I keep seeing the word Fluxus come up in texts and other books I’m reading, I’m interested to read up and so this blog post will reflect what I have learnt from it. It was the graphic score from Christian Marclay that caught my attention about the Fluxus movement.

George Maciunas is considered the founder and leader of the Fluxus movement, which occurred in New York during the 1960s. Considered to be against the idea of education of arts and the art museums owning the ownership of what is good and bad within art. The group often promoted the idea of process over result, and that everyone should have access to art and create whenever they want to and as much as they want to.

Fluxus was seen as Anti-Art to get rid of the bourgeoisie.

“Fluxus artists were most heavily influenced by the ideas of John Cage, who believed that one should embark on a piece without having a conception of the eventual end. It was the process of creating that was important, not the finished product.”

https://www.theartstory.org/movement/fluxus/

This was a powerful quote, something I consider within myself as well. In the modern capitalistic music business, the whole idea is about what the end goal will be. To invest and make money. I just want to create for the sake of it, very much in line with the Fluxus movement.

Fluxus experience [electronic resource] / Hannah Higgins.

Higgins, Hannah, 1964- Reflection

I then found this book in the online UAL library, called the Fluxus experience.