This summer, Alison Knowles is making a salad—and she needs your help. The legendary performance artist will be performing her seminal Make A Salad (1962) at Art Basel. However this is no ordinary meal. Performers will prepare various salad ingredients before emptying the contents onto a large tarp. Fair visitors and onlookers can participate by…
Fluxfest 2016 – Chicago
FLUXFEST CHICAGO 2016 A Schedule of events: Thursday, May 26th 4-7 PM Exhibition Opening and Reception – “DO IT NOW” – Contemporary Networking in Mailart and Fluxus” Joan Flasch Artistbook Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 37 S. Wabash Avenue, Suite 508, Chicago * Dinner to follow at Italian Village, 71 W. Monroe,…
Fluxus in 2016: Is it Relevant?
Is Fluxus still relevant in 2016? Let me make it easy for you dear reader. The (short) answer to this question is an unequivocal, “YES!“ If you’re still reading, I’ll assume that you have some interest in knowing why Fluxus, a “movement” from the early 1960s remains relevant (and dare I say important?) in the…
Fluxfest Chicago 2016
It’s ON Folks! May 26th through 29th A series of events will happen in Chicago, as well as a Mailart show, Live Art, Score performances, a salute to the 100th anniversary of DADA, and more. Details and Festival Poster to follow soon. In the meantime, mark your calendars, book your hotel, and reserve your flight. It’s…
Psych.KG 299 | A New and Wonderful LP Release from Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Bär
Our favorite contemporary German Fluxus artists, Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Bär have done it again. They’ve just released LP Album number 299 in their Psych.KG series. Number 299 is especially special to me, because I’m included on it! http://www.discogs.com/Various-FLUXUS/release/7880021 Hjuler Image Festival (Google Result)
Dear George… Love Charlotte: February 10, Block Museum of Art
Some Fluxus artists picketed the festival in 1964, others performed in it—a number did both. Lecture Demonstration: Dear George…Love, Charlotte: Fluxus in the Annual Avant Garde Festivals Wednesday, February 10, 6:00pm Block Museum “Dear George… Love Charlotte” will illuminate parts of a social and aesthetic network that connected Charlotte Moorman and the Annual Avant Garde…
Jackson Mac Low: Fluxus Poet
Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922 – December 8, 2004), an early affiliate of the original group of Fluxus artists that surrounded George Maciunas, held distinction as being the first “poet of Fluxus”. While many Fluxus artists incorporated (and incorporate) text and visual poetry into the work, Mac Low was the first whose primary creative output was…
Fuxus: Just Getting to Know You
It seems as though nearly everyone I meet, who isn’t “into” Fluxus, doesn’t know much about Fluxus. I.E/ They’ve never heard of it! I’ve come up with these four commonalities that encompasses most Fluxus work , and most of the Fluxus Philosophy. Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style.[84 Fluxus…
Photography or Image Editing?
Adobe Photoshop Elements (now at version 13) Still my favorite software for day to day photo and image editing! No monthly subscriptions. Easy to use. Powerful.
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…
Change at the Digital Salon
The Digital Salon family of web sites has been consolidated into a single site, here at http://www.DigitalSalon.com The old Digitalsalon.com site is now retired, and my own work now resides on sub-pages of the Digital Salon Fluxus Blog. I hope that you take the time to click through the menu links. Thanks! Allan Revich, M.Ed….
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…