THE SOUND OF FLUXUS

Innovative art movement
The Sound of Fluxus is an exhibition which can be seen and heard. It brings together all kind of rare works and documents of one of the most innovative and striking art movements of the postwar avant-garde. The records, covers, posters, scores, objects, ephemera, photo documents, audio samples, and video works illustrate Fluxus' interest in music and everyday sound, for example when Yoko Ono flushed toilets, Ben Vautier performed "Some ideas for Fluxus" as a children's song, Milan Knisak slashed and glued together a series of "Broken Music"-records, Alison Knowles composed onion skin music, La Monte Young created his “Theater of Eternal Music,” Eric Andersen sampled, looped and mashed "Untactics of Music", and Larry Miller recorded the crying of his baby.

Audiosamplers
Presented are also objects by Joe Jones, Ben Vautier, Mauricio Kagel and many others who used classical music instruments as tools for artistic performances and new music objects, as well as they used ready-made objects as music instruments. Video works document many events and happenings such as the "Fluxfests" series in September 1962 in Wiesbaden which are considered to be the birth and starting point of Fluxus.

Featured Artists
George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Arthur Køpcke, Benjamin Patterson, Emmett Williams, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Allan Kaprow, Yoko Ono, Ben Vautier, Robert Filliou, Henning Christiansen, Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Charlotte Moorman, Milan Knisak, Joe Jones, Mauricio Kagel, Nam June Paik, George Maciunas.

Curator: Guy Schraenen, Paris; Co-production: the Archive for Small Press & Communication: Research Centre for Artists’ Publications in the Weserburg, Museum for Modern Art, Bremen. 
© Collection ASPC/Centre for Artists' Publications, Weserburg, Bremen.

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