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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Events around Fluxus exhibit
Talks, performance, and film
A number of special events are scheduled to coincide with the Busch-Reisinger's exhibition, "Multiple Stategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus." On April 13 and 14, the Harvard University Art Museums will host the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, "Between Object and Event: Beuys and Fluxus in Context."
The symposium will begin April 13 at 5:30 p.m., featuring introductory discussions with exhibition curator Jacob Proctor, David Joselit of Yale University, and Thierry de Duve of Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3. Following the discussions, there will be a performance by artist Alison Knowles, one of the founders of the Fluxus movement.
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Is democracy merry? |
On April 14, beginning at 9:30 a.m., a group of scholars will reconsider efforts by Beuys and Fluxus to revolutionize the nature of art and to redefine the artist's role in society. Participants will include Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Harvard University; Hannah Higgins, University of Illinois, Chicago; Pamela Kort, independent scholar, Berlin; Mario Kramer, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Harvard University; Barbara Moore, independent scholar, New York; Julia Robinson, Princeton University; and Joan Rothfuss, independent scholar, Minneapolis.
All symposium events will take place in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall at 485 Broadway, Cambridge.
In addition to these events, the Harvard Film Archive will show a program, "Fluxus on Film," on May 4 at 7 a.m. and on May 15 at 8:30 p.m.
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