Known For
Directing
Birthday
November 8, 1931
Place of Birth
Kaunas, Lithuania
Also Known As
- Jurgis Mačiūnas
George Maciunas
Biography
George Maciunas (Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was a Lithuanian American artist. He was a founding member and the central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. Other leading members brought together by this movement included Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Jonas Mekas, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell.
He is most famous for organising and performing early happenings and for assembling a series of highly influential artists' multiples.
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Known For - Movies
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
as Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday to John
as Self
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
as Self
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
Flux-Concert
as Self
Guns of the Trees
as Man with Theorbo
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
Warhol and Maciunas
as Self
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch
as himself
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
as Self (archive footage)