The Fluxus artistic philosophy can be expressed as a synthesis of four key factors that define the majority of Fluxus work: Fluxus is an attitude. It is much more than an art history movement, or a style locked between a pair of dates. Fluxus is intermedia. Fluxus creators like to to see what happens when…
Fluxus Books by Allan Revich at Amazon.com
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Cecil Touchon and the Ontological Museum Works
Cecil Touchon, a Fluxus artist, collage artist, and curator of the Ontological Museum has several book works for sale at the Ontological Museum's Lulu.com storefront. A couple of outstanding samples are shown below. Be sure to visit the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction too! Sell People Things They Don't Need. This…
The Fluxlist Blog
The Fluxlist Blog is a continuing Fluxus project. The Blog serves as a rich media extension of the Fluxlist itself, which was launched in 1996 by Allen Bukoff, Ken Friedman, Dick Higgins, Joe De Marco, Jon Van Oast, as an online forum for artists, writers, and other with an interest in Fluxus. Visit the Fluxlist…
Ray Johnson’s E-Mail Address?
by Matthew RoseApril 9, 2007 In April, 1990 I had the first of three meetings with Ray Johnson, each on Long Island, and this first one at my house. He would visit me, he said, at 5 PM. On the dot. And he was there. On time. We talked in my kitchen drinking black coffee…
Fluxus, Art, and Humor
Fluxus has been associated with humor since its inception. In fact one of the features that differentiates Fluxus from many other art forms is what could be termed, its "fun factor". As has been said elsewhere, "if it isn't fun; it isn't Fluxus". This feature of Fluxus works has sometimes led to the art and…
Cecil Touchon on Fluxus
Cecil Touchon is an American artist who works with Fluxus. His website can be seen at http://cecil.touchon.com.Cecil wrote the following response to an art student who posted a question on the Fluxlist: Fluxus is a lot like Post-Dogmatism. In post dogmatism – which is not post-fluxus – the key thing is the focus on the…
Allen Bukoff on Fluxus
Recently, a graduate student named Claire posted some questions about Fluxus to the Fluxlist. Allen Bukoff, an artist who has been active in Fluxus for many years, and is one of the founding members of the Fluxlist, has posted a very interesting answer to her questions, which I am including in full here on The…
Fluxus for The Ears
In a previous post I talked about Visual Poetry as being "poetry for the eyes". Fluxus, being Intermedia, is all about the spaces in which different media intersect, so audio art, sound art, and noise recording, can be described as "art for the ears". In the late 20th century many artists trained in traditional visual…
Fluxus in a Nutshell
Albert Einstein once said, "if you can't explain it simply, you probably don't understand it well enough". Somebody else once told me that whatever it is that you need to describe, you should be able to describe on an elevator ride. So, what is the simple, "elevator description" of Fluxus? Hmmm… Fluxus is an attitude….
A Bit About Visual Poetry
Poetry has historically been associated with the physical sense of hearing. It has been thought of as an auditory art, unlike painting or drawing which have always been thought of as visual arts. Poetic texts were therefore seen as signs representing sounds, thus a poems rhythm was very important, and until recently most Western poems…
Fluxus Semiotics
The creation of any work of art is a semiotic exercise. The study of semiotics is concerned with the use of signs and signifiers, primarily as they are used in language and linguistics, but also in other forms of communication including visual art. Historically, artists have been concerned with how best to represent the way…