Fluxus (from "to flow") is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. Fluxus is often described as being Intermedia because it occurs when different media intersect. For example, poetry and visual art intersect in Visual Poetry, and concept, text, and performance intersect in Fluxus Event Scores. 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. Many of his students were artists working in other media with little or no background in music. Cage's students included Fluxus founding members Jackson Mac Low, Al Hansen, George Brecht and Dick Higgins. Many other artists were invited by Cage to attend his classes unofficially at the New School. Marcel Duchamp and Allan Kaprow (who is credited as the creator of the first "happenings") were also influential to Fluxus. Fluxus was named and loosely organized in 1962 by George Maciunas (1931-78), a Lithuanian-born American artist. In its early days Fluxus artists were active in Europe (especially in Germany), and Japan as well as in the United States.

Fluxus encourages a DIY (do it yourself) esthetic, and values simplicity over complexity. Like Dada before it, Fluxus includes 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 prefer to work with whatever materials are at hand, and either create their own work or collaborate in the creation process with colleagues. Hiring assistants or outsourcing part of the creative process to commercial fabricators is not part of typical Fluxus practice. The small scale and personal nature of Mail Art is much more in keeping with Fluxus than the large scale sculptures of Jeff Koons, even though Koons might share an anti-art, Dadaist esthetic with Fluxus.

The art forms most closely associated with Fluxus are Event Scores and Fluxus Boxes. Fluxus Boxes (sometimes called Fluxkits or Fluxboxes) originated with George Maciunas who would gather collections of his printed cards, games, and ideas, and put them into small plastic boxes. Event Scores, such as George Brecht's Drip Music, are essentially performance scripts that are usually only a few lines long and consist of descriptions of actions to be performed rather than dialogue. Fluxus artists differentiate Event Scores from "happenings". Whereas Happenings were sometimes complicated, lengthy performances meant to blur the lines between performer and audience, performance and reality, Fluxus performances were usually brief and simple. The Event performances sought to elevate the banal, to be mindful of the mundane, and to simultaneously dissemble the high culture of academic and market-driven music and art. Other creative forms that have been adopted by Fluxus practitioners include collage, audio, music, video, and poetry — especially visual poetry and concrete poetry.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=274DJMrLyKA ::: Fluxus Music Artists - All I want for Christmas is you (REAL LIVE vol. 7)
jinkpark (Jin-Gook Park) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:42:58 -0000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=274DJMrLyKA ::: Fluxus Music Artists - All I want for Christmas is you (REAL LIVE vol. 7)
@Milkycity oyeeesss tons quien y quien esta en fluxus?
GabrielGuiken (Gabriel Sanvicente) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:01:52 -0000
@Milkycity oyeeesss tons quien y quien esta en fluxus?
@joyengel but you have had a Curieux, Dubbel, Tripel, Fluxus, Victoria, Victor, and Odyssey.... right??
Migdesigner (matt ludwig) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:29:43 -0000
@joyengel but you have had a Curieux, Dubbel, Tripel, Fluxus, Victoria, Victor, and Odyssey.... right??
@solessence I love the Fluxus scarf! It's so warm & cozy! & it's sexy too! Appreciated it while we had no heat. Electricity is the best -!!
laurasbtybounty (laura carson miller) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:12:38 -0000
@solessence I love the Fluxus scarf! It's so warm & cozy! & it's sexy too! Appreciated it while we had no heat. Electricity is the best -!!
♫ Bill Laswell's Material - Cucumber Slumber (Fluxus Mix)
sonicuniverse (sonicuniverse) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:33:59 -0000
♫ Bill Laswell's Material - Cucumber Slumber (Fluxus Mix)

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