Reflections on FLUXUS

I don't remember ever hearing an instruction to blog about the second conversation we had, but I saw a few of you had blogged about the second piece we discussed in addition to the first, so here is a summation of the conversation I engaged in re: the Fluxus piece in class.

We interpreted Fluxus as an argument for living art/creativity. The refusal to contain art in galleries and museums, killing/limiting any power it might have sociopolitically, hence the references to dead art, etc. It has a similar mathematical effect to the previous poem that is achieved by the insertion of black blocks of text that seem to almost create the equation of the cause/effect relationship between the purging, promoting and fusing steps. We thought it interesting that the word "fully" was writing and then crossed out, suggesting a lack of existence, or at least a lack of importance placed on, the idea of definite meaning. We also liked that in the first section he uses the word "purge" thrice, with emphasis each time, and then in the second section uses the word "promote" thrice as well, and then in the last section uses "fuse" only once, as 3+3+1=7, the number of the last definition.