- Started off as a smalle international collective but was characterised as sharing attitudes instead of a movement.
- Experimental music roots- John cage - famous for creating the piece 4 mins 33 seconds silence.
- Fluxus played a significant role in questioning the definition of what art can be.
-Fluxus had no single unifying style. seeing themselves as and alternative.
- Audiences and spectators where also used to collaborated with in the pieces.
- Accident and humour where important elements to the pieces.
- Artists involved included - Joseph Beuys , Dick Higgins, Alice Hutchins and Yoko Ono.
-Yoko Ono create a piece of performance art entitles 'cut pieces' that consisted of her sitting on the floor, fully clothed in a room and having people approach her with scissors and cut piece of clothing off her. It is a surprising how powerful the act is when you watch it , it communicates a lot of messages. The main being the key feminist intentions behind the piece. Ono was is well know for being a active feminist and the piece was particularly cutting edge because it requires the audience to come into very close contact with the artist and this had never been done before. Watching the film, it dose bring the issue if the objectification of women to light. And the act of watching it feel wrong from my perspective as it feels like you are instructing on her privacy.
- The silence performance by John Cage, the purpose to make people listen to there surroundings. It was also part of the curiosity of Cage that inspired him to write the piece. he wondered what would happen if he sat down a the piano and didn't play anything. The audiences reactions where mixed , they mostly stayed silent for the first minute then protests started or the audience began making there own noise. The audience did start to understand the contrast between the quite and the noises they created , but also an insecure and unpradicitblity of it. They don't know what is going to happen next and panic sets in. The piece blurred the lines between art and music and just established them as art forms that could work together.
- Fluxus played a significant role in questioning the definition of what art can be.
-Fluxus had no single unifying style. seeing themselves as and alternative.
- Audiences and spectators where also used to collaborated with in the pieces.
- Accident and humour where important elements to the pieces.
- Artists involved included - Joseph Beuys , Dick Higgins, Alice Hutchins and Yoko Ono.
-Yoko Ono create a piece of performance art entitles 'cut pieces' that consisted of her sitting on the floor, fully clothed in a room and having people approach her with scissors and cut piece of clothing off her. It is a surprising how powerful the act is when you watch it , it communicates a lot of messages. The main being the key feminist intentions behind the piece. Ono was is well know for being a active feminist and the piece was particularly cutting edge because it requires the audience to come into very close contact with the artist and this had never been done before. Watching the film, it dose bring the issue if the objectification of women to light. And the act of watching it feel wrong from my perspective as it feels like you are instructing on her privacy.
- The silence performance by John Cage, the purpose to make people listen to there surroundings. It was also part of the curiosity of Cage that inspired him to write the piece. he wondered what would happen if he sat down a the piano and didn't play anything. The audiences reactions where mixed , they mostly stayed silent for the first minute then protests started or the audience began making there own noise. The audience did start to understand the contrast between the quite and the noises they created , but also an insecure and unpradicitblity of it. They don't know what is going to happen next and panic sets in. The piece blurred the lines between art and music and just established them as art forms that could work together.
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