Fluxus

Fluxus is a network of artists, composers, and designers that blend different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. The media the artists use consit of visual art, music, literature, urban planning, architecture, and design. The word Fluxus originated from Latin which means "to flow". Fluxus was loosely organized by Maciunas. The community that was formed from this art period was small but formed into a global network of artists and composers who already where working artists before Maciunas met them.

Fluxus encouraged the "do it yourself method" where the artists preferred to work with any materials available. They either created there own work or collaborated with their colleagues. The fluxus style valued simplicity over complexity. Fluxus is similar to the earlier movement of Dada. Fluxux emphasized the concept of anti-art and took bigger risks of focusing over the seriousness of modern art just like Dada. Fluxus artists used their minimal performances to highlight their perceived connection with everyday objects. Fluxus art was usually presented in events which was defined as "the smallest unit of a situation. The events consisted of a minimal instruction allowing the event to be open to accidents and other sporadic outcomes.

There are four key factors that define the majority of the Fluxus work. First off Fluxus is an attitude where it does not stand as a movement or style. It is intermedia, the creators like to see what happens when they use different medias to intersect the piece. They use everyday objects that are found consisting of sounds, images, and texts to create a new combination of objects, sounds, and texts. The work is simple, the art is small, the performance is brief and the text is short. It is fun and humorous.



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