The New Social Environment#1086
The Fluxus Newspaper
Featuring Alice Centamore, James Hoff, and Jennie Waldow
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Editors Alice Centamore and James Hoff join Rail contributor Jennie Waldow for a conversation.
In this talk
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Alice Centamore
Alice Centamore is a PhD student in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. In Fall 2023, she co-curated an exhibition on Dick Higgins’s publishing house, Something Else Press, at the Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid. She is the editor of A Something Else Reader (2022) and Fluxus Newspaper (2024), both published by Primary Information. Alice is currently researching independent feminist and lesbian communities in 1970s and 80s North America, including Pauline Oliveros’s ♀ [women] Ensemble and Kate Millett’s Farm. Her other projects include the republication of Monique Wittig’s work in English and a book on Judith Arcana and the Chicago Janes.
James Hoff
James Hoff is an artist living in New York City. He is the co-founder and executive editor at Primary Information, a non-profit arts organization founded in 2006 to publish artists’ book and artists’ writings. Primary Information facilitates intergenerational dialogue through the simultaneous publication of new and archival books, providing a new audience for out-of-print works and historical context for contemporary artists. Since its founding, the organization has published over 150 publications, including facsimile editions of Art-Rite, Black Art Notes, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog, and Womens Work as well as new works by DeForrest Brown Jr, Tony Conrad, Constance DeJong, Alexandro Segade, and Flora Yin-Wong, among many others.
Jennie Waldow
Jennie Waldow is a curatorial assistant and collection specialist at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, where she is the curator of the upcoming exhibition Out of the Ordinary. She received a PhD in art history from Stanford University, with a dissertation focused on the work of the American artist Allen Ruppersberg. She has previously held positions at cultural institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles Nomadic Division, and the Cantor Arts Center, and her areas of interest include Fluxus, ephemera, and works on paper.
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