[artinfo] (fwd) Call for Papers - FLUXUS

[Janos Sugar]

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:17:30 +0200
=46rom: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman@bi.no>
Subject: Call for Papers - FLUXUS

CFP - FLUXUS issue of Performance Research

=46LUXUS was an international community of artists, architects,  designers,=
 and composers described as "the most radical and experimental art movement=
 of the 1960s." As a laboratory of experimental art, Fluxus was the first=
 locus of intermedia, concept art, events, and video, and a central=
 influence on performance art, arte povera, and mail art.

2002 will mark the 40th anniversary of the first Fluxus festival in=
 Wiesbaden, Germany. The journal Performance Research will mark the occasion=
 with a special issue.

Guest editors Ken Friedman and Owen Smith will coordinate this issue. The=
 editors will welcome proposals and complete papers on any topic or theme=
 relevant to Fluxus, the Fluxus artists and composers, or their work.

Themes

"Fluxus is what Fluxus does -- but no one knows whodunit." Emmett Williams

"Fluxus is not a moment in history, or an art movement. Fluxus is a way of=
 doing things, a tradition, and a way of life and death." Dick Higgins

As a large and somewhat diffuse phenomenon, there can be no single approach=
 to Fluxus. The editors encourage a wide variety of topics, themes, and appr=
oaches.

A list of possible topics includes: art practice in Fluxus, art theory in=
 Fluxus, events, video, concept art and conceptual art, intermedia,=
 performance, artist books and periodicals, cooperative housing, artist=
 stamps, experimental film, Happenings, mail art, new music.

A partial list of Fluxus artists and composers includes: Ay-O, Joseph Beuys,=
 George Brecht, Phil Corner, Robert Filliou, Ken Friedman, Al Hansen,=
 Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Bengt af Klintberg, Milan Knizak, Alison=
 Knowles, Arthur Koepcke, Shigeko Kubota, George Maciunas, Jackson Mac Low,=
 Larry Miller, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Ben=
 Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Yoshimasa Wada, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, and=
 La Monte Young.

Articles on other artists and themes are also welcome.

Special theme:

2002 also marks 30 years since the 1972-73 Fluxshoe toured England with a=
 series of performances, concerts, and exhibitions. This issue of=
 Performance Research will particularly welcome contributions that focus on=
 the historical and geographical activities centered on the Fluxshoe,=
 together with considerations of how it influenced the British art of the=
 years since.

Overview

=46luxus has been a laboratory characterized by George Maciunas's notion of=
 the "learning machine." The Fluxus research program has been characterized=
 by twelve ideas: globalism, the unity of art and life, intermedia,=
 experimentalism, chance, playfulness, simplicity, implicativeness,=
 exemplativism, specificity, presence in time and musicality.

These ideas describe the qualities and issues that characterize the work of=
 Fluxus. Each describes a "way of doing things." Together, these twelve=
 ideas form a picture of what Fluxus is and does.

The implications of these ideas have been interesting and occasionally=
 startling. Fluxus has been a complex system of practices and relationships.=
 As a forum of philosophical and artistic practice, Fluxus developed and=
 demonstrated ideas that would later be seen in such frameworks as=
 multimedia, telecommunications, hypertext, industrial design, urban=
 planning, architecture, publishing, philosophy, even management theory.

This issue of Performance Research will explore the general and individual=
 aspects of Fluxus that have made it so lively, engaging, and difficult to d=
escribe.

About the editors.

Ken Friedman was an active participant in Fluxus, as an artist since 1966,=
 as director of Fluxus West for a decade, and as editor of The Fluxus Reader=
 for Academy Press. Friedman is associate professor of leadership and=
 strategic design at the Norwegian School of Management.=20
Owen Smith is an art historian and curator specializing in intermedia and=
 multimedia art forms. His book, Fluxus: History of an Attitude, is=
 published by San Diego State University Press. Smith is associate professor=
 of art history at University of Maine.

	Deadlines

Proposals and full text articles welcome to 1 September 2001

=46inal selection by 15 October 2001

Completed articles and manuscripts due by 15 December 2001


Proposals or complete articles welcome

Please send article proposals to Owen Smith at

<ofsmith@maine.edu>

Completed articles or extensive drafts are also welcome.

Proposals and articles may be sent in email form and as attachments in=
 Microsoft Word.

This issue will be richly illustrated. Proposals or complete articles should=
 indicate illustrations and how they will be presented. The initial proposal=
 or article need not include the actual illustrations. These will be planned=
 after articles are selected.

General questions may be directed to Owen Smith or to Ken Friedman at
	<ken.friedman@bi.no>