Fifty Fluxus Characteristics
Compiled by Don Boyd, 1976
- Intermedial
- Unformal
- Unpurist
- Mostly non-visual training
- Content over form
- Blasé, personal subject natter
- Bypass traditional media of art – anything goes
- Art for the masses (low cost multiples)
- Slice of life
- Favors Xerox over representational drawing or painting
- Don’t show off craftsmanship
- Blasé about galleries
- Intercommunication within group
- Free with help and information
- Mail art
- Nonsense
- Not entirely negative like Dada
- Collaboration
- Fresh eye approach
- Strong use of literary-poetry concrete
- Photo printmaking process
- Diagramatic drawings
- Photo and gestural paintings
- Not always repulsive to be daring
- Natural activities in performance or dance
- Revolutionary social concerns
- Controversial but not too much so
- Not concerned with beauty per se
- Involve all senses in one work
- Comprehensive, world view
- Expands the concept of art
- Personal symbols
- Uses instaprint and Xerox
- Uses rubber stamps
- Heightens everyday experience
- Performance scores
- Natural foods interest
- Mix Eastern and Western culture
- New ways to reach public
- Nudity in a natural way
- Decontrol of performers by director, audience participation
- Take theatre to audience
- Use of boredom as content
- History of ideas, not just art history
- Not necessarily leftist in social ideas
- Mostly apolitical
- General education – not art school
- Not overly concerned with art taste
- Love of classics
- Highly disciplined, use of chance