Refluxus - four Soluble heads: collective play through domestic art pedagogy

This chapter shares artful games initiated by Refluxus Art Collaborative that wholeheartedly embrace ludic play, Surrealist games, and the chance events of the Fluxus movement as explored through socially engaged practice. Coupled with creative subversion of everyday objects and newsworthy events, Refluxus art-play enacts a refreshing form of ‘domestic’ pedagogy. As artists/educators and working/mothers, Refluxus established a femin-isto that (re)welcomed the imaginative (wo)man at play as an intuitive and creative visionary to the home environment. Collectively their work responds to domestic duties, political injustices, and ‘normative’ forms and representations of play through artmaking. By glancing back/forward, they reflect on how Refluxus enabled them to respond to the seriousness of the art world and to work outside of institutional boundaries in ways that sustained connections to broader culture. They discuss the ‘rules of the games’ they played and favourite (re)gurgitations of contemporary culture that built artistic efficacy for ongoing artistic/pedagogical practices. Through narrative and artworks their game-filled encounters create openings, reverberations, and irritations to status quo art/practice/pedagogy. To end, they share a speculative game devised for their own and others’ senior years; humorously and creatively challenging the reader to engage in artful play with Refluxus-infused spirit.