Editing Fluxus (section)

===Stockhausen's ''Originale''===
[[File:FluxusTraitor.jpg|280px|thumb|''Traitor, you left Fluxus!'', a postcard sent by George Maciunas to Nam June Paik, c late 1964, after the latter's involvement with Stockhausen's ''Originale'']]
After returning to New York, Maciunas became reacquainted with Henry Flynt,<ref>At the time, a member of the leftist set WWP.{{harvnb|Maciunas|Ay-O|1998|p=108}}</ref> who encouraged members of Fluxus to take a more overtly political stance. One of the results of these discussions was to set up a picket line at the American premiere of ''[[Originale]]'', a recent work by the German composer [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], 8 September 1964.<ref name=":Bloch">[http://www.panmodern.com/OnStockhausen-sOriginale.pdf Bloch, Mark. "On Originale.", from Bloch, Mark, editor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924063736/http://www.panmodern.com/OnStockhausen-sOriginale.pdf |date=24 September 2015 }}. "Robert Delford Brown: Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics", Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, 2008.</ref> Stockhausen was deemed a 'Cultural Imperialist' by Maciunas and Flynt, while other members vehemently disagreed. The result was members of Fluxus, such as Nam June Paik and Jackson Mac Low, crossing a picket line made up of other members, including Ben Vautier and [[Takako Saito]]{{sfn|Kellein|2007|p=98}} who handed out leaflets denouncing Stockhausen as "a characteristic European-North American ruling-class Artist".<ref>"Picket Stockhausen Concert!", [[Henry Flynt|Flynt]] and [[George Maciunas|Maciunas]] flyer, 1964. Reproduced{{Full citation needed|date=July 2015|reason=Something got chopped off here.}}</ref> Dick Higgins participated in the picket, and then coolly joined the other performers inside;<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ubu.com/film/stockhausen_originale.html |title=A film of the event, UbuWeb |access-date=15 June 2012 |archive-date=10 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210203729/http://www.ubu.com/film/stockhausen_originale.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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Maciunas and his friend Henry Flynt tried to get the Fluxus people to march around outside the circus with white cards that said Originale was bad. And they tried to say that the Fluxus people who were in the circus weren't Fluxus any more. That was silly, because it made a split. I thought it was funny, and so first I walked around with Maciunas and with Henry with a card, then I went inside and joined the circus; so both groups got angry with me. Oh well. Some people say that Fluxus died that day—I once thought so myself—but it turned out I was wrong.<ref>[[Dick Higgins]], [http://www.artnotart.com/fluxus/dhiggins-childshistory.html "A Child's History of Fluxus"], 1979. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622030429/http://www.artnotart.com/fluxus/dhiggins-childshistory.html |date=22 June 2012 }}</ref>
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The event, arranged by [[Charlotte Moorman]] as part of her ''2nd Annual New York Avant Garde Festival'', would cement animosities between Maciunas and her,{{sfn|Kellein|2007|loc=n. 104, p. 98}} with Maciunas frequently demanding that artists associated with Fluxus have nothing to do with the annual festival, and would often expel artists who ignored his demands. This hostility continued throughout Maciunas' life—much to Moorman's bemusement—despite her continued championing of Fluxus art and artists.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiEJdOlgcDE |title=Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik "The Originale" |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=27 November 2016 |archive-date=31 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231083801/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiEJdOlgcDE |url-status=live }}</ref>