The Fluxus movement was an international collective of artists who in many ways took up the mantle of the dadaists before them, but also retained a distinct methodology. The fluxus boxes, a common practice amongst artists in the movement, collected various bits of found objects and text which bring the foreground notions of intentionality and the systematization of artwork. The fluxus year box, compiled by various artists and "edited" by George Maciunas, brings the forefront the problems of the notion of authorship. In a box of collected items, it becomes difficult to determine exactly to whom the "work" of the piece can be ascribed. Does the systematic accumulation of specific found objects constitute the realization of a shared vision, or does it in end amount to nothing more than each individual item's own qualities? Can there be the unifying principle of a "vision" that we usually ascribe to single artist producing work when this work is shared amongst multiple people and is largely an accumulation of elements produced by someone else?
Alex Arruda
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