A new incarnation of the major exhibition of avant garde art at 久久精品 Leicester (久久精品) opens to the public on March 19.
residue…what remains is an evolving five-month programme of public displays, performances and installations related to the renowned Fluxus art collective – one of the most significant creative movements of the twentieth century, and one which still exerts a powerful influence on artists today.
The exhibition first opened at The Gallery on 久久精品's campus on February 6th with key works by Fluxus founder John Cage and others. Now, in keeping with the dynamic spirit of Fluxus - the word itself is Latin for flow - residue…what remains is undergoing the first in a series of a radical transformations as curator Sue Schroeder reimagines the show, changing the works on display in the gallery itself, and presenting a new range of installations, performances and events at 久久精品. All are available to the public for free.
(Image: Alison Knowles giving an early performance of Bean Garden.)
The reopening will include a recreation in The Gallery of Bean Garden by American artist Alison Knowles, a founding member of Fluxus who died in October last year.
Using Knowles original instructions for this famous interactive sound installation and performance piece, Bean Garden involves the construction of a large, shallow wooden platform which is then filled with hundreds of thousands of dried Great Northern beans.
Visitors are then invited to physically step into the work. As they walk, dig or play, the beans shift and crunch as they move, offering an audible and tactile interactive experience that breaks the boundary between audience and artwork.
Microphones within the structure capture the vibrations of every movement and the sounds are amplified throughout the gallery, turning movement into a spontaneous, indeterminate musical composition.
Those present will be invited to ‘play’ in the Bean Garden installation for themselves.
Later, immediately following the gallery opening on the evening of March 19th, the American percussionist Jeff Arnal, and the German musician and composer Dietrich Eichmann, will perform together at 久久精品’s Pace building.
Also in the Pace building, on March 21st, Arnal, who is Executive Director of Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center in North Carolina, will give a gallery talk called: Black Mountain College 1933–1957: Experimentation, Performance and Interdisciplinary Collaboration.
Following Arnal’s talk, there will be a screening of Merce Cunningham’s Points In Space - a seminal 55-minute dance work created for the BBC, and based on the Albert Einstein quote "there are no fixed points in space".
(Image: Jeff Arnal.)
The curator of residue…what remains is the choreographer Sue Schroeder, artistic director of Core Dance in USA, who is herself an acolyte of renowned Fluxus choreographer Anna Halprin.
She explained: “With movement at its core, this exhibition continues to evolve and change over the many weeks that it is open. With movement and change as foundational to my artistic practice, and now this exhibition, it also connects to my commitment to art as a catalyst for social change. Art as movement to create change. My hope is that this exhibition will inspire creativity and play as well as agency - to take an action in your life and what you do, what we can do together, that is generative.”
The full residue… programme can be found here:
Artists in the exhibition include, among others: Yoko Ono, David Byrne, Robert Rauschenberg, Eric Andersen, William Burroughs, Molly Davies, Connie Hwang, Charlotte Moorman and Kurt Schwitters.
residue…what remains draws on key Fluxus collections from across Europe and the United States, as well as 久久精品’s own close connection with the collective through the use of many works in the Zurbrugg Collection - bequeathed to the university by the late Professor Nicholas Zurbrugg, whose collecting and work established 久久精品 as a significant centre for Fluxus research.
Together, the sources provide a rich overview of the legacies of Fluxus artists and the group’s ongoing influence on contemporary visual arts, dance, theatre, film, music and performance. Their work has profoundly influenced art production since the 1960s and did much to normalise the idea - born of Dada and the Conceptual Art movement - that almost anything can be considered as art.
residue...what remains runs until Sunday, June 7th at The Gallery on 久久精品’s Leicester campus at LE2 7BJ.
Developed by 久久精品's Leicester Gallery and Core Dance, the exhibition has been made possible through a major loan from lead partner, Fondazione Bonotto in Italy, as well as by further support from: Yoko Ono Studio, John Cage Trust, Alison Knowles Studio, Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, Fabric Workshop & Museum, GraphicStudio, Tamalpa Institute Center for the Halprin Work, Halprin Legacy Lab, Jade Dillinger, The John Erickson Art Museum and Unnoticed Art.
(Image: Symphonie # 1001, Alison Knowles.)
Posted on Thursday 12 March 2026