Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Fluxus: One item per card, with the order of the deck left unfixed.
- Type
- Set in Fluxus's manner (Write each instruction as one imperative line and print it still open to reading.), and let Gutai's lettering (Keep records to date and act described, adding no meaning through a title.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Fluxus's material (Found objects, paper, wooden boxes, cheap printing, no signature or scarcity.); bring in exactly one thing from Gutai (Mud, paper, water, bulbs and paint, keeping the marks of tearing and treading.).
- Colour
- Build on #ece6d7, #c43d31, #22201d and admit one accent from #e6dfd1, #d84831, #25211f.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Fluxus Imitating random instructions and plain boxes settles nothing about ownership, authority and the audience's role, and a score framed on the wall without ever being performed loses the premise of action and participation.
- Gutai Restaging the physical gesture without responding to what the material does leaves only spectacle. Read the thought behind it, postwar Japan, the autonomy of material and the audience taking part.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Fluxus (Style, early 1960s–late 1970s) and its accent from Gutai (Style, 1954–1972). Structural cues: Event scores; Boxes and multiples; Everyday actions; Anti-art humor. Accent cues, used sparingly: Body colliding with material; Outdoor exhibitions; Tearing, throwing, treading; Participation and play. Composition: One item per card, with the order of the deck left unfixed.. Type and lettering: Write each instruction as one imperative line and print it still open to reading.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Mud, paper, water, bulbs and paint, keeping the marks of tearing and treading.. Mood: Rebellion, Play, Intimacy, Exhilaration. Color: build on #ece6d7, #c43d31, #22201d with a single accent drawn from #e6dfd1, #d84831, #25211f. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Fluxus early 1960s–late 1970s / Style / Avant-garde
Values the act and the participation above the finished piece, working in scores, boxes, cheap multiples, performances and events until the border between art and daily life gives way.
- Gutai 1954–1972 / Style / Japanese Postwar Avant-garde
Acts directly on body, mud, paper, water, smoke and light bulbs, making the work an event in which spirit does not master material and each exposes the nature of the other.
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