Shake it, rumple it and tear it.

Place the act in the context of creative art, installations, short texts and theatre.

You get a free-flowing genre of inter-disciplinary art called Fluxus art, an exhibition of which will be held here this month.

For Indians, bred on conventional art formats like paintings, sculptures and installations, Fluxus may seem a tad difficult to understand.

Experts describe it as a spiritual experience which recontextualises traditional forms.

"It is an intra-media discipline which makes new sense of conventional meanings. The form fuses visuals, music, technology and performance arts into one creative enterprise," said Rajeev Lochan, director of the National Gallery of Modern Arts (NGMA).

The NGMA is hosting the first-ever exhibition of Fluxus compositions from Germany in a show titled 'Fluxus in Germany from 1962-1994: A Long Story with Knots' beginning May 15.

The 20-day show will close June 4.

This unique art form developed in the US and Europe in the early 1960s largely as a recoil to the horrors of the two world wars.

In Europe, the art form flourished in nations that took part in the world wars.

In the US, it began as an experiment by composer John Cage who was exploring artistic frontiers beyond music in his compositions such as 4'33'. The ripples of the Fluxus movement were also felt in faraway Japan.

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