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"...it was meant to be a long-lasting idea or tradition with continuing
converts and practitioners. That is the way I look at it and that is
the way I deal with it. I think it should be
open to anyone who wants to practice it.
" [Don Boyd]
"I think what makes Fluxus so dynamic and interesting to me is that
there is no definition - I wish people would just accept that. The
appealing idea is that Fluxus is inclusive. Artists spend most of their
careers being rejected which is why Fluxus is so refreshing..." [Dawg]
"Fluxus is not a moment in history, or an art movement. Fluxus is a way
of doing things, a tradition, and a way of life and death." [Dick
Higgins]*
"Fluxus is more valuable as an idea and a potential for social change
than as a specific group of people or a collection of objects." [Ken
Friedman]
"1) Fluxus makes the mundane magical., 2) Fluxus happens when one feels that life and art must be taken so, seriously, that it becomes impossible to take life or art seriously. 3) Ordinary acts and ordinary objects perceived in extraordinary ways." [Allan Revich]
"I have no idea how to answer!" [Alan Bowman]"Fluxus is inside you, is part of how you are. It isn't just a bunch of things and dramas but is part of how you live. It is beyond words." [Dick Higgins]
"Why on earth we would want to(say what it is)?" [Alan Bowman]
"40 years after the first fluxus ventures the word has come to signify much more than it ever did and the world has come to expect more from fluxus than there ever was." [Alan Bowman]
"Fluxus is the "event" according to George Brecht: putting the flower vase on the piano.
Fluxus is the action of life/music: sending for a tango expert in order to be able to dance on stage.
Fluxus is the creation of a relationship between life and art,
Fluxus is gag, pleasure and shock,
Fluxus is an attitude towards art, towards the non-art of anti-art, towards the negation of one's ego,
Fluxus is light and has a sense of humor." [Ben Vautier]
"Fluxus has been hijacked, adopted, assimilated, morphed, borrowed, plagiarised, reworked, overworked and overblown and we've made something else out of it." [Alan Bowman]
"In Fluxus there has never been any attempt to agree on aims or methods; individuals with something unnameable in common have simply naturally coalesced to publish and perform their work. Perhaps this common something is a feeling that the bounds of art are much wider than they have conventionally seemed, or that art and certain long-established bounds are no longer very useful." [George Brecht]
"Stop worrying about the past. If you want to be fluxus, be fluxus that's fine. But be prepared for opposition. Unfortunately the sheer inability to define fluxus as one concrete thing is always going to stir shit up. [Alan Bowman]
"Whether you think that concert halls, theaters, and art galleries are the natural places to present music, performances, and objects, or find these places mummifying, preferring streets, homes, and railway stations, or do not find it useful to distinguish between these two aspects of the world theater, there is someone associated with Fluxus who agrees with you. Artist, anti-artists, non-artists, anartists, the politically committed and the apolitical, poets of non-poetry, non-dancers dancing, doers, undoers, and non-doers, Fluxus encompasses opposites. Consider opposing it, supporting it, ignoring it, changing your mind." [George Brecht]