Sixty years ago, the American artist of Lithuanian decent George Maciunas had an idea for an art magazine and had a perfect name: FLUXUS. He hoped that Fluxus, flowing in Latin, would energize the various practitioners from diverse disciplines to create a dialogue that will close the widening gap between art and life. Fluxus grew from that initial publication concept, others joined Maciunas, and it became a transformative art movement that supported a social change to make art available to the masses. Artists associated with the Fluxus movement challenged the museum systems' authority to determine the value of art. For them, art should be accessible to everyone regardless of their cultural and educational background.
~FluxUS: OPEN (2021 - 2022 Project)
The student-led FLuXUS Box project aims to create open dialogues at LSAD and promote an interdisciplinary and collaborative learning environment that values overlapping and expanding relationships between fine art practices which mutually inform and challenge each other. The project encourages students to the development of student-led, open, and collaborative working connections that promote all project participants to actively and critically engage in each other's learning and artistic practices.
There is no specific theme suggested for the FluxUS: OPEN Boxes. It should be 'open and aligned with participants' studio practice.' The term 'collaboration' should be interpreted from a broader perspective, and decisions related to the themes, the formation of each team, and other choices related to the box should be made together. Participants can create various works for the boxes, including prints, drawings, hybrid prints/mixed media work, photographs, moving images, sound images, instructions, artist books, zines, mixed media work, 3D work, found objects, readymades, sound pieces, recorded performance, QR codes, more. Be inventive and push the boundaries.
BOX DIMENSION:
The outside dimension of the box is 800 mm x 550 mm. The inside size is 775 mm x 524 mm. Each box can be divided into small sections to store various work. Each team must decide the design of the interior compartments.