"The misunderstandings have seemed to come from comparing fluxus with movements or groups whose individuals ‘have had some principle in common, or an agreed-upon program. In fluxus there has never been any attempt to agree on aims or methods; individuals with something unnameable in common have simply naturally coalesced to publish and perform their work. Perhaps this common something is a feeling that the bounds of art are much wider than they have conventionally seemed, or that art and certain long-established bounds are no longer very useful. At any rate, individuals in europe, the us, and japan have discovered each other’s work and found it nourishing (or something) and have grown objects and events which are original, and often uncategorizable, in a strange new way."
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George Brecht (1963), cited in: Hannah Higgins (2002), Fluxus Experience. p. 69
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George Brecht
(August 27, 1926 – December 5, 2008) was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer as well as a professional chemist and consultant.
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