Tag: conservation
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Fluxus Fête: Activating Fluxus Grand Finale
Save the date for Fluxus Fête, our grand finale, taking place over three days in February 26-28, 2026, in Bern and Zürich. Fluxus Fête is a series of events celebrating the radical spirit of Fluxus, while simultaneously marking the conclusion of the research project Activating Fluxus.
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Psst.. psssst.. Our book is coming together!
After years of research, profound discussions with many actors in Fluxus, and months of careful editing, our volume Activating Fluxus, Expanding Conservation is finally taking shape. As the first book to address the conservation of Fluxus, it brings together artists, scholars, and conservators in a shared reflection on its material legacies.
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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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Episode 10: ‘When Elephants Fight, It Is The Frogs That Suffer—A Sonic Graffiti’ (2016-2017) by Ben Patterson
The sound installation When Elephants Fight, It Is The Frogs That Suffer – A Sonic Graffiti was conceived by Ben Patterson specifically for documenta 14, which took place in 2017 in Athens and Kassel. Patterson started developing the work immediately after receiving the invitation to contribute and traveled to Athens to visit the site that
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Episode 9: ‘Piano Activities’ (~1962) by Philip Corner
This episode explores Philip Corner’s iconic work ‘Piano Activities’, starting with its controversial 1962 premiere at the Wiesbaden festival. Our guest, artist Sean Miller, narrates his experience interpreting Corner’s latest version of the score, titled ‘Piano Aktivitys as a Disciplind Destruktshun’ (2022), which he orchestrated and performed in 2024 in Gainesville, Florida. Miller reflects on…
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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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Episode 8: ‘Very Fast Clock’ / ‘Very Slow Fan’ (~1975) by Larry Miller and George Maciunas
The concept of switching motors between a fan and a clock was conceived by Larry Miller around 1973-74. According to Miller, “the work addresses the concept of a pairing of time and motion as two opposing ideas—sometimes referred to as a complementary ‘art conundrum’ or an ‘aporia’ [in rhetoric, a state of puzzlement or doubt]—wherein
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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 Multiple as Agential Object: Daniel Spoerri’s Object Complicity
When, in late November 1959, Spoerri established the first of three instalments of the Edition MAT, it was also the first attempt of its kind to build something of a concrete infrastructure around the multiple’s production and dissemination. Taking Spoerri’s logic of the multiple as my point of departure, gleaned from a mixture of Spoerri’s…
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Weronika Trojańska: The Ten Thousand Things of Charlotte Moorman
Weronika Trojańska, PhD candidate at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, shares her archival investigations at the Archivio Conz, Berlin. Trojańska takes, as her focus, a mysterious suitcase signed by Charlotte Moorman filled with equally mysterious contents, and attempts to discern what they are—and what they might become.
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