Watch this first: Art Lesson on Fluxus
Read this second: "Intermedia" by Dick Higgins
For this unit, we're going to focus on two seminal works of the Fluxus movement (anti-movement?):
Yoko Ono's Grapefruit (a book)
Georges Brecht's Water Yam (a box)
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Your assignments:
1) Essay (single-spaced, two columns, image in top left). First, read Dick Higgin's famous essay on Intermedia (link above). Next, choose either or both Ono's Grapefruit and Brecht's Water Yam, and write an essay that assesses them as literature. Are they poems? Directions to make poems? Something else? How does a reader (you) approach these works? Are they successful as literature, intermedia, something else? Use secondary sources as much or as little as you please. Due November 9. Upload.
2) Creative Writing: Making your own Fluxus scores. Follow these directions carefully: Using Helvetica (any size or multiple sizes) type ten "event scores" on separate sheets of paper. The slips of paper should be no larger than 6" x 8" and no smaller than 1" square. You are free to add other materials: stickers, drawings, collage, photos, etc. Due November 7. Bring to class! No upload!
Questions: csmith@dcad.edu
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