Tag: spoerri
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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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To ‘Pass On’: Conservation at the Interstices of Life and Death
What can activation mean, and what can it mean to activate? When we speak of an artwork’s ‘life’ and ‘death’, what exactly do we mean? This post ties together a series of reflections prompted by recent research trips in various exhibitions and archives, beginning with The Living Room exhibition at the Medical Museion in Copenhagen,…
Activating Fluxus 