Author: Fluxus Guy

Allan Revich is an artist and musician living in Victoria, BC, Canada. Artwork includes traditional media including ink and paint, as well as intermedia such as websites, performances, and event scores. Musical activity includes blues bands playing harmonica and lap steel guitar, as well as playing ukulele, guitar, and flute. His books, Headline Haiku 2006, Headline Haiku 2007, and Fluxus Vision are available internationally on Amazon.com and its affiliates, as his most recent collection of poems, "Flux You!".

What is a Fluxus Event Score?

Readers of this Fluxus Blog might recall a post I made back in 2018, Instant Fluxfest Kit: The Fluxus Performance Workbook, edited by Ken Friedman and Owen Smith. The Fluxus Performance Workbook consists of a collection of Fluxus Event Scores. But, what exactly is an event score? Event scores are essential a type of Intermedia,…

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Ben Vautier asks, “What is Fluxus?”

WHAT IS FLUXUS ? FluxusWe can in Fluxus always find somebody who did it before. Fluxus importanceIs Fluxus giving a lot of importance to non importance ?Is Fluxus giving no importance to importance ? Fluxus artists like playing “Fluxus wisdom”They keep coming out with sentences that are supposed to carry profound wisdom exemple Filliou when…

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Experimental Music Discussion

In a sense, it could be argued that all music is experimental, and that it always has been. Since the beginnings of our species, human beings have been experimenting with ways to make music and song, and ways to reproduce and guide our soundmaking activities. Today, in the early days of the 21st century, Experimental…

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What is Fluxus?

This question has been asked before, and I have answered it in this, The Fluxus Blog, before. But that was a long time ago, and the question, “What is Fluxus” continues to be asked. For readers looking for a simple answer, contemporary Fluxus artist, Allan Revich has summarized Fluxus into just four characteristic ideas: Four…

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A Child’s History of Fluxus

The following is an important historical document, republished here for historical reference. This copy is from THIS BLOG The following was first published in 1979 in:Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia A Child’s History of Fluxus by Dick Higgins Long long ago, back when the world was young – that is, sometime around…

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HOTEL DADA Fluxfest Online 2020

FLUXUS LIVES: ETERNAL RADICAL ATTITUDE August 1st & 2nd Described as “the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s,” Fluxus has challenged traditional thinking about art and culture for more than four decades. It has been a think tank for artistic experimentation in Europe, Asia, and the United States. It had a central…

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Fluxfest 2020 Los Angeles

The news you have been waiting for! March 6 – March 8, 2020 Fluxfest 2020 is happening in Los Angeles, California from Friday March 6th through Sunday March 8th. Come to party. Come to learn. Come to participate. Here is the schedule of events for Fluxfest 2020 in Los Angeles California

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Fluxfest 2020 Advance Notice

Details are still being worked out, but for 2020, the Fluxlist Fluxfest is being planned for Sunny California. Most likely location: Los Angeles Most likely date: February/March Check in here for details as they become available. Fluxfest 2019 in Toronto was a big success, Fluxus art happened, performers performed. and everyone loves a parade! Did…

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