Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:54:02 +0100 Walter Cianciusi http://www.fluxus.org Podcast Maker v1.4.0 - http://www.lemonzdream.com/podcastmaker The Anti-Art Channel. 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 was loosely organized in 1962 by George Maciunas (1931-78), a Lithuanian-American artist who had moved to Germany to escape his creditors, along with his fellow Lithuanian and personal friend, Almus Salcius. Besides America and Europe, Fluxus also took root in Japan. Among its associates were Joseph Beuys, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik and Yoko Ono who explored media ranging from performance art to poetry to experimental music to film. They took the stance of opposition to the ideas of tradition and professionalism in the arts of their time, the Fluxus group shifted the emphasis from what an artist makes to the artists personality, actions, and opinions. Throughout the 1960s and 70s (their most active period) they staged action events, engaged in politics and public speaking, and produced sculptural works featuring unconventional materials. Their radically untraditional works included, for example, the video art of Nam June Paik and the performance art of Beuys. The often playful style of Fluxus artists led to their being considered by some little more than a group of pranksters in their early years. Fluxus has also been compared to Dada and aspects of Pop Art and is seen as the starting point of mail art. Most notorious are the Fluxus performance pieces or Event Scores such as George Brechts Drip Music. Fluxus artists differentiate Event Scores from happenings which they called Flux Events. Whereas Happenings were meant to blur the lines between performer and audience, performance and reality, Fluxus performances were sometimes one-liners and sight gags. The performances sought to elevate the banal and dissemble the high culture of serious music and art. Marcel Duchamp and John Cage were highly influential to Fluxus. en-us Copyright ©2006 Walter Cianciusi Walter Cianciusi cianciusi@me.com http://homepage.mac.com/cianciusi/fluxus_144.jpg http://www.fluxus.org 144 144 Performing Arts Fluxus no Eric Andersen Eric Andersen Eric Andersen Born in Antwerp 1940. Living in Copenhagen, Denmark. One of the first Fluxus artists. If the anti-art label can be attributed to anyone it's Eric Andersen. He tries through his actions and neologisms to disorientate the public as much as possible. Andersen was often a guest in the former East Block countries. In 1966, he held a three-day event in Prague with the Fluxus artists Tomas Schmit and Milan Knížák. Those have been the first Fluxus events in Czechoslovakia. In Poland he exhibited in Galeria Akumulatory 2 in Poznań and in the Galeria Potocka in Krakow. http://homepage.mac.com/cianciusi/sunlawn.m4v Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:52:07 +0100 Performing Arts no 00:07:01 Fluxus Walter Cianciusi Childhood Event Scores by Fluxus Artists Natural Born Fluxus is that tendency among artists to engage in Fluxus-like behaviors even if they never heard of Fluxus. Or possibly we could say that Fluxus ideas come out of a naturally occurring tendency in all artists that we now think of as Fluxus. It could be that the free wheeling nature of Fluxus allows artists to enjoy their creative, or at least peculiar, tendencies in an unfettered way that other forms of organized artistic activities do not. Includes: Peter Frank, Cecil Touchon, John M. Bennett, Ruud Janssen , Don Boyd, Keith Buchholz, Adam Overton, Sheila E. Murphy, Madawg, Litsa Spathi, Gregory Steel, Mark Block, Christine Tarantino, Allan Revich, Lorraine Kwan, Matthew Rose, Reid Wood, Luc Fierens, Brad Brace, Mary Campbell, Zachary Scott Lawrence, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Eric KM Clark, Brian R. Nickerson, Walter Cianciusi, Neil Horsky, Roger Stevens, Matt Taggart, Anya E.V. Liftig, Yves Maraux, Roland Halbritter. Buy link: http://www.lulu.com/content/5235088 http://homepage.mac.com/cianciusi/naturalbornfluxuspreview.pdf Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:35:21 +0100 Performing Arts no 00:00:00 Fluxus Walter Cianciusi A Transcription by Walter Cianciusi A Classic by Bo Diddley http://homepage.mac.com/cianciusi/diddley.pdf Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:02:57 +0100 Performing Arts no 00:00:00 Fluxus Philip Auslander Philip Auslander A paper/performance presented during the Conference on Events and Event Structures, Design Research Center, Danmarks Designskole, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 24-26, 2007. http://homepage.mac.com/cianciusi/thisisnotapaper.pdf Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:51:45 +0200 Performing Arts no 00:00:00 Fluxus Walter Cianciusi Walter Cianciusi For Trumpet and Live Electronics http://homepage.mac.com/cianciusi/espansaIII.mp3 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:49:35 +0100 Performing Arts no 00:12:00 Fluxus Don Boyd Don Boyd 12 Fluxus Ideas Interpreted and otherwise screwed up by Don Boyd 1.Globalism (First major art movement to be so) 2.Unity of Art and Life 3. Intermedia (Dick's term borrowed from Blake) 4. Experimentalism 5. Chance (From Cage's focus on that) 6. Playfulness (Maciunas) 7. Simplicity (More with less) 8. Implicativeness (Much is implied, little given) 9. Exemplativism (Live your beliefs) 10. Specificity 11. Prescence in time 12 Musicality (Also from Cage) http://blip.tv/file/get/Crispin3d-DONBOYDVIDEO12IdeasOfFluxus656.mov Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:47:31 +0100 Performing Arts no 00:18:35 Fluxus