Fluxus

Until Fluxus, most new art mediums were still cut from the same cloth as its predecessors. While Pollock was doing something new and amazing, it was still paint on a canvas. Frank Lloyd Wright's homes and buildings were revolutionary, but still architecture. We have always had a context for theses works of art. Fluxus is a new and completely different animal. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time. While we had television, it wasn't necessarily considered art, but technology. Fluxus builds on the technology, but creates a new art form that we don't have any context for. For many, this is a new frontier and extremely exciting to truly create something of their own. For others, those that prescribe to a "formula" for art, this is a frightening concept. How do you look at it? How do you determine "good" or "bad"? What are the qualifications to consider it art? Personally I find this incredibly exciting. Artists are doing what they do best, creating art to make us think, to require us to look deeper and ask questions.