FLUXLIST: FLUXUS AND THE PLASTIC ARTS

[Cecil Touchon]

I would like to start a discussion on how to identify a visual art work 
as a specificly fluxus art work other than being called a fluxus work or 
in a fluxus exhibition. Most fluxus works tend to be performance 
oriented. How do you go about making a specificly fluxus work of visual 
art? I  would assume that we would consider Ken's 12 fluxus ideas and 
Dick's 9 points but they are normally thinking about portability and 
reproducibility as in scores it seems to me. I have a lot of my own 
ideas that I believe are important additional items when it comes to the 
visual arts that I would like to bring up if any one is interested in a 
discussion on the topic.

For instance I don't really like chance in the purely mechanical sense 
as a working tool. Too dry, too meaningless, too uninteresting to be 
sustainable as an artistic practice from day to day. I prefer 
serendipity as a working premise which includes chance as a possible 
element but allows for interplay and discovery on the artist's part 
which I believe is very important. I also think that chance, randomness 
and chaos suggest a lack of knowing about thing beyond science such as 
those things of a spiritual nature. The patterns of life that one does 
not understand or recognise are called randomness or chaos but this is 
just a lack of recognition of the greater self organizing patterns of Life.

How many on the list are primarily visual artists and what in your work 
makes it fluxus?

Cecil Touchon
http://cecil.touchon.com