Selection of the general literature on Fluxus that guides our research
- Allsopp, Ric, Ken Friedman and Owen Smith, eds. 2002. Performance Research: On Fluxus, Vol. 7, No. 3 (September).
- Anderson, Simon. 1983. Fluxus: Early Years and Close Correspondences. MA thesis, Royal College of Art, London.
- Armstrong, Elizabeth. 1993. “Fluxus and the Museum.” In In the Spirit of Fluxus, edited by Elizabeth Armstrong and Joan Rothfuss, 13-21. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center.
- Baas, Jacquelynn. 2011. Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Becher, Jürgen, and Wolf Vostell, eds. 1965. Happenings, Fluxus, Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme. Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt.
- Block, René. 1983. 1962 Wiesbaden Fluxus 1982: Eine kleine Geschichte von Fluxus in drei Teilen. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harlekin Art.
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Literature from the fields of anthropology, art theory, art history, curatorial studies, museology, heritage studies and conservation that inspires the revision of conservation as a knowledge-generating activity and a field of study and practice
- Anderson, Christy, Anne Dunlop and Pamela H. Smith, eds. 2015 The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices Cultural Logistics, c. 1250-1750. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Ashley-Smith, Jonathan. 2004. “The Ethics of Conservation.” Care of Collections, edited by Simon J. Knell, 11–20. London: Routledge.
- Balsom, Erika. 2013. “Original Copies: How Film and Video Became Art Objects.” Cinema Journal 53, No. 1 (Fall): 97–118.
- Barassi, Sebastiano. 2007. “The Modern Cult of Replicas: A Rieglian Analysis of Values in Replication.” Tate Papers, No.8 (Autumn). Accessed August 1, 2020.
- Barok, Dušan, Julia Noordegraaf, and Arjen P. de Vries. 2019. “From Collection Management to Content Management in Art Documentation: The Conservator as an Editor.” Studies in Conservation 64 (8): 1–18.
- Bennett, Jane. 2009. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham and London Duke University Press.
- Bernstein, Emma Bee. N.d. “Medium Specificity.” The Chicago School of Media Theory. Accessed on September 2, 2020.
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Public and private collections with holdings of original Fluxus works and objects by individual Fluxus artists
Andersch Collection, Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany. In 2017, Museum Abteiberg acquired one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of Fluxus work and related material: the art collection, archive, and library of Erik Andersch (1940–2021). Artists featured in the collection include members of the Fluxus inner circle, those in the broader milieu of the international Fluxus network, and others.
Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts (ATCA), University of Iowa; Iowa City, US. Serving as an interface among University of Iowa facilities (the Museum of Art, the University Libraries, and a number of academic units) the ATCA Project is committed to the collection and preservation of works and papers of contemporary artists and to the facilitation and dissemination of research related to the post-World War II avant-garde. ATCA hosts various individual collections related to Fluxus artists and practices: The Fluxus West Collection, The Ken Friedman ATCA Collection, The Alice Hutchins Papers, Jonas Mekas Collection of Fluxus Films and Artifacts of the Eternal Network Papers. See also: Fluxus Digital Collection at Digital Studio for Public Arts & Humanities, featuring works from the UI Special Collections donated by Ken Friedman.
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Washington DC, US. Archives host various collections with material related to Fluxus artists and Fluxus history. Most important are: Ted and Joan Wilentz collection of Fluxus-related materials (1963-1983), Dick Higgins papers (1958-1997) and Ken Friedman papers (1969-1978). The oral history collection includes interviews with Fluxus artists, including Alison Knowles, Geoffrey Hendricks, Benjamin Patterson and Al Hansen.
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Selected bibliography on Ecart Group
- Ecart, and John Armleder. 1980. “Suisse Romande et Fluxus.” In Fluxus International & Co. A Geneve. Geneva: Association Musee d’Art Moderne.
- Bovier, Lionel. 2001. “Le Paradigme Performatif, de Fluxus a l’activisme.” In Across/Art/Suisse/1975-2000, edited by Lionel Bovier, 37–61. Milan: Skira editore.
- Bovier, Lionel, and Christophe Cherix. 2002. “Ecart Archive.” In Interarchive : Archival Practices and Sites in the Contemporary Art Field, edited by Beatrice Von Bismarck, Hans-Peter Feldman, Hans Urlich Obrist, Diethelm Stoller, and Ulf Wuggenig, 294–95. Köln: Walther König.
- Bovier, Lionel. 2005. “John Armleder in the 1970s. The Ecart Years: The Joint Irresolution of an Equivocal Commitment.” In John Armleder, 92–113. Paris: Editions Flammarion.
- Bovier, Lionel, and Christophe Cherix. 2012. “John Armleder and Ecart.” In Artist-Run Spaces, edited by Gabriele Detterer and Maurizio Nannucci, 110–22. Zurich: JRP Ringier.
- Bovier, Lionel. 2013. Ecart (1969-1980). Zurich: JPR Ringier.
- Jobin, Elisabeth. 2015. “Ecart (Genève) et Franklin Furnace (New York): Maintenir La Permanence Du Lieu. Un Regard Sur l’histoire de Deux Espaces d’art Indépendants de 1969 a Nos Jours.” University of Bern.
- Bovier, François, and Adeena Mey. 2017. “John M Armleder.” In Centre d’art Contemporain Genève : 1974-2017, edited by Andrea Bellini, 417–35. Genève: Centre d’art contemporain Genève.
- Jobin, Elisabeth. 2018. “Archives Ecart — La Mail Art Ou La Communication Alternative.” Kunstbulletin. https://www.artlog.net/de/kunstbulletin-11-2018/archives-ecart-la-mail-art-ou-la-communication-alternative.
- Chateigne, Yann, Elisabeth Jobin, Matthew Copeland, Emilie Parendeau, Pierre Leguillon, and Dan Solbach. 2019. “ARCHIVES ECART.” 2019. https://archivesecart.ch/.
- Bovier, Lionel, and Christophe Cherix, eds. 2019. Ecart Geneva, 1969-1982. London: Koenig Books.
- Jobin, Elisabeth. 2019. “Le Livre d’artistes Mis En Réseau. Art et Communication Marginale Vol. II Par Le Groupe Ecart et Hervé Fischer.” Les Cahiers Du Mnam, no. 149: 84–103.
- Bianchi, Pierre-Paul. 2020. “Anatomie d’une Imprimerie: Ecart Publications (1973-1982) Ou La Mise En Circulation de l’art Dans Le Livre.” Université de Lausanne.
- Jobin, Elisabeth, and Yann Chateigné, eds. 2020. Almanach Ecart. Une Archive Collective, 1969–2019. Genève and Lausanne: HEAD-Genève and Art&fiction.
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