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Picasso and Dick and Allison

A couple of cool old snapshots of Picasso (Bill) Gaglione with Fluxus co-founder Dick Higgins, and Dick's wife, the Fluxus artist Allison Knowles.

Ukulele Dada: A Fluxdada Perfromance

Ukulele Dada: A Fluxdada Perfromance

A CALL FOR VISUAL POETRY / MAIL ART / FLUXUS

CALL FOR VISUAL POETRY, PUBLICATIONS, and MAIL ART USING TEXT.
“ WRITE NOW: ARTISTS AND LETTERFORMS”
I’ve been asked to curate an exhibition of visual poetry for
The Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture.
Please send works in all their forms, Visual Poetry, Asemic Writing, Publications, Mail Art,
Objects, … Anything Text Based or using Text as a point of departure.

Venue: The Chicago Rooms Galleries of the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Illinois.
These public galleries are visited by thousands of people per year,
and are one of the Primary public exhibition spaces in downtown Chicago.
Following the Exhibition all work will become part of
a large public archive project in Chicago.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS : SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Opening: Friday, September 30, 5.30 - 7.30
Exhibit runs Through January 8th, 2012

SEND TO :
“WRITE NOW” VISUAL POETRY
Keith A. Buchholz / Curator
c/o Nathan Mason, Chicago Rooms
The Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington Street
Chicago, IL 60602 USA

FLUXUS MANIFESTO FOR THE 21st CENTURY

FLUXUS MANIFESTO FOR THE 21st CENTURY

This is what Fluxus is today. It is pretty much the same as what Fluxus was, but the old actors have been replaced by new ones. And behind our generation Fluxus artists there is already a new generation ready to displace us. We welcome them.

FLUXUS TODAY:

Fluxus today is built on the solid foundations of Fluxus yesterday. The artists may be new, but the work they are making is as much a part of Fluxus tradition as the work that came before.

Here is what Ken Friedman wrote in 2002. It was first published in 1989 by the Emily Harvey Gallery as "Fluxus and Company".

"...Emmett Williams once wrote, "Fluxus is what Fluxus does - but no one knows whodunit." This concise description makes two radical statements. The statement that no one knows "who done" Fluxus rejects the idea of Fluxus as a specific group of people. It identifies Fluxus with a frame of action and defines Fluxus as a cumulative, aggregate of Fluxus activities over the past forty years or so. While Emmett is famous for playful conundrums, he may not agree with this reading of his text. Dick Higgins did.

Dick explicitly rejected a notion that limited Fluxus to a specific group of people who came together at a specific time and place. Dick wrote, "Fluxus is not a moment in history, or an art movement. Fluxus is a way of doing things, a tradition, and a way of life and death."

For Dick, for George Maciunas, and for me, Fluxus is more valuable as an idea and a potential for social change than as a specific group of people or a collection of objects."

We, the Fluxus artists of the 21st century have taken these words to heart. We are Fluxus and we are making Fluxus work. Friedman, building on previous work by Dick Higgins, described Fluxus as a "laboratory characterized by twelve ideas".

1. globalism,
2. the unity of art and life,
3. intermedia,
4. experimentalism,
5. chance,
6. playfulness,
7. simplicity,
8. implicativeness,
9. exemplativism,
10. specificity,
11. presence in time, and
12. musicality

We live and work under the umbrella of these twelve ideas.

FOUR FLUXUS PRINCIPLES

Ideas from Ken Friedman, Owen Smith, George Maciunas, and Dick Higgins along with direct observation of Fluxus work past and present, can be synthesized to create an even more concise set of Four Fluxus Principles:

1. Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style.
2. Fluxus is intermedia. Fluxus creators like to see what happens when different media intersect. They use found and everyday objects, sounds, images, and texts to create new combinations of objects, sounds, images, and texts.
3. Fluxus works are simple. The art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief.
4. Fluxus should be fun. Humor has always been an important element in Fluxus.

As with Friedman's 12 ideas, these four principles are flexible guidelines, not commandments carved in stone. They are meant to help people understand and work with Fluxus. Not to confine them or restrain their creativity.

We, the Fluxus artists of the 21st century, know that we owe George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Ken Friedman, and all of the original Fluxus artists a debt of gratitude for building the ship that we are now sailing on. Anyone, anywhere, is welcome aboard. Just remember that the ship has already started to sail.

Signed on the 19th of May in 2011 by,

Allan Revich, Cecil Touchon, Keith Buchholz, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, ejva/nsva, Mary Campbell, Ed Varney, Melissa McCarthy, Carol Starr, Ginny Lloyd, John M. Bennett, Séamas Cain, Litsa Spathi/Nobody, Ann Klefstad, Caterina Davinio, Ruud Janssen, Christopher Hoddinott, Roger Stevens

Fluxfest New York City, 2011 - Be there if you can!

Liebeserklärung mit Fluxus

Historic newspaper article from April 25th 1996 (almost 15 years ago) in the Heidelberg Newspaper (Germany) documenting some steps by Litsa Spathi at an exhibition where she presented her work. She donates one of her works to the VHS in Heidelberg (on photo)


Source: Fluxus Heidelberg Center Archive.

Cecils Touchon's new book at Redfoxpress

http://www.redfoxpress.com/dada-touchon.html

FLUXUS MANIFESTO FOR THE 21st CENTURY

FLUXUS MANIFESTO FOR THE 21st CENTURY
Allan Revich, March 21, 2011

Once again a subset of The Fluxus Establishment (as if there could be such a thing as a Fluxus establishment!) have got their knickers in knots about the idea of new artists calling themselves Fluxus and/or calling their activities Fluxus. This has happened before. It might happen again. But I doubt it.

Today's Fluxus artists continue to respect the work and legacy of Fluxus 1.0, but we no longer feel that there is a requirement for acceptance by the remaining vestiges of that generation. It is no longer a matter of whether or not THEY accept US. The 21st Century Fluxboat has already left the dock. We would love to have the original group of Fluxus artists on board with us. In fact it would be an honor. But the boat is sailing, and it's not going to wait at the dock any longer. Those who don't jump on board will simply be left behind.

There are no more questions for the new Fluxus artists to answer. We ARE Fluxus. We welcome the support of those who preceded us, but we don't need their approval. The only remaining question for those of the original generation of Fluxus is, "Do you want to be on the boat, or do you want to be left behind on the dock?" We have room for you. We will welcome you with open arms. We will give you all of the respect and admiration that you deserve. But we will not wait for you.

This is what Fluxus is today. It is pretty much the same as what Fluxus was, but the old actors have been replaced by new ones. And behind our generation Fluxus artists there is already a new generation ready to displace us. We welcome them.

FLUXUS TODAY:

Fluxus today is built on the solid foundations of Fluxus yesterday. The artists may be new, but the work they are making is as much a part of Fluxus tradition as the work that came before. Here is what Ken Friedman wrote in 2002. A version of his essay was first published in 1989 by the Emily Harvey Gallery as "Fluxus and Company".

...Emmett Williams once wrote, "Fluxus is what Fluxus does - but no one knows whodunit." This concise description makes two radical statements. The statement that no one knows "who done" Fluxus rejects the idea of Fluxus as a specific group of people. It identifies Fluxus with a frame of action and defines Fluxus as a cumulative, aggregate of Fluxus activities over the past forty years or so. While Emmett is famous for playful conundrums, he may not agree with this reading of his text. Dick Higgins did.

Dick explicitly rejected a notion that limited Fluxus to a specific group of people who came together at a specific time and place. Dick wrote, "Fluxus is not a moment in history, or an art movement. Fluxus is a way of doing things, a tradition, and a way of life and death."

For Dick, for George Maciunas, and for me, Fluxus is more valuable as an idea and a potential for social change than as a specific group of people or a collection of objects.

We, the Fluxus artists of the 21st century have taken these words to heart. We are Fluxus and we are making Fluxus work. Friedman, building on previous work by Dick Higgins, described Fluxus as a "laboratory characterized by twelve ideas".

1. globalism,
2. the unity of art and life,
3. intermedia,
4. experimentalism,
5. chance,
6. playfulness,
7. simplicity,
8. implicativeness,
9. exemplativism,
10. specificity,
11. presence in time, and
12. musicality

We live and work under the umbrella of these twelve ideas.

FOUR FLUXUS PRINCIPLES

I have used ideas from Friedman, Owen Smith, Maciuanas, and Higgins, along with direct observation of Fluxus work past and present, to create an even more concise set of Four Fluxus Principles:

1. Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style.
2. Fluxus is intermedia. Fluxus creators like to see what happens when different media intersect. They use found and everyday objects, sounds, images, and texts to create new combinations of objects, sounds, images, and texts.
3. Fluxus works are simple. The art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief.
4. Fluxus should be fun. Humor has always been an important element in Fluxus.

As with Friedman's 12 ideas, my four principles are flexible guidelines, not commandments carved in stone. They are meant to help people understand and work with Fluxus, not to confine them or restrain their creativity.

We, the Fluxus artists of the 21st century, know that we owe George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Ken Friedman, and all of the original Fluxus artists a debt of gratitude for building the ship that we are now sailing on. Anyone, anywhere, is welcome aboard. Just remember that the ship has already started to sail.

Allan Revich
March 21, 2011

Ben Vautier : Fluxus is alive & well

I HOPE YOU DON'T RECEIVE THIS LETTER TWICE

HELLO EVERYBODY
It is more then a year
That I have sent out a Fluxus newsletter Why?
I think it is that:
I had nothing to say
Why repeat myself
Goggle is there to give all the information we need In fact Fluxus never stops I receive emails from everywhere and every body Thank you Fluxus anti ego super egos Anti prima Dona New prima donnas TWO IMPORTANT FLUXUS EVENTS LODZ AND MOSCOU
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see more in the 1th comment

fluxus military aircraft ejection seat

"fluxus military aircraft ejection seat" for people who declare Fluxus dead!

fluxus military aircraft advice

Miss Fluxus 2010

The first ever Miss Fluxus, crowned at the Flux-Pageant, held in New York City, April 16 2010

Mobile Vision ( for allan r.)

Face Sculpture

http://www.vimeo.com/4850346

Ken Friedman 73 events Catalog

Hi All, finally have the Ken Friedman 73 Events catalog available for download in PDF format on the website, hope you all enjoy it, Ken put a lot of work into this important fluxus document.

http://tiny.cc/INh4t 

In Chicago this Saturday....

“DEBRIS FIELD” a new performance piece by artist KEITH A. BUCHHOLZ,
Will premier as part of the Chicago Art Parade , a culminating event
Of this years Version Festival, VERSION 9 / IMMODEST PROPOSALS.

The work, “ DEBRIS FIELD” will physically distribute over 2000 small
Scores, Poems, Images, and small fluxus works by a dozen international artists
to the general public, within the context of a festival parade.

Buchholz will be joined by 12 other performers, Including members of
the Chicago Fluxus Ensemble, and participants from the Chicago Art Institute,
who will help him complete the massive piece.

Date : Saturday, March 2nd
Time: 6:00 P.M.
Location : Green at Fulton Streets, Moving west three blocks, then south 3 blocks,
Turning east up Washington,to Peoria , and ending at Peoria and Randolph.
Chicago, Illinois.
Route map and information at CHICAGOARTPARADE.COM

flikr link to more fotos

follow the flikr link for more photos of the Simon Anderson Lecture at IU Kokomo