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Fluxus

Artistic movement that emerged in New York in the early 1960s. Yoko Ono is the best-known artist associated with the movement.

The work of Fluxus adherents, which includes film, music, dance, installations, and performance art as well as painting and sculpture, is characterized by a minimalist approach and a radical socio-political perspective, and may feature audience participation and mixed media.

Other Fluxus artists include the Lithuanian-born architect and designer George Maciunas (1931–78), who coined the movement's name in 1962, the German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys, the Korean composer Nam June Paik, and the US composers Philip Corner and La Monte Young.

Fluxus performances took place at Maciunas's New York gallery and Yoko Ono's New York studio, in 1960–61. Maciunas published the journal Fluxus in 1961, and a manifesto in 1963.



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See Thomas Kellein, Fluxus (London: Thames and Hudson, 1995) for examples of the Fluxus movement linking of the everyday, the performative, and the audience.
Not one to be discouraged, however, Maciunas soon produced other pamphlets announcing similarly radical efforts to purchase and renovate obsolescent manufacturing buildings in SoHo in order to turn them into collective living environments for artists--a seemingly quixotic but partially successful venture on Maciunas's part that provided the backdrop for the heyday of the Fluxus movement and the first home for Jonas Mekas's Film-Makers' Cinematheque at 80 Wooster Street.
The fluxus movement, which started in 1960s New York, was as provocative as it was absurd.
 
 
 
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