In philosophy, “the Absurd” refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life, and the human inability to find these with any certainty.[1] The universe and the human mind do not each separately cause the Absurd; rather, the Absurd arises by the contradictory nature of the two existing…
Author: Papa Dafoe
Owen Smith 1958-2021
Owen Smith, an artist and professor, died on October 14, 2021 due to complications from a brain tumour. Owen was the author of, “Fluxus: The History of an Attitude“, a 1998 book that was very influential on my own journey to, and through the Fluxus (non)Movement. More recently he was once again very actively creating…
Fluxus Event Scores (revisited)
The microcosmic universe that is Fluxus is famously conflicted about what is, and what is not, “Fluxus”. There exist however a couple of Fluxus sub-genres that are universally accepted as being representative. The first is the Flux Box (or Fluxkit), first assembled by Fluxus co-founder, George Maciuanas. The other is the Event Score. The Fluxus…
