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Fluxfest 2021 Day 2 Video
The Fluxus Fluxfest 2021 virtual Covid-19 edition was a tremendous success. Here, for your enjoyment is a video summary of Day 2, March 21st, 2021. Fluxfest 2021 Day 1 is available for viewing on Facebook
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Fluxfest 2021 – Virtually
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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 Music has come to mean something more specific. Some time in the 1950s musical experimentation seems to have split into two different streams. A composer’s stream and a performer’s stream. Both of these streams were important parts of Fluxus from the very beginning, and both composition and pure performance remain important today. Of course the bridge…
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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 Fluxus Characteristics Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style. Fluxus is Intermedia. Fluxus creators like to see what happens when different media intersect. They use everyday found objects, sounds, images, and texts to create new combinations of objects, sounds, images, and texts. Fluxus works are simple. Art is small, texts…
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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The following is an important historical document, republished here for historical reference.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 the year 1958 – a lot of artists and composers and other people who wanted to do beautiful things began to look at the world around them in a new way (for them). They said: “Hey! – coffee cups can be more beautiful than fancy sculptures. A kiss in the morning can be more dramatic…
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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 role in the birth of key forms of contemporary art, such as conceptual art, installation, performance, intermedia and video. Despite its great influence, the scope and scale of this unique phenomenon makes its explanation extremely complex in historical and critical normative terms. However, the art marketing system has reduced Fluxus to a movement restricted to…
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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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Mail Art Call for Fluxfest 2020
Get your Flux on now! Vision 20-20 mail is being opened in Los Angeles so send your vision today. Deadline February 15 2020, maximum size 8.5”” x 5.5”, 5241 Franklin Circle, Westminster, CA, 92683, USA. No jury. No returns. All art will be shown. Vision2020Mail.com
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Fluxfest Toronto is This Month
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John M. Bennett, Poetry et Cetera, etc.
In short, John M. Bennett is a national treasure and an international man of mystery. Is he a mild-mannered librarian or a fluxist master? Is he camping in a hole full of beans? Possibly.
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Fluxus and Minimalism and Me
Roots of Fluxus vs. Roots of Minimalism Fluxus and Minimalism emerged at about the same time, and in reaction to the same tendencies in the art world. Both sensibilities evolved partly as a reaction against the post war (WWII) dogma of Abstract Expressionism. More importantly, they were both artistic revolutions against the art establishment. But there was an important difference that cannot be ignored. Whereas Fluxus had its roots in the anti-art aesthetic of Dada, Minimalism had its roots in the same milieu as the art world that it rebelled against. Inevitably, Minimalism became subsumed into that art world. Fluxus remains to this day as a small but important bastion,…
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Instant Fluxfest Kit: The Fluxus Performance Workbook
550 Classic Fluxus Performance Scores Hey kids! Get your gang together and have your very own Instant Fluxfest! Just download the incredible Fluxus Performance Workbook and get busy performing the scores that have entertained and enlightened generations of Fluxus enthusiasts round the world. The Fluxus Performance Workbook. It’s Free! Get yours today! Download it now (PDF)
