Chapter 3

Chapter 3 on Fluxus seemed very similar to chapter 1 to me. The only major difference I found was that chapter 3 focused more on the performance aspect of Fluxus, while chapter 1 focused more on the films and objects like “Blink” and the Fluxkits. What confuses me about Fluxus is that they consider ordinary objects to be art. If ordinary objects can be art, then everything can have artistic potential. So, if everything can be art, then is art special anymore? Is there an artistic performance, or is everything artistic? Everything being artistic is almost the same as nothing being artistic. It brings back the question of what exactly is art, and who should make that decision, the artist or the critic?