Dick Higgins: Eleven Characteristics of Fluxus

internationalism
experimentalism and iconoclasm
intermedia
minimalism
an attempted resolution of the art/life dichotomy
implicativeness
the spirit of play
ephemerality
specificity
presence in time
musicality

Originally published privately as a pamphlet, Barrytown, NY, 1987. Revised and republished in Modernism Since Postmodemism: Essays on lntermedia, San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 1997.

Dick Higgins. 2018. “Fluxus: Theory and Reception” in Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press. Selected Writings by Dick Higgins. Steve Clay and Ken Friedman, eds. Catskill, New York: Siglio Press.