Tag: fluxus
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“Call It Something Else: Something Else Press, Inc. (1963-1974)” at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
On September 26, 2023, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid celebrated the inauguration of an exhibition titled “Llámalo de otra manera / Call It Something Else: Something Else Press, Inc. (1963-1974),” curated by the New York-based duo of curators, Alice Centamore and Christian Xatrec. The exhibition focuses on the books, projects, and activities of Dick…
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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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Episode 7: ‘Performance Piece #8’ and ‘“T” Dictionary’ (1965) by Alison Knowles
Alison Knowles’s “Performance Piece #8” (Summer 1965) is a language-based proposition published in the first Great Beat Pamphlet (New York: Something Else Press, 1965). It also exists as a “graphic performance” entitled “The ‘T’ Dictionary”. “The Dictionary” was first made public in the book “The Four Suits” (New York: Something Else Press, 1965). The following…
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Episode 6: ‘Dream Piece’ (1976) by John Armleder
‘Dream Piece’ (1976) is a performance by John Armleder, conceived and enacted within the expansive context of the Ecart Group, an artistic collective that thrived in Geneva during the 1970s. Ecart’s approach to art bore a strong imprint of Fluxus influence, a fact made evident by the numerous characteristics that situated the group firmly within…
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2023 with Fluxus: Must-see exhibitions
In this post, you will discover a comprehensive compilation of present, upcoming, and past exhibitions highlighting Fluxus and Fluxus artists, held in 2023. We will diligently update this list troughout 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…
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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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Public Panel Reflections: Long Live Fluxus!
This panel brought together experts from a variety of Fluxus archives based to discuss the notion of activation within the archival space. Amongst the main questions posed were: How might Fluxus be activated from the archive? What actually is a Fluxus archive, and how do archival infrastructures impact the afterlife of Fluxus? What might activation…
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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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