these to Ken Friedman, asking about any works he might know
about
This is his reply, posted to the list with his permission.
Secret Fluxus
From: Ken Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: secret
titled Yoko One Piano Drop. We might be
wrong,
of course, and Mr. Hansen may have created a new title later. As far as we
do
know, however, this is Mr. Hansen's work, and it has nothing to do with Yoko
Ono.
Secret Fluxus
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Friedman, and that, too, has given rise to an interesting
conversation.
We will be back before long with a few thoughts.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:52:22 +0200
From: Alan Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FLUXLIST: secret fluxus
are/is secretfluxus still on the list, or have
to pass it on. With Mr. Friedman's permission, here is the
relevant part of his letter to us.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
Thanks for this revised edition of my Twelve Fluxus Ideas in the latest
issue of Fluxlist Digest. I'm not quite sure how to take it. Let me simply
say that I wouldn't have
what purpose this
list serves to those who are interested in Fluxus or any of the topics
stated in the list purposes.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
1 From Michael Leigh
Dear Friend, I think if you take the trouble to
examine the huge list of subjects that this group is
able to indulge itself in you
nothing to do with Fluxus.
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have located by entering artist names (example: Carolee
Schneemann) or artist names and the word Fluxus (example: Dick Higgins AND
Fluxus).
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 11:50:19 -0400
From: suse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxus and Sex
From: secret fluxus [EMAIL
of an artist who does not show up.
Secret Fluxus
Alain Lefebvre
How to do nothing:
1)Establish the time and the place of the thing or activity which you feel
most compelled or necessary to do. (Example; Going to the bathroom.)
2)When the time comes for you to be in that place don't show up or go
Dear Allen,
Nam June Paik, Eric Andersen, Carolee Schneemann, Dick Higgins, and several
other Fluxus artists created works about sex, as well as cycles of erotic
poetry or images.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
From: allen bukoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 2
Dear Anne,
We asked Mr. Friedman about this work.
Here is his answer.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
From: Ken Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: secret fluxus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Commercial products in scores
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:00:15 +0200
Dear Secret Fluxus
products or making your own.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:00:51 -0500
From: Ann Klefstad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Thomas Kinkade? Not the most famous. John Berger?
Not the first.
On 4/9/04 11:10 AM, badgergirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, I would very much
'
or anything else, and it would mean just as much or as little as 'Secret
Fluxus.' This
in note the case because there is a history.
We do agree with you, however, about the virtues of books like Fluxus Reader
as
an overview. We'd add Fluxus History of an Attitude to that, and Fluxus
Experience.
We
Allen Bukoff writes
'Fluxus is Dead! Long live Weetabix!'
We must give this serious thought at our
next meeting.
Either that, or figure out how to eat
Fluxus with milk.
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
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Two Second Encore
1989
6
Beard Event
1992
7
Magic Event #2
8
Magic Trick #4
1993
9
Tristan and Isolde
1992
10
A Whispered History
1994
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Performance notes and scores
Secret Fluxus performed these events in and around the Liverpool Street
Station on the way to Twelve Structures by Ken Friedman
Danger Music Number Fifteen (for the Dance)
Work with butter and eggs for a time.
Dick Higgins
May 1962
Unannounced performance at Viet Hoa
70-72 Kingsland Rd, London
April 3, 2004
Performance notes
After the opening of Ken Friedmans exhibition, we ate dinner at a
Vietnamese
Fluxlist Friends,
Speaking for myself and not for Secret Fluxus, I want to respond to Rays
comments on Fluxus ideas and principles. There are certainly some principles
that seem to recur in Fluxus. We make use of Ken Friedmans Twelve Fluxus
Ideas in many of our discussions.
Friedmans list
Pleese, friends,
set your default so that we
do not read all this HTML
stuff.
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set your default so that we
do not read all this HTML
stuff.
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Danger Music Number Fifteen (for the Dance)
Work with butter and eggs for a time.
Dick Higgins
May 1962
Distributed performance
London
March 14, 2004
Performance notes
On the morning and early afternoon of Sunday, March 14, seven of the eight
members of Secret Fluxus met at the home
Secret Fluxus Performs Five Events by Larry Miller In and Around Marble Arch
London
March 8, 2004
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1
Figure/Ground, 1968/89
2
Bag Exchange, 1969
3
Bit Part for Audience, 1969
4
Finger Exercise, 1983
5
100-Yard Run, 1970
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The Scores:
1
Wear white clothes and skid into the landscape.
2
Heat Transfer Event
Glasses: one filled with ice water, one with boiling tea, one or more empty
glasses. Liquids are transferred from glass to glass until the tea is cooled
to drinking temperature.
1970
Unannounced performance at Abu Ali
136 - 138, George Street, London
March 8, 2004
One of
Oi! Fluxlist Subscribers,
All eight members of Secret Fluxus support Allen Bukoff's request. Please
don't clutter the list with HTML. If you set your preferences to 'plain text
only', the result will be a list more in keeping with the clean typography
that made Fluxus and Something Else Press
will relay this message to the list
and to Allen Bukoff.
Why not join Fluxlist to post your own messages?
Sincerely,
Secret Fluxus
From: Ray Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: World FLUXlist Relay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PROJECT : Something Out of Place
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:37:51 +1100
with april
Sex and Violence Two: an Unscheduled Fluxconcert
Royal College of Music
Prince Consort Road
London
February 17, 2003
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Venues: Prince Consort Road, Room 90, Recital Hall, Rehearsal Rooms
Street Piece by Alison Knowles, 1962
Three Window Events by George Brecht, 1961
Rainbow No.
Heat Transfer Event by Ken Friedman
Heat Transfer Event
Glasses: one filled with ice water, one with boiling tea, one or more empty
glasses. Liquids are transferred from glass to glass until the tea is cooled
to drinking temperature.
1970
Unannounced performance at the 606 Club
90 Lots Road,
Danger Music Number Fifteen (for the Dance)
Work with butter and eggs for a time.
Dick Higgins
May 1962
Unannounced performance at Maggie Joness
6 Old Court Place, London
February 14, 2004
Performance notes
After a planning meeting for our next concert, we ate dinner at Maggie
Heat Transfer Event
Glasses: one filled with ice water, one with boiling tea, one or more empty
glasses. Liquids are transferred from glass to glass until the tea is cooled
to drinking temperature.
1970
Unannounced performance at Mr. Chans
Clough Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
February 7,
Six Quiet Homages to Ken Friedman
Secret Fluxus Performs a Travelling Concert of Events by Ken Friedman
Stoke-on-Trent
February 7, 2004
1
New Shoes Dance Theatre, 1991
Stoke Train Station
2
Mandatory Happening, 1966
Staffordshire University
3
Long Ships Event, 1989
Staffordshire University
Kudos to Secret Fluxus by Allan Revich
Kudos to Secret Fluxus.
The gifts offered to the dead;
It will not be safe for the
collector to speculate much upon that which he observes.
The student who is pursuing his researches in this field should
carefully note all of the customs, superstitions
of Secret Fluxus and a friend who wanted to participate
joined to perform this piece. Four of us sat in and around the station, two
sat in a nearby pub, one performed while walking up and down the platforms,
and one stood at the entrance to the station next to someone playing music
Danger Music Number Fifteen by Dick Higgins
Danger Music Number Fifteen (for the Dance)
Work with butter and eggs for a time.
Dick Higgins
May 1962
Unannounced performance at Maggie Joness
6 Old Court Place, London
January 31, 2004
Performance notes
Following our performance of Eric
requires leaving a lavish tip.
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Dear Don,
Thank you.
Your work is an inspiration to us.
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After doing a Fluxconcert, we often go out to eat.
When we do, we usually perform one of two or three
food pieces at the table.
Our favorite is Danger Music Number Fifteen by Dick
Higgins. Yesterday, we performed it by purchasing
a few large blocks of creamery butter for each of the five
who went
Secret Fluxus is a cooperative group of three women and four men living in
the UK. We came together in 2003 to perform the work of Fluxus artists in
classic Fluxconcerts. Each concert is 50% or more Fluxus work by Fluxus
artists.
The works we perform come from the electronic and on-line
Fluxconcert at Leeds Metropolitan University
Andersen-Knizak
Performance by Secret Fluxus
January 26, 2004
Opus 9 by Eric Andersen, 1961
Opera Instruction by Eric Andersen, 1961
Rainbow No. 2 for Orchestra by Ay-O, date unknown
Choice 9 by Robert Bozzi, 1966
Music Piece for Erik Dietman
Fluxconcert at University of Leeds
Knowles-Williams
Performance by Secret Fluxus
January 27, 2004
Shuffle by Alison Knowles, 1961
String Piece by Alison Knowles, 1964
Newspaper Event by Alison Knowles, 1965
Tender music by Takehisa Kosugi, 1965
#185 by Bob Lens, date unknown
A Word Event
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