Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things : : The Agency of Chance Collaborations / / Magdalena Holdar.

• Superior document: Studies in Art & Materiality ; 6
• VerfasserIn: Holdar, Magdalena,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Art & Materiality ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 pages)

Being based in different countries around the globe, but keen to work together, Fluxus artists developed collaborations based on shared resources and creative autonomy – methods that also gave the artworks agency to perform beyond the control of their originators.

At the same time whimsical and thought-provoking, Fluxus explored everyday life as an object of art. Behind mundane materials and activities, we find a large network of Fluxus artists who worked together for decades to create and share their art. This publication builds on archival materials that expose the nature of the artists’ working relationships, and methods for collaboration and circulation of artworks. It traces both people and things, exploring how the network expanded and was made solid, from Fluxus’s conception in the 1960s, to the 1990s, when it had eventually left its stealth flight under art history’s radar.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Network, Actors, and Nodes -- 2 State of Research -- 3 The Archives -- 4 Tracing the Actors -- 5 Layout of Study -- Chapter 2 Network Nodes and Nodes for Networking -- 1 Atelier Mary Bauermeister - Cologne 1960-62 -- 2 Charlotte Moorman and the Festival of the Avant Garde - New York 1964 -- 3 Partners and Tours - Scandinavia 1961-62 -- Chapter 3 With Help from Friends and Strangers -- 1 Networking Strategies in Scandinavia -- 2 Connecting Nodes and Changing the Network -- Chapter 4 Chance Collaborations -- 1 Agency in Lists -- 2 Flux-Like Invitations beyond Fluxus -- 3 Director by Chance: Per Kirkeby and Fluxus North -- 4 Non-human Agency -- Chapter 5 Conclusions -- 1 Intermedia as Artistic Practice -- 2 Systems Manipulation -- 3 Paper, Art, and Everyday Life -- Bibliography -- Index.