The Fluxux Movement emerged in NY in the 60’s, and then it moved to Europe and Japan. Fluxus objects and performances are characterized by minimalists but often expansive gestures based in scientific, philosophical, sociological, or other extra artistic ideas and leavened with burlesque. Fluxus artists are a network of radical visionaries who have sought to change political, social, as well as aesthetic, perception.
Before I started studying art, especially sculpture, I thought of it as something that could be touched or something that was stationary for the most part. After taking a look at the Fluxus movement, where everything is valid in art, my view of art has changed considerably. I believe that the possibilities are endless in art making, from fixed art to performance, video, and sound. The Galerie Ecart is one of those examples in which art takes a very different meaning. The Galerie Ecart is an exhibition in the Getty in which all the pieces are composed of sound. These pieces have to be listened through a pod cast or a phone. Another example is the video performances by Fischli and Weiss, The Way Things Go, where a series of chemical and physical chain reactions take place in an empty warehouse. . The Cremaster cycle, by Matthew Barney, is a recent series of performance in which the artist uses video to create art. I think that a movement like Fluxus has changed the way we see or create art. Artists are taking art beyond things that can be seen or touched, to more abstract ways of expression such as sound, video, ans performance art.
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February 26th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
You might want to do more research on the Cremaster series. Check out Jerry Saltz’s review : The Next Sex in Art in America, Oct.1996.