Tag: conservation
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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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New Publication! Instilling Liveliness: Archives of Neo-Avant-Garde Art as Sites of Activation, by Aga Wielocha
Congratulations to Aga Wielocha, our postdoctoral fellow, on her new article “Instilling Liveliness: Archives of Neo-Avant-Garde Art as Sites of Activation”, recently published by the Journal Institute of Conservation. In this article, she explores the concept of activation in relation to the archive, with a specific focus on Ecart, an artistic collective active in the
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Hannah B Higgins: “Now That You’re Ready for the Real Thing”- Research Wednesday, May 22, 5pm CEST- join us!
We are thrilled to announce Hannah B Higgins, Professor of Intermedia and Avant-Garde Art and Culture and Founding Director of IDEAS at the University of Illinois Chicago as our speaker at the Research Wednesday seminar series, on May 22, 2024, 5 pm – 6:30 pm CEST (online).
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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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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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Performing Objects, Objects to be Performed in Oslo
Our colleague Aga Wielocha has put together a poster presentation “Performing Objects, Objects to be Performed” for a conference in Oslo. The poster picks up the idea of activation as a conservation strategy in Fluxus.
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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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CFP: “Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge” / 36th CIHA Congress 2024
The research team of our sister project “Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge” is pleased to announce the call for papers for their panel at the 36th Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art, which will take place in Lyon, France, June 23–28, 2024. The theme of the conference is Matter Materiality. Read the description of their CFP below and submit
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