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What is the "fluxus" art?
Of this art centre is in New York
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"Fluxus – a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow" – is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines... Fluxus is often described as intermedia, a term coined by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins in a famous 1966 essay.
Fluxus was named and loosely organized in 1962 by George Maciunas (1931-78), a Lithuanian-born American artist. Fluxus traces its beginnings to John Cage's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition classes at the New School for Social Research in New York City... Marcel Duchamp and Allan Kaprow (who is credited as the creator of the first "happenings") were also influential to Fluxus. In its early days Fluxus artists were active in Europe (especially in Germany), and Japan as well as in the United States.
Fluxus encouraged a do it yourself aesthetic, and valued simplicity over complexity. Like Dada before it, Fluxus included a strong current of anti-commercialism and an anti-art sensibility, disparaging the conventional market-driven art world in favor of an artist-centered creative practice. Fluxus artists preferred to work with whatever materials were at hand, and either created their own work or collaborated in the creation process with their colleagues...
There has never been a universally accepted definition of Fluxus. By its very nature, Fluxus tends to encourage the amorphous over the explicit, and boundary blurring over boundary definition. However, there are certain characteristics that are agreed on by most Fluxus scholars, and shared by most Fluxus art and artists:
>Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style.
>Fluxus is intermedia. Fluxus creators like to to see what happens when different media intersect.
>Fluxus creators like to mix things up. They use found and everyday objects, sounds, images, and texts to create new combinations of objects, sounds, images, and texts.
>Fluxus should be simple. The art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief.
>Fluxus should be fun. If it isn't fun, it isn't Fluxus."