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1. radiOM.org - Flux Art: An Historical Perspective [5.102% Popularity: 0.00000]

Flux Art: An Historical Perspective Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 58 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KRAB An interview with George Maciunas, about the Fluxus art movement, a loose confederation of composers, poets and artists that included such well-known figures as Yoko Ono, and Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins. and George Brecht. Initially inspired by John Cage's Experimental Music Composition classes at the New School for Social Research, La Monte Young's influential series of performances in the Chambers Street loft in Manhattan, and the growing interest in conceptual art happenings of the 1960s, the Fluxus movement became famous for its radical avant-garde approach to Art and Music. Like the Dadists and Situationists, Fluxus artists were largely instilled with a do-it-yourself sensibility and an interest in largely unstructured participatory events or happenings. According to George Brecht: “In Fluxus there has never been any attempt to agree on aims or me...

2. radiOM.org - Other Minds Presents Something Else: A Fluxus Semicentenary, (Sept. 17, 2011) [5.050% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Presents: Something Else: A Fluxus Semicentenary, (Sept. 17, 2011) View Item Type: Video Duration: 103 min Event Type: Inter-Media / Visual Arts Program Origin: Other Minds Something Else: A Fluxus Semicentenary, was a three day event honoring the past half decade of Fluxus, a loose association of like minded conceptual and performance artists. The series of events, which included a selection of films, a radio broadcast, and a live performance, was sponsored by Other Minds, and held in San Francisco from September 15 - 17, 2011. The last day featured live performances of a selection of iconic Fluxus works by some of its founding and/or more famous artists. The evening began with George Brecht’s “Solo for Contrabass” in which a string bass is polished on stage. This was followed by Yoshi Wada’s “Yoshi’s Sound Store” in which various auditory events were presented for potential sale. After the intermission Dick Higgins’ brief but arresting “Danger Music No. 17” was presented, followed by a rather le...

3. radiOM.org - MACHUNAS: A Performance Oratorio in Four Colors [5.002% Popularity: 0.00000]

MACHUNAS: A Performance Oratorio in Four Colors View Item Type: Video Duration: 144 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Frank Oteri The story of “MACHUNAS” is an emblem of the end of twentieth century culture, in all its tragedy, irony, delusions and immense vitality. It’s inspired by and based on four key episodes in the life and death of George Maciunas, an architect, artist, activist and founder of the Fluxus art movement, the last avant-garde utopia of the modern era. His name is misspelled on purpose, both due to phonetic considerations and the desire to separate this story from any accurate description of his life. The four acts of “MACHUNAS” are divided into Yellow, Green, Red, Blue, and each act has 9 parts. “MACHUNAS “ begins in Yellow, narrating the days of a young child in the old Lithuania that’s about to be extinguished by the Nazis and Soviets and transitions into Green through the story of a teenager strangely out of place and time in an American-controlled refugee camp in Germany. Representi...