25 July 05 - 08:58Josh Ronsen Defines Fluxus

I don't know exactly who Josh Ronsen is, but his definition of Fluxus is here:

Fluxus is a multimedia art made from the curdled activities of various people-most commonly poets but sometimes painters, musicians, dancers, housewives and water skiers. There are hundreds of types of Fluxus. Dada is often used to induce coagulation in the art, although some Fluxus is curdled with ideas from Situationalism or Neoism or with extracts of various species of Pop-Art (sometimes called vegetable art). Dada is an urge traditionally obtained from the stomach lining of rocking horses or from a studio-produced substitute. Pranks and sight-gags are added to Fluxus to reduce the pH, alter texture, and develop flavor, and some Fluxus also has politics, either on the outer skin or throughout. The natural color of Fluxus ranges from off-white to yellow. In some parts of the world, such as Wisconsin in the United States, the art is low in sarcasm, making Fluxus a paler yellow than normal. In this case, it is common to add elephant dung as a coloring agent. Some Fluxus is made with the addition of audience participation. As a response to the loss of diversity in mass-produced Fluxus, a cottage industry has grown up around home Fluxus-making in some locations. In many European countries this has historically been the normal means of Fluxus. Different styles and flavors of Fluxus are the results of using different species of fonts and typefaces, different levels of banality, variations in length of Flux Events (very short vs. very long), differing processing treatments (dissembling the seriousness of high art, filming buttocks and other body parts, political protesting, cross dressing) and different breeds of performance art, film, music and other theaters. Other factors include simplicity, the unity of art and life and the addition of chance and playfulness to some Fluxus. Some controversy exists regarding the safety of Fluxus made by the traditional methods of using pure Dada and regarding how Neo-Dada affects flavor. In most Eastern countries, Fluxus is considered a vile substance. Thus, it is rarely
found in any Asian museums.

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25 July 05 - 08:54Curious Things

May I humbly point you all in  the direction of Curios Things blog where some new pages from old musty collaged pamphlets of the 90's are now displayed for your viewing pleasure (or not as the case may be!)

http://curiosthings.blogspot.com/

So sayeth Michael Leigh

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10 July 05 - 14:29Some Blogs to See

SCRAPITERIA  
Collage Collaboration

A1Scrapmetal

SWAPATORIUM
A Journey Through Junkland - Flea Markets, Thrift Stores, Antique Shops,   Garage & Estate Sales, Found Photographs, Collecting, Odd Finds, Swaps

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06 July 05 - 15:41Beck on Al Hansen

"He had a bag of junk with him, magazines, cigarette butts and refuse which he would use in his art pieces. I had some old toys out back, including a broken plastic rocking horse. The next day I came home from school and he had taken the horse, cut off the head and glued cigarette butts all over it, and then sprayed the whole thing silver."

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01 July 05 - 11:58Peter Frank on Fluxus

In his review of Yoko Ono's work on http://www.artcommotion.com/Issue2/VisualArts/#Fluxus, Peter Frank summarizes the early Fluxus movement nicely:

The Fluxus movement emerged in New York around 1960, then it took root in Europe, and eventually in its way to Japan. The movement encompassed a new aesthetic that had already appeared on three continents. That aesthetic encompasses a reductive gesturality, part Dada, part Bauhaus and part Zen, and presumes that all media and all artistic disciplines are fair game for combination and fusion. Fluxus presaged avant-garde developments over the last 40 years.

Fluxus objects and performances are characterized by minimalist but often expansive gestures based in scientific, philosophical, sociological, or other extra-artistic ideas and leavened with burlesque.

The entire article is available here; http://www.artcommotion.com/Issue2/VisualArts/

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01 July 05 - 11:53Fluxus Free Zone Redux

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