Rise of Fluxus

Fluxus was an international network of artists, composers, poets and designers that emerged in the early 1960s and blended different arts into playful, experimental events. The Lithuanian-born organiser George Maciunas gave it its name and coordinated its festivals, first held in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1962. Artists such as Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles took part. They drew on the ideas of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp, and wrote simple instruction pieces called event scores, which could be performed by anyone. Fluxus challenged the idea of art as a precious object, and it influenced performance art, conceptual art and video art.

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