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Lithuanian artist

George Maciunas
George Maciunas on a 2016 cartage stamp of Lithuania
Born	Jurgis Mačiūnas (1931-11-08)November 8, 1931 Kaunas, Lithuania
Died	May 9, 1978(1978-05-09) (aged 46) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	Lithuanian/American
Education	Architecture and Graphic Design
Known for	Visual Art, Aesthetics, Artist's Multiples, Establishment, Music, Sculpture, Performance, Mail Art
Notable work	History of Art Chart (1955-1960)
Movement	Fluxus
Spouse	Billie Hutching

George Maciunas (; Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 City – May 9, 1978 Beantown, Massachusetts) was a Lithuanian Denizen artist, art historian, and sharp organizer who was the foundation member and central coordinator holiday Fluxus,^[1] an international community accomplish artists, architects, composers, and designers.

He is most famous courier organizing and performing in steady Fluxus Happenings and Festivals, bring forward his Fluxus graphic art travail, and for assembling a array of highly influential Fluxus artists' multiples.^[2]

Early life

His father, Alexander Batch.

Maciunas, was a Lithuanian contriver and engineer who had housebroken in Berlin, and his glaze, Leokadija, was a Russian-born partner from Tiflis affiliated with high-mindedness Lithuanian National Opera^[3] and, following, Aleksandr Kerensky's private secretary, ration him complete his memoirs.^[4]

After escapee Lithuania to avoid being check by the advancingRed Army constant worry 1944, and living briefly amount Bad Nauheim, Frankfurt, Germany, first under Nazi control and as a result under the occupying forces,^[5] Jurgis Mačiūnas and his family emigrated to the US in 1948, living in a middle monstrous area of Long Island, In mint condition York.

After arriving in goodness US, George studied art, clear design, and architecture at Craftsman Union, architecture and musicology deem the Carnegie Institute of Application in Pittsburgh and finally agile history at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts specializing in the European and Unapproachable art of migrations.

His studies lasted eleven years from 1949 to 1960 and were in readiness in succession. This began straighten up fascination with the history chastisement art for the rest presumption his life, and whilst nearby he began his first art-history chart, measuring 6 by 12 feet, a time/space chart certification all past styles, movements, schools, artists etc.^[6] between 1955 flourishing 1960.

Whilst this project remained unfinished, he would publish a handful of versions of a history break on the avant-garde. The first comed in 1966, with Fluxus thanks to the focal point. He further began a correspondence with Raoul Hausmann, an original member have a hold over Berlin Dada, who advised him to stop using the title "neo-dada" and concentrate instead doctor's "Fluxus" to describe the nascent movement.^[7]

Duke University Professor Kristine Stiles has discussed Fluxus as best part of a movement towards inexhaustible humanism achieved through the crackup of boundaries in artistic travel ormation technol, cultural norms, and political conventions.^[8] The blurring of cultural etiquette, which began in the anciently 20th century with movements specified as Dada and Futurism, was continued by Fluxus artists stop in mid-sentence correspondence with the changes enchanting place in the sixties.

Aspire the definition of "Flux", which means "to flow", Fluxus artists sought to reorder the temples of production and reveal "the extraordinary that remains latent mosquito the undisclosed ordinary" during representation midst of the dramatic modernist epoch.

Career

Primarily influenced by Bathroom Cage's Experimental Music Composition command at the New School show off Social Research^[9] and an rising interest in Eastern Philosophy, keen number of avant-garde artists conduct yourself New York were beginning relax run parallel and competing Happenings at the beginning of rendering 1960s.^[2]

As well as Maciunas' concerts at the AG Gallery touch a chord March 1961 featuring music prep added to events by Maciunas himself, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Mac Low and Gumshoe Higgins,^[10] the two other crest important precursors to Fluxus were La Monte Young's influential keep fit of performances in the Quarters Street loft of Yoko Musician and Toshi Ichiyanagi in 1961 involving Henry Flynt, La Cards Young, Joseph Byrd & Parliamentarian Morris amongst others; and Parliamentarian Watts and George Brecht's Yam Festival, spring 1963 at Rutgers University and New York, which included a series of acquaintance art event scores and reports by John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Ay-O, and Gumshoe Higgins.

All of these artists and more eventually became comparative with Fluxus, either through their collaboration on multiples, inclusion thwart anthologies, or participation in Fluxus concerts'.^[2][11]

Other key influences noted by way of Maciunas included the Happenings ensure had occurred at the Swarthy Mountain College involving Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, David Tudor, Merce Cunningham, and others; the Nouveaux Réalistes; the Concept Art obey Henry Flynt and Marcel Duchamp's notion of the readymade.^[2]

Though Maciunas conceived of the name "Fluxus" for a publication covering European Culture conceived of during out meeting of Lithuanian émigrés,^[12] Fluxus soon developed into much more: an avant-garde movement characterized wishywashy playful subversion of previous cancel out traditions (even including those dressing-down previous avant-garde movements).

Fluxus extremely soon meant Dick Higgins' excellently coined term intermedia, a run that art should not-be application rarefied or commercial, and straighten up firm commitment to blurring representation distinctions between art and the social order. Maciunas' lifelong interest in diagrams made him chart the administrative, cultural and social history by reason of well as art history famous the chronology of Fluxus.

In 1963, Maciunas composed the cap Fluxus Manifesto, (see above), which called upon its readers to:

...purge the world of philistine sickness, 'intellectual', professional & commercial culture ... PROMOTE A Insurgent FLOOD AND TIDE IN Doorway, ... promote NON ART Truth to be grasped by the whole of each peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals ...

FUSE position cadres of cultural, social & political revolutionaries into united model & action.

Shared by its relative art movements pop art service minimalism, Fluxus expressed a countercultural sentiment to the value model art and the modes surrounding its experience –distinctly achieved from one side to the ot its commitment to collectivism beginning to decommodifying and deaestheticizing spry.

Its aesthetic practitioners, valuing boldness over imitating overworked forms, reconceptualized the art object and character nature of performance through melodious 'concerts', 'olympic' games, and publications. By undermining the traditional part of art and artist, loom over humor is reflective of dexterous goal to bring life postpone into art, which Maciunas states in his agenda, "If human race could experience the world, integrity concrete world surrounding him (from mathematical ideas to physical matter) in the same way unwind experiences art, there would carve no need for art, artists and similar 'nonproductive' elements".^[13]

The Mention Gallery and the first Fluxus festivals

In 1960, whilst attending combination classes of the electronic doer Richard Maxfield at the Another School for Social Research fake New York, Maciunas met go to regularly of the future participants bear witness Fluxus, including La Monte Leafy, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, snowball Jackson Mac Low.

In 1961 he opened the AG Assembly at 925 Madison Avenue resume fellow Lithuanian Almus Salcius, intending to finance the gallery's choosy programme of events and exhibitions by importing delicatessen foods sit rare musical instruments.^[3] The assemblage, though short-lived (it closed make fast July 30 due to deficit of funds),^[14] was devoted disobey new and groundbreaking art handcart genres and held exhibits move performance art events by visit of his new acquaintances.

To avoid debt collectors, Maciunas took a job as a neutral graphic designer at a U.S. Air Force base in Metropolis, Germany in late 1961.^[15] Voyage was there that he reorganized the first Fluxus Festival show September 1962. This festival featured various "concerts," scripted actions unqualified by Fluxus artists, as able-bodied as interpreting a number catch the fancy of works by other members ticking off the international avant-garde .

One of the most notorious actions performed at Wiesbaden was Maciunas' interpretation of Philip Corner's Piano Activities, the score of which asked a group of supporters to 'play', 'scratch or rub' and 'strike soundboard, pins, cover humbly or drag various objects them.' In Maciunas' interpretation, versus the help of Higgins, Ballplayer and others, the piano was completely destroyed.^[16] This event was considered scandalous enough to emerge on German television four period.

The festival then traveled border on Cologne, Paris, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, Dignity Hague, and Nice.^[17] These concerts and events were to energy integral to the legacy forfeited Fluxus.

The return to Another York and the Fluxshop

After government contract with the US Service was terminated due to incessant illness, Maciunas was forced infer return to New York, Sep 1963.

He began to gratuitous as a graphic artist usage the New York studio model graphic designer and former Look art director Jack Marshad. Pacify established the official Fluxus Ignoble at 359 Canal Street bill New York City and proceeded to make Fluxus into unblended sort of multinational corporation, sate with "a complex amalgam remark Fluxus Products from the FluxShop and the Flux Mail-Order Index and Warehouse, Fluxus copyright cover, a collective newspaper, a Development Housing Cooperative and frequently revised lists of incorporated Fluxus "workers".

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The shop, like be at war with his business ventures, was amously unsuccessful, however. In a 1978 interview with Larry Miller before long before his death, Maciunas reputed spending 'about $50,000' on Fluxus projects over the years stray would never recoup their investiture.

Larry Miller, "May I bore a stupid question?

Why didn't it pay off? Because isn't part of the idea depart it's low cost and diverse distribution..."

GM; "No one was position it, in those days. Astonishment opened up a store construction Canal Street, what was limitation, 1964, and we had flip your lid open almost all year.

Amazement didn't make one sale hinder that whole year... We upfront not even sell a 50 cent item, a postage wrap up sheet... you could buy Soul TRE papers for a fifteen minutes, you could buy George Brecht's puzzles for one dollar, Fluxus yearboxes for twenty dollars."^[18]

Flux boxes

During this time, Maciunas was collection Fluxus boxes and Flux-Kits, brief boxes containing cards and objects designed and assembled by artists such as Christo, Yoko Musician, and George Brecht.

The cap one to be planned was Fluxus 1, a wooden torso proboscis filled with artworks by peak of Maciunas' colleagues. Production liability meant that the publication modern was pushed back to 1964; Brecht's Water Yam, 1963, became the first Flux box follow a line of investigation actually be published. It was quickly followed by similar undaunted works of other affiliated artists, such as Ben Vautier accept Robert Watts; the Fluxkit undemonstrati in an attaché case (1965–66) and another compendium Flux Class Box 2 (1966–68).

There was an anthology of Fluxfilms (1966), 11 irregularly-spaced editions of representation Fluxus newspaper cc V TRE edited with George Brecht^[19] (1964–79) and the Fluxus Cabinet (1975–77).^[2] He was also closely elaborate with the production of cool number of Flux Chess sets.

Perhaps most important of be at war with of Maciunas's publishing activities be there the object multiples, conceived bring in inexpensive, mass-produced unlimited editions. These were either works made stop individual Fluxus artists, sometimes injure collaboration with Maciunas, or, height controversially, Maciunas's own interpretations rule an artist's concept or characteristic.

Their purpose was to consume the cultural status of porch and to help to omit the artist's ego.^[2]

Maciunas, a abandoned graphic designer, was responsible mean the memorable packaging of Fluxus objects, posters and newspapers, share to give the movement unadorned sense of unity that distinction artists themselves often denied.^[20] Inaccuracy also designed a series deadly name cards incorporating multiple fonts to characterise each of character participating artists.

According to Maciunas, Fluxus was epitomized by nobility work of George Brecht, mega his word event, "Exit." Dignity artwork consists solely of practised card on which is printed the words: "Word Event" very last then the word "Exit" beneath. Maciunas said of "Exit":

The best Fluxus 'Composition' is spiffy tidy up most non-personal, 'readymade' one aspire Brecht's 'Exit'—it does not intrude and of us to tip it since it happens circadian without any 'special' performance stir up it.

Thus our festivals choice eliminate themselves (and our be in want of to participate) when they understand total readymades (like Brecht's exit) (see [1])

Some works

Whilst Maciunas was still alive, no Fluxus work was ever signed arbiter numbered,^[21] and many weren't smooth credited to any artist.

Likewise such, huge confusion continues register surround many key Fluxus works; Maciunas strived to uphold reward stated aims of demonstrating excellence artist's 'non-professional status...his dispensability tolerate inclusiveness' and that 'anything package be art and anyone buttonhole do it.'^[22] This strategy was maintained throughout his life; horizontal works that have been arranged to him include USA Surpasses all the Genocide Records!, c1966 (see [2]), an American Banneret comparing massacres in Nazi Frg, Russia and Vietnam; the Flux Smile Machine c1970 (see [3] ) in which a pit forces the mouth into a-ok grimace, usually considered a exposition on capitalist imperialism;^[23] and picture film 12!

Big Names!, 1973 (for the poster see [4]) in which the assembled tryst assembly, having been enticed into glory cinema with the promise perfect example 12 big names, including Scheming Warhol and Yoko Ono, watched a film made entirely game 12 names—Warhol, Ono etc.—filling say publicly 20-foot-wide (6.1 m) screen, one sustenance the other, for a time of five minutes each.

Professional employments

Maciunas held several prestigious varnished positions as an architect other graphic designer in firms with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Disintegration Force Exchanges (Europe), Jack Marshad Inc., Olin Mathieson Chemical Closetogether, and Knoll Associates.

As be over architect, he developed an singular modular prototype useful in leadership construction of prefabricated buildings interminably working at Olin Mathieson's breaking up of Aluminum Product Development settle down Design.

He filed a transparent (#2,970,676) for the invention a number of a structural framework for routine buildings using aluminum beams suffer columns on January 27, 1958. Maciunas was awarded a seethrough (#4,545,159) for a modular chattels system on February 7, 1961. He used this invention on the way designing a modular prefabricated mass-housing system known as Fluxhouse.

Industrial as an improved design problem Soviet Block Housing (or Khrushchyovka), Fluxhouse was conceived in keeping to efficiency of materials, transport, and labor to produce a- cost and time effective mass-produced housing system. As an economic modular system intended for lesser production, this eco-friendly and acceptable design can be adapted rise and fall construct a single family impress, a mid-rise building, or fine neighborhood community with the be in the black or subtraction of units.

Maciunas conceived this design as regular dwelling which combines the discounted advantages of standardization with loftiness freedom of customization.

SoHo abstruse the Fluxhouse Co-Operative

As an cityfied planner, Maciunas is credited whereas the "Father of SoHo" dispense developing dilapidated loft buildings challenging gentrifying the neighborhood with artists cooperatives known as the Fluxhouse Cooperatives during the late sixties.^[24] Maciunas converted buildings into live-work spaces for and envisioned honesty Fluxhouse Cooperatives as collective keep environments composed of artists indispensable in many mediums.

With 1 support from the J.M. Kaplan Foundation and the National Contribution for the Arts, Maciunas began buying several loft buildings deseed closing manufacturing companies in 1966. The renovation and occupancies ruined the M-I zoning laws stray designated SoHo as a non-residential area. The zoning laws were in place to construct justness Lower Manhattan Expressway, a yawning highway conceived by Robert Prophet which would have obliterated disproportionate of Lower Manhattan's industrial storey district.

Though the Lower Borough Expressway was opposed by lots of public figures and monitor 200 community groups, Maciuanas' efforts and the loft artists' manoeuvring effectively stopped Moses, "Opposition agreement the expressway was going nowhere. Our whole planning board couldn't even slow it down. Exploitation a handful of artists stepped in and stopped it cold".^[25]

When Kaplan left the project union embark on other artist assistant buildings, Maciunas was left challenge little support against the concept.

Maciunas continued the co-op teeth of contravening planning laws, buying unblended series of loft buildings all round sell to artists as lay down and living spaces. Although insides was illegal to sell high-mindedness units publicly without first filing a full-disclosure prospectus with rendering New York State Attorney Accepted, Maciunas ignored the legal obligations, beginning a series of progressively bizarre run-ins with the Barrister General of New York.

Maciunas began wearing disguises and cut out only at night. Strategies included sending postcards from all over the world via associates ride friends to persuade the administration that he was abroad, sit placing razor-sharp guillotine blades listen to his front door to ward off unwanted visitors. Though, like nook Fluxus projects, Maciunas managed crown duties without personal profit, pecuniary disputes between the cooperatives defeat to problems.

On November 8, 1975, an argument with take in electrician over unpaid bills resulted in a severe beating, at a guess by 'Mafia thugs', which leftist him with 4 broken ribs, a deflated lung, 36 stitches in his head and stoneblind in one eye. He left-hand New York shortly after, cause problems attempt to start a Fluxus-oriented arts centre in a at death's door mansion and stud farm jagged New Marlborough, Massachusetts.

The Fluxhouse cooperatives are often cited bring in playing a major role stop in full flow regenerating and gentrifying SoHo.^[26] SoHo has since been an enclave in which contemporary art movements have developed and flourished.

Death

Perpetually sick, Maciunas developed cancer obvious the pancreas and liver inconvenience 1977.

He died on May well 9 of the following epoch in a hospital in Beantown. Three months before his have killed, he married his friend ray companion, the poet Billie Hutching. After a legal wedding meet Lee, Massachusetts, the couple unmitigated a "Fluxwedding" in a friend's loft in SoHo, February 25, 1978. The bride and form traded clothing.^[27] The event was taped by video artist Dimitri Devyatkin.^[28]

Fluxus is a latin discussion Maciunas dug up.

I on no account studied Latin. If it hadn't been for Maciunas nobody firmness have ever called it anything. We would all have absent our own ways, like birth man crossing his street competent his umbrella, and a bride walking a dog in concerning direction. We would have spent our own ways and unequaled our own things: the matchless reference point for any have available this bunch of people who liked each other's works, nearby each other, more or entertaining, was Maciunas.

So fluxus, laugh far as I'm concerned, evaluation Maciunas.

— George Brecht^[29]

Posthumous reputation

Maciunas remains perplexing to this day, and empress reputation still elicits strong responses both from artists and critics who have come after Fluxus, and by artists who knew him whilst still alive.

it was a special mission solution George to turn up representation lights on any such illusionism and he was ever unroll to demonstrate that the sharp world has no clothes. Grace was perhaps the toughest provision all on artists, reserving strictest judgments for those forbidden saw as self-promoting egoists who played into the hands neat as a new pin "High Art" barons.

— Larry Miller^[30]

Dreamer.

Youngster. Utopian, Fascist, Christ, Democrat, Psychopath. A realist whose realism on all occasions needed another kind of fact. (His conceptions of reality not till hell freezes over coincided with the accepted reality.) He was beautiful, foolish, doctrinaire, charming. Impossible.

— Milan Knizak^[31]

Adrian Searle, be off critic for The Guardian, jam it succinctly in a regard of a Fluxus exhibition;

Maciunas was fascinating, talented, and wishywashy all accounts a nightmare.

Intend André Breton, godfather of blue blood the gentry surrealist movement, Maciunas would entice artists, composers and even philosophers to take part in activities. He would charm them, stamp them around for years, mistreatment perform summary excommunications, banishing those who displeased him..... Maciunas would take against individuals for negation good reason – composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was one – dowel damn by association those who had anything to do meet them.

All this was exhausting. Richard Long's walks, Gilbert survive George posing as living sculptures, Sarah Lucas's early work nearby a million other small gestures, actions and ephemeral objects focus on trace their origins back see to Fluxus. It was a canal through which ideas and personalities flowed, and still flow tod.

Fluxus inevitably failed, and came to be seen as run hat. It was partly unmixed problem of packaging, though Maciunas was a very good revelation designer for whom no explain was too small to write down worried over. Fluxus's aim lying on eliminate music, theatre, poetry, account and all the rest resembling the fine arts combined was doomed.

Only the mass recreation industry might achieve such swell thing.

— Adrian Searle^[32]

The view that enthrone death liberated Fluxus is along with widespread;

I do believe dump Fluxus not only survived Martyr, but now that it silt finally free to be Fluxus, it is becoming that something/nothing with which George should suspect happy.

— Ben Patterson^[33]

The life of Martyr Maciunas is subject of a-okay documentary film by the Manhattan-based artist and independent filmmaker Jeffrey Perkins who met Maciunas show 1966.

It is made smooth out of Maciunas' friends voices, information from 44 interviews that esoteric been gathered by Perkins because 2010 on his travels work to rule Europe, America and Japan.^[34] Characteristic oratorio loosely based on Maciunas and titled Machunas premiered pop into August 2005 in the Disturb. Christopher Summer Festival in Capital, Lithuania.^[35]Machunas was conceived by magician Lucio Pozzi, with music by way of Frank J.

Oteri. Several short vacation Maciunas' friends and colleagues protested the fact that the book was mistaken by many bit a biography.

In 2024, entry historian Colby Chamberlain published change indepth book on Maciunas hostile to the University of Chicago Corporation called Fluxus Administration: George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork.

Dedicated museums and collections

Maciunas' uncalledfor has been exhibited in myriad of the major museums all over the world with archives spoken for in The Whitney Museum discovery American Art, The Walker Guarantee Center, the Getty Research School, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and Kaunas Be thankful for Gallery, representing the Fluxus make ready.

Recently acquired from the Doctor and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collecting, The Museum of Modern Split up currently holds the largest piece of Maciunas and Fluxus contortion of 10,000 items. As effects of a touring exhibition formed by Dartmouth College, Maciunas' business was featured in Fluxus squeeze the Essential Questions of Life at New York University's Pasty Gallery in Fall 2011 mount University of Michigan's Museum signal your intention Art in Spring 2012.

Despite controversy, the Stendhal gallery has held multiple exhibitions devoted motivate the legacy and work answer George Maciunas. In 2005, they presented To George With Love: From the Personal Collection most recent Jonas Mekas, which displayed nifty drawings, posters, objects, and in the opposite direction Fluxus items as well bring in various films from the Fluxfilm Anthology, a collection of 41 films made by Fluxus artists.

In 2006, the gallery blaze George Maciunas, 1953–1978: Charts Diagrams, Films, Documents, and Atlases. Worship 2007, the Maya Stendhal Audience collaborated with the city refer to Vilnius, Lithuania, to open class Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Feelings. The center's inaugural exhibition examined the lives and work set in motion prominent figures within the depiction of the avant-garde, including Martyr Maciunas.

In 2008, the assemblage held an exhibition devoted compare with Maciunas' architectural projects, in give out, a utopian housing structure Maciunas drafted in the late decennary and early sixties, entitled George Maciunas: Prefabricated Building Systems.

In 2010 problems arose between Ruin Stendhal and Jonas Mekas slight which some of the traditions of the Stendhal Gallery prostrate into question, causing concern halfway surviving Fluxus artists.^[36] The Martyr Maciunas/Fluxus Foundation, became active explain November 2011, presenting exhibitions litter the contemporary applications of Maciunas' inventions and theories regarding care and architecture.

These exhibitions own acquire explored his ideas as precursors to adaptive design processes become peaceful global networks. In September 2012, the foundation held an event on Maciunas' architectural work concentrated on his prefabricated modular mass-housing system known as Fluxhouse.

See also

Notes and references

Further reading

• Emmett Williams, Ann Noel, Ay-O (1998). Mr. Fluxus: A Collective Portrait of Martyr Maciunas 1931–1978. Thames & Naturalist. ISBN .: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt, Maciunas' Learning Machines.

  From Art Description to a Chronology of Fluxus. With a foreword by Jon Hendricks.

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  Secondbest, revised and enlarged edition(SpringerWienNewYork, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7091-0479-8)

• Julia Robinson, "The Brechtian Occurrence Score: A Structure in Fluxus", Performance Research (U.K.) Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2002.
• Colby Solon, Fluxus Administration: George Maciunas turf the Art of Paperwork, Rule of Chicago Press, 2024 ISBN 022683137X
• Thomas Kellein, "The Dream warrant Fluxus" (Edition Hanjorg Mayer, 2007)
• Liz Kotz, "Post-Cagean Aesthetics and interpretation Event Score" (the MIT Squash, October, Vol.

  95 (Winter, 2001), pp. 54–89)

• Roslyn Bernstein & Shael Shapiro, Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Track and the Evolution of SoHo (Jonas Mekas Foundation), September 2010. www.illegalliving.com ISBN 978-609-95172-0-9
• Der Traum von Fluxus. George Maciunas: Eine Künstlerbiographie. Clockmaker Kellein, Walther König, 2007.

  ISBN 978-3-8656-0228-2.

• Petra Stegmann. The lunatics are decentralize the loose… European Fluxus Festivals 1962–1977. Down with art! Potsdam, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815579-0-9.

Films about George Maciunas

George. Jeffrey Perkins, Documentary feature-length film/video portrait of George Maciunas, Tight, 2018 ^[1]

External links

• A whole additional room of artworks by Maciunas circus We Make Money Not Art
• Sonic Youth's interpretation of Maciunas' Piano Piece #13 for Nam June Paik on YouTube
• Museum Fluxus+ Potsdam Germany
• 1962–2012 50 years Fluxus effect Germany
• Museum Vostell Malpartida with Fluxus Collection
• An excellent interview with Emmett Williams about Fluxus, Maciunas ahead the European Avant-Garde.
• An extraordinary business card sent to Nam June Paik, expelling him from Fluxus back performing with Stockhausen, c1965
• The Fluxus edition of Aspen on UbuWeb
• Reminiscences of meeting Maciunas, by Yoko Ono
• Fluxus Performance Workbook
• Jonas Mekas' Painter and Maciunas, featuring Maciunas' Dumpling Party, 1971 on YouTube
• Bibliography tinge Maciunas material.
• George Maciunas Inerview – KRAB Radio Broadcast, Seattle, 1977 (streaming audio clips)
• Maciunas' Timeline streak CV
• 37 short Fluxus films, 1962–70
• A nice archive of Flux boxes at Printed Matter
• Media Art Web archive of early Fluxus works
• A history and critique of originally fluxus, especially the fluxus festorum; The Origins of Fluxus, Royalty Home
• FluxRadio an online radio device on the Fluxus movement level Ràdio Web MACBA
• Kaunas Picture Room | Fluxus Room
• George Maciunas make a face - MoMA
• George Maciunas works - Fondazione Bonotto