{"id":4877,"date":"2018-03-05T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T10:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marottaeditori.com\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2018-03-05T11:45:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T10:45:40","slug":"fluxus-eveything-is-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/fluxus-eveything-is-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluxus: everything is art and everybody can make it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fluxus is among the most provocative avant-garde movements of the postwar. It featured a quite rebellious attitude against art market and artwork traditional idea. It defines itself as a non- movement\u00a0 and more clearly an attitude against art and life. This movement, indeed aimed at creating a whole artwork, integrating artistic production and daily life. Its multidisciplinary nature along with those several souls which animated it make Fluxus a fundamental moment within the art revolution of the twentieth century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fluxus was officially born in 1962, with the Fluxus\u00a0Internationale\u00a0Festspiele Neuester Musik\u00a0<\/strong>(Fluxus International\u00a0Festival of the Newest\u00a0Music<\/em>) at\u00a0Wiesbaden<\/em>, <\/span>making its debut with a number of actions taken by some of the most influent members of the group, such as: <\/span>George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Emmett Williams, Ay-O, Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik, Daniel Spoerri<\/a>, Wolf Vostell<\/a>, Giuseppe Chiari, Gianni Emilio Simonetti<\/span><\/strong> and many more.<\/span><\/p>\n

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M. Duchamp, Fountain, 1917<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, it is deeply rooted in\u00a0<\/span>Dadaism<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span>Futurism<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Surrealism,<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0in the musical experimentations of the American musician and compositor <\/span>John Cage<\/span><\/strong>, in\u00a0<\/span>anti-art<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span>Marcel Duchamp<\/span><\/strong> and most of all in the theoretic contributions of the Lituan-American\u00a0charismatic architect\u00a0<\/span>George Maciunas.
\n<\/span><\/strong>After the Second World War,\u00a0<\/span>He moved to New York,\u00a0 where he came in contact with a group of artists and musicians that swung aroung\u00a0<\/span>John Cage<\/span><\/strong> (in the following video, he performed Water Walk<\/em>\u00a0on the popular\u00a0TV show\u00a0<\/span>I’ve Got A Secret<\/em>\u00a0,<\/span>\u00a0introduced by <\/i>Gary Moore). He also got in touch with the young musician\u00a0<\/span>La Monte Young<\/span><\/strong>, who will go down in history as the first minimalist compositor. Maciunas opened on the Madison Avenue the\u00a0AG Art Gallery<\/strong> to exhibit his works and those ones of Dic<\/strong><\/span>k Higgns, Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, Ray Johnson.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>He made it in time before moving to\u00a0<\/span>Wiesbaden (which was the West Germany at the time) where in 1961 He found a job as graphic designer for the US Air Force.<\/span><\/p>\n