Radio Fluxus: Stories from the Fluxus Archives
Radio Fluxus: Stories from the Fluxus Archives is a podcast series which invites scholars, artists, curators, conservators and other art researchers and practitioners to share their stories about one Fluxus artwork, along with their views on its use and activation. This podcast is part of the research project Activating Fluxus located at Bern University of the Arts and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. More information about the aims of the project and its team is available at activatingfluxus.com.
- Update frequency
- every 61 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 9
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
‘Piano Activities’ (~1962) by Philip Corner
This episode explores Philip Corner’s iconic work Piano Activities, starting with its controversial 1962 premiere at the Wiesbaden festival. Our guest, artist Sean Miller, narrates his experience int…
‘Very Fast Clock’ / ‘Very Slow Fan’ (~1975) by Larry Miller and George Maciunas
The concept of switching motors between a fan and a clock was conceived by American intermedia artist Larry Miller around 1973-74. He shared the concept/score of “Very Fast Clock and Very Slow Fan” w…
‘Performance Piece #8’ and '“T” Dictionary' (1965) by Alison Knowles
Alison Knowles's Performance Piece #8 (Summer 1965) exists as a language-based proposition published in the first Great Beat Pamphlet (New York: Something Else Press, 1965). It also exists as a "grap…
‘Dream Piece’ (1976) by John Armleder
Dream Piece (1976) is a performance by John Armleder, conceived and enacted within the expansive context of the Ecart Group, an artistic collective that thrived in Geneva during the 1970s. Ecart's ap…
‘Orange Event No. 3’ (1963) by Bengt af Klintberg
Composed by Bengt af Klintberg in 1963, Orange Event No 3 (or Apelsinhändelse nr 3 in Swedish) is one of the scores from the series Twenty-Five Orange Events. The series was published several times, …
‘Open and Shut Case’ (1965) by Ken Friedman
Open and Shut Case (1965) is a score-based work which manifests itself in a variety of ways. As is often the case for Fluxus events, the score has been written down a posteriori, out of the creation …
‘Mirror Piece’ (1963) by Mieko Shiomi
The third episode of our podcast presents Mirror Piece (1963) by Japanese artist Mieko Shiomi. This work, as many other Fluxus scores, does not have a singular manifestation but rather exists as many…
'Hooked' (1980) by Ben Patterson
This episode features Benjamin Patterson’s work Hooked (1980) from the collection of Getty Research Institute, acquired in 1985 as a part of Jean Brown Archive. Formally, Hooked is a fishing tackle b…
'Thursday' (1963) by George Brecht
This episode presents George Brecht’s event score titled Thursday. This conceptual piece that relates rather to the tradition of musical notations than to the object-oriented realm of visual arts exi…