23 April 2005 21:00
fluxus debris! art / not art
"...this substitute art-amusement must be simple, amusing, concerned with insignificances, have no commodity or institutional value"
A CHILD'S HISTORY of FLUXUS by DICK HIGGINS
Long long ago, back when the world was young - that is, sometime around the year 1958 - a lot of artists and composers and other people who wanted to do beautiful things began to look at the world around them in a new way (for them).
22 April 2005 19:00
Alison Knowles: The Big Book
"The Big Book is an eight foot tall construction by Alison Knowles which has a front cover and several pages, and contains a stove, telephone, chemical toilet, art gallery, electric fan, books and other necessities of life."
George Maciunas Radio Interview: KRAB Seattle, September 1977
"George could you tell me what Flux is?" ...usually kids like our stuff or people not expecting art... The original 55 minute broadcast divided into 8 separate audio clips.
Hannah Higgins on being a Fluxus child
"Mordecai MacLow is a tenured astrophysicist at Hayden Planetarium; Bracken Hendricks started the Apollo Alliance, which is a political action group designed to bring together causes of labor and the environment. Most Fluxus kids have tended to desire, pr
Sulaitis: Fluxus - the legacy of George Maciunas
George Maciunas was an artist ahead of his time, who happened to be Lithuanian.
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