Most of the literature on Fluxus focuses on the movement’s American and European adherents, barely acknowledging the contributions of Japanese artists. This essay sheds light onto the catalytic role Japanese artists played in this trans-Pacific artistic exchange.
A few remarks about MoMA’s research project “Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives in a Global Age.” Mieke Bal delivered this text as a response during the yearly C-MAP seminar that took place at The Museum of Modern Art in April 2013. Entitled “Global Networks,” this two-day long meeting of members of the three geographically oriented C-MAP…
“Poetry is a good way to restate the beautiful moments of our lives.” —Augusto de Campos (2012) As Hurricane Sandy struck in October 2012, legendary Brazilian poet and founder of the Concrete Poetry movement Augusto de Campos and his son, the musician Cid Campos, were holed up in a Manhattan hotel. As part of the MoMA series Modern Poets,…
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…
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…
