Category: NEWS
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Takako Saito (1929-2025)
It was announced on 30 September 2025 that Takako Saito sadly passed away. Her death marks the loss of one of the last first-generation Fluxus artists, but her playful spirit and inventive approach will undoubtedly continue to resonate in the ways that contemporary artists and audiences — not to mention curators, conservators, and other cultural…
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Welcome to Sara Duborg Døssing
This fall, our Activating Fluxus team is pleased to welcome Sara Duborg Døssing as a guest researcher. Sara joins us from Aarhus University in Denmark and works professionally as a curator at the HEART — Herning Museum of Contemporary Art. Below you can find her short biography and the topics she will be exploring with…
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Book Publication Fund for our anthology!
Activating Fluxus, Expanding Conservation is going Open Access thanks to the generous support of the Swiss National Science Foundation via the Book Publication Grant. Emerging from the four-year research project Activating Fluxus, the book will be freely available to all readers both in hardcover and electronically.
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EVENT SWIRL: Eventscoring with Peter Frank, Magdalena Holdar and Aga Wielocha
July 4, 2025 / 19:00 CEST // Weronika Trojańska, artist and researcher behind the Event Swirl application, invites you to the second meeting in her ongoing series exploring this innovative project. Joining Trojańska for this session will be Magdalena Holdar, Peter Frank and Aga Wielocha. Together, they will examine the concept of performing and preserving…
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Fluxus konservieren und aktivieren: Ein Interview mit Lisa Schiller und Josephine Ellis von Nicole Grothe
Last April I spoke with Lisa Schiller and Nicole Grothe, conservator and head of collections respectively at the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund, about some of the challenges Fluxus (and related) artworks pose to conservation practices and the museum more broadly. The interview was published in an edition of the MO_Magazin accompanying the Museum’s opening of…
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The Matter of Activity: Flux Mystery Food by Ben Vautier
An enigma surrounds Flux Mystery Food, which first appeared as canned food presented by the French artist Ben Vautier at the Fluxus Festival in Nice in 1963. A black-and-white documentary photograph captures Vautier consuming the contents of an unlabelled can— a unique and somewhat forgotten event, allegedly followed by him brushing his teeth [Image 1].…
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Event Swirl: Scoring Digital Connections
Event Swirl is a webb app and communication method inspired by the principles of Fluxus practice. Each participant receives simple instructional scores and responds with their own interpretations through images, video, or sound—forming a collaborative network where chance, play, and everyday moments become opportunities for collective creative experience.
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The Multiple as Agential Object: Daniel Spoerri’s Object Complicity
When, in late November 1959, Spoerri established the first of three instalments of the Edition MAT, it was also the first attempt of its kind to build something of a concrete infrastructure around the multiple’s production and dissemination. Taking Spoerri’s logic of the multiple as my point of departure, gleaned from a mixture of Spoerri’s…
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Weronika Trojańska: The Ten Thousand Things of Charlotte Moorman
Weronika Trojańska, PhD candidate at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, shares her archival investigations at the Archivio Conz, Berlin. Trojańska takes, as her focus, a mysterious suitcase signed by Charlotte Moorman filled with equally mysterious contents, and attempts to discern what they are—and what they might become.
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Fluxus Study Day #4. Wiesbaden: A Visual Essay
During the fourth Fluxus Study Day, the Activating Fluxus Team explored Wiesbaden, where the groundbreaking “Fluxus: Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik” took place fom September 1-23, 1962. This visual essay traces the festival’s impact and examines Fluxus’s legacy that endures throughout the city and its surroundings.
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