fluxusa laboratory

fluxusa laboratory

latin for “flow”

ideas

globalism

the unity of art and life

intermedia

experimentalism

chanceplayfulness

simplicity

specificity

presence in time

musicality

of fluxus

1960s-1970s

fluxwhat?

“a pain in art’s ass”style, substance, significance all varythe world of objects and events

ManifestoPromote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals. (George Maciunas, 1963)

Modes of apprehension: art, language, myth, science (each to be used sparingly, as needed, like food, water, sleep) . . . however, art remains within the universe of form, and what is beyond this universe, beyond dimensions, yet embodying them without conflict, is life. (George Brecht, 1961)

Art is what makes life more interesting than art. (Robert Filliou, n.d.)

The natural state of life and mind is complexity. At this point, what art can offer . . . is an absence of complexity, a vacuum through which you are led to a state of complete relaxation of mind. After that you may return to the complexity of life again, it may not be the same, or it may be, or you may never return, but that is your problem. (Yoko Ono, 1966)

Alison Knowles (b.1933, New York City)

Event Scores

simple actions

ideas

objects from everyday life

recontexualized as performance

texts that can be seen as proposal pieces or instructions for actions

The idea of the score suggests musicality.

Like a musical score - can be realized by artists other than the original creator

open to variation and interpretation

Event Scores

#2 Proposition (1962)Make a salad.

#2a Variation #1 on Proposition(1964) Make a soup.Premired Nov 9th, 64 at Cafe au Go Go in NY.

#6 Shoes of your choice (1963)A member of the audience is invited to come forward to a microphone if one is availlable and describe a pair of shoes, the one he is wearing or another pair. He is encouraged to tell where he got them, the size, color, why he likes them, etc.Premired Apr 6th, 63 at the Old Gymnasium of Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ.

Make a Salad (1962 - ) ->

Wexner Museum in October 2004

Alison Knowles. Bean Rolls from Fluxkit. 1965, Fluxus Edition announced 1963

A Fluxus performance by Alison Knowles in Newcastle upon Tyne May 2007.Taking place from Waygood gallery to Baltic gallery as part of the Flux-On weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4iH_lZV4Vs

Yoko OnoFebruary 18, 1933 Tokyo, Japan

, Japan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfe2qhI5Ix4

Yoko Ono "Cut Piece" Performance Art (1966)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfe2qhI5Ix4

Yoko Ono "Cut Piece" Performance Art (2003)

Nam June Paikborn 1932 in Seoul, South Koreadied 2006 in Miami, Florida

Charlotte Moorman born 1933 in Little Rock, Arkansasdied 1991 in New York, USA

Untitled (Performance of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik’s “New Sounds From Old Rubbish and Bare Bodies”, London, March, 1969) 

Paik and Moorman toured Europe in 1965

Nam June Paik, TV Cello, 1971

Nam June Paik, TV Cello, 1976

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9lnbIGHzUM

Nam June Paik / Charlotte Moorman - TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aeH9FdtAqY

Tribute to John Cage by Nam Jun Paik with Charlotte Moorman (TV Bra)

1–11 April 1976, exhibition and performances: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Coventry Gallery, Sydney; Sydney Opera House forecourt

Moorman + Paik

Ice music for Adelaide

Allan Kaprow August 23, 1927- April 5, 2006

Happenings

Kaprow- 1964

Forget all the standard art forms. Don’t paint pictures. Don’t make poetry. Don’t build architecture. Don’t arrange dances. Don’t write plays. Don’t compose music. Don’t make movies, and above all don’t think you’ll get a Happening by putting all these together.

source: http://sts-phase-ii.tri.be/allan-kaprow-the-most-happening-man-in-art/

HappeningsGrace Glueck described one of them in The New York Times

in May 1965:

a hybrid new ‘art form’ out a drama by dance, mime, Dada, surrealism, collage, action painting, modern poetry, circus, and Old Marx Brothers movies. A kind of makeshift, hit-and-run theater that has already roiled viewers from coast to coast (and Westchester), Happenings have neither plot, nor dialogue nor discernible message. They achieve their non-verbal effects by bizarre, seemingly improved action, in which performers walk with boxes on their feet, douse themselves with buckets of milk, or roll back and forth across the stage.

Yard - Kaprow, 1961source: http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/425/allan-kaprow-yard/view/

Fluids: A Happening, Kaprow 1967