Performing arts

In 1958 a lot of artists and composers and other people who wanted to do beautiful things began to look at the world around them in a new way. When they saw that, it turned their minds on. They began to ask questions like: "Why does everything I see that's beautiful like cups and kisses have to be made into just a part of something fancier and bigger? Why can't I just use it for its own sake? When they asked questions like that, they were inventing Fluxus.
They did "concerts" of everyday living; and they gave exhibitions of what they found, where they shared the things that they liked best with whoever would come. Everything was itself, it wasn't part of something bigger and fancier.
These people were: In America George Brecht, Dick Higgins, La Monte Young, Jackson MacLow , Nam June Paik. In Germany Wolf Vostell, Ben Patterson and Emmett Williams, and plenty of others.

In my opinion Fluxus had a life of its own, apart from the people in it. It is simple things, taken for themselves and not just as part of bigger things. It is something that many of us must do, at least part of the time. It is inside of us, it is part of how we are. It isn't just a bunch of things and dramas but is part of how we live. It might be more than words.