If you’re struggling to plan how to best celebrate the holidays with your most avant-garde of friends and family, perhaps the art historical movement Fluxus can offer some suggestions. Fluxus was ...

LOS ANGELES — Fluxus is fraught with contradiction. The interdisciplinary art movement, which emerged in the 1960s, is funny but serious; indefinite but authoritative; destructive but full of ...

In its inception, Fluxus was defined by a shared attitude among artistic collaborators. Its purpose was to “promote a revolutionary flood and tide in art, promote living art, anti-art.” The collective ...

On the morning of Sept. 30 in Koreatown, David Allen Moore began a performance of La Monte Young’s “Composition 1960 #10: Draw a straight line and follow it.” The intention of the Los Angeles ...

Part I. Three histories : Developing a fluxable forum: Early performance & publishing / Owen Smith -- Fluxus, fluxion, flushoe: the 1970's / Simon Anderson -- Fluxus fortuna / Hannah Higgins -- Part ...

Calling an artwork “academic” is an insult, a reference to the conservative tastes of the old French Academy, and meant to describe art that is stale, overproduced and remote from the daily lives of ...

“What is salad? Is making a salad music?” Christopher Rountree wonders. The leader of the local experimental music ensemble wild Up is talking specifically about visual artist Alison Knowles’ very ...

It’s September 11, 2001, and a group of Fluxus artists has convened in Odense, Denmark. They enter the room and stand around the edge of a grid on the floor. Mechanical frogs are released and hop ...

The collective’s newspapers published between 1964 and 1979 are being gathered and reprinted in a new publication that illustrates the artists’ sense of humour Every so often, a movement is born in ...

Cover of Performing Chance: The Art of Alison Knowles In/Out of Fluxus by Nicole L. Woods (image courtesy University of Chicago Press) In October 1962, Alison Knowles turned the simple act of ...