Thoughts on Fluxus...

A lot of the concepts of fluxus seem to have come from John Cage and his experiments with music. There are remnants of the Dada period found within the fluxus ideas. They turn away from traditional art and focus on the practice of simplicity. I like how a lot of the work from the Fluxus are collaborations. I did a little research and it seems that some of the head-runners were John Cage, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, La Monte Young, and Yoko Ono. I appreciate how much of their work exists in real spaces, out in the world, it is not necessarily art hanging in a gallery. I think it is refreshing work, a bit out of the ordinary, but interesting none-the-less.