If I showed Yono Oko’s #16 – Lightening the Match piece to my mom, she would be like, “I don’t consider this kind of videos as art,” and walk away. I would have act as same as her prior to learning the history of the Fluxus Movement. Just feeling what is happening visually, acoustically is all about Fluxus. People without any knowledge about Fluxus, like my mom, would dislike the entire thing. Because Lightening the Match is a short video of igniting the match in a really slow motion. “So what?” my mom would say. However, it’s zoomed so close you can even see how the sparkle works and its eerie slow motion give you a tingle. Capturing and reinterpreting the moment that no one actually thought about it fascinates me like discovering chocolate candies in your purse!
The term Fluxus comes from Latin, meaning “to flow”. What do Fluxus artist do? Check out Fluxus Workbook of performance scores: screaming at the wall, play baseball with fruits, cook soup for every audience and more such non-sense things. People might say, “this is not art,” but Fluxus is about breaking traditional values and recreating meaning of art constantly. Fluxus artist sometimes look like psychos, but I envy their ability to integrate life and art in one. Investing entire life to explore a single concept of unifying the arts is what I want to do as an artist. Yes, people will call me a wacko, but that’s how your name remembered in the history like George Maciunas or Nam Jun Paik.
So anybody wants to play John Cage’s 4’33 with me? Orchestra version or piano or any instrument?
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