residue… what remains
Curated by Sue Schroeder
Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Friday, 6 February to 7 June, 2026
Gallery Hours: 6-8pm
Drawing on key collections from across Europe and the United States the exhibition residue...what remains provides a rich overview of the legacies of Fluxus artists and the group’s continuing influence on contemporary visual arts, dance, theatre, film, music and performance.
The exhibition is inspired by Professor Nicholas Zurbrugg whom at the end of the twentieth century brought together an exceptional collection of Fluxus artworks at De Montfort University. The curator of the exhibition, Sue Schroeder, builds on his extraordinary legacy to create an
ever-changing exhibition that includes a rich performance program.
residue...what remains includes major works by John Cage, Alison Knowles and Anna Halprin and is surrounded by changing constellations of artists influenced by the playful interdisciplinarity of Fluxus.
The title of the show, residue...what remains suggest the transience of many of the works, whether scores to be performed or marks left after an event. The exhibition draws on the logics of choreography and performance to reimagine what an exhibition can be. Scores suggest moments yet to happen, documents capture moments past and the exhibition provides a stage for live activity whose remains then integrate into the exhibition.
The project’s curator, Sue Schroeder, is the Artistic Director of Core Dance and has a long and rich history as a choreographer. Her experience and practice of choreography has shaped the exhibition so that live activity and the passage of time are as important to the show as the space it inhabits.
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The ambitious project’s opening weekend includes performances by John Cage/Ray Kass, Philip Corner and Eric Andersen. This launches a rich program of talks and events that runs the duration of the exhibition.
Propositions
Details of the events program can be found here: residue...what remains – Leicester Gallery
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All events are free and open to the public​
​Thursday, February 5,2026
OPENING with Eric Andersen Pop-Up.
Location: Leicester Gallery, 6-8pm
Friday, February 6, 2026
Philip Corner’s 2022 Piano Aktivitys as a Disciplind Destruktshun (a piano work’t)
Performed by: Sean Owen Miller, Jack Massing, Jade Dillinger, and Eric Andersen
Location: Lobby Gallery at DMU
Time: 3:30PM
Caress Piano followed by Piano Aktivitys as a Disciplind Destruktshun (a piano work’t)
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Gallery Talk with Jade Dellinger, Jack Massing, Sean Owen Miller & Eric Andersen.
Location:
The Leicester Gallery at DMU
Time: 1pm
Saturday, February 7, 2026
John Cage/Ray Kass’ STEPS: A Composition for a Painting.
Location:
Pace 1
Time:
4:30pm
Monday, February 9, 2026
Eric Andersen (Open Talk with Students)
Location:
The Leicester Gallery at DMU,
Time:
3pm
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Eric Andersen (Open Talk)
Location:
Queens 1.10
Time:
4pm
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Eric Andersen Gallery Experience
Location:
The Leicester Gallery at DMU
Time:
5pm
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Saturday, February 21, 2026
Lucy Suggate’s Tender Stones with conversation
Location:
The Leicester Gallery at DMU,
Time:
1pm - 4pm (durational)
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Gallery Talk In Conversation with Ken Friedman with Hugo Worthy
Location:
On-Line (Screening in the gallery, at Core Dance and online
Time:
1pm
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Thursday, March 19, 2025
RE-OPENING #1
Location: Leicester Gallery
Time: 6-8pm
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Location:
Pace 1,
Time:
730pm
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Gallery Talk with Jeff Arnal
Executive Director,
Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center:
Black Mountain College 1933–1957: Experimentation, Performance and Interdisciplinary Collaboration.
Location:
Pace 1
Time:
3:30P m
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Screening of Points in Space
Location:
Pace 1
Time:
5pm
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Soup and Salad: A Community Gathering
Location:
The Leicester Gallery at DMU
Time:
630pm
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Thursday, April 23, 2026
RE-OPENING #2 with Annika Strom (The inept five)
Location:
The Leicester Gallery at DMU
Time:
6-8pm
Monday- Friday, April 20 (6-9pm), 21-23 (5-9pm), 24 (2-9pm), 2026
Residency with Molly Davies and Polly Motley
Open rehearsals with culminating showing (4/24)
Location:
Pace 2
Time:
7pm
Friday, April 24, 2026
Dreams and Surprises: Dances Projections and Sound,
culmination of Davies/Motley Residency.
Location:
Pace 2
Time:
6pm
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Gallery Talk with Molly Davies, Polly Motley and Sue Schroeder
Location:
The Leicester Gallery at DMU
Time:
1pm
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Barbara Dilley’s The Grid Map of Space
with Polly Motley & Leicester Community
Location:
The Lawn outside The Leicester Gallery at DMU
Time:
3pm
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Lisa Nelson’s TuneZoom (Live Stream performance)
Location:
DMU Lecture Space 4.05
Time:
5pm ​
May 15, 16, 17, 2026
Erika Senft Miller/Ironing Piece (Live Performances)
Location:
TBD
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Gallery Talk with Erika Senft Miller, Kelly Holt & Douglas Rosenberg
Location:
The Leicester Gallery at DMU
Time:
1pm
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Screening of The Sea by Douglas Rosenberg
Location:
TBD
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Anna Halprin’s Life/Art Process with Tamalpa UK
Location:
The Leicester Gallery at DMU,
Time:
1pm
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Sunday, May 24, 2026
Anna Halprin’s Planetary Dance
Location:
DMU lawn outside The Leicester Gallery
Time:
1pm
Saturday, June 6. 2026
The Concept Bank, an Initiative of the Unnoticed Art Festival
Location:
The Leicester Gallery at DMU
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Sunday, June 7, 2026
Riverside Arts Festival/EXHIBITION CLOSE​​
Artistic Contributors
Eric Andersen, Marcel Alocco, Jeff Arnal, Joseph Beuys, Julien Blaine, Simon and Tom Bloor, Georg Brecht, Trisha Brown, William Burroughs, David Byrne, John Cage, Remy Charlip, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Philip Corner, Christo & Jean-Claude, Merce Cunningham, Molly Davies, Jean Dupay, Dietrich Eichmann, Nye Ffarrabas, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ken Friedman,
Allen Ginsberg, Chiari Giuseppe, Eugen Gomringer, Anna Halprin, Lawrence Halprin, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins,
Jack Hirschmann, Kelly Holt, Connie Hwang, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Ray Kass, Andrew Kelly, Rebecca Kautz, Traci Kelly,
John Killacky, Katue Kitasono, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Adam Larsen, Andrew Logan, George Maciunas, Jackson MacLow, Stelio Maria Martini, Jack Massing, Deane McQueen, Jonathan Monk, Charlotte Moorman, Polly Motley, Sean Owen Miller, Erika Senft Miller, Bruce Naumann, Lisa Nelson, Paul Neagu, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Robert Rauschenberg, Douglas Rosenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Jack Ox/Kurt Schwitters, Mieko Shiomi, Michael Silver, Matt Squib, Madonna Staunton, Lucy Suggate, Ben Vautier, Watson & Fella, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, Annika Strom
Partners
The exhibition has been developed by Leicester Gallery and Core Dance. It has been
made possible through a major loan from our lead partner:
Fondazione Bonotto
And further support from:
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
Unnoticed Art
Yoko Ono Studio
The John Erickson Art Museum
John Cage Trust
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