Tag: materiality
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CFP: “Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge” / 36th CIHA Congress 2024
The research team of our sister project “Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge” is pleased to announce the call for papers for their panel at the 36th Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art, which will take place in Lyon, France, June 23–28, 2024. The theme of the conference is Matter Materiality. Read the description of their CFP below and submit
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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…
Activating Fluxus 