A single New School class seeded the entire Fluxus network

Evidence

Inspired by the Chambers Street concerts, George Maciunas, a twenty-nine-year-old Lithuanian émigré who had attended Maxfield’s New School composition class (where he met Hansen, Kaprow, Mac Low, and Young, all future associates of Maciunas’s art movement Fluxus), began hosting similar events uptown at the AG Gallery (Madison Avenue and Seventy-Fourth Street). — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 191

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s thesis: this density of invention traces to a specific classroom and cheap gallery space within walking distance — a material condition, not individual genius.