Art in Thoery George Maciunas 'Neo Dada in Music, Theatre, poetry, art.'

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Fluxus is a loosley organised group that emerged in 1961 newyork. George Maciunas was a leading figure within this colllective.

Fluxus embraced an international group of artists including George Brecht, Yoko Ono, Ben Vautier, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young and robert morris.

John Cage was an important influence, as well as his associates Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham.

Fluxus had a big impact on Joseph Beuys

Fluxus work took a variety of forms Including music, dance, poetry, performace, film, publications, multiples and posters.

The idea was life and art had been separated and fluxus was to fuse to two back together.

Notes manifesto and where it was made: Fluxus concert 'apres John Cage' wiesbaden, 9 June 1962.

Fluxus is neo - dada

The members where 'bound by the concept of concretism  The idea of concretism was to move away from the abstract. To art which is a better reflection of reality there is levels of how concrete a piece could be. This in music is how the actual pieces sounds the example given is hitting a piano with a hammer. Finding it hard to understand why this was important?

'Thus the primary contribution of a truly concrete artist consists in creating a concept or a method by which form can be created independently of him, rather than the form or structure."

The concept of concretism is art nihilism

'This requires the composition to provide a kind of framework, an automatic machine' within which or by which, nature (ethier in the form of an indepdent performer or indeternate-chance compositional methods) can complete the art form, effectively and indepdently of the artist composer' This idea seems to be similar to what creative coding is now. Generative

These anti art are against the seperation of artist and audience. Anti art is life, is nature, is true reality.The idea is to exphasis the ideas of life being beautiful and everyday life being art. There explain being stoping to look and appriciate rainfall. The anti-artists believe that art itself separated life from art.

'If man could expiernce the world, the concrete world surrounding him, in the same way he experinces art, there would be no need for art, artists and similar 'nonproductive' elements.

I do think that this idea is a very pretentious idea. considering that art being subjective
everybody experience art differently some may see more beauty in nature than art we don't need to look at a urinal to understand that. I do think that this idea of experience could have played a role in the way we set up art exhibitions however. I the Fluxus attitude must of had a influence on how exhibitions and installations are curated.

This is what anti art is I don't think its super important i think its more what George Maciunas believed.