Editing Fluxus (section)

===Death of George Maciunas===
Maciunas moved to the Berkshire Mountains in Western Massachusetts in the late 1970s. Two decades earlier, after collecting paintings, the Boston art collector Jean Brown, and her late husband Leonard Brown, began to shift their focus to Dadaist and Surrealist art, manifestoes and periodicals. In 1971, after Mr. Brown's death, Mrs. Brown moved to [[Tyringham, Massachusetts|Tyringham]], and expanded into areas adjacent to Fluxus, including artists' books, concrete poetry, happenings, mail art and performance art. Maciunas helped turn her home, originally a Shaker seed house, into an important center for both Fluxus artists and scholars, with Mrs. Brown alternately cooking meals and showing guests her collection. Activities centered on a large archive room on the second floor built by Maciunas, who settled in nearby [[Great Barrington, Massachusetts|Great Barrington]], where it was discovered in 1977 that Maciunas developed cancer of the pancreas and liver.

Three months before his death, he married his friend and companion, the poet Billie Hutching. After a legal wedding in Lee, Massachusetts, the couple performed a "Fluxwedding" in a friend's loft in SoHo, 25 February 1978. A videotape of the Maciunas' wedding was produced by [[Dimitri Devyatkin]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVDB1oy1O8s |title=Marriage of George and Billy Maciunas |website=[[YouTube]] |date=18 June 2011 |access-date=9 September 2014 |archive-date=7 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307134518/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVDB1oy1O8s |url-status=live }}</ref> The bride and groom traded clothing.<ref>According to Hutching, quoted in {{harvnb|Maciunas|Ay-O|1998|p=280}}, Maciunas was a transvestite and masochist.</ref> Maciunas died on 9 May 1978 in a hospital in Boston.

His funeral was held in typical Fluxus style where they dubbed the funeral "Fluxfeast and Wake", ate foods that were only black, white, or purple.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.theartstory.org/movement-fluxus.htm|title = Fluxus Movement, Artists and Major Works|date = 2015|website = The Art Story|last = DiTolla|first = Racy|access-date = 6 October 2015|archive-date = 19 October 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151019105630/http://www.theartstory.org/movement-fluxus.htm|url-status = live}}</ref> Maciunas left behind his thoughts on Fluxus in a series of important video conversations called ''Interview With George Maciunas'' with Fluxus artist [[Larry Miller (artist)|Larry Miller]], which has been screened internationally and translated into numerous languages.<ref>Interview with [[Larry Miller (artist)|Larry Miller]], 1978, referenced in {{harvnb|Maciunas|Ay-O|1998|page=114}}</ref> Over a 30 year period, Miller shot and collected Fluxus related materials including tapes on Joe Jones, Carolee Schneemann, Ben Vautier, Dick Higgins, and Alison Knowles, in addition to the 1978 Maciunas interview.