Fluxus is a term that George Maciunas used to describe a tendency among a group of artists in the early 1960s. They were influenced by Duchamp and John Cage, incorporating chance into their creations. Fluxus was multi-media, spanning performance, objects, and film. It has been considered an attitude and way of life that erases boundaries between life and art. At the end of his life in 1978, George Maciunas described Fluxus as a form of low art amusement, a mixture of zen, vaudeville, and Spike Jones. This interview is in The Fluxus Reader, ed. Ken Friedman.
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FLUXUS is NOT high fashion!
July 16, 2009
Pickledelight commented on the word fluxus
flux fluxus in Latin: a purge, a flow--the standard dictionary meaning applies to fluxus, the low-art amusement conceived by George Maciunas
July 16, 2009
Pickledelight commented on the word fluxus
Fluxus--to purge, to flow. standard dictionary definition works for Fluxus, the attitude and low-art amusement as conceived by George Maciunas
July 16, 2009
Pickledelight commented on the word fluxus
NIX THE TWITTER! Fluxus is not a freaking up-scale fashion store. . . Billie Maciunas
July 16, 2009
Pickledelight commented on the word fluxus
Fluxwedding, Fluxbox, Fluxlife, Fluxface . . .
June 9, 2009
Pickledelight commented on the word fluxus
Fluxus is not art.
June 9, 2009
Pickledelight commented on the word fluxus
He flew to Germany and then realized he had the wrong date. So he slept in the airport and came flew back the next day. How very Fluxus!
June 9, 2009
Pickledelight commented on the word fuxus
Used in an article by Jill Johnson in the 1960s in The Village Voice about the Fluxus group. The article title was "Fluxus Fuxus."
June 9, 2009
Pickledelight commented on the word fluxus
Fluxus is a term that George Maciunas used to describe a tendency among a group of artists in the early 1960s. They were influenced by Duchamp and John Cage, incorporating chance into their creations. Fluxus was multi-media, spanning performance, objects, and film. It has been considered an attitude and way of life that erases boundaries between life and art. At the end of his life in 1978, George Maciunas described Fluxus as a form of low art amusement, a mixture of zen, vaudeville, and Spike Jones. This interview is in The Fluxus Reader, ed. Ken Friedman.
June 9, 2009