Tag: conservation
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CFP: Activating Fluxus, Expanding Conservation | 112th CAA Annual Conference
The Activating Fluxus research team is excited to extend an invitation for the submission of paper proposals to our panel at the 112th College Art Association Annual Conference. While the conference will be hosted in-person in Chicago from February 14–17, 2024, our panel will be conducted virtually. Authors interested in contributing to the panel are
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On Alison Knowles’s Identical Lunch at Forschungsapéro 2023
On one of the late spring evenings of May 2023, a sense of anticipation filled the air as we gathered around a longish table in a spacious room at Progr, an elegant auditorium and artistic center in Bern. The room was abuzz with people, their curious eyes fixed on our activities. We were part of…
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Activating Fluxus: In and Out of the Archive
Fondazione Bonotto in collaboration with the research project Activating Fluxus (sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation and located at Bern Academy of the Arts, Switzerland), are pleased to announce the public online event: “Activating Fluxus: In and Out of the Archive.” This event is a part of the project’s first Fluxus Study Day.
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Performance Conservation: Artists Speak
Can performance art be conserved – and if so, how? The research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is hosting its third annual colloquium Performance Conservation: Artists Speak. Artists engaged with performance will discuss the afterlives and legacies of their work, and even consider performance’s potential to serve as a…
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Artivation #1: Zen for Internet, 2014
Com&Com’s Zen for Internet (2014) references Nam June Paik’s canonical Zen for Film (1962-64). Using the iconography of the internet and computer, the work features an endlessly rotating “loading wheel” on a white background. Typically, the “loading wheel” would be a temporary, in-between state before seeing the fully loaded image. Zen for Internet, however, indefinitely freezes…
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Can We Talk Post-Preservation? A Letter to Nam June Paik
This is an excerpt from an invited lecture delivered on November 15 at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea, which addresses the positive value of obsolescence and posits post-preservation as an alternative to traditional conservation not only in Nam June Paik’s work but in artworks in general.
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About Fish, or Toward Radical Affinity in Paik’s Scores
In this essay, I discuss the material intricacies of Liberation Sonata for Fish cretaed by Nam June Paik in 1969 and distributed free of charge to the attendees at Charlotte Moorman’s 7th Annual New York Festival of Avant-Garde, Ward Island, New York. How to understand the work and appreciate decay as a positive value?
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Natilee Harren: Fluxus Forms of Activation
In a presentation that expands on arguments presented in her award-winning book Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network, Natilee Harren considers the multitude of ways Fluxus artists and the inheritors of their legacy have activated and remade one another’s works, both in the moment of the collective’s emergence in the 1960s and in…
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Unpacking the Score: Notes on the Material Legacy of Intermediality
What does it mean that a work of art is score or notation-based? How does a score-based work challenge the established categories of a self-contained artwork, existent in one defined materiality? And how does it fit within the category of collectable artifacts conceived to last in their intended, authentic and completed states? This is an…
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