January 2009
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Walker Art Centre Definition of Fluxus
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 Fluxworks.—Dick Higgins
Fluxus is a loosely affiliated international network of visual artists, new-music composers, writers, and performers who have been active since the early 1960s. Beginning with a series of festivals featuring...
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George Brecht's Exercises
Fluxux member George Brecht wrote instructions for creating artworks. Two Exercises, fall 1961:
Consider an object. Call what is not the object “other”. Add to the object, from the “other”, another object, to form a new object and a new “other”. Repeat until there is no more “other”. Take a part from the object and add it to the...
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Nam June Paik and Fluxus
In 1963
Nam June Paik participated in “Fluxus. Internationale Festspiele neuester Musik”,
Wiesbaden; “Exposition of Musik / Electronic Television”, a fluxus group exhibition in which he used modified pianos and television sets.
He modified four pianos, destroyed and blocked parts of them, some could not be played, while others were connected to radios or had a key which...
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Fluxus Sound Art Samples →
A lot of these sound pieces use everyday items or actions, such a moisturiser, chewing a carrot or calling the speaking clock.
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Alison Knowles Fluxus sound art
Nivea Cream...
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“Fluxus artists used their minimal performances to highlight their perceived...”
– Michael Rush - New Media in Art
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Article on female artists and artists of colour in... →
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Basic Principles of Fluxus
Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style.
Fluxus is intermedia. Fluxus creators like to see what happens when different media intersect. They use found and everyday objects, sounds, images, and texts to create new combinations of objects, sounds, images, and texts.
Fluxus works are simple. The art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief.
Fluxus is fun....
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