Description
To mark the 40th anniversary of the first Fluxus festival in Wiesbaden, Germany, and the 30th anniversary of Fluxshoe which toured England with a series of performances, concerts, and exhibitions (1972–3), On Fluxus will continue the volume theme of ‘textualities, scores and documents’ and focus on the relationship of writing and textuality to Fluxus. Fluxus was an international community of artists, architects, designers, and composers described as ‘the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s’. As a laboratory of experimental art, Fluxus was the first locus of intermedia, concept art, events, and video, and a central influence on performance art, arte povera, and mail art. The issue will be guest edited by Ken Friedman, an active participant in Fluxus, as an artist since 1966, as director of Fluxus West for a decade, and as editor of The Fluxus Reader (1997); and Owen Smith, an art historian and curator specializing in intermedia and multimedia art forms, and author of Fluxus: History of an Attitude (1998).
Editorial: In Two Voices
Owen Smith
pp. 1 – 2
Avant-gardism and the Fluxus Project: A failed utopia or the success of invisibility?
Owen Smith
pp. 3 – 12
The Enduring Freedoms [artist’s pages]
things not worth keeping
pp. 13 – 14
Silence and Savant-garde: Beuys, Fluxus, Duchamp
Chris Thompson
pp. 15 – 25
Flux Photos [artist’s pages]
Lisa Kahane
pp. 26 – 29
MANRESA: Autobiography as method…
Claudia Wegener
pp. 30 – 46
Reading Between the Lines: Word as conceptual project
Brandon LaBelle
pp. 47 – 54
The Enduring Freedoms [artist’s pages]
things not worth keeping
pp. 54
Fluxus and Advertising in the late 1960s… and Now
Kevin Concannon
pp. 55 – 63
Fluxus Periodicals: Constructing a conceptual country
Stephen Perkins
pp. 64 – 76
The Enduring Freedoms [artist’s pages]
things not worth keeping
pp. 77
Origins of Fluxus Score: From indeterminacy to the ‘do-it-yourself’ artwork
Anna Dezeuze
pp. 78 – 94
Fluxus Performance Workbook – a Selection [artist’s pages]
Kevin Mount
pp. 95 – 109
The Brechtian Event Score: A structure in fluxus
Julia E. Robinson
pp. 110 – 123
Working with Event Scores: A personal history
Ken Friedman
pp. 124 – 128
Book Review
Çetin Sarikartal
pp. 129 – 134
Archive Review
Adrian Glew
pp. 135 – 138
The Enduring Freedoms [artist’s pages]
things not worth keeping
pp. 139
Notes on Contributors
pp. 141 – 142
