Fusing certain radical social attitudes with ever evolving aesthetic practices

The Fluxus art movement emerged in New York in the 60's before moving to Europe and eventually to Japan.

Yoko Ono, wife of John Lennon, is perhaps the best known exhibitor of such works. John Lennon famously commented that it was a work by Yoko that attracted him to her - namely a piece that involved climbing up a step latter at the top of which was a magnifying glass attached. By looking through the magnifying glass at the ceiling, one could just read the word 'Yes'.

Part Dada, part Bauhaus and part Zen, this art form presumes that all media and all artistic disciplines are fair game for fun, combination and fusion. 

In the '60s, when the Fluxus movement was most active, artists all over the globe worked in concert with a spontaneously generated but carefully maintained Fluxus network.

Since then, Fluxus has endured not so much as a movement but as a sensibility - a way of fusing certain radical social attitudes with ever evolving aesthetic practices. Initially received as little more than an international network of pranksters, the admittedly playful artists of Fluxus were, and remain, a network of radical visionaries who have sought to change political and social, as well as aesthetic, perception.

Other notable artists in this genre include: Joseph Beuys, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins