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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 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.
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.
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).
The core of the company's annual programming has been Richard Foreman's theater pieces. Foreman mounted his first production with Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in 1968 at the Film-Maker's Cinematheque on Wooster Street, where he worked under the Fluxus leader George Maciunas. [14]
Yam evolved parallel to George Maciunas' Fluxfests, [11] set up with almost identical aims but currently operating only in Europe whilst Maciunas was stationed in Germany. The International Fluxus Festival of the Newest Music (Festum Fluxorum), 1962–63, would feature the work of artists such as Cage, Raoul Hausmann and Nam June Paik.
Something Else was an early publisher of Concrete poetry and other works by Fluxus artists throughout the 1960s. During the 1960s in New York City some of the artists who worked at the Something Else Press included Editor-in-Chief Emmett Williams, artist Alison Knowles, poet Larry Freifeld, [1] [2] [3] novelist Mary Flanagan, artist Ronnie Landfield, [4] [5] and publisher/founder Dick Higgins.
The events ran parallel to George Maciunas' Fluxus Festivals in Europe (Sept 1962 – early 1963), which had already performed some of Watts' event scores in Düsseldorf, and the two events were officially joined when Maciunas published Brecht's event scores as Water Yam, the first of the Flux boxes to be