//// RESIDENCY
PETER VAN DER MEIJDEN
Period of residence: november/december 2008
// about
Peter van der Meijden (Amsterdam, 1969) is an art historian, publicist and lecturer with degrees from the universities of Amsterdam (1993) and Essex (1995). During the last five years he has been associated with the University of Copenhagen, first as external lecturer, then as Ph.D. fellow. His Ph.D. deals with interactions within the Fluxus network in Germany and surrounding countries in the period 1962-1966.
// projects
____How to engage_19 'floor plans' for Sparwasser HQ
The script is developed as an experiment to put together ideas from Fluxus with the actual Sparwasser method; a collaboration between Peter van der Meijden and Lise Nellemann. Have a look here.
____Excreta Fluxorum
Presentation at The Building/unitednationplaza/e-flux, Berlin.
The presentation, Excreta Fluxorum, takes the dynamic relationship between the flux-and-flush and the fluctuating exchange as its starting point for a (re-)consideration of Fluxus and its reception, with a focus on the ways in which this type of artistic activity/activism may be—and has been—co-opted, and possibilities for resistance to reification and spectacularisation that may still be present and valid today. Taking images of food and the consumption of food as its starting point, it is a rambling pilgrimage along the digestive tract of history—not backwards, seeking legitimation of the present in the past—which would be regurgitatio fluxorum—but forwards, exploring each twist that is met underway and circumnavigating each potential obstacle.
