Fluxus Weekend
In the spirit of Fluxus, Performa will produce an intensive 52-hour program across New York City, collaborating with members of the Performa Consortium. A five-part program will be presented in several key Fluxus forms, honoring the history and prompting the making of new Fluxus actions, objects, music, film, and ideas for the twenty-first century. The projects, ranging in size from large events to small-scale gestures, will be concentrated in downtown Manhattan in tribute to Fluxus history, and to George Maciunas and the Fluxus pioneers who lived and worked there.
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Thing/Thought: Fluxus Editions, 1962-1978
- Wednesday, September 21, 10:30 am
A look at the artists' editions that played an essential role in Fluxus.
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Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life
- Wednesday, November 2, 11:00 am
Over 100 works dating primarily from the 1960s and '70s and a performance by Larry Miller offer a fresh look at Fluxus, designed to spark multiple interpretations.
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Liutauras Psibilskis, Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. and Sissel KardelOn Blindness and Ginger Island
- Friday, November 4, 1:00 pm
Take a class with Ginger Island Project curator Liutauras Psibilskis and artists Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. and Sissel Kardel, on the topic of blindness and the experience of the Fluxus travelers on Ginger Island.
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Fluxus WeekendVarious
- Friday, November 11, 10:00 am
- Saturday, November 12, 10:00 am
- Sunday, November 13, 10:00 am
In the spirit of Fluxus, Performa will produce an intensive 52-hour program across New York City, collaborating with members of the Performa Consortium.
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Films by Jonas Mekas and Milan KnizákThe Ginger Island Project / Storefront for Art and Architecture
- Friday, November 11, 11:00 am
A remix night about the utopian Fluxus artist community that George Maciunas initiated in the early 1970s.
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Free Flux-Tour of the Grey Art Galleryguided by Larry Miller
- Friday, November 11, 5:30 pm
Free Flux-Tour of the Grey Art Gallery guided by artist Larry Miller.
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Bibbe Hansen on Al Hansen
- Friday, November 11, 8:00 pm
Bibbe Hansen, daughter of Fluxus and Happenings artist Al Hansen, will present a lecture at focusing on Al Hansen's life and work.
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Sound project and DJ sets by Marina Rosenfeld. DJ by Raz Mesinai & DJ JapansterThe Ginger Island Project / Red Egg
- Friday, November 11, 11:00 pm
In the project Ginger Island becomes a metaphor for utopias, dreams, aspirations and creativity.
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Guido van der WerveEffugio no 2 Running to Rachmaninov
- Saturday, November 12, 10:00 am
Guido van der Werve invites you to grab some Chamomile flowers and run with him from Manhattan to where Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov is buried in upstate New York.
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Zefrey ThrowellI’ll Raise You One…
- Saturday, November 12, 10:30 am
A continuous strip poker game performed in the public realm using the conflicting languages of teenage love and small stakes capitalism.
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Amy Granat, Sissel Kardel, Milan Knizák, George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Lisa Oppenheim & Michael David Quattlebaum Jr.The Ginger Island Project
- Saturday, November 12, 11:00 am
An exhibition about the utopian Fluxus artist community that George Maciunas initiated in the early 1970s.
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Alison Knowles in collaboration with Jessica Higgins and Joshua SelmanBeans All Day
- Saturday, November 12, 12:00 pm
The founding member of Fluxus cooks and serves “beans all day” to audiences and passersby amid an installation of her sculptural 'bean turners'.
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Philip von ZweckA project by Philip von Zweck
- Saturday, November 12, 1:00 pm
Philip von Zweck will give away pieces by nearly 30 artists during the course of this performance.
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Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life gallery talk by Jacquelynn Baas
- Saturday, November 12, 3:30 pm
Gallery talk by Jacquelynn Baas, Director Emeritus, Berkeley Art Museum, and curator of the Grey Art Gallery's exhibition, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life.
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Amy Granat, Sissel Kardel, Milan Knizák, George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Lisa Oppenheim & Michael David Quattlebaum Jr.The Ginger Island Project / Emily Harvey Foundation / Opening Reception
- Saturday, November 12, 5:00 pm
An exhibition about the utopian Fluxus artist community that George Maciunas initiated in the early 1970s.
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Jonas MekasFluxus Cabaret
- Saturday, November 12, 6:00 pm
A brand new film from the archives of Mekas, featuring Paik, Ono, Lennon, Maciunas, Beuys and more!
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Rainer GanahlCredit Crunch Meal - Free food for all!
- Saturday, November 12, 6:00 pm
A banquet of provocative food, wood, and porcelain sculptures inspired by unregulated financial markets, high finance and politics.
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Wolfgang Staehle, Pete Drungle, Lance SteagallAlterazioni Video / The New Cinema Event
- Saturday, November 12, 7:00 pm
A raw film projection night organized by Alterazioni Video with live music and voiceover reading.
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Laurence WagnerTo Do What?
- Saturday, November 12, 8:00 pm
Laurence Wagner will walk around the block of Canal, Wooster, Grand and Greene Streets in Soho carrying a suitcase until the point of exhaustion.
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Elena BajoPerformances
- Sunday, November 13, 5:00 pm
A deconstruction of white cube conventions, rendering them decidedly in-flux and indeterminate.
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The Ginger Island Project / Storefront for Art and Architecture / Closing ReceptionFilms by Jonas Mekas & Milan Knizák
- Sunday, November 13, 6:00 pm
A remix night about the utopian Fluxus artist community that George Maciunas initiated in the early 1970s.
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Fluxus Concert
- Sunday, November 13, 6:00 pm
A night of music and performance dedicated to the musical stylings of Fluxus.
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A tribute to Nam June Paik / screening of Paik's Global Groove (1973)Hosted by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
- Sunday, November 13, 6:00 pm
A screening of the late Nam June Paik's seminal film "Global Groove."