I really liked the analogy of the mother and father trying to name the child on the first page of the Dick Higgins fluxus essay. Just because it is a thing easily seen by most people, a thing that is easy to imagine the parents fighting about what to call the love child. The idea of knowing that something is there but you don't know what to call it is interesting too. It is like the discovery of every new animal or element. You can see the new thing but it has never been seen before so you don't know what to call it.
This essay was hard to read and understand. It clicked though when I got to the sixth page where the diagram was drawn. It showed a venn diagram where fluxus is the common point between life and art. It also showed the parallels resolving from that venn diagram. It helped me understand how it interacts and slips in and out of both circles. But the question is, can fluxus be defined? Can fluxus be handled into one group? Does it have a limitation or is it fluid enough to do anything?
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