BUTTER + EGGS = ART, sometimes

Fluxus was a network of artists who thought anything could be art, and anyone could be an artist. This video explores the food-related work of George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, and Alison Knowles, et al. Vote for your favorite novel here!: to.pbs.org/2Jes2X5
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[@tomwilson8176]

Knit a scarf of 100 rows then, before finishing it of, remove the hooks and unravel the entire thing making sure to wind all the used yarn into a ball. Throw the ball out a window.

[@GwenJuckts]

I did that once! 😳 I am an accidental artist!

[@urbexeireann6730]

This art movement reminds me of the 'science experiments' I did as a kid where I would get a bit of every liquid I could find in the bathroom and/or kitchen and mix it together

[@OSCARMlLDE]

That was your inner wizard trying to make a potion

[@andrineslife]

Danger music number seventeen might be my current coping strategy, but maybe I should try to create instead.

[@theartassignment]

TECHNICALLY, I think Danger Music Number Seventeen IS creating.

[@ColinLievens]

it's stuff like this that makes me truly excited about art.

[@ghosthallgremlin]

the mono meals kind of remind me of my christmas nachos. which came about when i found red tortilla chips in the store, and it was christmas time. made nachos with only foods that were red, green, or white. results were a fun night with my dad and some pretty good nachos.

[@LuckyLifeguard]

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[@larryphillipsjr.1607]

😥

[@MCAndyT]

"...in case you're vegan, or don't have any eggs: SCREAM! SCREAM! SCREAM! FIND IT! ATTACK IT! FIND IT! ATTACK IT!" damn, pretty extreme...

[@phatato]

And totally on point

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I rejoice in the proper pronunciation of "et cetera".

[@moiradarling97]

There’s nothing better than an art assignment video!

[@cz2301]

There is: TWO art assignment videos! We dont have enough of them.

[@Kram1032]

You know, I love these Art Cooking videos, but the thing I gotta love the *most* about them is the fact that you embrace your process no matter how potentially badly it goes, and you do it in an incredibly calm, academic, comedically dry manner. Like, in this video, that (not so) great egg opener

[@juliaholland9900]

dang that all black meal was cool

[@loganscime436]

An art cooking about one of my favorite movements?? It feels like my birthday!

[@gretchenlynn89]

I just wanted to leave some love on this channel. I have always wanted to get in to art, but never knew how. Once I discovered your channel I was hooked and now I feel more confident going to the sculpture garden literally across the street (the Walker in Minneapolis) and taking in art all through out the year. Love what you do and thank you for doing it!

[@MCAndyT]

That's so great! This channel really is the best!

[@larryphillipsjr.1607]

Cunt paintings! 🤣

[@DonovanPresents]

I reenacted some fluxus performances in college before. They're really fun to recreate

[@abramthiessen8749]

I have had a green meal many years ago for st. patrick's day. It is one of the easiest colours. I can remember having salad, and pistachio pudding, but I don't recall what else.

[@Caio-sw7hh]

i had one yesterday, just outta what i had in the house: peas, pesto sauce pasta, kale, avocado, cucumber and some cilantro, only noticed it was green when i sat to eat i think green and yellow are the easient to come out randomly, because carb rich foods are mostly yellow and well a lot of plants are "greenish".

[@Hydrantchan]

I love this series so much, thank you 💝💝

[@sepp_gw]

Those mono-color meals look so fun!!

[@theartassignment]

Try it! Let us know how it goes. #theartassignment

[@KannikCat]

You know, as a bonus, now when someone sits on that cushion/couch, and notices it's lopsided and missing some foam, that is one great conversation starter! :D Thank you for this! I hadn't heard of Fluxus before, tickled to see what they were creating and instigating others to create. Your black meal looks really good! I think I'm going to try a variation on your black fruit maki roll... :)

[@theartassignment]

You should! It was very surprisingly edible.

[@radagastwiz]

Blenderized meal, huh? I know someone else named Green who's an aficionado...

[@milicakrunic4898]

radagastwiz Just what I was thinking!

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I desperately want to make all of the mono-meals and have my friends guess what they are before we performatively eat them.

[@rogerionagaoka2345]

Wow! Such a GREAT assignment!!! Thanks a lot!!! I'm so happy that you did it! I'll be happy to do it too...

[@Reihanism73]

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[@Noah-kl8wn]

Yay! I've missed these so much!!! ❤️

[@michellefromthevoid]

Thank you VidCon for bringing me back to art.

[@JustAPeachyt]

Catz Galore Thank you VidCon for bringing me to you!

[@mariecrowe8843]

Im watching this fabulous series during corona lockdown, i will see the minutae of my day as art....fantastic

[@CrumpArt]

FIND IT! ATTACK IT! is perfect in so many ways and made me laugh out loud.

[@sigiluvsu]

I love this. Art cooking is the best series! Butter and eggs look incredibly fun and satisfying

[@Xenolilly]

Gotta love a reference to Anish Kapoor. :)

[@AlthenaLuna]

Next time, Stuart Semple?

[@Xenolilly]

Here's hoping. :)

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

John is going to be so confused by all of the vanishing household craft objects.

[@charleneli9931]

these are the kinds of videos which I wish I can give more than one LIKE

[@anniehuckaby2649]

this series inspired my final English project of recreating the meals from the Catcher in the Rye and explaining the context around them :)

[@meteorrejector]

never heard of fluxus before but i love this kind of thing! will do more research on it!

[@AlthenaLuna]

Two thoughts - 1. Sarah has now suffered through a blenderized a meal, without the spurring of a Vlogbrothers punishment. For art! 2. Especially as someone who has always been poor, I have a hard time calling the wasting of food "art", and suspect I'm not alone in this feeling. I'm wondering how you balance the desire to represent historical art movements & prompts accurately against other such factors.

[@TheInescapableFen]

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[@sarahalewijnse1177]

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[@ThatWouldBeCareless]

As someone else who has always been poor, I'm going to just try and answer this for how I see it, which obviously doesn't represent how Sarah or anyone else does. (1) I'm not sure using something for anything other than its intended purpose is necessarily wasteful, although when that thing is a resource you don't have access to it can definitely feel that way. (1.1) Sarah has plenty of food. If she wasn't making art with it, she wouldn't be donating it to poeple who don't have enough food - she'd either be eating it or just not buying it in the first place, whereupon someone else would buy it for the same price. (Of course she does charity in other, more productive ways - not like, buying huge quantities of meat and handing it to poor people.) Does that make any sense? Like, the resource feels scarce to me when I'm struggling for money, and I know an unacceptably huge number of people live in food poverty. But if this particular food wasn't being used for this particular purpose, it wouldn't be going to those people. Someone else in roughly the same financial situation as the people making the art would buy it and use it for whatever, and the people who can't afford it still wouldn't get it. That's a whole mess in itself, obviously, but not one that can be fixed by not making food art videos. If anyone feels like continuing this conversation and exploring the weirdness together, I'm in.

[@dagny1764]

i believe that there are statistics that demonstrate there is enough food to feed everybody on earth, the problem is with people who hoard more than their share or charge exorbitant prices for what has been produced. of course it's kind of a privilege in our current society to be able to waste food like this, but if it's to produce a video that has some artistic value or is informational then i think i could probably justify the expense. more so than something like howtobasic anyway. and for me the merit of fluxus is in the concept of the piece and what it's trying to say. even if it is interesting to see it being performed, i wouldn't really encourage everyone to go mush up eggs and butter or to go buy a violin to smash for fun, or to climb inside a whale's vagina for that matter.

[@Caio-sw7hh]

well, by your thought art would also be a waste of time 🤷🏽‍♂️ i mean, my parents dont think I should draw in my free time, they think i should get a part time job, tho we are not that poor anymore

[@jennamedlyn]

I'm a musician and seeing those pictures of instrument being destroyed is going to give me nightmares

[@TLG1255]

Thank you for the valuable content!

[@ss-iy9wr]

"Oh hey maam, how's it going?" I love seeing you enjoy making these videos!

[@love_tammy]

Danger music number twenty-four is me whenever there's a mosquito in my room at night

[@carolToyXD]

When I have doubt this series always remembers me why I went to art school.

[@rochaleandro747]

Very pleasurable to the artists.

[@posthumorously]

That sandwich looked so good. Not sure about it being a smoothie though.

[@fluxus4637]

Very informative and relaxingly unpreaching video

[@LilyN2099]

i really enjoy these types of videos :)

[@milicakrunic4898]

Blenderizing meals is back! We should get John and Hank to do it again

[@Xenolilly]

They should.

[@TANIMAYTO]

yum yum look at these culinary masterpieces

[@GingerRootss]

Lauren Zoll's art sounds RAD!!

[@seasong7655]

0:16 They said I could be anything, so I became the brush!

[@theartassignment]

:)

[@ray_ayy]

Honestly I’ll never stop loving the meat tower.

[@PatrickAllenNL]

Good thing it was clarified the egg is inedible

[@theartassignment]

Phew, I know. Had to make that clear ;)

[@loudaprile471]

That last fluxus is like an old school vlog brothers punishment

[@cheesereader]

I really appreciate the info on George Maciunas, because I've been trying to 1. pronounce his name, and 2. tell people who he is, for a long time. We've got this photo of him, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono in our bookstore from the area (the Berkshires). It takes people a moment to recognize John in the bonnet and dress, then Yoko in the uniform, and finally they ask--who's that?

[@allisonfarrell7968]

Love this episode of Art Cooking, just like every other episode! Just curious, how painful was the final meal?

[@theartassignment]

Oh it was rather painful. The taste of tuna salad should not be experienced as a liquid.

[@philip7319]

this really puts the yoko ono tunafish sandwich piece from grapefruit in a new light: "Imagine one thousands suns in the sky at the same time. Let them shine for one hour. Then, let them gradually melt into the sky. MAke one tunafish sandwich and eat."

[@Laurydoodle]

this was a great episode! def check out Jason Chase and Nanolabs singularity black! he has a great series of "the blackest little black dress". the color is made of carbon nanotubes. the art history babes interviewed him!

[@cobusjdatd2395]

The eggs and butter was so disgustingly satisfying to watch

[@crcons]

The Fluxus-inspired Scrambled Scrabble Dinner assignment is one of my favorite in The Art Assignment, precisely because it allows us to create together, and it doesn't require anyone to have previous art knowledge. "It's just a lousy meal planning." Now I discover that there's much more to the Fluxus movement. With that assignment, we got to create dishes with bold combinations, but they were ultimately good, edible food. If anything, we were making out-of-the-box great creative dishes (well, apart from my doritos ravioli, which tasted horrible but remains my favorite from the three times I played the scrambled scrabble dinner - I guess I might have grasped what Fluxus is all about, after all). We were playing the ego game once again, trying to make the best dish when in adverse conditions. Next time I might be more disruptive. (Maybe. Maybe not.) Great video, as usual. Thanks for making me think. Here for the doritos ravioli filled with ham and melon coulis, with a cassis-coffee sauce and sided with quark cheese and picles: instagram.com/p/BUsAeB1F4n9/?taken-by=crcons

[@JustAPeachyt]

Too many things to comment on. But in total my comment is YES!! ART!!

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

Fluxus art left people flummoxed. But in a good way.

[@bonniek356]

Yesss! Art Cooking is my favorite series!

[@theartassignment]

(Don't tell anybody, but it's mine, too. shh...)

[@bonniek356]

The Art Assignment (Don’t worry, your secret is safe with me) 🤫

[@enycha22]

I really hope you'd share how to make the tuna salad because this is the only cooking channel that I watch and I desperately need to learn actual cooking!

[@MCAndyT]

LOL dangerous recipes... 'cept that mysterious tuna salad recipe. Not to be confused with "What's Up Tiger Lily's" infamous egg salad recipe....

[@cornellwaters9089]

Thank You 🍞

[@benjmontgomery1358]

gahhh i love art so much

[@crcons]

Oh, I'm SO doing a black sushi. That's beautiful.

[@namlhots]

Come on, no secrets, what is your recipe for tuna fish? And who knew that John was a Fluxus artist (Blenderized Happy Meal circa 2007)?

[@elwynbrooks]

tbh it kind of feels like a lot of the challenges and memes in current day social media are just, like, weird Fluxus art, ASMR, what I eat in a day, variety of challenges ... all about everyone taking the prompt and running with it

[@bruno_diaz-39]

Super interesting video, I love this channel. Out of curiosity, do you think the Fluxus movement would consider thinks like chemistry, composing and playing music, or even 3D printing as within their scope? I.e does following an experiment that anyone can do, or playing a song that was written by someone else, or even printing an object that someone else design qualify as Fluxus?

[@wdestrempsmecke]

Literally ran into Yoko Ono at Christmas time 2019. She was in a Rascal scooter, I was quickly turning a corner in Greenwich Village NYC. I said “My bad! So sorry! OMG YOKO! Love you!” She replied “ Love you!” Then Rascalled away.

[@Gladzet]

National pride is through the rooof ❤️❤️❤️ love that guy

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I'm excited about this. Knowles' Bean Rolls had better be made and read.

[@theartassignment]

Sorry!

[@Angela-fk8ms]

They had a thing with transparent food and it was pretty cool it was all made with gelatin and things like that

[@theartassignment]

Yes indeed! It was on that Flux menu as well. I selfishly didn't want to spend a bunch of time making flavored clear gelatins that no one would want to eat.

[@Scorpio8116]

I can't help but feel annoyed, even angry at times, when I see that so much food is being pretty much wasted in order to be called art (even though I guess the real food wasters are all the grocery stores and restaurants and such that throw away so much more food daily than one person could). Still, I like learning that all of this exists, and in a way I appreciate the actual edible art (like the all-black meal) even more.

[@Caio-sw7hh]

in that sense, art is a waste of time you could be using to produce food 😉 why are you making art should be growing potatoes

[@TheFlygon13]

Yaaaas art cooking is back

[@stankasssdjsjsjsj6484]

the thumbnail made me think it was scrambled eggs. i was wrong, *very wrong*

[@geertjebrandenburg195]

I'm suuuper curious how you make solar panels out of bean juice. I know it's probably a secret created from a lot of experimentation but dammit that's really interesting!!!!

[@theartassignment]

A bit more here!: www.laurenzoll.com/current/

[@abbymoses9041]

Where do you find information on Fluxus foodstuffs? I'm greatly interested in the comings and goings of what this type of art food is but the internet seems to have nominal info on it. Are there any books you used (besides the Mr. Fluxus one, though I may have to look into that one more) that discuss it?

[@NotHPotter]

I'm probably getting sidetracked wondering how long that white glue took to fully dry, but I'm going to keep wondering.

[@tee_2d582]

I did a fluxus :)

[@idontgivearatsbottom]

2007: john green blenderizes happy meal 2018: sarah green blenderizes tuna fish sandwich If that isn't true love of blenderized things...

[@MCAndyT]

Will It Blend?!

[@aleczandur5739]

Wish I could have met George

[@clown-cult96]

Absolutely here for the low key Anish Kapoor shade.

[@emperortgp2424]

the darkest shade

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I'm curious as to your concept of privacy of tuna-salad production.

[@MCAndyT]

I'm for it!

[@brucew.5292]

I’m not giving you my recipe. (Pistachios and cranberry)

[@yuccc5897]

9:25 guys we found how to basic, he's Higgins all along

[@HalfLifeOfHumanity]

"Affixing a paintbrush to her underwear and Brushing Red Paint Onto Paper" 3:06 That is definitely not the first thing that came to my mind upon seeing this woman acting like she's popping a squat in the forest

[@marvinraphaelmonfort8289]

always wanted to eat all purple food for my birthday but kind of hard to do

[@JokieXWilsonArt]

Make a Faerie Freedom Village. Stand for your rights naked.

[@bradeast8021]

OK so you mentioned anish kapoor's vantablack... can you please make a video about him and what you think of him and vantablack?? I've hated him passionately ever since and don't think i could ever respect him again

[@kwright]

Anyone have a book on Fluxus that they'd like to recommend?! I'd love to learn more.

[@alissawilliams4825]

Yoko one has a neat one

[@phatato]

As a non-vegan all I could think at 8:20 was "what a waste of delicious butter!" lol

[@skiko15]

And after the dinner, play the card game Fluxx, a game in which you constantly change the rules by following instructions on the various cards.

[@TJtheBee]

Danger Music No. 24: AKA, rolling around on the floor with my pillow. I'm an artist.

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

FLUXUS! Let's make it Happen.

[@bluberrryhill]

Request: Toulouse Lautrec!

[@asa.pankeiki]

Bet Satie must’ve *hated* that black meal.

[@bluearrowfox7444]

Who was thinking they should probably make a cookie or some kind of pastry out of Danger Music number 15?

[@CarmenBelcher]

Could use activated charcoal for Black

[@brucew.5292]

I love these, extremely well done and entertaining. But the way you hack saw things when you cut really messes with my OCD.

[@Megatronimus]

How to basic is fluxus?

[@Likesandonthebeach]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@RichardLightburn]

Fluxus, eh? I dunno. Like many people my age (64), I first learned of Fluxus through Yoko and her involvement with a popstar. But I later learned more about it at a museum in Vienna, the Liechtenstein Palace in Vienna, which housed a modern art museum, and had a large collection of Fluxus things. I had to reconcile the scantiness of each item with the huge number of items. (In contrast, one Parthenon is enough to establish the importance of the Greeks.) While no single Fluxus piece establishes anything, the mass of them speaks of creativity of a sort. But then I thought about Yoko Ono's popstar, and some of his songs even when he was working with his famous quartet exhibited some kind of Fluxus "sensitivity". Many songs from "The White Album" seemed to have some of that kind of creativity. Like maybe "Helter Skelter. " And then I made the leap to ask how was Fluxus different from what Charles Manson's activities with Sharon Tate? I can clearly imagine the "scripts" of those ritualistic murders, and wondering whether those could be Fluxus events. But that's really too horrible a comparison to make. Really really horrible.

[@MissOwlB]

Love this episode! But that butter and egg mixture made me squeamish :P I can't stand the feeling of egg. It's worse than nails on a chalkboard for me!

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I'd love so much to eat that black meal :)