John Cage & Fluxus

John Cage’s Water Walk:

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https://youtu.be/Yybn6iKmYdQ

 

Fluxus was an international network of artists, active primarily in the 1960s, interested in overcoming boundaries between different artistic mediums and between art and life.

Members included George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Nam Jun Paik, Benjamin Patterson, and others. Alison Knowles and Benjamin Patterson are still active.

Dick Higgins on Fluxus:

 

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DANGER MUSIC NUMBER TWO

Hat. Rags. Paper. Heave. Shave

(Dick Higgins, May 1961)

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Alison Knowles on Fluxus Event Scores:

What is Fluxus in Five words or less:

And, finally. Here is my favorite: Sonic Youth performing Piano Piece #13 (for Nam June Pak) by George Maciunas.

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