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  • Takako Saito (1929-2025)

    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

    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!

    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

    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
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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
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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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