FAU Libraries Host ‘The Carbon Alternative: 1980s Book Arts Subculture Copy Art, Mail Art, Fluxus...

Copy art, mail art, fluxus and other movements took off in the 1980s as artists began using grassroots print technology, such as xerography, stamp art and video phone. The works in the exhibition are from the Jaffe collection and from the collection of Ginny Lloyd, an artist who was in the heart of it all in 1980s San Francisco. Artists developed techniques that resulted in interesting color separation, captured motion and flashes of light captured on the page. Mail art, in which artists create artworks that were begun in one geographic place and then sent through the mail to other artists for completion, are another big part of this exhibition, as are books from the Fluxus movement, an art movement concerned with the flow and happening of art. Many performance art pieces are based in Fluxus.