Make Art or Die Trying

Chapter Eight

Flux

MAKING ART FOR EVERYONE.

Your art is important because, when it touches people it changes them—the enemy is elitism, that “old boys’ club” where the wealthy, educated, Old-World power systems dupe us into thinking lesser mortals don’t have the capacity to understand it. If your work can’t touch an audience, then it dies at birth. That is exactly what Fluxus set out to resuscitate. Let’s have a look at how a group of artists orbiting around the idea that “art should be for everyone” totally transformed the cultural landscape forever.

A STATE OF FLUX

My art college bussed us to London—the big city. At that time, the ...