Over the past few days I’ve been reading some comments that were critical of the “flippancy” observed in discussions about Fluxus and on sites like Facebook and online communities like the Fluxlist. Some of this criticism has even come from Fluxus and avant-garde old-timers. I find this criticism to be, how can I say this…
Category: Fluxus
Fluxus and Photography
It sometimes seems to me that photography has been the forgotten child of Fluxus over the years. I suppose it is not hard to understand why… there has not been a lot of photographic work that has been identified as being explicitly “Fluxus”. Unlike video, which lemds itself so readily to Fluxus interpretations, the lines…
It Don’t Mean Nothin’ (or does it?)
You can’t have something without having nothing…Alan Watts talks about nothing.
Fluxus in the Spring: NYC 2010
Fluxfest in New York! While (not yet) “officially” a Fluxfest, the weekend beginning on Thursday, April 15, 2010 is shaping up to be another exciting Festival of Fluxus in New York City. Here, courtesy of my favorite Fluxus impresario, Keith Buchholz is the itinerary so far. Be there… or be somewhere else! Thursday, April 15th…
Cecil Touchon, Interviewed by Matthew Rose
The following is a brief excerpt from an excellent interview of the collage artist, Cecil Touchon, by Paris-based artist and curator, Matthew Rose. The full text of the interview can be read online at http://cecil.touchon.com/interview-matthewrose.html Matthew Rose: Collage has a long and rich history in Modern Art, beginning formally with Picasso’s and Braque’s experimental canvases…
Walker Art Center: Fluxus Definition
From the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, Minnesota: Definition of Fluxus: Fluxus is not: a movement, a moment in history, an organization. Fluxus is: an idea, a kind of work, a tendency, a way of life, a changing set of people who do Fluxworks.–Dick Higgins Fluxus is a loosely affiliated international network of visual artists,…
A Book About Death: The Movie
Produced by Angella Ferrara
A Book About Death: The Afterlife Begins
September 10, 2009 marked the opening of an installation of staggering scope at The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York City. An American artist residing in Paris, Matthew Rose, invited hundreds of artists from around the globe to participate in the creation of an unbound book on the theme of “death”. Appropriately enough, the…
Another Chapter in The Fluxus Mystery
In this chapter we learn that Fluxus is actually dead. We will also learn that Fluxus is alive and well and living in… everywhere. I don’t think many Living Fluxus artists really believe that they (we) are part of a magical posthumous George Maciunas Fluxus Group. From what I have heard and read, George was…
Artists Die – Ideas Don’t
Fluxus is alive and well. Reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Fluxus is also dead. How can Fluxus be alive and well, and dead, at the same time? Well, that goes to the essence of this blog post. Artists die. Ideas don't. People die, "movements" end, but ideas are not constrained by the…
Fluxfest Waves the Fluxist Flag
Fluxfest at Pierogi's The Boiler(on Sept. 11, with not a mention of 9/11) …had the genuine Fluxus offhandedness and the historically correct disregard for ceremony or performance-niceties such as a printed program. The latter would have allowed the patient audience — outnumbered by the performers, as is also traditionally Fluxian — to ascertain authorship, date…
Copy Art
Copy Art has been closely associated with Fluxus over the years. While it is not inherently or definitively Fluxus (what is, really?), Copy Art is certainly consistent with the Fluxus ethos, and has been created by many artists who have been associated with Fluxus. One of those artists is my friend Reed Altemus, who wrote…