From: Jack Sargeant (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Oct 30 2005 - 01:38:52 PDT
tony - thanks for the info, i look forward to hearing the cd - jack
On Sunday, October 30, 2005, at 04:03 am, Tony Conrad wrote:
> Quoting Jack Sargeant <email suppressed>:
>
> ...
>> wasn't Jack Smith also involved with the neoist alliance who demanded
>> the destruction of serious culture? I seem to think I have seen a
>> picture of him protesting with them.
>>
>
> The demonstrations you're thinking of WERE opposed to serious culture,
> but WERE NOT Neoist. Jack was my roommate at the time (in 1963, 16
> years
> prior to the founding of Neoism), and I urged him to join me in
> demonstrations organized by Henry Flynt, which he did willingly.
> Flynt's
> approach was rejected by almost all of the Fluxus artists,
> incidentally.
> More about all of this will be found on his website.
>
> It was at this time that Jack began to develop his social/political
> views, which to my knowledge were not expressed earlier (though his
> rant
> in Blonde Cobra can be examined in this light). (See also a forthcoming
> Smith album on Audio ArtKive (Table of the Elements) which will contain
> a contemporary screed heavy with social irony.)
>
> ---------t0ny
>
>
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