Marshal McLuhan

“What would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one’s psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties?”

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Hugo Ball, “Dada Fragments”

“The Dadaist trusts more in the sincerity of events than in the wit of persons. To him persons may be had cheaply, his own person not excepted. He no longer believes in the comprehension of things from one point of departure, but is nevertheless convinced of the union of all things, of totality, to such an extent that he suffers from dissonances to the point of self-dissolution…”

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Richard Higgins’ “Fluxus; Theory and Reception”

“Fluxus was not, then, a movement; it had no stated consistent program or manifesto which the work must match, and it did not propose to move our awareness of art from point A to point B. The very name ‘fluxus,’ suggests change, being in a state of flux. The idea was that it would always reflect the most exciting aant-garde tendenies of a given time or moment—the fluxatitude—and it would always be open for new people to ‘join.’ All they had to do was to produce works which were in some way similar to what other fluxus artists were doing.”

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