I prefer a naked girl in my bed to Dada

That humourous quote from Ben Vautier in Nicholas Zurbrugg's essay on Fluxus quite literally "clears the ground" with it's raucous humor. I find it to be a breath of fresh air in an otherwise dry, overly intellectual landscape. John Cage's playful experiments on 1960's TV are another fun exercise that also denotes the modus operandi of Fluxus. This refreshing movement has roots in performance and action. Wouldn't we all rather have fun than interpret and process dense ideas and texts? Ultimately, the Fluxus movement gets to have things both ways. Musical pieces by Cage or Beuys functioned as entertainment as well thought-provoking art. Warhol's work appealed to people's pop culture sensibilities but the more "intellectual" audience saw the irony and the statement in what he was doing.