Fluxus

Fluxus work seems like a real innovated way to look at art and literature. I feel like most artists will agree when I suggest that their main goal is to evoke some sort of emotion either within themselves or within others that view their work. In some way you are experiencing their work but not as involved as fluxus works. It seems like the artists really want their viewers to truly experience their work, which makes for a more intimate relationship between artist and viewer. I feel like the fluxus artists/workers just want you to view things in a different perspective, almost more of a bodily experience, or more physical. I'd like to see one of those videos, either "Flicker" or "Eyeblink", it would be an experience to say the least.

Fluxus

I feel like many other ideas, concepts, approaches to literature we have learned about this semester, Fluxus art is a whole new world to me. Like many people, art to me has been a painting, photograph, or sculpture. And then there are the arts like acting, dancing, music, etc. The reading for Monday challenged me to look at art forms in a whole new perspective. This kind of art gives somewhat of a competition or change to the viewers' senses. It is very odd to think of art having a physical effect. Usually art is something that someone sees and then interprets, there isn't much physical action involved. In one of the pieces of art described, it irritated and confused the human eye. That confused me because I don't understand how someone could enjoy art that is painful. An example of the painful art is the "Flux Smile Machine." That definitely didn't sound to fun. How is someone supposed to enjoy art when they are in pain? This idea of Fluxus art is very different from what we have been talking about in class so I am interested to find out what ideas will come up in discussion.

Fluxus

This week we were asked to read Hannah Higgin's first chapter in her book "Fluxus." This is the first time I had ever heard of the art movement, Fluxus, and after reading it I found it rather intriguing. It was intriguing because the artists in this movement decided to use different perspectives of what art should be. Instead of using just pictures, paintings and sculptures, they used flashing images to interpret their art. I found this interesting because in Higgin's piece she talks about how the artwork of the Fluxus artist's often left people feeling fatigued, so instead of an emotional connection to a piece like museum users often feel, they leave with a feeling of a physical connection. While reading this I couldn't help but think back to an Episode of Lost, where the others used the concept of the Flickr on Karl, leaving him to be fatigued and confused, just like Higgin's claims Fluxus does to viewers.

Flauxus

This week we had to read Flauxus by Hannah Higgins. After I started to read it, I realized that I started to look at art in a different way. When I look at art in a normal museum, I think of sculptures and different paintings or pictures. When I think of Flauxs art, I think of it as a having a physical effect on the person looking at it rather than an emotional attachment or connection. I feel like this was a very interesting piece to read because I was able to think of art differently then I did before. But, I did have a hard time connecting this book to something else that we’ve read in class so far this semester. The only thing I could really find was early on in the semester when we read about art and how people look at it and how everybody has their own interpretations.

Fluxus

In this weeks readings I learned about the art movement known as Fluxus. I thought this group took a very interesting perspective towards art. Instead of using literature at its most basic form like most of the material we have looked at so far, the Fluxus movement uses art in a three dimensional way. I thought it was interesting how the videos that were described in the chapter were designed to irritate or confuse the human eye. I think this is an interesting way of invoking emotion from a piece of art. So far this semester I have focused on reading and writing primarily. This Fluxus movement is completely different from what I have grown accustomed too. I think it is important to value all types of art, and learn to appreciate them for what they are. There is a lot to learn from movements such as the Fluxus. They were challenging patrons to interpret the work whether it was a picture, piece of literature, or rapidly flashing movie.

Fluxus

In the first chapter of “Fluxus” by Hannah Higgins, a variety of work pertaining to movement known as Fluxus are mentioned. Many if not all of these involve something that distorts the audiences senses in some manner. The first of which were films known as “Eyeblink” and “Flicker” which purposely exhausted the optic nerve and muscles surrounding the eye. Another form was the invention of glasses that contained needles on the lenses facing inward to skewer the retina of any potential wearer. In addition to these sadistic innovations, a “Flux Smile Machine” was created and when placed in one’s mouth it “pinches the soft flesh of the inner cheek, gouges the gums, binds the lips, flattens the tongue; it scrapes against the enamel of the users’ teeth and sits awkwardly in the mouth”. Perhaps it is my own emotions affecting my judgment, but these forms of “art” seem more like torture, and are highly revolting.

Fluxus

Reading the first chapter on Fluxus forced me to look at art from a different perspective. I normally think of art as a painting or sculpture in a museum, but Fluxus art seems to be different. Paintings and sculptures can have an emotional effect on the viewer, but it seems that Fluxus art has a physical effect on the viewer/participant. The line between artist and participant is blurred. Fluxus art reminded me of the Children’s Museum. There they have different things to touch and play with and experience, which is in stark contrast to an “adult” museum. Why is it that children are constantly exploring their world and adults are content to just look at something in a photograph?