Fluxus & Conceptual Art

John Cage

• Chance
• Randomised & based on luck
• 4'33 - Sat in silence for 4 minutes 33 seconds
• What can you hear? In silence what do you hear?
• If everything is silent then what do you hear?

• Water Walk
• Sounds are not accidental
• Everything happens for a purpose

Steam pot
Party popper
Bath running
Rubber duck
Waters flowers
Piano
Audience find it funny?
Music because he says it is
Mathematical Nonsense

Yves Klien

• Used naked ladies as paint brushes to paint a large canvas in front of a live audience
• Anthropometries - name of the canvases
• Some people like the idea & some people hated it - mixed opinions
• People judged it but the ladies in it loved the artwork
• worked with only 4 colours, pink, gold, blue & yellow
• International Klien Blue - Trademarked colour
• Very spiritual
• 'Living Brushes'
• Women said he respected them for being his instruments of Art
• Used Airbrush, Fire (not on people) and his classic Klien Blue plaint

Piero Manzoni

• Early 60's
• Hard boiled eggs
• Cans of poo (his own) - different languages saying 'Artist's shit'
• died 1969

Conceptual

• The Society of Spectacle - didn't care about art, only reality
• Re-wrote comics
• Didn't like Art
• Tried to get rid of consumerism
• Art/posters in the streets rather than in galleries/museums (belief)
• Selective people will find it funny
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• Eventually became an Art movement instead of a rebellion against Art
• Their artwork/posters & posters soon ended up in museums under the name of 'Modern Art'

Guy Debord- 

• Founder of SoS
• Committed suicide because he thought the CIA were bugging his flat/apartment
• Predicted the boom in consumerism but didn't know that we would actually enjoy it

Fluxus

• World is too uptight
• Be more happy
• General Humour
• Not Serious
• Have Fun
• Still quite a dark movement though
• Weird
• Much larger than Art - any type of creativity was effected
• 'Culture'
• Open & experimental
• Pushing the boundaries of Art

George Mecunis

• Founder of Fluxus

Fluxus Festival 1962

• Sat at a panel in front of an audience
• Little subtle performances
• Broken/breaking instruments
• Destroying a piano

Yoko Ono

• Cut Piece - She sat on stage and the audience were invited to come up & cut chunks of her clothing off

Joseph Beuys

• Felt of Fat
• Filz T.V

Sarah Lucas
(Now)