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Maciunas' Fluxus Manifesto, copies of which were thrown into the audience at the Festum Fluxorum Fluxus, Düsseldorf, February 1963. His father, Alexander M. Maciunas, was a Lithuanian architect and engineer who had trained in Berlin, and his mother, Leokadija, was a Russian-born dancer from Tiflis affiliated with the Lithuanian National Opera [3] and, later, Aleksandr Kerensky's private ...
Fluxus Manifesto, 1963, by George Maciunas Poster to Festum Fluxorum Fluxus 1963. Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers, and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product.
Fluxus 1, 1964.This copy in the Archiv Sohm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Fluxus 1 is an artists' book edited and produced by the Lithuanian-American artist George Maciunas, containing works by a series of artists associated with Fluxus, the international collective of avant-garde artists primarily active in the 1960s and 1970s.
Although it can be argued [1] that An Anthology is not strictly a Fluxus publication, its development and production were central events in the formation of Fluxus. It marked the first collaborative publication project between people who were to become part of Fluxus: Young (editor and co-publisher), Mac Low (co-publisher) and Maciunas (designer).
Before Fluxus founder George Maciunas died in 1978 from complications due to pancreatic cancer, he left behind his thoughts on Fluxus in a series of important video conversations with Miller called Interview With George Maciunas which has been screened internationally and translated into numerous languages. [13]
All of these sets were advertised for sale in Maciunas' Fluxus shop in SoHo, March 1965. [4] [11] "When I gave all the chess sets to George, I said, 'he can use them as fluxus chess without mentioning my name." Takako Saito [12] Maciunas was said to be so delighted by Spice Chess that he 'even took credit for it on occasion.' [4]
Duchamp visited the Browns at their home. [4] She cultivated a lifelong friendship with George Maciunas, from whom she purchased Fluxus artworks. [3] Brown commissioned Maciunas to design a room in her house to house her Fluxus collection. [3] In addition to Fluxus, Brown collected Surrealism, Dada, and post-war art. [3]
At Bauermeister's atelier, Patterson also met Nam June Paik, through whom he met Fluxus founder George Maciunas and came to play an integral role in organizing the early European Fluxus festivals. [5] Patterson was a founding member of Fluxus [6] and participated in the first Fluxus Festival in Wiesbaden (1962). [7]