[rohrpost] FLUXFILM ANTHOLOGY, argos

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FLUXFILM ANTHOLOGY

25.06.2004 - 8:30 pm

argos
Werfstraat 13 rue du Chantier
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
tel +32 2 229 00 03
fax +32 2 223 73 31
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Films by Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, George Maciunas, Chieko Shiomi, John
Cavanaugh, James Riddle, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Pieter
Vanderbiek, Joe Jones, Eric Anderson, Jeff Perkins, Wolf Vostell, Albert
Fine, George Landow, Paul Sharits, John Cale, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr, Ben
Vautier. 
16mm, b/w & color, 120 minutes, 1962-1970

Starting in the early sixties, Fluxus followed in the footsteps of the
Futurist and Dada avant-gardes, going against the established grain of Fine
Art and Official Art. Fluxus’ interdisciplinary aesthetic brings together
influences as diverse as Zen, Science and daily life, and puts them to
poetic use. Initially received as little more than an international network
of pranksters, the playful artists of Fluxus were, and remain, a network of
radical visionaries who sought to reconcile art with life. Dating from the
sixties and compiled by George Maciunas (1931-1978, founder of Fluxus), the
Fluxfilm Anthology is a document consisting of 37 short films ranging from
10 seconds to 10 minutes in length. Elements of ephemeral environments,
these films, some of which were meant to be screened as continuous loops,
were shown as part of the events and happenings of the New York avant-garde.
Made by the artists listed above, they celebrate the ephemeral humor of the
Fluxus movement.

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