This dissertation focuses on the role of George Maciunas as “chairman” of the neo-avant-garde movement Fluxus. Its introductory chapter provides an overview and assessment of Fluxus scholarship, and advances the argument that Maciunas established an intersection between post-Cage aesthetics and postwar administration. The succeeding chapters situate Maciunas’s work in relation to apparatuses regulating education, circulation, production, and health care. Taking as its primary objects Maciunas’s “paperwork”—his visually striking charts, newsletters, card files, architectural plans, and other documents—this study shows how Maciunas employed administrative techniques to build the infrastructure for Fluxus’s collective practice and, concurrently, drew on Fluxus’s aesthetic tactics to disrupt or evade state regulation. Chapter two, “Card Files & Charts,” reconstructs how Maciunas’s training in the professions of architecture and art history was applied to organizing Fluxus’s publications and concerts; Chapter three, “Newsletters & Postcards,” traces Maciunas’s maintenance of an international Fluxus network via the postal service; Chapter four, “Registrations & Catalogs,” reveals how Maciunas codified Fluxus’s negotiation of individual and collective authorship within the legal framework of US copyright law; and, finally, Chapter five, “Prescriptions,” locates in Maciunas’s performances a body marked by medical administration.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2000. Graduate Programme in Music Composition. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [39-41] of unnumbered sequence at the end. Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ59209.

Orientador: Nelson Alfredo Aguilar / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T12:42:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_AnaPaulaFelicissimodeCamargo_D.pdf: 29444371 bytes, checksum: fe6d2ee891889f9463914ef722e9cf4e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Durante os anos de 1960 e 1970, os festivais Fluxus promoveram a indissociação entre arte e vida, por meio de proposições apoiadas no cotidiano, possíveis de serem realizadas por qualquer pessoa. Esta produção - valorizando o processo, a participação do público e a desmaterialização do objeto artístico questionava os sistemas discursivos e legitimadores da arte, dentre eles o museu e o mercado. Os objetos, textos, imagens e depoimentos resultantes destes atos Fluxus tornaram-se, contudo, memória e registro de r:ais proposições, que foram postos, a partir da década de 1980, no âmbito institucionalizado das coleções e museus de arte dos quais se tornaram reféns de procedimentos museológicos tradicionais, submetidos as categorias e padrões herdeiros das Belas Artes, afastando-se de seu pulsar original, da 'liberdade de estar num curso de água almejada no próprio nome desse coletivo internacional. Abordando sua música, seus eventos e sua (auto)poiesis, nossa tese focaliza as coleções e exposições Fluxus para analisar criticamente a premência de uma produção em processo, cujas ideias-matrizes potencializam a germinação contínua entre acervo, público e instituições: museus em fluxus / Abstract: During the 1960s and 1970s, the Fluxus' festivals promoted Art and Life through proposals supported in daily activities made by everyone. Their production, which valued the process through open participation of the public and art object dematerialization, criticized the cultural systems and art legitimizers, as well as the market and institutions. Therefore, objects, texts, pictures and statements resulted from these Fluxus...Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic digital thesis or dissertations. / Doutorado / Historia da Arte / Doutor em História

This thesis shall address itself to the following: it shall concern itself with a definition of the phenomenon, the directions taken in the philosophical statements made on Conceptual Art, an investigation into the design of the forms used within the movement, and finally, the conceptual movement's historical placement will be considered along with its antecedents in the earlier years of the twentieth century.

A presente investigação aborda temas relacionados ao grupo Fluxus no acervo do MAC-USP. Fluxus foi um coletivo artístico que atuou nos limites da arte durante as décadas de 1960 e 1970, questionando valores instituídos pelos sistemas oficiais de produção, circulação e exibição de objetos artísticos. Tendo como referência as poéticas Fluxus, as importantes realizações que constituem a sua história, dados e fatos que situam as atividades de seus integrantes na história do surgimento das novas linguagens artísticas da segunda metade do séc. XX, realizamos um amplo levantamento sucedido de documentação e análise crítica de algumas dentre as 116 obras selecionadas no acervo do MAC-USP de autoria de artistas Fluxus. / The present study deals with themes related to the Fluxus group in the MAC-USP collection. Fluxus was an artistic group that worked in the boundaries of art during the Sixties and Seventies, having questioned the values established by the official systems of art production, circulation and exhibition. Regarding Fluxus poetics, the important accomplishments that form its history, data and facts which place the activities of its artists in the history of new languages outbreak during the second part of XX century, we carry out a wide survey followed by registry and critical analyze in some of the 116 works of Fluxus artists which were selected from the MAC-USP collection.

A presente investigação aborda temas relacionados ao grupo Fluxus no acervo do MAC-USP. Fluxus foi um coletivo artístico que atuou nos limites da arte durante as décadas de 1960 e 1970, questionando valores instituídos pelos sistemas oficiais de produção, circulação e exibição de objetos artísticos. Tendo como referência as poéticas Fluxus, as importantes realizações que constituem a sua história, dados e fatos que situam as atividades de seus integrantes na história do surgimento das novas linguagens artísticas da segunda metade do séc. XX, realizamos um amplo levantamento sucedido de documentação e análise crítica de algumas dentre as 116 obras selecionadas no acervo do MAC-USP de autoria de artistas Fluxus. / The present study deals with themes related to the Fluxus group in the MAC-USP collection. Fluxus was an artistic group that worked in the boundaries of art during the Sixties and Seventies, having questioned the values established by the official systems of art production, circulation and exhibition. Regarding Fluxus poetics, the important accomplishments that form its history, data and facts which place the activities of its artists in the history of new languages outbreak during the second part of XX century, we carry out a wide survey followed by registry and critical analyze in some of the 116 works of Fluxus artists which were selected from the MAC-USP collection.