Editing Fluxus (section)

===Event score===
An event score, such as [[George Brecht]]'s "Drip Music", is essentially a [[performance art]] script that is usually only a few lines long and consists of descriptions of actions to be performed rather than dialogue.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kotz|first=Liz|author-link=Liz Kotz|date=Spring 2001|title=Post-Cagean aesthetics and the 'event' score|journal=[[October (journal)|October]]|volume=95|issue=95|pages=55–89|jstor=779200}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Dezeuze |first=Anna |date=January 2002 |title=Origins of the Fluxus score: from indeterminacy to the 'do-it-yourself' artwork |journal=[[Performance Research]] |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=78–94 |doi=10.1080/13528165.2002.10871876|s2cid=191234739 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Robinson |first=Julia |date=Winter 2009 |title=Abstraction to model: George Brecht's events and the conceptual turn in art of the 1960s |journal=[[October (journal)|October]] |volume=127 |pages=77–108 |doi=10.1162/octo.2009.127.1.77 |jstor=40368554|s2cid=57562781 }}</ref> Fluxus artists differentiate event scores from "[[happening]]s". Whereas happenings were sometimes complicated, lengthy performances meant to blur the lines between performer and audience, performance and reality, event performances were usually brief and simple. The event performances sought to elevate the banal, to be mindful of the mundane, and to frustrate the [[high culture]] of academic and market-driven music and art.

The idea of the event began in [[Henry Cowell]]'s philosophy of music.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} Cowell, a teacher to John Cage and later to Dick Higgins, coined the term that Higgins and others later applied to short, terse descriptions of performable work. The term "score" is used in exactly the sense that one uses the term to describe a music score: a series of notes that allow anyone to perform the work, an idea linked both to what [[Nam June Paik]] labeled the "do it yourself" approach and to what [[Ken Friedman]] termed "musicality." While much is made of the do it yourself approach to art, it is vital to recognize that this idea emerges in music, and such important Fluxus artists as Paik, Higgins, or Corner began as composers, bringing to art the idea that each person can create the work by "doing it." This is what Friedman meant by musicality, extending the idea more radically to conclude that anyone can create work of any kind from a score, acknowledging the composer as the originator of the work while realizing the work freely and even interpreting it in far different ways from those the original composer might have done.

Other creative forms that have been adopted by Fluxus practitioners include [[collage]], [[sound art]], music, video, and poetry—especially [[visual poetry]] and [[concrete poetry]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/reader-edited-by-dick-higgins/5683|title=Book Review: A Something Else Reader, Edited by Dick Higgins|work=[[Whitehot Magazine]]|last=Bloch|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Bloch (artist)|date=February 2023|access-date=8 September 2023}}</ref>