More than a movement in itself, Fluxus is a state of mind, a space of freedom, sharing, and friendship, in which dozens of artists of all nationalities would find recognition. An international movement grew around this iconoclastic and very playful practice of promoting "non-art." Fluxus has close conceptual ties with the movements that preceded it: Futurism and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's manifesto of February 1909; Dadaism with Richard Huelsenbeck's Dada manifestos of April 1918, then Tristan Tzara's of July 1918, or even Francis Picabia's Dada cannibal manifesto of March 1920. The rejection of institutions, the notion of the artwork, of "dead art," the desire to revolutionize and purge the world of "intellectual, professional, and commercialized" culture, in a way, continues the trend towards non-art prevalent among these precursors.
The word "fluxus" (flow, current) was chosen in 1961 by George Maciunas to designate this new current, for which he issued a manifesto, Manifesto, distributed at the Fluxus Festival in Düsseldorf in February 1963. In the late 1950s, young artists influenced by the teachings of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage joined the group gathered around Maciunas and the gallery he established in New York in 1961, dedicated to exhibitions, nascent happenings, contemporary music, and concerts by John Cage, Dick Higgins, or La Monte Young. After moving to Germany in September 1962, George Maciunas organized the first Fluxus concert, the "Fluxus International Festspiele Neuester Musik" in Wiesbaden, which marked the launch of the movement.
For nearly twenty years, Fluxus remained faithful to a provocative humor, to the explosion of the limits of artistic practice, and to its desire to abolish all boundaries between art and life.
Fluxus included prestigious and varied personalities such as: Éric Andersen, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, John Cage, Giuseppe Chiari, Philip Corner, Charles Dreyfus, Jean Dupuy, Robert Filliou, Henry Flynt, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, La Monte Young, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Charlotte Moorman, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, Willem de Ridder, Serge III, Daniel Spoerri, Benjamin Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Emmett Williams, the Zaj Group, and many others.
Its energy remains strong, and Fluxus continues to influence contemporary practices.
4 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION
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FLUXFILM N°1-14 (1ÈRE BOBINE)
1963-1970 / color-b&w / sound and silent / 1 screen / 50' 00 / 140 € distribution: 16mm |
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FLUXFILM N°1-37
1963-1970 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound and silent / 1 screen / 100' 00 / 266 € distribution: 16mm |
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FLUXFILM N°15-37 (2ÈME BOBINE)
1963-1970 / color-b&w / sound and silent / 1 screen / 50' 00 / 140 € distribution: 16mm |
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FLUXFILM N°38-41
1963-1970 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound and silent / 1 screen / 20' 00 / 67 € distribution: 16mm |