Web sites come, and Web sites go – now is probably a good time for an updated summary of what in webland relates to Fluxus. FluxlistFluxlist is an internet discussion list for all things Fluxus. Fluxlist was launched in 1996 by Allen Bukoff, Ken Friedman, Dick Higgins, Joe De Marco, Jon Van Oast. Currently maintained…
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Jimmy Robert : 2009 laureate of the Follow Fluxus–After Fluxus grant
The Follow Fluxus – After Fluxus 2009 grant for young contemporary art called by the State Capital of Wiesbaden and the NKV Nassauischer kunstverein Wiesbaden worth 10.000 Eurohas been awarded to Jimmy Robert. Jimmy Roberts (born 1975 in Guadeloupe) creates photographs, collages, objects, performances and films that focus on process and transition. While analyzing the…
New and Improved Fluxus: Fluxhibition #2
Fluxhibition #2 Classic and Contemporary Scores, Instructions and Artifacts by Fluxus Artists Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Fluxmuseum Catalog for the October 2008 Exhibition at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center in Fort Worth, Texas. 6" x 9", perfect binding, full-colorhttp://www.lulu.com/content/6222084Works by Angelo Ricciardi, Antonio Picardi, Jamie Newton, Allan Revich, Lorraine Kwan, Gregory…
The Fluxus Attitude
The Fluxus artistic philosophy can be expressed as a synthesis of four key factors that define the majority of Fluxus work. The first of these points makes reference to the Fluxus Attitude. Fluxus is an attitude. It is much more than an art history movement, or a style locked between a pair of dates. Fluxus…
John Cage, Wabi Sabi, and the birth of Fluxus
In the late 1950s and early 1960s artists were beginning to feel that western art was reaching a spiritual and philosophical dead end. Modern western art had exploded in the vibrancy of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and through most of the 1950s. Then critics and artists became concerned with the concepts behind the…
Fluxus Event Scores
Event Scores have become one of the signature artworks that have come to define Fluxus. On the surface, Event Scores bear some similarities to the Happenings that were made famous by Allan Kaprow, but there are some important differences. Kaprow’s Happenings tended to be long and complicated affairs, sometimes taking entire days to complete. The…
The Contemporaneousness of Fluxus Products
Cecil Touchon, a contemporary Fluxus artist and gallerist, is currently organizing a new, major exhibition of Fluxus work. The work has been produced by artists who are working in the Fluxus tradition – some of whom also incorporate historical Fluxus event scores into their made-today work. Temporality has always been an important factor in Fluxus,…
Fluxus on Wikipedia
Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in visual art and music as well as literature, urban planning, architecture, and design. Fluxus is often described as intermedia, a term…
Ray Johnson Videos
http://www.rayjohnson.org/ Excerpt: The Ray Johnson Videos Sampler from Robert Rodger on Vimeo. Nick Maravell has released all his Ray Johnson footage on a 5 DVD set.The Ray Johnson footage in the movie, How to Draw A Bunny, comes from the Maravell tapes.
Postmodernism: A Response from Keri Marion
My friend and fellow artist, Keri Marion wrote a detailed response to my article, Postmodernism Revisited, which I have published (with her permission) in full below. I like her point of view and mostly agree with what she writes. My point about postmodernism being better described as "late modernism", refers more to philosophical relativism than…
Postmodernism Revisited
There are several ways that postmodernism has been defined. One of the ways that it has been defined is as troubling to me as it is to many PoMo detractors. That being so-called "moral relativism". When human beings can no longer tell right from wrong we cease being human beings. I think that view is…
Ray Johnson
Ray Jay should have been on my list. I will get to him soon. In the meantime, you can read my earlier essay about him here.