This audio recording of John Cage's performance of Empty Words Part 3 captures the spirit of Fluxus perfectly. The audience quite literally becomes an active (and perhaps unwitting) participant in the construction of the concert.
The audience was quiet and respectful when Cage started. Someone shouts what sounds like "WTF" around the fifth minute, but it's not until the ninth minute that things begin to get rowdy and out of control. Cage continued reading through the whole thing. Even when audience members stormed the stage and someone took his reading glasses off his face, Cage kept reading. He continued for about an hour and a half without intermission.
Documentary evidence of this event can be found on this website.
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