Is Fluxus the new Dada?

    Marcel Duchamp's notion of readymade influenced the fluxus movement immensely.  Artists started to use themselves as art and interact with resources that were already available.  The Fluxus movement emerged right after the Dada movement in the 1960s.   It was an international avant garde style, which artists wanted to connect everyday life items to art.  They achieved this through film, music, collages and writing.  The earliest Fluxus movements occurred in New York at the AG Gallery in 1961 by George Maciunas.   Important performers that erupted out of this movement are also street performer Yoko Ono.  Fun Fact-she was married to John Lennon!
 
         I watched a video of her on youtube which was called her "cut piece" performance art.  It seems like many of her performances were very interactive with her audience.  In her piece she had each viewer cut a piece of her clothing off.

            Street art started to become more and more familiar, and live art was the latest trend.  Artists started to question what exactly art is.   Flux musicians such as John Cage, believed connect theater to media.  "Happenings" was a new term that evolved out of this period,  they were long performances that were meant to make the audience interact with the artist performing.  Artists started to eliminate the screen between them and their audience.