George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 7pm for George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus, a feature documentary by Jeffrey Perkins followed by a discussion.

George (Jurgis) Maciunas remains one of the decisive organizers of the postwar avant-garde, and also one of its hardest figures to pin down: artist, designer, publisher, ideologue, and logistical engine. Perkins’s film approaches Fluxus through Maciunas’s temperament and methods, assembling a portrait from interviews and archival documents in a film language that echoes Fluxus’s own sensibility.

Over the course of the film, Maciunas’s projects unfold across the US and an international Fluxus network as Perkins traces the ideas he set in motion, from happenings and “Flux” enterprises to the artist-owned loft cooperatives that reshaped downtown New York’s cultural geography. The film presents Fluxus as an approach to organizing work, life, and collaboration, and serves as a starting point for a broader conversation about what Fluxus was, what it refused to become, and what Maciunas’s legacy can still propose today.

Film

Jeffrey Perkins, George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus (2018, 128 minutes)
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus is a feature documentary as mercurial as its subject, George Maciunas, impresario of the international avant-garde art movement Fluxus (1962-78). Fascinatingly contradictory interviews with artists, including Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik, and inventive sound and screen design, shape this rich portrait of a visionary artist. Dedicated to cooperative methods and expanded processes, everything could be Fluxus: kits, shops, festivals, islands, weddings, food, or Flux Lofts–the first network of artist-owned lofts in SoHo, New York. The iconoclastic Maciunas and the spirit of Fluxus provoke questions still critical to artists working today. Featuring interviews with Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik.

The screening is organized in collaboration with Re:Voir.

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