>From Hannah Higgins, "The Fluxus Reader" Edited by Ken Friedman
FLUXUS FORTUNA
" 'Round and round it goes and where it stops nobody knows.' "
George Brecht
"Fluxus artist George Brecht has compared Fluxus to a Wheel of
Fortune, as moving in place and time, as an object of some
uncertainty, whose stopping point is not yet clear. He is
certainly not alone in the assignation of a gaming spirit to the
group. There are many artists working in the rich tradition of
Flux-games. Robert Filliou, for instance, made a spinner of
twenty-four different hands and a dial in 1964. Filliou's wheel
exposes the irony in Brecht's statement. Where the wheel of
Fluxus stops is not the point, since the hands are both different
and the same. Fixed ends, it seems are anathema to the idea of
"fluxing" or flowing. as many Fluxus scholars and artists have
pointed out over the years
It does not folow, however, that Fluxus is anything and
everything. In the words of Kristine Stiles, Flusus is a
'voluntary association' of people. As such, Fluxus is as diverse
in its beliefs and practices and any sociality is. Thus, unless
the artists are subject to an overriding ideological
interpretation of their beliefs and actions, they will show
themselves to be both highly pluralistic and in some form of
communication (both by agreement and disagreement) with each
other."
