http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/visualart/kuhn/intermedia/higgins-s.jpgA performance artist of recognition from the Fluxus movement would be Dick Higgins. His artwork was considered to be "intermedia." His famous Danger Music scores instructed to do things like number 12 was to "write a thousand symphonies" and number 9 dedicated to Nam June Paik was "volunteer to have your spine removed." Scores were suppose to be short and simple which separates them from "happenings."
From the Gutai movement, Jiro Yoshihara wrote the Gutai manifesto which described that beauty is in decay. He said that things needed to decay to escape their tombs of being painted and molded.
The Nouveau Realist were counterparts to Pop Artists. Yves Klein was an artist of recognition. He did the "Le Saut dans le Vide" which means the leap into the void. He basically jumped off a building to experience the void. He also had immaterial works, like his selling spaces for gold. His explaination waws to let people experience the void, and after his selling he threw the gold into a river.
From the Dada movement Kurt Schwitter made scores as his performance art. He wrote out phonetic notes in German on paper. These had no real form of music theory but were meant to be understood by the viewer.
Bibliography
-"The Fluxus Performance Workbook" edited by Ken Friedman, Owen Smith, and Lauren Sawchyn. A Performance Research e-publication 2002.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutai
-http://www.ashiya-web.or.jp/museum/10us/103education/nyumon_us/manifest_us.htm
-http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=204
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Klein
-http://www.ubu.com/sound/schwitters.html
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