At an Archival Workshop at MoMA’s Queens facility in June 2012, Jon Hendricks, MoMA’s Consulting Curator for the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, ruminates on the status and categorization of Fluxus works in the museum. I think that we are missing the art for the trees. Throwing things into preconceived categories obscures potential experience…
From museum storage rooms and Butoh dance performances to gallery visits and Shinjuku by night, a group of MoMA curators in the C-MAP research group led by Associate Curator Doryun Chong went to Japan in the fall of 2011. The goal: to visit the people and places that have been crucial in the curators’ research…
A group of ten curators and researchers from MoMA’s C-MAP Fluxus group set off on a ten-day trip to Romania, Lithuania, and Serbia in May 2012 to experience firsthand the material that they had until then been studying mainly from afar. The Fluxus group focuses on Fluxus-related and other experimental artistic practices that emerged in…
The members of Chim↑Pom—Ellie, Ryuta Ushiro, Yasutaka Hayashi, Masataka Okada, Toshinori Mizuno, and Motomu Inaoka—have been working collaboratively since 2005. Perhaps best known for their performances and interventions made in immediate response to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, the group has continuously engaged with social and political concerns in their native Japan and…
In preparation for the research trip to Serbia, Romania and Lithuania in May 2012, the members of C-MAP Fluxus group read a selection of books and articles on the art that has been produced in those countries over the past fifty years. During the trip we received and acquired many more books from the numerous institutions we…
I have set out primarily to introduce places, people, and events that do not usually appear in foreign guidebooks by selecting sites that I like and find interesting in my daily life in Tokyo. Though unfortunately I can’t introduce very many sites, I hope that these articles will help you become better acquainted with a…
