Cecil Touchon, a contemporary Fluxus artist and gallerist, is currently organizing a new, major exhibition of Fluxus work. The work has been produced by artists who are working in the Fluxus tradition – some of whom also incorporate historical Fluxus event scores into their made-today work. Temporality has always been an important factor in Fluxus,…
Fluxus on Wikipedia
Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in visual art and music as well as literature, urban planning, architecture, and design. Fluxus is often described as intermedia, a term…
Ray Johnson Videos
http://www.rayjohnson.org/ Excerpt: The Ray Johnson Videos Sampler from Robert Rodger on Vimeo. Nick Maravell has released all his Ray Johnson footage on a 5 DVD set.The Ray Johnson footage in the movie, How to Draw A Bunny, comes from the Maravell tapes.
Postmodernism: A Response from Keri Marion
My friend and fellow artist, Keri Marion wrote a detailed response to my article, Postmodernism Revisited, which I have published (with her permission) in full below. I like her point of view and mostly agree with what she writes. My point about postmodernism being better described as "late modernism", refers more to philosophical relativism than…
Postmodernism Revisited
There are several ways that postmodernism has been defined. One of the ways that it has been defined is as troubling to me as it is to many PoMo detractors. That being so-called "moral relativism". When human beings can no longer tell right from wrong we cease being human beings. I think that view is…
Ray Johnson
Ray Jay should have been on my list. I will get to him soon. In the meantime, you can read my earlier essay about him here.
Energy That Matters: Marcel Duchamp
Jean Baudrillard Charles Bukowski John Cage Leonard Cohen Marcel Duchamp It has taken me a while to get to this entry. Duchamp, for me, ranks with John Cage as a figure of such incredible importance to the arts that it is simply not possible to sum him up in a few short sentences. At least…
Energy That Matters: Leonard Cohen
Jean Baudrillard Charles Bukowski John Cage Leonard Cohen He was never closely associated with Fluxus, and his work falls pretty neatly into the modernist traditions of art and writing. So, why have I chosen to write about Cohen in The Fluxus Blog? I guess that the first connection that can be made between him and…
Higgins Quote
"I'm having a hard time to quote by name works of art that have been deliberately standing somewhere in between painting and shoes" source
New Fluxbook from Walter Cianciusi
Fluxus artist Walter Cianciusi has just published his wonderful new book of event scores, and it is available for purchase from Amazon.com. Event Scores has already received favourable reviews, including a review by Ken Friedman, one of the original Fluxus artists who himself produced numerous event scores. Friedman writes in part, "While there is still…
The Fluxus Attitude
If Fluxus is an attitude and not an "Art Movement" in the traditional art-historical context, what exactly is the Fluxus attitude? While Fluxus objects and events tend to possess the physical attributes of humour, simplicity, and intermedia, they are also created from an attitude towards life and art that encourages globalism, chance, experimentation, temporal factors…
Reduxus Too-Muchus?
In the post below I stated that Fluxus work nearly always contains four key elements, an attitude vs. an "art movement", intermedia, simplicity, and fun. I believe this to be true, but should also state that, as contained within the term itself, "flux"us is malleable and resists attempts to over-simplify its own definition. It can…