Ken Friedman

The Fluxus Reader offers the first comprehensive overview on this challenging and controversial group. Fluxus began in the 1950s as a loose, international community of artists, architects, composers and designers. By the 1960s, Fluxus had become a laboratory of ideas and an arena for artistic experimentation in Europe, Asia and the United States. Described as 'the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s', Fluxus challenged conventional thinking on art and culture for over four decades. It had a central role in the birth of such key contemporary art forms as concept art, installation, performance art, intermedia and video. Despite this influence, the scope and scale of this unique phenomenon have made it difficult to explain Fluxus in normative historical and critical terms.

Ken Friedman, Introduction A Transformative Vision of Fluxus
Part I THREE HISTORIES
Owen Smith, Developing a Fluxable Forum Early Performance and Publishing
Simon Anderson, Fluxus, Fluxion, Flushoe, The 1970s
Hannah Higgins, Fluxus Fortuna

Part II THEORIES OF FLUXUS
Ina Blom, Boredom and Oblivion
David T Doris, Zen Vaudeville A Medi(t)ation in the Margins of Fluxus
Craig Saper, Fluxus as a Laboratory

Part III CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Estera Milman, Fluxus History and Trans-History Competing Strategies for
Empowerment

Stephen C Foster, Historical Design and Social Purpose; A Note on the
Relationship of Fluxus to Modernism

Nicholas Zurbrugg, 'A Spirit of Large Goals' Fluxus, Dada and Postmodern
Cultural Theory at Two Speeds

Part IV THREE FLUXUS VOICES
Larry Miller, Transcript of the Videotaped Interview with George Maciunas

Susan L Jarosi, Selections from an Interview with Bill Maciunas 199
Larry Miller, Maybe Fluxus (A Para-Interrogative Guide for the Neoteric
Transmuter, Tinder, Tinker and Totalist)

Part V TWO FLUXUS THEORIES
Dick Higgins, Fluxus Theory and Reception

Ken Friedman, Fluxus and Company

Part VI DOCUMENTS OF FLUXUS
Fluxus Chronology Key Moments and Events
A List of Selected Fluxus Art Works and Related Primaiy Source Materials
A List of Selected Fluxus Sources and Related Secondary Sources… (lisätietoja)