It originated in the 1960’s in New York and later spreaded to Japan . The Fluxus style reduced gestures and mixed the ideals of the Dada, Bauhaus, and Zen movements. Its artists sought to presume that all media and artistic discipline was a ‘fair game’ in terms of combinations and fusions of different styles. The Fluxus movement was the precursor to many avant garde developments over the years following
the art period. Although conventional art and media had been in ‘flux’ long before Fluxus, Dick Higgins was the first to name this development as an actual art movement. Higgins coined the word intermedia to explain a new development in artistic activity –between the media. His intent was to create an art theory of blurring and mixing different art principles and values (ie Futurism, Dada,Russian Constructivism). The artwork of the Fluxus period is known for it’s minimalist but expressive approach to gestures, and it’s attempt to base art on scientific, philosophical, or sociological ideas. One of the best known artists of the Fluxus movement is Yoko Ono, who with many other Fluxus period artists all over the world sought to generate a solid Fluxus network. The artists of this movement were ini
tially considered pranksters because of their playful and unconventional style. To this day they are a network of radical visionaries that attempt to uproot social, political
and aesthetic perceptions. Other famous Fluxus artists include Joseph Beuys, George Maciunas, and Robert Filliou. They avoided any limiting art theories, and spurned pure aestheic, producing such mixed-media as found poems, mail art, silent orchestras, and collages of such readily available materials scavanged posters, newspapers, and other epherma. Their activities resulted in many events or situations, often called "Aktions" — works challenging definitions of art as focused on objects --performances, guerilla or street theater, concerts of electronic music - many of
them similar to what in America were known as Happenings.
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