Tag: score
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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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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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Performing Objects, Objects to be Performed in Oslo
Our colleague Aga Wielocha has put together a poster presentation “Performing Objects, Objects to be Performed” for a conference in Oslo. The poster picks up the idea of activation as a conservation strategy in Fluxus.
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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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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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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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Can We Talk Post-Preservation? A Letter to Nam June Paik
This is an excerpt from an invited lecture delivered on November 15 at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea, which addresses the positive value of obsolescence and posits post-preservation as an alternative to traditional conservation not only in Nam June Paik’s work but in artworks in general.
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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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Unpacking the Score: Notes on the Material Legacy of Intermediality
What does it mean that a work of art is score or notation-based? How does a score-based work challenge the established categories of a self-contained artwork, existent in one defined materiality? And how does it fit within the category of collectable artifacts conceived to last in their intended, authentic and completed states? This is an…
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