Destabilizing the readymade, almost everyday visual object within the theatrical realm both linguistically and performatively composes what the art “movement” (or “non-movement”, as its members preferred) Fluxus intended for their pieces. A crucial member of this group, Alison Knowles, continues redefining the concept of subjectivity and identifying time in a way that suggests time does not actually exist yet it forcefully exists at the same instant, creating a paradigm that both signifies a specific moment yet distracts from it in a way that draws attention to the “neglected sensibilities of smell, sight [or site, depending on the Event Score being performed], touch, and task” (Knowles, 2) as an integral part of art making. Those members of Fluxus erase the line between life and art that was created by their predecessors, answering directly to the Pop Art movement and that of the direction the Minimalist artists of the 1960’s were moving, unknowingly becoming an......

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Title: Art Hist
Approximate Word Count: 947
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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