Fluxus artists challenged the separation between art and ordinary life through event scores, playful instructions, found materials, and collaborative performances. Their work often resisted the idea of the permanent masterpiece. In poetry, Fluxus offers a model for instruction poems, participatory texts, and works that turn mundane gestures into artistic events. A Fluxus-inspired poem may invite readers to complete it through action, chance, or attention to daily ritual.

Fluxus was an international experimental movement active particularly during the 1960s and 1970s. Artists including George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and others challenged conventional boundaries between art and everyday life through performances, instructions, games, inexpensive objects, sound, chance, and humour. Fluxus is useful for poetry students because its “event scores” can resemble extremely concise verbal compositions intended to prompt actions. Compare performance art, conceptual art, happenings, chance operations, experimental poetry, instructions, intermedia, Dada, participation, and anti-commercial approaches to art.