Fluxus
- About Fluxus: Sotheby'sFluxus was a loosely associated international group of artists, musicians and writers arising in the 1960s, principally in New York, Germany and Japan. While the group’s self-appointed leader, George Maciunas, wrote a manifesto and coordinated many of its activities, Fluxus was less a formal movement than a diverse community of like-minded artists and creative people around the world.
- Art What Is Fluxus?In 1963, an artist named George Maciunas put forward a rallying cry for a new movement in art, one that he would call “Fluxus.” Like many of his avant-garde predecessors and peers, he chose to make his case known in the form of a manifesto.
- Fluxus: TateFluxus is an international avant-garde collective or network of artists and composers founded in the1960s and still continuing today.
- Fluxus: The Art StoryFluxus was an avant-garde art movement that emerged in the late 1950s as a group of artists who had become disenchanted with the elitist attitude they perceived in the art world at the time. These artists looked to Futurists and Dadaists for inspiration, focusing especially on performance aspects of the movements.
Research & Reference
- Fluxus: Credo ReferenceA Credo Reference landing page on fluxus. This page includes links to reference works, journal articles, and a mind map.
Streaming Media
- George: The Story of George Maciunas and FluxusA feature documentary as mercurial as its subject, George Maciunas, impresario of the international avant-garde art movement Fluxus (1962-78). Fascinatingly contradictory interviews with artists, including Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik, and inventive sound and screen design, shape this rich portrait of a visionary artist.
Perspectives
Fluxus Experience
Fluxus Experience examines the provocative late-twentieth-century art movement Fluxus, which emphasized touch, taste, and smell as ways of knowing and challenged the visual paradigm of art appreciation and study.
Felt
Felt provides a nonlinear look at the engagement of the postwar avant-garde with Eastern spirituality, a context in which the German artist Joseph Beuys appears as an uneasy shaman. Centered on a highly publicized yet famously inconclusive 1982 meeting between Beuys and the Dalai Lama, arranged by the Dutch artist Louwrien Wijers, Chris Thompson explores the interconnections among Beuys, the Fluxus movement, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual practice. Building from the resonance of felt, the fabric, in both Tibetan culture and in Beuysas art, Thompson takes as his point of departure Deleuze and Guattarias discussion in A Thousand Plateaus of felt as smooth space that is in principle infinite, open, and unlimited in every direction, A its structure determined by chance as opposed to the planned, woven nature of most fabrics. Felt is thus seen as an alternative to the model of the network: feltas anarchic form is not reducible to the regularity of the net, grid, or mesh, and the more it is pulled, tweaked, torn, and agitated, the greater its structural integrity.Felt thus invents its methodology from the material that represents its object of inquiry and from this advances a reading of the avant-garde. At the same time, Thompson demonstrates that it is sometimes the failures of thought, the disappointing meetings, even the untimely deaths that open portals through which life flows into art and allows new conjunctions of life, art, and thought. Thompson explores both the well-known engagement of Fluxus artists with Eastern spirituality and the more elusive nature of Beuysas own late interest in Tibetan culture, arriving at a sense of how such noncausal interactionsinterhuman intriguecreate culture and shape contemporary art history."
My Life in Flux and Visa Versa
This is an endlessly stimulating memoir, by a figure who was involved in some of the most astounding art of the post-war era, and a fresh, spontaneous account of the ideals and happenings that first burst into view in the 1960s.
Fluxus forms : scores, multiples, and the eternal network
"A history of the understudied but highly inventive Fluxus collective founded in NYC in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Fluxus was an unruly, endlessly shifting gang of performers, conceptual writers, musicians, and installation artists who wanted to integrate life into art using found and ordinary objects and processes (like cooking and shaving). Fluxus first arose in the United States under the leadership of George Maciunas and quickly spread to Europe. Artists from Claus Oldenberg to Allan Kaprow to Dick Higgins to Allison Knowles to Joseph Beuys to Gerhard Richter to Nam June Paik to Yoko Ono to Robert Filliou all participated in Fluxus at some point. Unlike other books about Fluxus, this one explores not just the movement itself but also how it figures the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and the historical origins of experimental art practices of the present"-- Provided by publisher.