Fluxus/Performance Art: Do Geese See God?

Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning, architecture, and design. Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body and a relationship between performer and audience. This video is part of the "Palette" project and pays homage to Fluxus.Performance Art. Video by Mark Garvey, song "Do Geese See God?" by Bill Hooper. Please visit www.MarkGarvey.co.uk for more details.

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[markgarveyscreen]

3 - "Fluxus works are simple ... the performances are brief" - the vid is very simple (particularly when compared to the other videos from the Palette collection), the performances were all very brief and the whole thing was shot in just over a single day.

4 - "Fluxus is fun. Humour has always been an important element in Fluxus" - indeed, we had a lot of fun making it and didn't take it too seriously.

[markgarveyscreen]

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1 - "Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style" - the video was made in keeping with this.

2 - "Fluxus is intermedia. Fluxus creators like to see what happens when different media intersect" - we utilised found objects, sound effects, music, projected images, "found images", people, performance, costume etc.

[markgarveyscreen]

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The video is labelled as being "Fluxus/Performance Art" as the video includes re-stagings/re-imaginings of known Fluxus/Performance works and was approached and made "on their terms" and with materials associated with the movements.

We tried to in-corporatre the 4 defining characteristics of a Fluxus work:

[markgarveyscreen]

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It was created with a Fluxus "attitude" and includes numerous actual re-creations and re-interpretations of the work of several artists associated with either Fluxus or Performance art, such as Bici Von Forbes, Gilbert and George, Yoko Ono, Bus Jan Alder and the Hi Red Group, as loving tributes to their works.

[markgarveyscreen]

Hi there,

cheers for watching and taking an interest. The above video is part of a collection of videos that pay homage to different art movements. The video above is a homage to both Fluxus and Performance art.

[Soupwhistle]

It would be better for me without the music. The soundtrack takes away from the visuals. I'd like to hear the ambient sound of the events. The sound of falling in the chair. The sound of a man whispering to a goose. The sound of a man running through a field while he is wrappe in plastic. Each of these sounds alone is a valid Fluxus composition. Using commercial rock/pop takes the work out of Fluxus-space.

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[maninwhitedress]

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[dboyd]

Mark, I see no reason to tag this as a "fluxus performance." Have you read any Fluxus history, philosophy or comments or are you just responding to something you saw? Yours is too scattered and too overdone. Your techniques are good but

used too much. -Don Boyd

[twimper]

cool vid....though it has just left me very confused........ O_o