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.
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!".
Energy That Matters: Marcel Duchamp
Jean Baudrillard Charles Bukowski John Cage Leonard Cohen Marcel Duchamp It has taken me a while to get to this entry. Duchamp, for me, ranks with John Cage as a figure of such incredible importance to the arts that it is simply not possible to sum him up in a few short sentences. At least…
Energy That Matters: Leonard Cohen
Jean Baudrillard Charles Bukowski John Cage Leonard Cohen He was never closely associated with Fluxus, and his work falls pretty neatly into the modernist traditions of art and writing. So, why have I chosen to write about Cohen in The Fluxus Blog? I guess that the first connection that can be made between him and…
Higgins Quote
"I'm having a hard time to quote by name works of art that have been deliberately standing somewhere in between painting and shoes" source
New Fluxbook from Walter Cianciusi
Fluxus artist Walter Cianciusi has just published his wonderful new book of event scores, and it is available for purchase from Amazon.com. Event Scores has already received favourable reviews, including a review by Ken Friedman, one of the original Fluxus artists who himself produced numerous event scores. Friedman writes in part, "While there is still…
The Fluxus Attitude
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…
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…
Fluxus Books by Allan Revich at Amazon.com
Headline Haiku 2006 [[image:aa240_.jpg:Headline Haiku 2006:left:0]] Fluxus Vision: Visual Poems [[image:aa240a.jpg:Fluxus Vision: Visual Poetry by Allan Revich:left:0]]
Cecil Touchon and the Ontological Museum Works
Cecil Touchon, a Fluxus artist, collage artist, and curator of the Ontological Museum has several book works for sale at the Ontological Museum's Lulu.com storefront. A couple of outstanding samples are shown below. Be sure to visit the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction too! Sell People Things They Don't Need. This…
The Fluxlist Blog
The Fluxlist Blog is a continuing Fluxus project. The Blog serves as a rich media extension of the Fluxlist itself, which was launched in 1996 by Allen Bukoff, Ken Friedman, Dick Higgins, Joe De Marco, Jon Van Oast, as an online forum for artists, writers, and other with an interest in Fluxus. Visit the Fluxlist…
Ray Johnson’s E-Mail Address?
by Matthew RoseApril 9, 2007 In April, 1990 I had the first of three meetings with Ray Johnson, each on Long Island, and this first one at my house. He would visit me, he said, at 5 PM. On the dot. And he was there. On time. We talked in my kitchen drinking black coffee…