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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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Rubric by Jane Flury – Fluxfest Performance Chicago 2016
RUBRIC Jane Flury Performed by Jane Flury & Viv Vassar Music by Allan Revich at Chicago Cultural Center as Part of Chicago Fluxfest 2016 Video Credit: Mary Campbell
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Some People Doing Fluxus – Poster by Allen Bukoff
Poster made by Allen Bukoff of Fluxus Midwest, after Fluxfest Chicago 2016. Allen has generously made downloadable and printable copies available on his website at, fluxfest.org/somefluxus/SOMEFLUXUSPOSTER30x35.jpg or fluxfest.org/somefluxus/SOMEFLUXUSPOSTERtabloid.jpg
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Forty Years of Fluxus, by Ken Friedman
Forty Years of Fluxus By Ken Friedman Publishing history: This article is published as: Friedman, Ken. 2002. “Cuarenta Anos de Fluxus.” Fluxus y Fluxfilms,1962-2002. Berta Sichel, editor, in collaboration with Peter Frank. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 41-83. Copyright © Ken Friedman 2002. All rights reserved This text may be quoted and printed freely with proper acknowledgement. ________________________________________ Forty Years of Fluxus By Ken Friedman 1.The Fluxus Idea, 1962-2002 1.1 The birth of Fluxus, more or less The fortieth anniversary of Fluxus celebrates the first organized Fluxus festival in Wiesbaden, Germany. While this is convenient for exhibitions and festivals, emphasizing a time and place obscures as much…
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La Monte Young: His Life and Influence
Artist and musician, La Monte Young, has been to avant garde music what Ray Johnson was to Mail Art. He was influenced by John Cage, but went on to create his own highly influential oeuvre. When he wrote Trio for Strings, he was still a starving artist eating mustard sandwiches to survive. According to Young [he] “bought the bread and stole the mustard,” On September 3, 2015 Young will present the original full-length version of Trio for Strings at Dia. He considers it to be a world premiere, as when it premiered 57 years ago he agreed to shorten it for presentation. A decision he regrets. Young isn’t interested in temporal popularity; he believes his music…
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How to Kill Fluxus
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What is Fluxus (by Mark Bloch, July 9, 2012)
Fluxus was an international group of thinkers, artists, composers, performers and designers that first networked themselves together in the late 1950s, then became a performance collective when they took their name in 1962, then a way of working with time and materials and eventually an art movement creating work in several dimensions and media that lasted from the early 60s through the late 70s and beyond on three continents, blazing the aesthetic trails that were to define the next half century of art history. They shattered old aesthetic boundaries and explored new ones, while grappling internally with their communal identity, under the guidance of their own conflicting, shifting, and morphing…
