Reconfiguring the Archive by Reconceptualizing the Ideal Academy: Wolf Vostell’s Fluxus Zug Cover Image

Reconfiguring the Archive by Reconceptualizing the Ideal Academy: Wolf Vostell’s Fluxus Zug
Reconfiguring the Archive by Reconceptualizing the Ideal Academy: Wolf Vostell’s Fluxus Zug

Author(s): Erin Hanas
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku
Keywords: Archive, Ideal Academy,  Wolf Vostell, Fluxus

Summary/Abstract: The German artist Wolf Vostell launched Fluxus Zug in 1981. While Vostell understood the artwork to be a travelling happening and an unconventional academy, I will present Fluxus Zug additionally to have been a conceptual, albeit temporary, museum that signified the changing cultural conceptions of history, as well as an alternative, conceptual archive, which Vostell manipulated with the aim of reviving and commenting on the troubled relationship between history, memory, and the Archive.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 9-16
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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