If Fluxus is an attitude and not an "Art Movement" in the traditional art-historical context, what exactly is the Fluxus attitude? While Fluxus objects and events tend to possess the physical attributes of humour, simplicity, and intermedia, they are also created from an attitude towards life and art that encourages globalism, chance, experimentation, temporal factors…
Month: July 2007
Reduxus Too-Muchus?
In the post below I stated that Fluxus work nearly always contains four key elements, an attitude vs. an "art movement", intermedia, simplicity, and fun. I believe this to be true, but should also state that, as contained within the term itself, "flux"us is malleable and resists attempts to over-simplify its own definition. It can…
Fluxus Reduxus
The Fluxus artistic philosophy can be expressed as a synthesis of four key factors that define the majority of Fluxus work: Fluxus is an attitude. It is much more than an art history movement, or a style locked between a pair of dates. Fluxus is intermedia. Fluxus creators like to to see what happens when…