Tag: fluxus
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Episode 5: ‘Orange Event No. 3’ (1963) by Bengt af Klintberg
Composed by Bengt af Klintberg in 1963, Orange Event No 3 (or Apelsinhändelse nr 3 in Swedish) is one of the scores from the series Twenty-Five Orange Events. The series was published several times, the first time in Swedish in 1966, together with other writings by af Klintberg, The English translation of 25 Orange Events…
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Sally Kawamura: Towards Infinity: Mieko Shiomi’s “Transmedia”
Associated researcher Sally Kawamura explores the idea of “transmedia,” a term first coined by artist Mieko Shiomi in 2012. This concept refers to the process of creating new works or responses to existing pieces or concepts. Shiomi’s ideas resonate with other artistic attempts to build upon pre-existing work, particularly within Fluxus.
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Activating Fluxus at HKB Forschungsapéro 2023 Jahresschau
Activating Fluxus project will present their research at the HKB-Forschungsapéro 2023 Jahresschau. During this event, the Bern public, Fluxus enthusiasts, and HKB colleagues will have the opportunity to experience Alison Knowles’s Identical Lunch (1967) and enjoy a delicious meal in a convivial atmosphere.
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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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Stefanie Manthey: The common arts of Fluxus
Stefanie Manthey, one of our associated researchers in the Activating Fluxus network, has contributed an article to the first HKB newspaper of 2023. Stefanie’s article, ‘The common arts of Fluxus’, highlights the playful agency of Fluxus objects, performances, and events created in the 1960s-70s, and additionally considers the methodological potential of Fluxus play for contemporary…
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Loss as Creation’s Companion, with Eric Andersen
Our research team recently spoke with Intermedia artist, Eric Andersen, to reflect on the Fluxus network and some questions posed by Intermedia works of the recent historical past. Our conversation broadly touched on the notions of continuity and change, loss and preservation, and crucially, how Intermedia works might endure both through and as a form…
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Artivation #2 : Happy New/Old Year
On the New Year’s eve of 2022, Com&Com performed an “Artivation” of Ken Friedman’s work “In One Year and Out the Other” (1975). The work asks significant questions about time and space, and what do artificial, political and temporal zones mean in a world connected via digital media.
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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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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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