Tag: fluxus
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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 Matter of Activity: Flux Mystery Food by Ben Vautier
An enigma surrounds Flux Mystery Food, which first appeared as canned food presented by the French artist Ben Vautier at the Fluxus Festival in Nice in 1963. A black-and-white documentary photograph captures Vautier consuming the contents of an unlabelled can— a unique and somewhat forgotten event, allegedly followed by him brushing his teeth [Image 1].…
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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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From SoHo to Venice: Emily Harvey and the Two Art Households
Emily Harvey, an influential gallerist, played a vital role in supporting Fluxus artists through her gallery in New York and her foundation’s residency program in Venice, hosting over 500 creative individuals since its inception.
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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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2024 with Fluxus: exhibitions and events
In this post, you will discover a comprehensive compilation of present, and upcoming exhibitions highlighting Fluxus and Fluxus artists held in 2024. We will diligently update this list throughout the year to ensure its accuracy. Should you happen to come across an exhibition that we have omitted, kindly reach out to us via email at
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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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