Knowra Fluxus Fluxus Fluxus was an international avant-garde network that joined art, music, performance, and everyday actions through experimental events. It resisted fixed boundaries between artistic media and ordinary life.
Event score : A concise instruction or prompt that proposes an action, often leaving its execution open. Fluxus artists used scores to turn simple actions into repeatable, variable performances.
George Maciunas : A Lithuanian-American artist and organizer who coined the name Fluxus and coordinated its early activities. Maciunas supplied the network with a name, publications, festivals, and an organizing vision.
Nam June Paik : A Korean-American artist who combined performance, music, and electronic media in pioneering video art. Paik brought television and electronic sound into Fluxus’s experiments across artistic media.
Cut Piece : A performance by Yoko Ono in which audience members cut away pieces of the artist’s clothing. The work makes audience action and its ethical implications central to a Fluxus-associated performance.
Conceptual art : Art in which ideas or instructions take precedence over the making of a conventional art object. Fluxus helped establish conditions for art whose central form could be a score, proposal, or action.
Happening : A staged event that combines performance, visual art, and audience participation, often without a fixed script. Happenings shared Fluxus’s challenge to passive spectatorship, while often using more elaborate staging.
John Cage : An American composer whose experimental music incorporated chance, silence, and everyday sounds. Cage’s teaching and ideas influenced many artists who formed the early Fluxus network.
Alison Knowles : An American artist and founding Fluxus participant known for performance, sound, and book works. Knowles developed Fluxus ideas through participatory events and works grounded in everyday materials.
Drip Music : A 1962 event by George Brecht in which water drips into a container. Its minimal action exemplifies how an ordinary event could become a score and performance.
Performance art : Artworks presented through live actions by artists, often using the body, time, and audience presence as material. Fluxus broadened the possibilities for performance as an independent artistic form.
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