In pictures - Fluxus

John Cage, pictured here in 1970. The composer was regarded, particularly by those in the Fluxus movement, as a pioneer of contemporary music. Cage was arguably the first musician to highlight the importance of silence, his (entirely silent) composition 4.33 being the most famous example. He also taught at New York’s The New School of Social Research in the 1950s, where Fluxus artists such as George Brecht and Dick Higgins studied underneath him Photograph: Michael Ochs/Getty

The Fluxus Manifesto, as drawn up by George Maciunas. Maciunas was a founding member of the movement as well as an accomplished artist. He perpetuated the movement after sourcing financial investment and opening a string of 'Fluxhouses' across New York in the 1960s. He married fellow Flux follower Billie Hutching in 1978 and the ceremony was a performance piece called Fluxwedding. Tragically, he died of stomach cancer three months later Photograph: George Maciunas

The Bandaged Orchestra during the Fluxus festival, arranged by Yoko Ono at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1965. Ono is one of the world’s better known Fluxus artists, though arguably not for her work with the movement Photograph: Truman Moore/Time Life/Getty

Dancer Graziella Martinez comes out of a neo fossil egg by Argentinian sculptor Rodolfo Krasno during an act presented at the Autumn Festival in Paris, 1972. The music was provided by Fluxus electronic musician Edgardo N Canton Photograph: Spartaco Bodini /AP

The USA surpasses all the genocide records, according to a placard by George Maciunas dated 1966. It now hangs on a wall of the Zurich Museum for Design in Switzerland. Macunias’s conceptual art often had a strong revolutionary and political tract. He also sent Fluxus artwork out on a mailing list, referring to it as the Fluxkit Photograph: Steffen Schmidt/AP

A detail of the installation Kitchenware (1964) by Daniel Spoerri Photograph: AFP

Video artist Paik Nam-Junewith his video sculpture Fin de Siecle II, 1989 Photograph: Mario Ruiz/Time Life/Getty

The More, the Better by Paik Nam-June at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Kwachon Photograph: You Sung-Ho/Reuters