Tag: Fluxus events
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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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Andrej Mirčev: Performance Diagrams / Research Wednesday, October 2, 5:30pm CEST / join us!
On October 2 at 5:30 PM CEST, Andrej Mirčev, the postdoctoral fellow in our sister project “Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge,” is giving a lecture titled “Performance Diagrams” that might be of interest to the community of Fluxus fans and scholars. The lecture, which is part of the Research Wednesday series, can be attended in person…
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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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“… 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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Fluxus Study Day #3. Archivio Conz, Berlin: A Visual Essay
During the third Fluxus Study Day, the Activating Fluxus team had the privilege of collaborating with Archivio Conz, a Berlin-based research institution dedicated to showcasing, promoting, and researching the collection of the collector Francesco Conz.
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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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Online symposium “The Crazies are on the Loose: FLUXUS GLOBAL/DIVERS” at Museum Ostwall
On Thursday, June 22 and Friday, June 23, the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund is hosting an online symposium titled The Crazies are on the Loose: FLUXUS GLOBAL/DIVERS. The symposium’s main title is an English translation of the German phrase “Die lrren sind los,” which was originally scratched into a poster advertising Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik,
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Fluxus Study Day #1. The Fondazione Bonotto: A Visual Essay
Our extended Activating Fluxus network was recently hosted by the Fondazione Bonotto in Molvena, Italy, for our very first Fluxus Study Day and public panel “Activating Fluxus: In and out of the Archive,” the latter jointly organized by our project team and the Fondazione. This post, the first of two, is a visual essay reflecting…
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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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Julia Robinson: Working In the Spirit of Fluxus
How do museums handle the legacy of a collectivist initiative whose life and energy had a great deal to do with its avoidance of museums, galleries, and the art market? Julia Robinson, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History at New York University, speak about the musealization and preservation…
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