Fluxus Clarity

• Fluxus started in the early 1960s with artists working in NYC.
• Other Fluxus groups started in Europe and moved to the U.S.
• Fluxus is a broad movement, with artists working in sound, text, performance, media, and continues today

Fluxus Artists:

• Dick Higgins
• George Brecht
• La Monte Young
• Allison Knowles
• And many more

Fluxus Forms:

• Flux Kits or Multiples

• The Event

(Hints that the artist, work, and audience are blurred in some way)

• The technology of computers was a big influence with Fluxus. Media changes everyday as dose Fluxus.

Flux Kit:

• A database structure
• non-hierarchical
• a list of unordered items
• a collection of individual items w/every item having the same significance as any other

The Event:

• kbf
• iwkjf
• oewjf
• wfm

Fluxus view of art-making:

• making something "special" by exaggerating, patterning, juxtaposing, shaping, transforming...making something ordinary into something special
• making room for the consideration of others perspective, and a common respect for difference.
• valuing primary over secondary experiences
• strives to offer depersonalized, primary info about a subject or action

The Flux Kit:

• offers "not the perspectivaly controlled and controlling visual model of veristic art...but sensory info for a radically empowered experience of art that connects the individual to a greater social or environmental context."
• thought that you aren't creating something to resemble something else. What you are creating is what you are creating.

John Cage and the logic of change:

• focused on silence(cage of silence)
• expresses the idea that we make art in scores, and that scores aren't only for music purposes.
• thinks that sound is acting.
• idea was to accept whatever sound occurred within a period of time.

• The Fluxus movement followed 1950s Action Painting as demonstrated by Jackson Pollock.
• Life Media: spontaneous decisions, the relationship to the environment, and the physical parameters within which the work occurs.