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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822578403321

Autore

Lushetich Natasha

Titolo

Fluxus : the practice of non-duality / / Natasha Lushetich ; cover design by Aart Jan Bergshoeff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

94-012-1094-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Collana

Consciousness, Literature & the Arts, , 1573-2193 ; ; 41

Disciplina

709.0460747423

Soggetti

Fluxus (Group of artists)

Art, Modern - 20th century

Postmodernism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Language -- Temporality -- The Sensorium -- Social Rites and Rituals -- Systems of Economic Exchange -- Conclusion: The Logic of Fluxing -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the most definition-resistant art movement in history and departing from its two chief characteristics: intermediality and interactivity, this book develops an original theory of practice, the experiential philosophy of non-duality, which is the philosophy of dynamic co-constitutivity. This is done by tracing the performativity of intermedial works – works that fall conceptually between the art and the life media, such as Bengt af Klintbergs’s event score : “Eat an orange as if it were an apple” – in five key areas of human experience: language, temporality, the sensorium, social rites and rituals, and systems of economic exchange. The main argument, woven with the aid of the Derridian blind tactics, the Gramscian production of social life and the Zen-derived interexpression of Kitaro Nishida, is that the practical philosophy of co-constitutivity arises from the logic of the intermedium. In pursuing this argument, the book does three things: (1) it theorises an oeuvre that has remained under-theorised due to its fundamentally non-discursive nature and in doing so reinstates Fluxus



as an influential cultural, rather than a “merely” artistic paradigm; (2) it serves as a companion to thinking by doing since most Fluxus intermedia are ready-mades, and, as such, readily available in the everyday environment; and (3) it establishes the counter-hegemonic logic of fluxing while tracing its legacy in contemporary practices as diverse as the culture-jamming activism of The Yes Men, the paradoxical performance work of Song Dong and the pervasive game worlds of Blast Theory.