ulia Pelta Feldman has worked for the past two years as processing archivist for the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Archives, which will open for research in 2013. At present she is organizing the exhibition Charting Fluxus: George Maciunas’s Ambitious Art History, which features documentation culled from the Archives and will open at MoMA on March 6, 2013. She is currently pursuing a PhD in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
A notebook, a letter, a photograph, a musical score with a set of instructions from 1962: what do these objects tell us today? How and why do we organize and rank them in order of importance? What is their significance to the histories of music, design, and performance art? In the following exchange, documented during…
