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From SoHo to Venice: Emily Harvey and the Two Art Households
Emily Harvey, an influential gallerist, played a vital role in supporting Fluxus artists through her gallery in New York and her foundation’s residency program in Venice, hosting over 500 creative individuals since its inception.
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Archival Explorations: Fluxus at the Getty Research Institute’s Special Collections
The Getty Research Institute (GRI) houses an extensive collection of Fluxus materials, offering valuable research opportunities for Fluxus scholars and enthusiasts. This blog post offers observations and guidance on navigating the complexity of GRI collections.
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Infrastructures of Display: A Model of Schaumagazin for Museum Abteiberg’s Fluxus Collection—A Conversation with Felicia Rappe and Melanie Seidler
This conversation, which took place in person and over email between June 2023 and January 2024, unfolds between representatives of Museum Abteiberg and members of the Activating Fluxus project. By presenting divergent perspectives on the concept of “activation” in the context of museum practices, the dialogue offers an opportunity to deepen the discourse around activation…
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Sally Kawamura: Opening the network in Mieko Shiomi’s Open Event, 2023
Sally Kawamura, a member of our extended Activating Fluxus team, reflects on Mieko Shiomi’s Open Event in both its historic iteration and more recent focus during the exhibition Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus, held at the Japan Society gallery in New York from October 2023 – January 2024 and curated by Midori Yoshimoto…
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On cc V TRE: A Retrospective View Through the Looking Glass of a Multipurpose Newspaper (1964-1979) by Mattia Cavoli
Mattia Cavoli, PhD student in Literatures, Arts, Media at the Università degli Studi dell’Aquila (Italy), reviews the Fluxus cc V Tre newspapers from their conception in 1963 by George Brecht up until their most recent republication by Printed Matter. Sixty-two years after the foundation of the “non-movement”, it is easy to appreciate how the editorial work of Fluxus…
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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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