Fluxus
フルクサス / 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.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Event scores
- Boxes and multiples
- Everyday actions
- Anti-art humor
Best used for
- Works and programs written as instructions that exist only when someone performs them.
- Cheap multiples boxed and circulated hand to hand as small scale publishing.
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Write each instruction as one imperative line and print it still open to reading.
- Composition
- One item per card, with the order of the deck left unfixed.
- Material
- Found objects, paper, wooden boxes, cheap printing, no signature or scarcity.
- Caution
- 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.
- Further study
- George Maciunas / Yoko Ono / Alison Knowles / Fluxkit
Related entries
- Dada (ダダ)Same Avant-garde lineage.Compare Fluxus and Dada
- Conceptual Art (コンセプチュアル・アート)Shared effects: Rebellion.Compare Fluxus and Conceptual Art
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