Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: : This essay argues that Fluxus was an experiment in utopia. Drawing on Jacques Rancière, I suggest that its subversiveness lies neither in avant-garde shock nor Marxist critique, but rather in a visionary extension of the aesthetic. This approach can be seen in works such as Benjamin Patterson's Variations for Double-Bass , Nam June Paik's Zen for Film , and Flux Year Box 2 . Fluxus was grounded in radical equality, making visible and audible a range of ordinary, marginal things. In so doing, it established new forms of political possibility bound up with sensory play, nature, mass culture, intermedia, and creative agency.
Source: Modernism/modernity
Author: Ross Cole
Language: English
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4411069369