Cecil Touchon is an American artist who works with Fluxus. His website can be seen at http://cecil.touchon.com.Cecil wrote the following response to an art student who posted a question on the Fluxlist: Fluxus is a lot like Post-Dogmatism. In post dogmatism – which is not post-fluxus – the key thing is the focus on the…
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Allen Bukoff on Fluxus
Recently, a graduate student named Claire posted some questions about Fluxus to the Fluxlist. Allen Bukoff, an artist who has been active in Fluxus for many years, and is one of the founding members of the Fluxlist, has posted a very interesting answer to her questions, which I am including in full here on The…
Fluxus for The Ears
In a previous post I talked about Visual Poetry as being "poetry for the eyes". Fluxus, being Intermedia, is all about the spaces in which different media intersect, so audio art, sound art, and noise recording, can be described as "art for the ears". In the late 20th century many artists trained in traditional visual…
Fluxus in a Nutshell
Albert Einstein once said, "if you can't explain it simply, you probably don't understand it well enough". Somebody else once told me that whatever it is that you need to describe, you should be able to describe on an elevator ride. So, what is the simple, "elevator description" of Fluxus? Hmmm… Fluxus is an attitude….
A Bit About Visual Poetry
Poetry has historically been associated with the physical sense of hearing. It has been thought of as an auditory art, unlike painting or drawing which have always been thought of as visual arts. Poetic texts were therefore seen as signs representing sounds, thus a poems rhythm was very important, and until recently most Western poems…
Fluxus Semiotics
The creation of any work of art is a semiotic exercise. The study of semiotics is concerned with the use of signs and signifiers, primarily as they are used in language and linguistics, but also in other forms of communication including visual art. Historically, artists have been concerned with how best to represent the way…
Crispin Webb
Back in April of 2005 I wrote an article about one my young Fluxus colleagues, Crispin Webb. Crispin died suddenly in his sleep on November 23, 2006, a few days before his 29th birthday. Crispin was very active in the contemporary Fluxus community, and had already had several exhibitions of his work before his premature…
Alison Knowles discusses Nam June Paik and John Cage
Allison Knowles recently sent me this summary of her presentation for a panel discussion about John Cage and Nam June Paik: Zone: Chelsea Center for the ArtsPanel Discussion: CAGE NAM JUNE Notes about Cage and Paik;Alison Knowles I cannot imagine more unlike artists to compare which is what makes it so interesting.Paik the western man…
Fluxus Featured on Treemo.com
Featured Audio [[image:sm.jpg:Featured Audio:left:1]] Fluxoidal One from allanr uploaded: Oct 3, 18:15 | comments: 2 | views: 366 | favorites: 0 | duration: 3:05 min Fluxus, according to Wikipedia, is “an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines." Here on Treemo, some Fluxus artists, including allanr, wastedpapiers…
All Art is Political
Regular readers of the Fluxus Blog and others familiar with my writing will recognize that I have often stated that "all art is political". In fact, I have frequently made use of that simple statement in my artwork. In today's edition of The Globe and Mail (a Toronto daily newpaper) here is an interesting editorial…
Fluxus Bucks
For many years the artist known as Dr Fluxbuxenstein and/or Ex Post Facto of Garland, Texas has been making, sending, modifying and exchanging Fluxus Bucks with like-minded souls around the world. Below is an example one of the Doctor's Fluxus Bucks that was modified in transit, and then further changed by me. [[image:a-fluxus-buck.jpg:A Fluxus Buck…
The Fluxnexus: a contemporary fluxus site
Many contemporary fluxus influenced/inspired artists and writers are associated with the Fluxnexus. http://www.fluxnexus.com/