Activating Fluxus

NATURECULTURE LAB: A global think tank - announcement and call for participation shorturl.at/fs1rD #natureculture #conservation

New blogpost alert! A postcard from Venice reveals how one woman's vision resulted in two art households on different sides of the Atlantic. activatingfluxus.com/2024/10/02/fro…

Andrej Mirčev: Performance Diagrams / Research Wednesday, October 2, 5:30pm CEST / join us! activatingfluxus.com/2024/10/01/and…

Checkout the recently updated Fluxus exhibition calendar on our website! Worth a look especially if you're in Germany this fall - lots of great exhibitions there! activatingfluxus.com/2024/08/25/202…

It's time for another #OpenAccess #ArticleOfTheMonth! Today we're featuring an article published in the @Conservators_UK Journal by recent GCI Scholar, Aga Wielocha. The article discusses activation as a conservation strategy for artists' archives, particularly those of the 1960s-1970s gty.art/463C1GU

@ClbyChamberlain @UChicagoPress @mngrph Congrats!

“Fluxus Administration: George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork” is officially out today! Thank you to @uchicagopress @mngrph and everyone else who helped to make this book possible.

Looking forward to reading it!!!!

The newest addition to our writings section: A conversation with the Museum Abteiberg/Mönchengladbach team exploring approaches to displaying Fluxus works and divergent perspectives on the concept of “activation” in the context of museum practices. activatingfluxus.com/?p=3667&previe…

Exciting things are happening in our sister project this September! A two-week research festival and exhibition on #performance #conservation will take place in various cultural institutions across Switzerland. Find more details below🎭⬇️ activatingfluxus.com/2024/07/03/res…

Check out the latest updates on the 2024 Fluxus-related exhibitions and events listed on our website! Don’t miss the upcoming Berlin opening curated by our dear colleagues from #ArchivioConz activatingfluxus.com/2024/06/07/202…

Hommage public à Annie et Ben Vautier partis ensemble dans l’amour le 5 juin 2024 dont la créativité et l’art ont tant inspiré Nice. La vie ne s’arrête jamais !

Dr Sally Kawamura, member of our extended AF team, reflects on Mieko Shiomi's Open Event and its recent focus during the exhibition Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus, held at the Japan Society Gallery, NY (2023-2024). Read here! activatingfluxus.com/2024/06/19/sal…

Mattia Cavoli, PhD student at the Università degli Studi dell’Aquila (Italy), reviews the Fluxus cc V Tre newspapers from their initial conception in 1963 until their recent republication by Printed Matter for our website. activatingfluxus.com/2024/06/10/mat…

Here is a fascinating insight into the #Ecart #Archives, #Fluxus and our project's main theme, #activation. Congratulations on the publication of this essay, @AgaWielocha !

The recording from Hannah Higgins's recent Bern lecture is online! #activating #fluxus youtube.com/watch?v=oagC-X…

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Advance copy of “Fluxus Administration.” The illustrations of Maciunas’s paperwork make for a really beautiful book! Thanks to @mngrph and @uchicagopress for the stellar design and affordable price ($40). Please encourage your local/institutional libraries to pre-order a copy.

It's this Wednesday: Hannah Higgins is our distinguished speaker at the Research Wednesday seminar series:“NOW THAT YOU’RE READY FOR THE REAL THING," May 22, 5pm-6:30 pm CEST, at the Research Division, Bern University of the Arts. #Fluxus Registration:shorturl.at/aZblT

The recordings from the public presentation of our first volume Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care (Routledge), with many inspiring authors, are now freely available online youtube.com/watch?v=N07wM4…. #performance #conservation