We can view Fluxus through several disciplines. One discipline is history, and there is a history of Fluxus to be told. While the core issues in Fluxus are ideas. Fluxus ideas were first summarized and exemplified in the work of a specific group of people. This group pioneered these ideas at a time when their thoughts and practices were distinct and different from most thought and practice in the world around them, distinct from the art world and different than the world of other disciplines in which Fluxus would come to play a role.
History offers a useful perspective.
Fluxus, however, is more than a matter of art history. Fluxus is the name of a way of doing things. It is an active philosophy of experience that only sometimes takes the form of art. It stretches across the arts and even across the areas between them. Fluxus is a way of viewing society and life, a way of creating social action and life activity.