Category: RADIO FLUXUS
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Episode 4: ‘Open and Shut Case’ (1965) by Ken Friedman
This episode features “Open and Shut Case” (1965) by Ken Friedman presented by the artist himself. Open and Shut Case (1965) is a score-based work which manifests itself in a variety of ways. As is often the case for Fluxus events, the score has been written down a posteriori, out of the creation of an…
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Episode 3: ‘Mirror Piece’ (1963) by Mieko Shiomi
The third episode of our podcast presents Mirror Piece (1963) by Japanese artist Mieko Shiomi. This work, as many other Fluxus scores, does not have a singular manifestation but rather exists as many different entities, the material ones and the performative ones captured through documentation. Two versions of the handwritten score – in English and…
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Episode 2: ‘Thursday’ (1963) by George Brecht
This episode features George Brecht’s event score titled, Thursday. The work, which exists in various instantiations, approximates the tradition of musical notations rather than the object-oriented realm of visual arts. In museum collections, it appears either as a note scribbled down on a piece of creased, white sheet of paper or as one of the…
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Episode 1: ‘Hooked’ (1980) by Ben Patterson
This episode features Benjamin Patterson’s work Hooked (1980) from the collection of Getty Research Institute, acquired in 1985 as a part of Jean Brown Archive. Formally, Hooked is a fishing tackle box that contains several found, similarly unrelated objects adorned with either hooks or lures. One of the items included inside the box was a…
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