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...there is also liberation in the constant flux, excitement at the thought that I never return from an excursion quite the way I left. Fate-teasing rides in tin-can auto rickshaws, curiously aromatic meals at hole-in-the-wall dhabas, solitary walks through ancient ruins perched in the center of urban sprawl, they all leave their indelible marks, imprinting the city on my soul and stealing a bit of my life's predictability to make room for what they've left behind...
...other side (and on an axis that runs through Hollywood and Redmond, Wash.) we have the People of the Screen. The People of the Screen tend to ignore the classic logic of books; they prefer the dynamic flux of the screen. Movie screens, TV screens, computer screens, Game Boy screens, telephone screens, pager screens and Day-Glo megapixel screens we can only imagine today, plastered on every surface...
Screen culture is a world of constant flux, of endless sound bites, quick cuts and half-baked ideas. It is a flow of gossip tidbits, news headlines and floating first impressions. Notions don't stand alone but are massively interlinked to everything else; truth is not delivered by authors and authorities but is assembled by the audience. Screen culture is fast, like a 30-sec. movie trailer, and as liquid and open-ended as a website...
...Clearly, an exhibition of Flux works should create a space for audience interaction and response, which _Experiments in the Everyday_ fails to do. This is more the fault of the gallery institution in the abstract than of the List Center in particular. Unfortunately, the audience is just as trapped by the gallery institution as the work is behind the glass; the visitors gaze as reverently at, say, a baseball "signed" by Du*rer, as they would at a nativity scene. These works are humorous, shocking, psychologically subversive-and somehow that message has been lost in the translation...
...anti-movement, a flexible, durable and practical tool. In the words of one artist, "Fluxus is not a movement, a moment in history, an organization. Fluxus is an idea, a kind of work, a tendency, a way of life, a changing set of people who do Flux works...