Fluxus

Artists

• Eric Andersen
• Artpool
• Lenora de Barros
• Mary Bauermeister
• Joseph Beuys
• George Brecht
• John Cage
• Giuseppe Chiari
• Sari Dienes
• Esther Ferrer
• Nye Ffarrabas
• Robert Filliou
• Albert M. Fine
• Michael Gibbs
• Ken Friedman
• Galeria Akumulatory 2
• Dick Higgins
• Dorothy Iannone
• Milan Knížák
• Alison Knowles
• Takehisa Kosugi
• Shigeko Kubota
• George Maciunas
• Charlotte Moorman
• Ann Noël
• Yoko Ono
• Nam June Paik
• Benjamin Patterson
• Willem de Ridder
• Takako Saito
• Carolee Schneemann
• Mieko Shiomi
• Yasunao Tone
• Ben Vautier
• Wolf Vostell
• Branko Vučićević
• Zaj

Young (ed.), An Anthology, 1963, Log, PDF.

Maciunas, Fluxus Manifesto, 1963.

Maciunas (ed.), Flux Year Box 2, 1965-68, Log, PDF.

Brecht, Chance-Imagery, 1966, PDF.

Manifestos, 1966/2004, PDF.

Filliou, et al., Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts, 1970, Log, PDF.

Vostell, Higgins (eds.), Fantastic Architecture, 1971, Log, PDF.

Works

Objects, artists' books

• George Maciunas (ed.), Flux Year Box 1, 1964, JPGs.
• George Maciunas (ed.), Flux Year Box 2, New York, 1965-68, JPGs.
• Ben Vautier, Fluxbox Containing God, c1966.
• George Maciunas (ed.), Fluxtattoos, New York: Implosions, 1967.
• Daniel Spoerri, Roland Topor, Robert Filliou, Monsters are Inoffensive, 1968. Postcard set. [1]
• George Maciunas (ed.), Fluxpack 3, Flash Art Edizioni, 1975.

Resources

• Fluxus works in Fluxus Digital Collection at University of Iowa Libraries
• Fluxus West Digital Collection at Iowa Digital Library
• Fluxus works at California Institute of the Arts' Artists' Book Collection
• Fluxus works at Fondazione Bonotto

Event scores

• La Monte Young (ed.), An Anthology, New York: La Monte Young and Jackson Mac Law, 1963; 2nd ed., New York: H. Friedrich, 1970, JPGs.
• Alison Knowles, Annea Lockwood (eds.), Women's Work, New York: Alison Knowles and Anna Lockwood, 1975. [2]
• Shiomi Mieko, Spatial Poems, Osaka, 1975. [3] [4] [5]
• Ken Friedman, Owen Smith, Lauren Sawchyn (eds.), The Fluxus Performance Workbook, new ed., Performance Research, 2002, 117 pp.

Writings

• George Maciunas, Fluxus Manifesto, 1963. Distributed during Festum Fluxorum Fluxus, Düsseldorf. Other Fluxus manifestos.
• Robert Filliou, et al., Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts / Lehren und Lernen als Auffuehrungskuenste, Cologne and New York: König, 1970, 236 pp. (English)/(German)
• Alison Knowles, Journal of the Identical Lunch, San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1971. [6]

Newsletters

• News-Policy-Letter, 7 numbers, ed. George Maciunas, Wiesbaden: Fluxus (1-4), Ehlhalten: Fluxus (5-7), 1962-63.
• Fluxnewsletter, ed. George Maciunas, New York, 1965-76. Selection.
• Something Else Press Newsletters, ed. Dick Higgins, New York: Something Else Press, 1966-73 & 1983.

Something Else Press (incl. Great Bear Pamphlets) [7]

Selection according to Friedman & Owen's Fluxus bibliography.

• Dick Higgins, Jefferson’s Birthday/Postface, 2 vols., New York: Something Else Press, 1964, 271+89 pp. [8] [9] [10]
• Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, Benjamin Patterson, Tomas Schmit, The Four Suits, New York: Something Else Press, 1965. [11] [12]
• Robert Filliou, Ample Food for Stupid Thought, New York: Something Else Press, 1965.
• Al Hansen, A Primer of Happenings and Time/Space Art, New York: Something Else Press, 1965.
• Ray Johnson, The Paper Snake, New York: Something Else Press, 1965.
• Knowles, Alison, By Alison Knowles, Great Bear Pamphlets, New York: Something Else Press, 1965; UbuClassics, 2004, PDF.
• George Brecht, Chance-Imagery, Great Bear Pamphlets, New York: Something Else Press, 1966, 16 pp; UbuClassics, 2004, PDF.
• Manifestos, Great Bear Pamphlets, New York: Something Else Press, 1966; UbuClassics, 2004, PDF.
• Jackson Mac Low, The Twin Plays, Great Bear Pamphlets, New York: Something Else Press, 1966; UbuClassics, 2004, PDF.
• Daniel Spoerri, An Anecdoted Topography of Chance, ed. & annot. Emmett Williams, New York: Something Else Press, 1966.
• Wolf Vostell, Berlin and Phenomena, trans. Laura P. Williams, Great Bear Pamphlets, New York: Something Else Press, 1966, 16 pp; UbuClassics, 2004, PDF.
• George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Games at the Cedilla, or the Cedilla Takes Off, New York: Something Else Press, 1967. [13] [14]
• Robert Filliou, A Filliou Sampler, Great Bear Pamphlets, New York: Something Else Press, 1967, 16 pp; UbuClassics, 2004, PDF.
• Juan Hidalgo, A Zaj Sampler, trans. Peter Besas, Great Bear Pamphlets, New York: Something Else Press, 1967; UbuClassics, 2004, PDF.
• Bengt af Klintberg, The Cursive Scandinavian Salve, A Great Bear Pamphlet, New York: Something Else Press, 1967; UbuClassics, 2004, PDF.
• Emmett Williams (ed.), An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, New York: Something Else Press, 1967
• Dick Higgins, foew&ombwhnw: A Grammar of the Mind and a Phenomenology of Love and a Science of the Arts As Seen by a Stalker of the Wild Mushroom, New York: Something Else Press, 1968.
• John Cage (ed.), Notations, New York: Something Else Press, 1969.
• Dick Higgins, foew&ombwhnw, New York: Something Else Press, 1969.
• Jackson Mac Low, Stanzas for Iris Lezak, Barton, VT: Something Else Press, 1971.
• Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins (eds.), Fantastic Architecture, New York: Something Else Press, 1971.
• Richard Kostelanetz (ed.), Breakthrough Fictioneers, Barton, VT and Berlin: Something Else Press, 1972.
• Geoff Hendricks, Ring Piece, Barton, VT: Something Else Press, 1973.

Film, video

• Fluxfilm Anthology, 1962-1970. Compiled by George Maciunas.
• Fluxus video at Fondazione Bonotto

Fluxus Anthology, 1989, MP3s, MP3s.

FluxTellus, 1990, MP3s.

Sound

• Fluxus Anthology: A Collection of Music and Sound Events, ed. Maurizio Narrucci, Florence: Zona archives & Recorthings, 1989, vinyl; Florence: Anthology Records, 1995, CD, MP3s.
• Tellus 24: FluxTellus, ed. Barbara Moore, Harvestworks, NY: Tellus, 1990, cassette. [15]
• Fluxus Anthology, 30th Anniversary 1962-1992, ed. Jan Van Toorn, Holland: Slowscan Editions, 1993, MP3s.
• Crayon: Festschrift for Jackson Mac Low's 75th Birthday, eds. Andrew Levy and Bob Harrison, New York, 1997.
• Fluxus Anthology, Slowscan Editions, 2004, 2 LPs.
• Fluxus Anthology, ed. Walter Cianciusi, mIEKAL aND, 2006. A collection of music and sound events assembled for Fluxlist.
• Fluxus audio works at Fondazione Bonotto

Fluxus Virus, 1962-1992, 1992, Log, PDF. (DE/EN)

Fluxus. Eine lange Geschichte mit vielen Knoten. Fluxus in Deutschland 1962–1994, 1995, Log, PDF. (DE/CZ)

Catalogues

• Happening & Fluxus: Materialien, ed. H. Sohm, Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1970. (German) [16]
• Fluxus etc., ed. John Hendricks, Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, and Detroit, MI: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, 1981. [17] Addenda I, 1983. [18] Addenda II, 1983. [19]
• Fluxus Virus, 1962-1992, ed. Ken Friedman, Cologne: Galerie Schüppenhauer, 1992, 399 pp. (German)/(English) [20] [21]
• In the Spirit of Fluxus, eds. Elizabeth Armstrong, Janet Jenkins, and Joan Rothfuss, Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 1993. [22]
• Fluxus. Eine lange Geschichte mit vielen Knoten. Fluxus in Deutschland 1962–1994, 2 vols., eds. René Block and Gabriele Knapstein, Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 1995, 100+266 pp. (German)
  • Dlouhý příběh s mnoha uzly. Fluxus v Německu 1962-1994: texty, trans. Jiří Strážnický and Jan Mattuš, Ostfildern-Ruit bei Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 73 pp. (Czech)
• Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts: Subjugated Knowledges and the Balance of Power, ed. Estera Milman, University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1999, 111 pp. With contributions by Ken Friedman, Stephen Perkins, and Owen Smith.
• Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957–1963, ed. Joan Marter, New Jersey: Newark Museum and Rutgers University Press, 1999. [23]
• Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University, 1958-1972, ed. Geoffrey Hendricks, Rutgers University Press, 2002. [24]
• Maciunas' Learning Machines: From Art History to a Chronology of Fluxus, ed. Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt, Berlin: Vice Versa, 2003. [25]
• Fluxus—Art into Life, eds. Nobuko Akita, Yoko Hayami, and Midori Yoshimoto, Saitama, Japan: Urawa Bijutsukan, 2004. (Japanese)/(English) [26]
• Fluxus East: Fluxus-Netzwerke in Mittelosteuropa / Fluxus East: Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe, ed. Petra Stegmann, Berlin: Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, 2007, 288 pp. (German)/(English) [27] [28]
• Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, ed. Jacquelynn Baas, Hood Museum of Art, and University of Chicago Press, 2011.
• Fluxus at 50, eds. Alexander Klar, Stefan Fricke, and Sarah Maske, Bielefeld: Kerber, 2012. [29]
• The Lunatics Are on the Loose: European Fluxus Festivals 1962-1977, ed. Petra Stegmann, Potsdam: Down With Art!, 2013. [30]

Resources

• Fluxus catalogues at Fondazione Bonotto

Exhibitions

Selection of gallery exhibitions with an online presence. For more see Catalogues section above.

• Fluxus East: Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Sep-Nov 2007; Vilnius, 2007; Krakow, 2008; Budapest, 2008; Tallinn, 2008; Copenhagen, 2009; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden/Oslo, Oct 2010-Feb 2011.
• Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Sep-Dec 2011.

Chronologies, diagrams

• George Maciunas (ed.), International Fluxus Festivals and Concerts, 1965. Collection of flyers and posters, 1962-65.
• George Maciunas, "Fluxus (Its Historical Development and Relationship to Avant-garde Movements)", 1966.
• George Maciunas, "Expanded Arts Diagram", Film Culture 43 (1966); repr. in Fluxfest Sale, 1966.
• Ken Friedman, Chronology of Fluxus West, 1966-1970, 1970, 9 pp.
• George Maciunas, Diagram of historical development of Fluxus and other 4 dimensional, aural, optic, olfactory, epithelial and tactile art forms, 1973. [31]
• "Fluxus Chronology: Key Moments and Events", in The Fluxus Reader, ed. Ken Friedman, Academy Editions, 1998, pp 257-282.
• "Chronology", in Fluxus–Art into Life, 2004.
• "Fluxus Event Map, 1958-1978", in Fluxus–Art into Life, 2004.

Literature

Ken Friedman (ed.), The Fluxus Reader, 1998, Log, PDF, PDFs.

Art history and theory

Books

• Hannah Higgins, Fluxus Experience, University of California Press, 2002, 259 pp.
• Shiomi Mieko, Furukusasu towa nanika: Nichijo to ato o musubitsuketa hitobito [What Is Fluxus? The People Who Connected Art and the Everyday], Tokyo: Firumuātosha, 2005. [32] (Japanese)
• Ken Friedman (ed.), The Fluxus Reader, Academy Editions, 1998, 309 pp.
• Owen F. Smith, Fluxus: The History Of An Attitude, San Diego State University Press, 1998, 336 pp. Chapter 1. [33]
• Chris Thompson, Felt: Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama, University of Minnesota Press, 2011, 319 pp.

Journal issues

• Visible Language 26(1-2), "Fluxus: A Conceptual Country", ed. Estera Milman, Winter/Spring 1992, 246 pp. [34]
• Performance Research 7(3): "On Fluxus", Sep 2002.

Articles

• Ken Friedman, "Mail Art History" The Fluxus Factor", Flue 4:3-4 (Winter 1984), pp 18-24.
• Peter Frank, "Ken Friedman: The Fluxus Years", Helsinki: Oy Wärtsilä Ab Arabia, 1987.
• Ken Friedman, "History, Historiography, Historicism, Legacy", Visible Language 39:3 (2005), pp 308-317.
• Ken Friedman, "The Literature of Fluxus", Visible Language 40:1 (2006), pp 90-112.
• Ken Friedman, "Working Together", in Artistic Bedfellows, ed. Holly Crawford, University Press of America, 2008.
• Roslyn Bernstein, Shael Shapiro, Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo, Vilnius: Jonas Mekas Foundation, 2010. [35]
• Ken Friedman, "Fluxus: A Laboratory of Ideas", in Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, ed. Jacquelynn Baas, Hood Museum of Art, 2011, pp 35-44.

Repositories

• More Friedman's writings on Fluxus
• Writings on Fluxus in Swinburne Research Bank
• Selection of texts on Fluxus by Andrey Kovalev

Lists and bibliographies

• Fluxus Codex, ed. John Hendricks, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. [36]
• "A List of Selected Fluxus Art Works and Related Primary Source Materials", in The Fluxus Reader, ed. Ken Friedman, Academy Editions, 1998, pp 283-295.
• "A List of Selected Sources and Related Secondary Sources", in The Fluxus Reader, ed. Ken Friedman, Academy Editions, 1998, pp 296-305.
• Ken Friedman, Owen Smith, A Fluxus Bibliography, Visible Language 40:1 (2006), pp 114-127, PDF.
• Experimental Women in Flux: Selective Reading in the Silverman Reference Library, 2010. Annotated.
• Allie Tepper, "A Fluxus Bibliography", Post at MoMA, 20 Aug 2013. Annotated.
• Fluxus bibliography at Artpool, 2000.
• at artype.de

Resources

• Fluxus Digital Collection at University of Iowa Libraries.
• Fluxus at Artpool
• Fluxus Portal for the Internet
• Fondazione Bonotto, a Venetian archive of printed matter and ephemeral about Fluxus movement (especially in Italy) and concrete and visual poetry.
• Between New York and Tokyo: Fluxus and Graphic Scores, Post at MoMA, Jul 2013.
• Fluxus Heidelberg Center Blog

See also

• Mail art

Links

• Fluxus at Wikipedia