Category: WRITINGS
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To ‘Pass On’: Conservation at the Interstices of Life and Death
What can activation mean, and what can it mean to activate? When we speak of an artwork’s ‘life’ and ‘death’, what exactly do we mean? This post ties together a series of reflections prompted by recent research trips in various exhibitions and archives, beginning with The Living Room exhibition at the Medical Museion in Copenhagen,…
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Processing Fluxus and Media Art Histories: A Case Study of the John G. Hanhardt Archives, by Hannah Mandel
Authored by the Archivist at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Hannah Mandel the paper “Processing Fluxus and Media Art Histories: A Case Study of the John G. Hanhardt Archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College” was presented at the 112th College Art Conference in Chicago within
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Capri Battery: Powering Decolonial Display Practices through Multisensory Interaction, by Inbal Strauss
Here is a highly original and engaging script by scholar and practice-based researcher Inbal Strauss that addresses Beuys’ Capri Battery and argues that, as a design object, it helps decolonize the pervasive visualist paradigm of aesthetic reception.
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“… treating with a flux”: Case Studies from The Silverman Fluxus Collection at MoMA, by P. Oleksik, K. Lewis, and D. Johnson
“…Treating with a Flux”: Case Studies from The Silverman Fluxus Collection, at The Museum of Modern Art, was authored by Peter Oleksik, Kate Lewis, and Danielle Johnson. It was presented at the 112th College Art Conference in Chicago. Below, you may find a recording of their presentation, which has been amended for our website.
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Fluxus Bit by Bit: The Great Bear Pamphlets, by Magdalena Holdar
Dr. Magdalena Holdar, from the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, presented insights from her recent research at the College Art Association conference in Chicago. We made the script of her presentation available on this website.
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Fluxus Study Day #3. Archivio Conz, Berlin: A Visual Essay
During the third Fluxus Study Day, the Activating Fluxus team had the privilege of collaborating with Archivio Conz, a Berlin-based research institution dedicated to showcasing, promoting, and researching the collection of the collector Francesco Conz.
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Elke Allgaier: Once upon a time – when Hanns Sohm started his private archive
In this post, Elke Allgaier, chief curator of Archiv Sohm based at the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany, takes us through the archive’s beginnings and its transition from the ownership of Hanns Sohm, a passionate collector of the avant-garde, to its present-day institutional home.
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“Call It Something Else: Something Else Press, Inc. (1963-1974)” at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
On September 26, 2023, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid celebrated the inauguration of an exhibition titled “Llámalo de otra manera / Call It Something Else: Something Else Press, Inc. (1963-1974),” curated by the New York-based duo of curators, Alice Centamore and Christian Xatrec. The exhibition focuses on the books, projects, and activities of Dick…
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Fluxus Study Day #2. Touring North Rhine-Westphalia: A Visual Essay
During our latest Fluxus Study Day, the Activating Fluxus team ventured across the North Rhine-Westphalia with stops at three locations: the Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; Museum Ostwall, Dortmund; and, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum. At our first destination, Museum Abteiberg, we were taken by Felicia Rappe and Melanie Seidler, respectively the curator of the museum and research fellow,
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Public Panel Reflections: Long Live Fluxus!
This panel brought together experts from a variety of Fluxus archives based to discuss the notion of activation within the archival space. Amongst the main questions posed were: How might Fluxus be activated from the archive? What actually is a Fluxus archive, and how do archival infrastructures impact the afterlife of Fluxus? What might activation…
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