CORPUS FLUXUS

The act of preservation is a quarrel with the conditions of time. Since the dawn of civilization the human race has consciously pursued permanence, unconsciously building on the wreckage of what came before. Our efforts to stave off the inevitable in a fundamental sense just hastens it: preserving is by definition intervening in a native state of flux... The Japanese compare songs to knots in the grain of wood; a congealing of energy in a finite place.